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 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.