It roughly translated into ‘the sound of the guitar mixed with the tree imagery is too nostalgic-sounding’. I’m still scratching my head on that one.
A really good translator might have written that as "Your artistic choices are dated", which is probably what the original author meant to convey. The word invariably translated as "nostalgic" is natuskashii (懐かしい) and it conveys an impression of times-gone-by, which is sometimes not a good thing.
(I once read a delightfully poisonous review of UI decisions by our senior engineer, beginning with "The new interface to the web app reminds me of my childhood experience working with mainframe terminals, except without the complex functionality.")
Haha. Ken Kutaragi complained of Crash in the very early days that the "trees should wave their branches at you, giving the nostalgia of childhood." Or something like that. At the time we found it merely puzzling.
Natsukashii is one of those Japanese concepts that you just have to learn along with the language, a lot like itadakimasu or the various forms of yoroshiku onegai shimasu. It's not so hard to understand once you understand the feeling they're supposed to convey.
I usually end up mentally un-translating them because the translations end up sounding unnatural in English. Unusual uses of words like "nostalgia" and certain other bits of "translationese" make it easy to spot translations and identify the source language and not just for Japanese. For example, unnatural sounding uses of the word "illiberal" usually indicate statements translated from Chinese.
I normally would not feel the need to correct a typo, but in an instance like this it is different as most people on hn do not automatically know what was intended.
A really good translator might have written that as "Your artistic choices are dated", which is probably what the original author meant to convey. The word invariably translated as "nostalgic" is natuskashii (懐かしい) and it conveys an impression of times-gone-by, which is sometimes not a good thing.
(I once read a delightfully poisonous review of UI decisions by our senior engineer, beginning with "The new interface to the web app reminds me of my childhood experience working with mainframe terminals, except without the complex functionality.")