/vr/ - Retro Games

I like the light-hearted silliness of Working Designs' translations.
I think OP is taking these games waaay too seriously. Popful Mail isn't exactly a deep game/story, it's meant to be a bit silly.
As for the Lunar games, it's just a few NPC's here and there, I don't mind it at all, like I said before it's just light-hearted silliness.

A 100% literal translation of the games would take a lot of the charm away, and make them pretty boring, especially the Lunar games.

So...if some of you really hate the translations that much, why don't you start working on your own translation? Get a group together for a project. Make some good ol' re-translation patches
And then when all that hard work is finished, no one is going to give a shit but you.