User blog comment:RottenBlock/Little Vampire - English Release!/@comment-2003:D6:473E:4302:F844:CCEB:D744:7F08-20200110190111/@comment-2003:D6:473E:4302:F844:CCEB:D744:7F08-20200110225337

As mentioned, it's just one of the issues. Localizing something always creates more issues than it solves. For one, you are stripping a text of its cultural references. Additionally, you are shifting one culture someone might not understand (Japanese) to a different one one might not understand (American in most cases). So that doesn't help, in addition of it just being straight up wrong. Also, people wanting to play this game are most likely familiar with Japanese culture, rather than American culture (unless they are Americans).

Anyway: " The original translation referred to helping the river ghost "become a Buddha," but I changed this to a more western-familiar "going to heaven,"..."

I grew up in a non-religious Western country. With both terms I'm only familiar through (foreign) media but as far as I know, they mean two different things....unless "going to heaven" doesn't mean "to die" anymore.