New York Quest VIII

[slimequest]

I'm going to be in New York next week. Like, the city. I've never been there. Naturally I'm planning to visit the Nintendo Store while I'm there... and I guess that Statue of Whatever and the Museum of Natural.. somethings.

Decided to pick up Tales of Phantasia for GBA for the trip. They really butchered the translation in places and took out fun stuff like the opening theme, renaming function and sound test. I'm really hoping they bring out the new and improved PSP version out here, but in the meantime I'm enjoying the GBA version simply for the fact that it's ToP, and portable at that.

Oh and I beat Metal Gear Solid. Meryl ending of course, but immediately krile made me promise to get the Otacon ending on the Gamecube version. Because, you know, love can bloom on the battlefield............ in the butt.

(Now I'm waiting for MGS2 to come in the mail, I actually found MGS3 at the mall so I'm in the awkward situation of being tempted to play them out of order. It might not even really matter if I do or not, but oh well~)

Comments

[04.livejournal.com]

I recall a project someone started to re-translate Final Fantasy VI because they weren't happy with the liberties Ted Woolsey took in the SNES version
Ted Woolsey is the shit. I wouldn't take anyone's shitty re-translation over Woolsey's. If we had Ted Woolsey working on Final Fantasy VII, the game still would've sucked, but the translation would've been far better.

I liked the Tales of Phantasia vocal song. It's catchy. It's better without the vocals. I enjoyed the Dog Version they had in the, I believe it was, PSX version.

Tales of Symphonia had its vocal song removed as well, for no apparent reason.
That was the one by that one by that one band, uh, "Moon Gate", right? It was catchy, too. Better than the ToP theme. Too bad it's in Japanese.

[slimequest.livejournal.com]

Yeah I really have no problem with Woolsey's work. Hell, I grew up on the RPGs he worked on. I could've done without changes like Cait Sith to Stray in FF6, among other things, but "totally unnecessary changes" are my pet peeves translation-wise.

[04.livejournal.com]

I can accept changing Cait Sith/Cat Sidhe. It seems like it'd be a difficult word to romanize from Katakana without some knowledge of Celtic mythology. The translation for Persona 2: Eternal Punishment mis-romanized "In-Laqetti" as "In Rakech".

I hate stupid and intentional changes, though. Especially name changes -- mostly because I usually memorize what their names are before they're localized, so I have to go through extra effort to remember their new names and shit. This was a huge problem for me when Shin Megami Tensei 3 came out. I had memorized all of the Demon race names, from playing the first 2 SMT games, and had memorized which demons belonged to which races, and then I found out they changed the Demon race names to English words and shit. I still haven't been able to memorize the English race names.

[slimequest.livejournal.com]

Name changes are the worst. Anything else is fairly easy to get over, or the change is understanable (most of the time), but a character's name is a pretty important thing that should be consistent and recognizable. Especially nowadays when we learn character names months (or years) before they localize it thanks to the internet.