An incredibly stilted translation.
I particularly like the early dialogue where during a jargon frenzy switching between terms someone ended up defining a "lifeform" as "a form with something like life"
You're right, Ichiya. Vague doesn't even start to cover it. It did make me laugh though.
What?
Yes, Ichiya, you can.
I mean, none of it is technically incorrect but it makes me feel like I'm stuck reading some translator's footnotes.1.2.3.4.5.
Well okay, masochist[ic] might be going a little far. I'm honestly more disappointed than anything else.
I've got a few you could sub in if you wanted?
Some Parasite Mode shots similar to yours (I did cheat and stitch two together to get the one with the text, I just couldn't get the whole lot on screen at once ^^)
Edit: And one from your Screenshots section.
Edit 2: I changed my mind about the "translator's footnotes" screens. Some of that is technically incorrect, and even if they're dead-set on including the Japanese words some of that could be easily rephrased into something more like actual speech.
(Though, erm, his heal skill doesn't heal "all ally HP" it heals the HP of all allies. It's not a full heal, basically).
Ichiya, for example, has passive skills that will reduce the physical damage all allies take if you spec for them, which can be useful.
And thats with the seats up now.
Seats down pretty much full load.
You don't actually need to do the SBM event to damage the boss.
It's bonus damage, really, because it gets its own turn and does quite a lot of damage even if you miss some beats, but it's not necessary damage so if you don't want to use it you don't have to.
You can kill every boss without ever using SBM, it will just be slower (admittedly quite a lot slower in some cases) and you might have to be more careful as a result.
Also, you don't hit X. If you hit X you will miss every time, because hitting X does nothing. I'm not saying this to be mean, I'm saying this because I made that mistake on the Japanese release before I realised you had to hit O
Leveling up your characters' skills and equipment is more important than actually leveling up the characters, especially because the yellow seed gems used to level your characters are few and far between early on.
What I'd say is to take a look at how you're spending Materia. Leveling your characters' ability to create weapons/armour using Materia is more important than leveling the characters themselves but it's important to note that leveling those won't actually matter unless you also spend Breed gems to actually create the better weapons/armour and then equip them.
(It's also important to note that when you try to use Breed gems to get weapons/armour and it says "Insufficient level" it doesn't mean the character's level, it means the level of that slot on the upgrade tree).
It would also be worth taking a look at the tactics you've equipped. Ichiya/Mana can equip items to their tactics sets that will work to heal themselves, whereas Kazuomi has a Heal Skill that can heal everyone.
(Though, erm, his heal skill doesn't heal "all ally HP" it heals the HP of all allies. It's not a full heal, basically).
And look into the skills each character has in their Command Trees to decide how best to spend your Force gems.
Ichiya, for example, has passive skills that will reduce the physical damage all allies take if you spec for them, which can be useful.
Mana has passive skills which improve everyone's hit and evade. Alternatively, she has skills that improve everyone's item use (if you're using items to heal that might help), or an attack skill (Cursed Arrow) that will recover her own health based on the damage she does if she uses it.
Kazu has passive skills that will improve the magic and status defense of all allies, or he has passives that will strengthen his spell effects which will make his heals more effective.
I honestly don't understand how it isn't driving other people nuts. I really, really don't.
I mean yeah, maybe it doesn't have the obvious penetrations and black man problems of SAO's Asian release, but at the same time that was a foreign release and was presumably overseen by people for whom english wasn't a primary language -- something which makes some of its translation oddities a little more understandable.
Hah, that's actually really interesting. I have to admit I'd never given any thought to the "real" version it would have been based on. That's a pretty tight fit.
They really do come across as friends ribbing each other
Do you have to get 100% perfect for the trophy? That's why I'm assuming it's going to take me forever (I suck at rhythm games).
I had several poor ratings and still got it. Need to use full SBM though.
Yeah I got it. Thought it would be harder. How do you get the gluttony trophy? I fed my main character snacks in battle until he wouldn't gain weight anymore but no trophy. Also he kept eating.
Got it to pop. Looks like I had to get the whole team to +10 weight.
No, you only have to max the blue command tree, but the trophy isn't obtainable until later in the game (spoilers for exactly when)
I don't know why I asked that question. For some reason I forgot that that trophy was actually 3 trophies. Sorry about that.
And I'm sorry if I came across as a bit snippy, I swear I didn't mean to.
Okay, I lied. This one, this one still deserves a comment.
And I took a load of pictures of Kyle during SBM. When I was messing with Ichiya's I only seemed to get the same handful of comments over and over again, whereas Kyle's variations seem a lot more willing to show up. It did also reveal a couple more oddities, though.
Scums is... yeah. I haven't managed to get humank[ind] to show up on the other side of the screen but I have to assume it cuts off wherever it displays.
And then there were these two...
Nope, no signs of unhealthy attachment there
Nope, not there either ^_^
Not that that's a bad thing
