2014-08-28, 04:56 AM
Yeah, the journal entries were a fair amount - about 600 lines or so - but this game has truly ridiculous amounts of text. 
I started compiling a list of all the unique text blocks, to help put things in perspective. I don't have everything in there yet, but when I did a quick sum on the total lengths of the blocks I have translated and not, I have something like 30-40% of the unique text in the game translated.
Yup, there's tons of exact duplication. As you mentioned about other games, this one also seems to have a separate copy of a certain set of items (90 or so text blocks) for each level. That part will be easy to deal with; getting the first one of each into English will be the time consuming bit. The journal entries aren't actually exact copies of the dialogues, though. An example: say an NPC says "Give me the ring!" The corresponding journal entry will then say something like "He told me to give him the ring." So the actual dialogues will still take some time, especially since I haven't quite found all the dialogue blocks yet.
Now I just need to maintain a pace that won't interfere with school... 
I started compiling a list of all the unique text blocks, to help put things in perspective. I don't have everything in there yet, but when I did a quick sum on the total lengths of the blocks I have translated and not, I have something like 30-40% of the unique text in the game translated. Yup, there's tons of exact duplication. As you mentioned about other games, this one also seems to have a separate copy of a certain set of items (90 or so text blocks) for each level. That part will be easy to deal with; getting the first one of each into English will be the time consuming bit. The journal entries aren't actually exact copies of the dialogues, though. An example: say an NPC says "Give me the ring!" The corresponding journal entry will then say something like "He told me to give him the ring." So the actual dialogues will still take some time, especially since I haven't quite found all the dialogue blocks yet.
Now I just need to maintain a pace that won't interfere with school...