Why Do Game Names Change in Different Countries? 

Oh wow, well at least the name works lol

Ha ha fanboy

​@@TeddyBelcher4kultrawide he probably just googled it

Sonic Unleashed was originally going to be a true sequel to Adventure 2 (hence the name "Sonic World Adventure" in Japan), but knowing Sonic Team's previous game in the franchise (Sonic '06), the game's concept was changed. I guess the name change outside of Japan was so that people wouldn't think of it as an "Adventure 3".

That's a good one. I actually like both titles.

Yes

I wholeheartedly agree!

@TanookiMax Technically the Japanese version title sounded too generic for a video game franchise title.

Not as cool as Yo Mama 2

Yeah

Yeah that was really weird. Even Kirby Canvas Curse and Kirby Rainbow Curse had different names in PAL regions.

@@kirotalksyt Likely that it needs to adjust to British English & the other European languages. Example: US - Kirby's Squeak Attack PAL - Kirby's Mouse Attack For non-native English speaker o. non-speaker "Squeak" is way more difficult & confusing than "mouse".

Kirby squeak squad was called kirby’s mouse attack in europe because squad is apparantley a slur WHY IS EURPE LIKE THIS?!

@@autismandgaming4532 “Alright, Europe, which was more offensive, ‘squeak’ or ‘squad?’” -Antdude

Let's be completely honest here, though, those European names are REALLY REALLY BORING.

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That makes some sense. Though, very likely not the intent. What the intent was, I wouldn't know. It's not something the (probably) intended American audience would get.

Probably not the game never came out in Germany like 99.9% of jrpgs.

RPGs were popular in Deutschland but I don't know about JRPGs (still can't figured out what makes Japanese RPGs different to normal RPGs lol)

@@SoapheadPog the problem with jrpgs. is that before the PS1 they never came out outside of Japan and north America. even the most successful games.

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Isn't it "Luigi's mansion 2: Dark Moon"?

​@@uh3610 looking it up it does seem to be the case that it's just "Luigi's Mansion 2" (and the one of the JP title's is ルイージマンション2 which is basically "Luigi Mansion 2" written in hiragana and katakana so it is closer to that title)

interesting

@@aceae4210 just katakana. Though, a merger of the two names as believed to be the reality by Definitely Not British does make more sense to me.

Yeah, I could've worded that better. I wasn't trying to imply it was exclusively the English titles that mentions Link's name, just it was a recurring theme with the early English titles.

@@kirotalksyt I wish it STAYED that way. I'm tired of people calling Link "Zelda".

Stay tuned.... :)

@@kirotalksyt don't forget to correct yourself with the clusterfuck that is the zelda timelines

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Glad you enjoyed it. Sure, I'll keep that idea in mind for a future video!

Yeah, whenever I do get around to making a Part 2 to this, I plan to tackle a bigger variety of stuff.

Better tbh, goes along well with other SNES titles but then what would 6 be called? could have run into the issue of calling it "Super Final Fantasy 2"

@@MasterLu551 super duper final fantasy

Biohazard makes a Lot more Sense as the title of the series but Resident Evil Just Sounds cool

I got to give it to Capcom when it comes to making fun of there localization names are there the top of the line. Same how as far as I know the Dr. Light equivalent in the Battle Network series name are the Japanese words for Light and Right as a reference to how in the main series he is called Dr. Right in Japan and Dr. Light in the West.

The best part is the US version was released in Japan as Super Mario bros. 2 USA so Japan got 2 Super Mario bros. 2 games.

Yeah, it is very odd, and a lot of the time, like with Dream Team Bros., it seems super random.

Basically everything involving ninjas used to be censored in PAL regions, leading to a lot of name changes, but I've got no clue about anything else.

I think a large part of the reason is that the UK is Governments by a General Europe centered branch of the company meaning all of the EU will often get the same thing. So the UK get the EU's team's branding rather than the US ones.

Because 90s game localisers just loved changing things for no reason.

Same for Sonic & Tails 1, which is Sonic Chaos.

The best part is this double naming was so easily decided that leaked beta build have title screens that say "Sonic and Tails or Sonic Chaos"

Copyright issues lead to the name change.

@Tidepool Clipper is that what happened? I know that happened with Star Fox, but I never heard about that happening with RE

You can’t copyright real-world single-word titles in the U.S. So they changed had to change biohazard (one word) into resident evil(two words).

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I know that protoman it's also the brother of megaman

Yoshi's island implies they both share the same 2 parents.

@@pineapplepenguin1759 Which one of the YI's?

@@shocknawe SMW2: Yoshi's Island showed the stork deliver them to the same set of parents at the exact same time. Yoshi's New Island retconned it and showed that the stork brought them to the wrong parents, but the end of that game shows the stork bring them to the correct parents, and again, its just 2 people, and they are delivered at the same time

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Even to this day a lot of stuff is still Americanised, and I mean outside of USA. There are people here in the comments saying "we have to use the titles used in USA to not confuse the Americans" ... a cause of Americanising the rest of the world. Even though USA could just learn from the rest of the world instead of the other way around.

@@Liggliluff Yea while it has become a lot better we have ben used to American stuff for a very long time now .if you count movies at least since ww2 maybe even ww1. and before that the uk was number one so same language .you need to go back to the days of Napoleon to find an era where English was not the number 1 language .

Actually red and blue are blue there. Blue was like the yellow to red/green, an updated version and that was ported here as red and blue

Everything is too long in Japan. Have you seen their movie titles? It's funny because on all other accounts they make things as small as possible, whereas America goes "the bigger the better", but for titles of any kind, they almost spell out the entire story, plottwists included.

@@PikaLink91 queue the jokes about light novel titles which can end up being a sentence or longer one of the reasons is why the names got so long (sometimes) is that by having the title of the book or manga being a blurb can be a way to directly show whats unique about your thing from every other book

They're long for our standards and when translated, but not really that long when read in Japanese But hey, they sure are used to long titles already

The funniest thing is that it wasn't even going to be Xenoblade. Tetsuya Takahashi first called it Monado: Beginning of the World, likely to draw a line in the sand and move on from Xenosaga, which failed commercially, caused a big fallout at the company, and saw him removed as director from the second game onwards. Nintendo of Japan then requested the name be changed to Xenoblade to pay tribute and draw a clearer tie to Takahashi's previous work than was ever intended. And then Nintendo of Europe decided to change it *back* to something that was less of a clear tie to Gears and Saga, just like Takahashi wanted to begin with. Dude must be so confused.

@@barleybap9528 I'd say the name change made Takahashi make Xenoblade more in line with Gears and Saga. You can see it especially around the end of Xenoblade 2. 3 kinda ditches the heavy Xenosaga sci-fi but the callbacks and links are still there. N being pretty reminiscent of Grahf from Xenogears.

@@xenogen372 Yeah, definitely agree. The name was a last minute change of title with Xenoblade 1, but I think you see progressively more of that Xeno DNA slipping in as the series goes on. Saw so much of both Gears and Saga in XB3 when I played recently.

Because so did the NES. Europe's SNES was the Japanese model though.

Because gaming companies in the 90s where just obsessed with changing things the worst one was the turbografx 16 the console flopped outside of Japan because of their decisions.

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It’s 100% a reference to the John Lennon song, do you even know how that is..?

@@fshoaps No it's not. Itoi has mentioned the Lennon song as being one of the many reasons he settled on the title, but it was more than just that. In a 1996 interview about Mother 3 he had this to say regarding the title: 今のゲームって非常に父性的なんですよ。父親の罠を息子が攻略していくみたいなね。だから母性的な匂いのするものを作りたかったんです。例えば、最初に円盤が出てくるけど、それはマザーシップだし、お母さんも出てくる。そんな母性（マザー）的な要素を入れたかった。それに僕たちって母親が作った人間なんです。父親が作った人間ってすごく少ないと思いますよ。 Here's a quick translation: "There's a real fatherlike quality to modern games, you know. When a player plays them, they become like a son trying to solve the wily puzzles set to them by their father. So I wanted to make a game that instead had strong ties to motherhood. For example, the disc that appears at the start is called the Mother Ship, and your mother appears as a character in the game. I wanted to pack the game with elements like that that evoke motherhood. Plus, it's our mothers who make us who we are. I think there are very few people in the world who were made into the people they are by their fathers." The John Lennon song is one factor in the choice of name, but it's absolutely not just a simple throwaway reference to a song title. If you're going to be rude to people, try to at least make sure you're correct.

He also didn't mention the Lennon song at all in his response in that interview, for what it's worth. So I think you're grossly overstating how much of an influence that was.

@@barleybap9528 Look at how much the game references the beatles, it’s not a stretch to say, that yeah maybe the name had a great deal to do, with lennons song.

@@fshoaps I mean it's certainly one thing Itoi has mentioned, and like you say, the game has a lot of western music references, with the Beatles a particular favourite. But you said that it was 100% a reference, and it's demonstrably not based on Itoi's own words. Heck, I'd argue it probably wasn't even the main influence given that Itoi's quote that I cited above, the most commonly cited origin of the title among Japanese players, makes absolutely no mention of Lennon's song. But that's neither here nor there, and I'm not disputing that Lennon's song was one factor. I just take issue with you suggesting that the title is no more than a simple throwaway song reference, and implying rather rudely that I'm some kind of idiot for believing otherwise.

That's fair. Sorry you got spoiled. I'll be more careful with this sort of thing in the future.

I don't know whether to be baffled or genuinely impressed that you somehow haven't heard how the game ends. It's basically the "I am your father" of video game twists-you know it whether you've played the game or not. I've heard the game barely tries to keep the secret anyway, to the point where some refuse to even call it a twist.

I played the game but i never beat it maybe one day.