I think crowd sourcing the translation is a great idea. Iām still pretty new to learning and donāt have much vocab so going into this ābookā club is a bit over my head and daunting. I think trying to parse some sentences and then posting them here is a great way to encourage learning.
Soā¦ I guess Iām doing this thing! And man am I in over my head! Iām playing with my laptop open, switching between the spreadsheet and Jisho. Iāve did a few battles and talked to a few people in town, and my brain is already fried! I probably should have started last week.
Anyway, Iām playing on Switch with modern text and remastered soundtrack.
Is Matthew from Suikoden?
Donāt hesitate to contribute your translations here or on the doc.
Nope, itās actually Sabin from FF VI! I didnāt know that was his actual Japanese name until I looked it up. He was the first monk-like Final Fantasy character I could think of.
Oh right, itās true that some characters in later games have ānormieā western names that were changed in the English versions. Looking forward to that.
I got confused about the starting week, so I just started yesterday in Japanese play, having done a pre-run in English last week. Iāve just been reading that some people have been learning the words, and I recall somebody posted them sorted by frequency. But there is so much posting here and in other threads that finding anything useful thatās not at the top of the week is really difficult. I should have bookmarked it.
The good news is because of last weekās practice, I have no problem in playing the game. Probably the hardest thing was putting the names in, as the IME didnāt work. However the Japanese dialogue is pretty advanced for me. My first attempt as the words went by were āWorld something, wind something, sea something, whole world something black something, but people ā¦ wasnāt that the word I did a yo mama joke on, what was itā¦ beforehand? ā¦oh heck itās rolling off the top of the screenā¦.ā
So the first thing is to thank whoever transcribed the Japanese into the spreadsheet (@Simias, was it?). Having the text where I can take time to translate is awesome! I think Iāll be reviewing most of it that way rather than in game.
The frequency list is also in the spreadsheet, see the Vocab tab 
Ooh, thank you!
One last post about this classical ć/ć ending.
I was rewatching a Game Gengo video on Monster Hunter Stories, which also featured some trickier stuff in the prelude, and our new friend made an appearance there too.
This should be queued up to the spot:
Anyway, Iām playing on Switch, though it has made getting screenshots onto my computer to make this post kind of awkward so maybe I wonāt in future weeks.
Opening cutscene
While the 3 word sentences are going: Wow, this is so slow, can it speed up.
Game: Ok, almost I went from 3 word sentences to 3 sentence dialogs
Me: Oh now I canāt keep up
Party Details
I considered doing an 8-bit theater party, but I didnāt want to hinder myself with a thief. I considered going with a monk just named ćć£ć for the troll factor. Also considered going for the Other Warriors but couldnāt find a good way to line up the classes.
So instead I went for the Warriors of Darkness (from FF14, not to be mixed up with the Dark Warriors from 8-bit theater)
Iām surprised the remaster didnāt fix NPCs pathing and blocking doorwaysā¦
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The princess is called ć»ć¼ć©, hmm?
New headcanon:
Maybe itāll displace this one by the end of the game
Anyway, I went around the field until I hit the entrance of the next week location. Apparently I āluckedā out on random encounters as I got there with only 1 encounter, and the game decided to punish me for my hubris.
Made me burn a potion on the second encounter!
I do find it interesting that level 2 doubled most of the partyās HP then level 3 was like +3 HP lol.
Anyway, this is my party at the end of todayās play session.
Maybe Iāll grind a few levels before entering the dungeon next week.
Even if they are just weak starter area monsters, an entire screen full is absolutely terrifying!
Took me a while to get it working, the steps described by Nintendo here with the QR code didnāt work for me, but I found the solution thanks to a Reddit post. If you have an Android device, then with the app SwitchBuddy: Switch Companion can scan the QR code and easily gets the image, then itās easy enough for me to get it from my Android phone to my PC.
The transcription is just for the remake, right? Any interest for the original version? I wrote down all lines I found in the castle area yesterday for my own convenience and would be willing to post them here and even giving it a shot at translating them properly. But not many people are playing the original kanji-free version, so interest might be at zero 
I have added some of the lines of the original when I felt like they differed significantly (using a different background color and adding a note explaining where itās from). Feel free to add more if you want.
I did add the kanji when transcribing however.
On Linux I connect the switch using USB then enable the media share option from the settings (itās buried pretty deep). Then I can mount it like an external drive using jmtpfs and backup all the screenshots that way.
I can just sync everything to my pcloud in one command:
jmtpfs ~/mnt && rclone copy ~/mnt/Album/ pcloud:media/Switch/
Apparently this is also available on the Switch 2:
Ahh, Iāve upgraded a switch 2 which doesnāt support sending things direct. Nintendoās own companion app does transfers for switch 2, similar to the one you linked but itās still a multi step switch ā phone ā PC setup 
That sucks. Then again IIRC for the longest time the only way to get screenshots out of the switch was by taking the SD card out orā¦ posting them on Twitter, so I guess thereās consistency in how garbage it is.
Oh some people have started contributing translation on the doc! Nice. I like the notes.
I guess at the end of each week the more advanced participants can just flex by bulk-translate all thatās left. Or if nobody else volunteers, I will.
Ah, thatās why I didnāt recognize the original script, canāt read kanji 
Google sheets are also notoriously not working on my device, so I wonāt add anything there and usually would have not even looked at them if I wasnāt looking for if anybody already did a transcript.
Oh bummer. I donāt find them very practical to use either but I saw that it was used in most clubs on these forums so I went with the flow.
I had tried connecting the Switch to my PC with USB but it didnāt work.
Just tried a different cable and it worked 
then I followed the steps here (section 2). It is more convenient that having to use the phone too.
Now I hope some interesting stuff will happen in week 2 so I have some screenshots to share!
My biggest complaint with Google Sheets is that it breaks if I try to use Yomichan, is it just me?
Not sure what could be a good alternative. Notion maybe?