Michael-Christopher Koji Fox remembers spending roughly a week worrying over two words: Final Fantasy.
Certainly, he’s been worrying about Final Fantasy for 23 years. He has been an English translator for the celebrated games since the 11th title and now supervises the team that “localizes” them for English speakers. But this was different. He had to decide how to translate a potentially cringey title drop that came right at a pivotal moment of “Final Fantasy XVI.” In Japanese, the hero utters the name of the series to a villain in a parting one liner.
