Is Konami's Lost Warld not Lost Warld at all?

By wimpie3

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02-08-2018, 21:05

We all know Kojima was working on a rejected game before he created Metal Gear. Most internet sources state this game is called Lost Warld (a combination of World and War). But what if... this was not correct? I've found a Konami source stating that the correct title is LOST WORLD after all, with the correct spelling.

Can anyone tell me more on this with GOOD sources instead of just internet pages copying each others info?

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By mars2000you

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02-08-2018, 21:15

The best is to contact Hideo Kojima, for example via Twitter: https://twitter.com/hideo_kojima_en

By Randam

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03-08-2018, 19:22

What Konami source are you referring to? Keep in mind that Japanese people were terribly inconsistent at that time in romanizations. Androgynous has at least 4 and maybe 5 different ways of how the title is spelled IN the game. And that game has not terribly much text. And over the years I have seen different ways to write Gillian, Jamie, Petrovich, Jean Jacques Gibson, Gao, Belmont in Japanese, to name just a few characters in the Konami games, letting alone all the typos in translated games.

Also there is a Latin saying with regards to translations, which roughly comes down to the more difficult reading is the correct one. When translating stuff people tend to take the more obvious meaning and weird differences are chalked up to "must be an error/ typo". But with creative writing, people tend to put in extra stuff to add a deeper meaning. Someone who isn't in the know of that element is far more likely to change it back to "correct" it. That could have been the case as well. Especially seeing there are sources stating an origin for the alternate way of writing it.