Animal Crossing's "obscure references" were all "localized out completely" before its debut in the West, as Nintendo felt it needed to "change everything"

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Localizing was a big task, however.

She then recounts an older 2014Kotaku interviewin which director Katusya Eguchi spoke.

As Lewin explains, “It wasn’t just a matter of changing the names of clothing.

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