Chance Hale
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This was actually hilarious though, she's so droll.
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This was actually hilarious though, she's so droll.
Yeah, I've heard other things about FFVIII, like Squall's more dickish moments being more generally antisocial or snarky. Neku's attitude in The World Ends With You seems more like how Squall was supposed to come off originally. Also, I don't understand why they changed "Witch" to "Sorceress", considering that witch has connotations to an English-speaking audience that fit the story.
Asshole Lightning is an improvement in my book though. When Lightning stopped being an asshole she was just bland.
dragonlife
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These are all great articles. Thanks for the link.
Holy shit, haha. That's... wow, haha.
From Esti Erhard to Esty Dee. I'll never get over this. It's such a terrible joke.
the game End of Eternity was localized as Resonance of Fate
also the character Reanbell was localized into Leanne
Similarly tt's A Wonderful World > The World Ends With You (due to copyright reasons iirc)
also iirc, many of the names in Xenoblade were changed slightly from JP > EN
also the character Reanbell was localized into Leanne
Similarly tt's A Wonderful World > The World Ends With You (due to copyright reasons iirc)
also iirc, many of the names in Xenoblade were changed slightly from JP > EN
someguyinahat
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Incoming Fire Emblem Awakening pictures! Maybe.
MrCunningham
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The best:
They added sunglasses to the Hitler sprite to make who the character was more vague.
Aviator Hitler > Non-Aviator Hitler
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Deleted member 17706
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Having played FFXIII when it first came out in Japan, that would have been a nightmare to localize. Such a goddamn nonsensical plot.
Dice//
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Not even a matter of why it was censored, I prefer the overseas outfits for aesthetic reasons
mrmickfran
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The Japanese version of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance had White blood instead of Red blood in order to avoid a CERO Z rating (Japanese equivalent to an ESRB AO rating).
Dark_castle
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In FFX Japanese version, Yuna said Thank You rather than I love you to Tidus. It was changed in localization.
PreyingShark
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"Low Kick" from the JPN version of Pokemon was changed to "Low Sweep" in the ENG version because "Low Kick" was already used for a different move. It's not a huge change but I find it pretty amusing.
"Magical Shine" was changed to "Dazzling Gleam". Magical Shine was totally cooler.
In Gen I there were a lot of Pokemon named after English words, like "Windie", "Thunder", "Thunders", "Booster", "Barrier'd", "Freezer", "Fire", etc. Most of those were changed. This is one of those instances where being as faithful as possible would have been a horrible decision. Well, horrible if they wanted the games to sell well at least.
Finally, the GTS's "Naughty Name Detector" works fine with all non-NN'd mons caught in JPN-language games. This was changed for the English releases.
"Magical Shine" was changed to "Dazzling Gleam". Magical Shine was totally cooler.
In Gen I there were a lot of Pokemon named after English words, like "Windie", "Thunder", "Thunders", "Booster", "Barrier'd", "Freezer", "Fire", etc. Most of those were changed. This is one of those instances where being as faithful as possible would have been a horrible decision. Well, horrible if they wanted the games to sell well at least.
Finally, the GTS's "Naughty Name Detector" works fine with all non-NN'd mons caught in JPN-language games. This was changed for the English releases.
What would be a nightmare? I don't see how words like kami or shinigami are confusing.
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Deleted member 17706
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No. It's that the story and setting were a bunch of nonsense.
I take it you speak Japanese, so here's a quick read:
http://dic.nicovideo.jp/a/パルスのファルシのルシがパージでコクーン
Why exactly? I don't speak or know how to read it but I know some basic words.
That reminds me of another Pokemon translation, not in English though, Spanish. The move "Slam" was changed to "Portazo"... "Door Slam".
Where are all of these Pokemon getting these doors from?
I definitely look at Ted Woolsey as a big component of why the FF6 to FF9 era of Squaresoft was their peak. Yea, they were full of errors, but those translations were oozing with personality and charm. He gave us "Ozzy", "Flea", and "Slash", after all.
I can't help but think of how much better FFXIII or other recent SE titles would be if they had a Ted Woolsey-like touch.
CertifiedFP
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Surprised Esty Dee was brought up, but not THIS:
Original Japanese version name was DeCameron.
...Of course though, for anyone who knows Japanese, the name change was a bit of a woolseyism to preserve the pun that the Japanese audience got with DeCameron.
Original Japanese version name was DeCameron.
...Of course though, for anyone who knows Japanese, the name change was a bit of a woolseyism to preserve the pun that the Japanese audience got with DeCameron.
Though I agree that FFXIII would have benefited greatly by a better translation, they should have kept with calling Bhunivelze 'the Maker' instead of 'God'. It is easy to forget that Bhuni was always intricate to the FFXIII story from the very first game because of the lack of term consistency.