Kirabook; You hit the nail on the head on the context where it'd sound wrong. From what I've seen with fan translators since I rub shoulders with 'em quite a bit online; If the villain's a Skeletor type and it can be played for laughs, then it's fine for literal, but villains aren't all Skelator you know. If it's a serious villain, it's like "what's that silly line?"
In the art of translation, context is EVERYTHING from what I've seen. Heck, you should of seen what I went though once to get a communication from the FFXI staff to make sense when they didn't bother translating it for us. Google Translate just mangled it, so I poked a guy who called himself Magenta from Aesir Fansubs (now defunct..)..He did a good job once I gave him a little context from the game.
[Edit] Found it. Here's what google trans did (and this is why I HATE HATE MACHINE TRANSLATION!) (And for refrence,
here's the post that fans had to fix. Mind, this was when they were raising the crafting cap, if that gives a reference you guys. On the old test server, they had the key item in question be 100k guild points, which since for some crafts that isn't easy to get, there was a UPROAR, but I don't think they saw the English players's reaction. Never attribute to stupid what might just be overlooked.)
Hello.
Here are two answers that have received a lot of attention so far.
The number of points and items currently reflected on the test server to obtain the "key items" required for promotion are provisional.
It's still under consideration, but the key ones are expected to be around 20,000 points.
Also, the important thing this time is that it is positioned as "necessary when breaking through skill 100", so for now I am thinking that it will be necessary each time the upper limit of synthetic skills rises to 120, 130 in the future. not.
And here's Mag's translation.
Hi there. Wanted to clear up a few of the more contentious points that have been raised.
Firstly, we're still testing this on our test servers, clearing up the specifics. The "Way of the Craftsman" items and their required point counts are still being fine-tuned, but we're expecting an eventual cost of around 20,000 points.
Secondly, while these items will be required to raise your cap above 100, we haven't yet decided if they'll be required again for further raises to 120, 130 etc.
I'd say Magenta's translation is a LOT more clear. Say what you want about what Aesir Fansubs did, but Mag knew how to do things right. I basically told him that I'd seen a screen that showed the item for Culinarian be "Way of the Culinarian" so that's a localization to make it clear; believe me when I say that when Google did it the first time it was *worse*. Mangled it even worse than that!