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Suda51 misinformation

Since the beginning of western fandom surrounding the works of Suda51 and Grasshopper Manufacture, there has been a plethora of misinformation frequently repeated as fact. There were various contributing factors to this, most heavily that Suda's games were translated out-of-order, with some still yet to be translated at all. Because of this, information about Japanese-exclusive games did not disseminate from various players, but from limited sources who did not necessarily know Japanese themselves, using combinations of Google Translate and assumptions to attempt to piece together the mystique of these forbidden games that were, somehow, connected to the games that had been translated up to this point. These days much of that misinformation has been dispelled as more and more people got to play most of (though still not all) the games for themselves. But misinformation seems to swirl around Suda regardless; articles reporting on him and their comment sections still aren't quite