ok for one, its star wars episode 6 (return of the jedi), IIRC (might be "empire", havent seem em in a long time).
and also....i dont want a straight translation. thats gonna be boring, for the reasons you said. some joke that the japanese find hilarious isnt gonna make me laugh. some joke for americans isnt gonna make the french laugh. we all have different languages.
in fact i think they ARE doing their job with the jokes. japanese games have little inuendos, and if directly translated they would be really stupid
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