15 Hilarious Translation Fails In Video Games

9. Crime City

Now there's nothing technically wrong with the grammar here, and yet you just can't think of any fluent English speaker ever phrasing their gratitude as 'Thanks nice boys'. It's almost something you could imagine an old lady saying after you helped her carry her groceries home, before she gives you a stick of liquorice as a treat... but not quite. There's just something uncanny with the wording here, familiar yet wrong on a deep-down level. I wouldn't trust this beansprout-haired lady for a second - maybe she's secretly an old woman underneath that weird veneer?

 
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