Fynn
is an EoFF Hero and/or Heroine
Radical Dreamer

I always have mixed feelings about orchestrated video game soundtracks. DQ works for me, but sometimes with FF, I don't feel the arrangement captures the possibilities the MIDI gave.

It's the name a four year old would give it. At least Icebolt sounds like something a dorky ten year old would come up with.

Crackle sounds like a cereal not an ice spell.

I just can't deal with the puns. The accents are hit and miss. Ragnar's chapter with the heavy Scottish brogue is clever, but also makes it hard to sometimes understand what the objective is. Thankfully the game is so simple, cause a more complex narrative would have needed a pulled back approach. The weird Russian grammar structure in Alena's story is more annoying though, and I remember the heavy French accents in the Twins arc also made it a challenge to sometimes figure out what people wanted.

Now their translations in other games are nice, but as someone who grew up with the non-punny translations of old, it's hard to play through some of these entries. Icebolt just sounds cooler than Crackle.

I think the best thing about playing DQIII again on the SNES is that the translators chose the GBC translation over the newer ones. I get that the new translation is closer to the original, but I just prefer less puns and and spells being listed by the description of their sound effect over a more easily decipherable one.

I wouldn't say it's stifling, or I guess it would depend on the approach. I sometimes enjoy having a sense of canon or structure to a story. I think one of the reasons why all of my co-writing fanfic stories never go anywhere is because I get caught up into adhering to the established rules and setting. Most fanfic writers I know love to fly fast and loose with the setting and rules, but I tend to like to stay within the confines. I guess I enjoy the challenge of writing something that I feel could be mistaken for the actual author's work, which is my usual goal with such types of stories.

When I have my freedom to do as I wish, I feel the important thing is to maintain the themes and feel of the original. One of the comic projects I'm working on is an alternate Spider-Man character, but it's been fun planning out the story because the general mythology and themes of the Spiderverse give me enough leg room to be creative while still maintaining a story that feels familiar. It's interesting and probably where being very analytical about things comes in really handy.

On the other hand, I don't think I would be as bad about fanart or fan projects. I'd probably be pretty lenient unless they were seriously making money off it and even then, I'd probably let them continue as long as I saw some of the share.

I have a sneaking suspicion that I'm a bit of a control freak. If my work was to be adapted, I would want to be intimately involved, or in the case of working on something I finished that others would want to continue, I would probably end the story in a way that would give it no justifiable reason to be continued. That's something I've been noticing with my comic book project. I have a character I feel would be super amazing, but I've already planned for her story to have a specific end, so unless the book was cancelled before I got there, I can't really think of a way to continue her story without some ass pull plot nonsense.

Copyright and IP Laws are always fascinating. One of my favorite classes in college was Communication Law. Yeah, he likely deserves some better compensation, which is better than what you'll get in some other countries.

It's more from the guilt I felt when I went through my collection and had to climb over all four games to get to DQIV. I mean I'm dodging four potentially awesome games to replay one I felt mediocre about cause the mood struck me. Not to mention Romancing SaGa 2 is just begging me to play as well.