Legend of Mortal: Japanese-language reviews mention localization 8.0 times as often as usual
Japanese-language reviews mention translation quality 8.0 times as often as typical games. The count covers 622 Japanese-language reviews written from 2024-06-16 to 2026-11-01.
Own research by 648 News. Every figure in this article was counted by us from 622 Steam reviews written in Japanese, collected between 2024-06-16 and 2026-11-01.
The sample matches Steam's Japanese review total
The collected sample contains 622 Japanese-language reviews of Legend of Mortal. Of these, 609 recommend the game and 13 do not, giving 97.9% positive. The 95% confidence interval runs from 96.5% to 98.8%. Steam's own all-time Japanese figures, read on 2026-11-02, also show 622 reviews, 609 positive, 13 negative, and 97.9% positive. The collected reviews run from 2024-06-16 to 2026-11-01. The collection date is 2026-11-02. The topic analysis covers 606 of the 622 reviews, and a model classified 523 of them. The mean sentiment score is 83.6.
The numbers
Story and translation stand out against other games
Against the other 153 followed games, three topics appear far more often in these Japanese-language reviews. Japanese localization and translation quality appears in 10.4% of classified reviews, 8.0 times the usual 1.3%. Reviewers who mention it often say the translated text lets them follow a dense story comfortably.
日本語MODの圧倒的なクオリティもあり、文章を追うこと自体がとても心地よい。
The overwhelming quality of the Japanese MOD also made reading the text pleasant.
Story, scenario, and writing appears in 60.2% of classified reviews, 5.7 times the usual 10.5%. Reviewers describe branching paths, large amounts of text, and a protagonist whose rough appearance becomes central to the story.
本当に面白い。端的に言ってしまえば、成り上がりモノ小説なのだが、主人公が絶世のブサイクであることが活かされている。
It is really fun. In short, it is a rise-to-the-top novel, and the fact that the protagonist is an unrivaled ugly man is put to good use.
These reviews often link the cast's personalities to repeated playthroughs. Two topics appear far less often than usual. Performance, optimization, bugs, and crashes appears in 1.7%, 0.1 times the usual 13.4%. Gameplay, combat, and core mechanics appears in 31.0%, 0.6 times the usual 52.5%.
Negative reviews focus on gameplay and content
Only 13 reviews in the collected sample do not recommend the game, and they concentrate on a few topics. Gameplay, combat, and core mechanics appears in 80.0% of those reviews, compared with 30.2% among reviews that recommend it.
戦闘はあまり面白くない
Combat is not very fun.
That gap is 49.8 percentage points. Difficulty and balance appears in 30.0% of negative reviews and 2.5% of positive reviews. Amount of content, length, and replayability appears in 50.0% of negative reviews and 24.7% of positive reviews. Performance, optimization, bugs, and crashes appears in 20.0% of negative reviews and 1.3% of positive reviews. Compared with the usual share among negative reviews across the other games, story, scenario, and writing appears in 50.0% of these negative reviews, 5.9 times the usual 8.5%. Amount of content, length, and replayability appears in 50.0%, 2.3 times the usual 22.0%.
Longer play time shows slightly more support
The play-time comparison splits the sample into two quarters of 151 reviews each. Among reviewers with the least play time, up to 32.3 hours, 96.0% recommend the game. Among reviewers with the most play time, from 96.5 hours, 99.3% recommend it. The difference is 3.3 percentage points, and the result carries p = 0.056. The least-played quarter talks most about story, scenario, and writing, at 58.3%. It also talks about characters and character design, at 34.4%, and gameplay, combat, and core mechanics, at 30.5%. The most-played quarter also talks most about story, scenario, and writing, at 56.3%. Its next two topics are amount of content, length, and replayability, at 33.8%, and gameplay, combat, and core mechanics, at 31.1%.
Methodology and sources
Data
Steam user reviews, retrieved with Steam's public review listing between 2024-06-16 and 2026-11-01: 622 written in Japanese. Steam's own all-time totals for Legend of Mortal were read on 2026-11-02.
How the reviews were classified
Every review was read by a language model, which rated how positive it is, how much concrete detail it gives, and which of 15 fixed topics it talks about. The counts and percentages in this article were then computed from those labels in ordinary code, not by the model. Automatic classification makes mistakes, so single percentages should be read as approximate. Reviews of fewer than 15 characters were not sent to the model; they count as positive or negative from the reviewer's own recommendation and carry no topic.
Limits
People who write a Steam review in Japanese are not a representative sample of everyone who plays in Japan, and the language of a review does not establish where its author lives. Steam's default filter for off-topic review activity was left on, so periods Steam marked as review bombing are excluded from the counts in this article. Reviews that arrived after the retrieval date are not included.
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