I know these things are a few months old, but no-one else made a topic about it.

Someone did a podcast interview with Jeremy Blaustein, translator of Metal Gear Solid and Snatcher amongst other Konami titles for the West. He used to work for Konami as a translator/localizer, which is pretty common knowledge.

He makes some pretty interesting comments. Especially regarding the localization process and Hideo Kojima, himself. Although understandably bitter, there's a few choice pieces of information revealed. Discussions of other Konami titles such as Silent Hill II and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, occur also.

It's split into two parts. Runs two hours in total, around 50MB per file.

Part I:
http://www.mgstus.org/downloads/audio/ptt_podcast/ptt_episode011.mp3

Part II:
http://www.mgstus.org/downloads/audio/ptt_podcast/ptt_episode014.mp3

I'd definitely recommend a listen to Snatcher and Metal Gear Solid fans. There's also a lot of talk on Silent Hill.

---

I assume the Snatcher talk is about Project S, the collaboration between Suda 51 and Hideo Kojima?

Sigh.

No, the discussion of Snatcher is regarding the fact Jeremy Blaustein translated/localized the Mega-CD/Sega-CD port originally in the West. Mostly questions fans wanted answered. I mean, nobody knew this stuff. There's also been an interview last month in an Australian gaming magazine with the original English VA's for Gillian Seed and Metal Gear Mk II.

Link:
http://forums.junkerhq.net/viewtopic.php?p=17315#17315

This is to another forum. Someone scanned the article, very kindly. It's a nice little read.

Keep in mind, Jeremy Blaustein hasn't worked for Konami for a long time. He hasn't wanted to play the sequels to MGS due to feeling bitter about it. You'd be best listening to it. Honestly, he comes across as ranting at some points, but he's got a lot to say. He hasn't revealed this stuff for many years to those who wanted to know the 'behind the scenes' dirt, so to speak.

The discussion of Scott Dolph made me crack up. Infact, the stuff regarding Hideo Kojima might make you look at him a little differently. This is coming from a guy that worked with him first hand and some of the stuff kind of surprised me. Rather, I was surprised due to the notion I'd been thinking similar things regarding Kojima over the years, and have found them to be vaguely true.

As far as I can remember, there's a brief discussion of this new Snatchers collaboration. The people interviewing him seem to be a little fanboyish now and then. They bring up Killer7 for no apparent reason toward the very end of the first part of the interview. Also, Blaustein does discuss the Snatcher Radio-Play, or something, briefly toward the end of the second part I believe. Anyway, less questions. I want to hear people discuss this.

I didn't hear it until last night, shockingly.

---