FFVII is pretty much just as bad when it comes to enemy names. Kimara Bug springs to mind, as does Velcher Task.Originally Posted by AngryTurnip
FFVII is pretty much just as bad when it comes to enemy names. Kimara Bug springs to mind, as does Velcher Task.
My mind recalls the famous "Ogre Nix" sword in FFVI (it was obviously supposed to be "Organics," as the FFVII sword).
There is nothing that surpasses North Pole as "Knowlespole" in FFVII.
That is terrible.
Even Grand Lion as "Masamune" in Chrono Trigger, or Grand Dream as the ridiculous "Mastermune" in Chrono Cross?
If only because they were intentional. The Masamune/Mastermune fiasco is like one of Ed Gein's savage murders and utter bodily desecrations, while Knowlespole is like that awful, complicated yet completely accidental Darwin Award death that was chronicled in the beginning of Magnolia.
PROTIP: Google will turn up an Ed Gein article as the first result in response to a search for "carved skulls into bowls."
I feel so much the better for benefit of all this beautiful knowledge. Thank you, Kishi.
Let's not be too harsh on FF6. "Ogre nix" may be embarrassing, but the fact that they named the morbols after Oscar the Grouch is enough to redeem them
Oh, believe me, I'm not being harsh on FF6, I'm just being harsh on its translator.
do they just pump these games through Babel Fish? How do these hideous errors make it through? Square must not care very much.
obviously, because we're american heathens.
Eh, I think it's more because the translations are done by people who don't speak English, except for FFVI, which was well translated scriptwise. I can see why Woolsey took such liberties with names though, it's not like it's that hugely important that they remain 100% faithful to the original. Did you know that one of the enemies is an Onion Knight? Of course you didn't, why would you need to know?
It's simply irresponsible and disrespectful to have translators that fail to understand the language into which they are translating.
'Course, the msot unfortunate enemy translation has got to be in the FF2 translated ROM, where Red Soul is... R.Soul.
Oh dear.
I agree, this is why I'm favorable toward Woolsey's translations.
I'm going to change this thread's icon to a happy face. Because it makes me happy.
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