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Mizzurna Falls

Original game : Mizzurna Falls

Platform : PlayStation

Language : English

Released by : Cirosan

Release date : 30 March 2021

Status : Fully Playable

Patch version : 1.0

Downloads : 9545

ROM Information

File MD5 36A96B8E813C1F902446F7FED7D88DD3
File SHA-1 C49B2A1203831165E63E1129CFE413D4D23D7656
File CRC32 A87F3497

Translation description

This project, developed by nikita600 and Cirosan, uses Resident Evie's translation as a base. Nikita, a professional mobile game developer, and Cirosan, a professional translator and localization editor, collaborated over the course of several months to finally develop a working translation patch for Mizzurna Falls. Nikita developed a tool specifically for use with Mizzurna Falls that used a new compression algorithm to fit more text onto the disk than was ever possible before. Despite that, the game's script was still too large to fit, which is where Cirosan came in. Fundamentally rewriting and editing a majority of Evie's script (with her blessing), Cirosan produced a script for Mizzurna Falls that was able to fit onto the disk without sacrificing coherence, quality, or significant plot points. The result of Cirosan's rewrites is a full localization of Mizzurna Falls that helps dialogue sound more natural and conversational, in addition to altering certain characters and elements to be more effective with Western audiences. Most of the work on the patch was done under quarantine during the Covid-19 pandemic; Nikita and Cirosan communicated via Discord to develop the patch.

This patch represents a supreme effort by Evie, Nikita, and Cirosan, across three countries and over a period of many months and years, to bring this revolutionary game to Western audiences. Welcome to Mizzurna Falls - we've been waiting for you.

(Full credits may be found in the Readme.)

Screenshots

Contributions

ContributorType of contributionDescription
Resident EvieOriginal TranslationOriginal Script
CirosanScript Editing/RevisionProject Co-Lead, Final Script, Localization Editor, Text Insertion, Menu Translation, Documentation
nikita600HackingProject Co-Lead, Developer of Mizzurna Falls Editor tool, Hacking, Graphic Editing, Video Insertion
Cap'n NeonProductionVideo Editor

Reviews

A Great Translation but it is a missed opportunityFuxorLuck2021-04-16Version 1.0

Mizzurna Falls has a great story, enjoyable characters, and a great atmosphere, and the translation did a wonderful job converting all of this to English. So Why I can't recommend it? The original game was infamous for its logistical errors. Many of the game events required you to be in a specific place at a specific time but the game doesn't give many clues and there are a lot of moments of "How did they expect me to figure it out"

here some examples:

At the start of the first day (not the prologue) you have 5 real-life minutes to visit Emma's house (if you don't you missed an event) but you don't know it. instead, the characters will tell you to visit another house in a different place and there is nothing that tells you to go to Emma's House, you are just supposed to think about being there before the first 5 minutes of the game are over.

On the second day, you need to go to the forest but there is a guard that won't let you in, some of the characters told me that they will be there at 6:30, so I went there at 6:30 but the guard still won't let me in. you need to wait until 7:00 (around 3 real-life minutes) talk to the guard so he will need to go to pee and then you will be able to enter.

That is the reason this translation is a missed opportunity. adding sentences to the dialogues like: "You should visit Emma's house before going to Cohen house" "I dropped my map somewhere here if you can find it might help you" "I don't know how much I can hold without going to the bathroom"

While not being faithful and probably will be hard to implement, the original game was released unfinished (Bugs and Glitches) and those changes can make the challenge fair. Again the translation team did an excellent job and I am really happy I could play this in English, but I can't recommend anyone to play this game without an online guide or watch a walkthrough and those things were available before this translation came out. What is the point of having an excellent translation patch if I am still using the same translation guide?

Overall I really appreciate the translation team but wish someone will pick up a re-written dialogues project.

Unnecessary rewrites and an ugly fontCerzel2021-04-05Version 1.0

Full of questionable rewrites that have no reason to be there and not only change characterisation but also often miss the point of the dialogue or make things more awkward to read. One example: Changing a line of dialogue where Matthew trails off in the Japanese when thinking of how to answer a question so that he instead states that he doesn't know how to answer it, which completely fails to register that the next line of dialogue from Nozz was interrupting him before he could finish. So the rewrite that tried to make things more natural screwed up the flow of the conversation without realising. The font also has kerning issues here that make it unpleasant to read.

I would much sooner recommend Owl's English translation patch which can be found on the forums, which has a more accurate translation and a much better font. The caveat is that this patch works on real hardware and on most emulators, but Owl's does not work on real hardware and only works properly on a few emulators.

This game is more interesting in english!danuffo2021-04-02Version 1.0

Congratulations, your translation is very good, and I can discover more details that other translations don't touch.

It's kinda more interesting to play this game in english because that's the original language the the characters are suposed to be speaking natively, since this story occurs in a part of the United States, so the player can get a true realistic experience.

I say the same for other games where a language matches better a determined context.

I didn't find anything bad so far, the game runs fine, thank you.

Much better! You improved the translation.Rockmanfan2000opinion2021-04-01Version 1.0

This is in my opinion the best way to play the game, the translation improved a lot the old english version.

The other translation made in Spain is ok but it misses a lot of things of the plot, and it contains some local european spanish expressions that are not friendly for other people in terms of understanding.

So basiclly, if you want to enjoy the whole story of this game, this new english translation is the best one to choose.

English language matches better with the northamerican environment of the game.

In few words, this new english translation has very good orthography, it's very neutral and it catches all the story without leaving a single detail out.

If you're fan of games like Shenmue, you must try this game. There's no excuse, we got this awesome game in the easiest language to understand(at least in reading) after esperanto.