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Title: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: theplottwist on January 08, 2016, 01:25:08 PM
No, seriously. The Castlevania articles on my country look batshit insane. For instance, take a look at the Portrait of Ruin one:

https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Portrait_of_Ruin

It is in portuguese, of course, but I'll translate the funniest bits for you:

"The story of Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin takes place years after the victory of John Morris and Eric Lecarde over Elizabeth Bartley and her attempt to revive Dracula along with the power of Death and the technology of the time to make more powerful monsters for the World War's arms race worldwide."

What... "Arms Race" what?

"On this era, Eric Lecarde returns to eastern Europe in order to discover the secret behind the events of Castlevania: Bloodlines and the ritual performed to merge Dracula and Death and make them extremely powerful, even in incomplete form and resulting in John Morris' death"

Ritual to merge Death and Dracula... WTF

"Eric Lecarde ends up discovering about a viscount who was attached to Elizabeth Bartley and who taught her about black magic and the occult, his name is Brauner and with his phenomenal ability he could create entire worlds through the memories of humans and painted them in distorted frames where the most terrible nightmares were presented to those who entered them."

So Brauner was a viscount, and he knew (AND TAUGHT!!) Elizabeth about black magic. Right.

And the article goes on and on and on and on and on with its drivel that ultimatelly explains nothing and looks like some bizarre fanfiction written by a 12 year old who has JUST beaten Castlevania PoR. And yeah, if you found my translation confusing, it's because it's barely intelligible in portuguese.

Are there bizarre things like that on your country's version of Wikipedia's entry for any of the Castlevania titles?
Title: Re: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: VladCT on January 08, 2016, 01:35:51 PM
There's a couple for the original NES and MSX2 games on the Indonesian Wikipedia, but unfortunately(?) looks like they're just somewhat badly translated from earlier versions of the original English articles.
Title: Re: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: X on January 08, 2016, 03:45:23 PM
Looks, and sounds like that portuguese article could use a rewrite, lol. Feel up to it plot?
Title: Re: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: theplottwist on January 08, 2016, 04:31:59 PM
Quote from: X on January 08, 2016, 03:45:23 PM
Looks, and sounds like that portuguese article could use a rewrite, lol. Feel up to it plot?

I'll probably be the one to do it. Here the fanbase is big (VERY big, I'd say) but most fans are completelly unaware of the series' over arching plot and nuances, and these articles do not help the cause.

We have these articles, and then we have the fan translations that are either nonsensically bad, or literal - and when you translate things literally from english to portuguese, a lot of sillyness is bound to arise. Only recently the quality started to get better, but even so there are issues.
Title: Re: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: Soleiyu Belmont on January 10, 2016, 02:01:55 AM
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Portrait_of_Ruin

pretty accurate but the english wiki is always better
Title: Re: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: Chernabogue on January 10, 2016, 03:34:56 AM
Dude, we have a logo lol https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Portrait_of_Ruin (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Portrait_of_Ruin)
Title: Re: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: Claimh Solais on January 10, 2016, 03:50:26 AM
Nothing really out of the ordinary on the English version. Though ours seems to be far more in-depth than the other ones posted here. Also, we have the boxart posted up.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Portrait_of_Ruin
Title: Re: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: Lelygax on February 16, 2016, 02:08:57 AM
They added this crazy fanfic on September, 2013. Also I didn't knew that you were from Brazil too, or you are from Portugal? Since we share the same wiki, I don't have anything to add.

edit: They say that Castlevania Dungeon's website is the source of this bullshit LOL
Title: Re: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: theplottwist on February 16, 2016, 11:09:57 AM
Quote from: Soleiyu Belmont on January 10, 2016, 02:01:55 AM
https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Portrait_of_Ruin

pretty accurate but the english wiki is always better

Quote from: Chernabogue on January 10, 2016, 03:34:56 AM
Dude, we have a logo lol https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Portrait_of_Ruin (https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castlevania:_Portrait_of_Ruin)

Why the ugly child has to be the brazilian one  :'(

Quote from: Lelygax on February 16, 2016, 02:08:57 AM
Also I didn't knew that you were from Brazil too, or you are from Portugal? Since we share the same wiki, I don't have anything to add.

I'm a pure-blooded BRHUElmont.
Title: Re: What Does the Castlevania Wikipedia Article Look Like On Your Country?
Post by: Lelygax on February 16, 2016, 01:55:09 PM
Quote from: theplottwist on February 16, 2016, 11:09:57 AM
Why the ugly child has to be the brazilian one  :'(

I'm a pure-blooded BRHUElmont.

Castlevania Legends must ring a different bell with you then, good times... Anyway I'll not derail it further.