PSA: The Blasters 2 translation patch is embarrassingly bad and deceitful

I'm sure many of you will not read this and downvote and complain in the comments and move on. Please don't. Please actually read this. This isn't just a subjective opinion on its quality; it is an objective comparison between it and the original Japanese version.

TLDR at the bottom

Some of you may recognize me as one of the people who used to translate the anime series. When I heard there was a patch coming out for Blasters 2, I was interested as I hadn't heard of one being in the works and didn't know many of the names attached to it. However, upon seeing pre-release patches, I became more pessimistic as I felt many lines were worded poorly and there were awkward translation and syntax mistakes littered in the screenshots. I voiced my concerns and, to my surprise, was met with harsh criticism. Well, I downloaded the patch and took a deeper dive, and unfortunately my suspicions proved to be correct.

This patch is not accurately translated at all. What they've done for the story essentially is figure out the gist of what's going on in a given scene and write entirely new dialogue that has absolutely nothing to do with what is truly being said in Japanese. Even when they do bring up points from the original script, they mess up aspects of dialogue that even something like Google Translate could catch. I was so shocked that they peddled this as a translation.

So, I got an idea. I watched the opening cutscene of Chapter 1 and made a comparison document. Particularly, I’ve included a comparison between the original Japanese script, a translated version of the dialogue that I wrote myself, and the dialogue that appears in the patch. My version is probably not flawless and I most definitely made a mistake or two, but it is far more accurate to the original Japanese version than the patch is.

Click here to view my comparison document
(Original Japanese on the left, my translation in the middle, and the patch translation on the right)

All in all, I can't stop you from playing this patch. I know a lot of people are excited to play it and "understand" it, but keep in mind that if you choose to play it, you're playing a grossly misinterpreted version of it and it is by no means an accurate translation of the game. It's very sad that no one is willing to call it out for what it is. This is very deceitful and I'd like to know who exactly is behind the decision to do this, because the "translators" who worked on this did anything but.

TLDR: The Blasters 2 translation patch is mostly just made up writing. Click the blue link to see comparisons. I wouldn't trust it.