User blog comment:Kogath/Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate for the Nintendo 3DS/@comment-5716529-20140928170936/@comment-5167887-20140929190431

If anyone still thinks English localization for MH4U team is trash... Then they should try the french one!

It's been since MH3U that we in France have crappy translations on almost everything in the game (like weapon flavour texts being shorter and lazier than English version, irksome names due to words being idiomatic and not able to be translated with the exact same sense, thanks goodness we still have equivalent monster names.)

But as it has been announced, some MH4U translations are likely to change the whole essence of what the game have been these past years. I'm looking at you, Gunlance.

Yes, it used to be called "Lanceflingue" in French, which is pretty close to "Gunlance", but for MH4U it has been announced as "Lancecanon" which would translate to "Cannonlance" in English.

And i need explanations about how "Charge Blade" becomes "Volto-Hache" (Which i would turn myself into Volt Axe).

No complaining about Palico which is the same in the two languages, but i will stick on Felynes, or fan-call them Partnyers.