Bad localization?

Dude, it's the game's original title, and it has been for.. multiple years. Don't blame localization for it.

There's already a topic about the title, see that for some insight.

Originally posted by GoodIntent:

There's already a topic about the title, see that for some insight.

Nobody really explains why the title is so long though, so might as well do it here.

The titles of this series of games are already in English, by the way. They might sound a bit ridiculous because of the way Japanese people like to use English words in an exaggerate way.

As for its length:
The first game of the series was called just "Melty Blood", as a reference to how it deals with a vampire story.
The latter games, instead of using numbers, had a couple of words added after the title (ReAct, Act Cadenza, Actress Again). "Actress Again" indicates that this is the third entry of the franchise, and is again a reference to the plot.
Finally, "Current Code" indicates that game is based on the arcade port of the original PS2 version, which added some elements.

To put it short, if this game had been born in the west it would have been called Melty Blood 3.5, but you can just call it Melty Blood or MBAACC, since the older games don't have online play.

Imo not as bad as "Super Street Fighter IV Arcade Edition 2012". At least this sounds somehow nice.

" I don't do anime games as a rule,"
Watch out we got ourself a tough kid over here.

Originally posted by Oddesu:

" I don't do anime games as a rule,"
Watch out we got ourself a tough kid over here.

Let me correct that.

I don't do anime anything as a rule.

There are, of course, exceptions to that rule, but not many.

Not as bad as Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late. Why are these games named with such gratuitous English? Probably because it sounds cool to Japanese people.

It sounds cool to anyone who's not English, not just the Japanese people.

It's also fun to see English people, especially from USA (Full disclosure, I did not check OP's nationality before writing this) getting triggered by this kind of stuff. Wish developers did this more often.

Originally posted by Dragonwitch:

There are, of course, exceptions to that rule, but not many.

If you have even the faintest interest in this game, I suggest trying out the demo of this slightly old but still valid release, you may end up liking it:
http://mirrormoon.org/projects/complete/melty-blood/melty-blood-react/

It's pretty fun and dynamic.

Honestly, with the exception of Soul Calibur who simply put numbers next to their name I have yet to see a fighting game that doesn't eventually become all crazy with their titles.

I don't mind it's almost a tradition at this point...

Originally posted by I kiss Goats 💦:

Honestly, with the exception of Soul Calibur who simply put numbers next to their name I have yet to see a fighting game that doesn't eventually become all crazy with their titles.

I don't mind it's almost a tradition at this point...

Tekken only adds extra words to the "dreammatches" (Tag Tournament although that shouldn't really count as "going crazy") and enhanced versions of a canon game (5 Dark Resurrection) but since these are usually the only versions to arrive to consoles, most people ignore the extra words.

Mortal Kombat Did it for enhanced versions of MK3 and never again (Ultimate, Trilogy).

SoulCalibur has spin offs with crazy names but they're not part of the main line of course.

Killer Instinct added the word "Gold" to KI2 on the N64.

Dead Or Alive did it for the enhanced version of DOA5 by adding "Last Round" to it.

That's all I can remember from the series that did this the less and went the least crazy.

ITS JUST A TITLE.

whybother.jpg

Well, it caught your attention didn't it? Then it has done its job.

it might be an inside joke, becouse there was Act Cadenza (AC) and Actress Again (AA)
so they fused names to Actress Again Current Code (AACC)

Originally posted by Colourdreams:

it might be an inside joke, becouse there was Act Cadenza (AC) and Actress Again (AA)
so they fused names to Actress Again Current Code (AACC)

i dont think you know this but this thread is almost 10 years old