Nonsensical game names interpreted by online dictionaries

PenPen Trilcelon

Dictionary.com suggests: Penmen (a person who writes or copies; scribe; copyist)
Dictionary.com suggests: Trailsmen (people who follow a trail)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Pampean (of or relating to the pampas [grass-covered plains] of South America or their Indian inhabitants)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Triathlon (an athletic con❀test that is a long-distance race consist⛎ing of three phases)

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Katamari Damacy

Actual Japanese translation: Clump Soul

Dictionary.com suggests: Katmai (an active volcano in southwest Alaska)
Dictionary.com suggests: Damꦿan🍷 (a rare name for the hyrax, any of several species of small mammals of the order Hyracoidea, of Africa and the Mediterranean region)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Catenary (the curve assumed by a cord of uniform density and cross section that is perfectly flexible but not capable of being stretched and that hangs freely from two fixed points)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Admass (mass-media advertising)

Shin Megami Tensei

Actual Japanese translation: True Goddess Reincarnation

Dictionary.com suggests: Magma (molten material beneath or within the earth's crust)
Dictionary.com suggests: Tense (in a state of mental or nervous strain)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Megohm (one million ohms)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Teensy (very small or diminutive)

Herzog Zwei

Actual German translation: Duke Two

Dictionary.com suggests: W♎ei (any of several dynasties that ruled in North China, e൲specially one ruling a.d. 220265 and one ruling a.d. 386534)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Zori (a flat thonged sandal usually made o🔯f straw, cloth,🦄 leather, or rubber)

What about "Herzog Zwei"? Dictionary.com suggests: Hoosgows (a slang word for jail)

Odama

Actual Japanese translation: Great Ball

Dictionary.com suggests: Ada🧔ma (another name for Admah, one of the cities that was destroyed along with Sodom and Gomorrah)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Edema (an abnormal infiltrat💛ion and excess accumulation of serous fluid in connective tissue)

Ehrgeiz: God Bless the Ring

Actual German translation: Ambition

Dictionary.com suggests: Elegize (to lament in an elegy)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: 🀅Erotize (to invest with erotic significance or sexual feeling)

Suikoden Tierkreis

Actual Japanese and German translation: Water Margin Zodiac

Dictionary.com suggests: Sudden (happening, coming, made, or done quickly, without warning, or unexpectedly)
Dictionary.com suggests: Terries (the loops formed by the pile of a fabric when left uncu🐼t)

Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Studding (the studs of a building or wall)
Merriam-Webster.com suggests: Traitress (a woman who is a traitor)

Meaning at last

So, would you play any of these dictionary-approved games? Metal Gear Rising: Refinance, where R🍌aiden must allocate funds? Bourbonist Joe, Capcom's spotlight on a young man's extremely conservative politics? Let us know in the comments if we missed any of your favorite made-up game names, and how those chumps at Oxford woul🌞d interpret it.

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