Steppin' in the brown stuff: Polishing up the game text!

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Originally Posted by Mo-Nercy

And Fujin in general. In the Japanese version, she spoke only in kanji and to some extent, they carried over that same effect of limited speech in the English releases, but I don't see why it had to be all-capitals. She's not even yelling most of the time.

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In the French version, an exchange between Fujin and Raijin goes something like this:

Fujin: Tell them why we're here!
Raijin: We came to deliver a message, ya know!

Fujin: Ask them about Seifer!
Raijin: Where's Seifer?
Squall: Seifer may be dead.
Fujin: Tell them that's ridiculous!
Raijin: That's ridiculous!
Fujin: Tell them we're going to look for him!
Raijin: We're going to look for Seifer!

I wish I still had all the screenshots I took of my last run through that version because the French translation is so different.

Also check out this oddity:FF8: Major creative difference in the French translation! - YouTube
(The annotations I put in to translate are a bit literal, but with the annotation editor being as it is now I don't really want to go back and alter them.)

That's a really interesting retranslation. It doesn't mesh with the interpretation I have of her character, so I won't remake Fujin into her French image, but those translators are definitely a credit to humanity. Good thinking.