What's with the crappy translation?!?

[Clyde Arronway]

FFV has to have one of the worst translations of proper names I've ever seen. I mean come on! Every Japaneese>english translation learns in the first five minutes that the L/R letter is R is romanji but it is always pronounced like an L in english. Reina! REINA!!! it's lenna for pity sake. Then there's Bartz, whose name is so much better as Butz! and for pity sake, the N-zone! It's already been established as the cleft of dimention in FFIII (Unne: even adamantite will fall into the cleft of dimention, in the ancient ruins before the ibiin shiburu)

For pity sake... it's a job like no-one but woosley could do, yet he hadn't a single hand in it?! mabey he's training a protogee

bah!

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

The L/R thing can go either way. It's almost always up to interpretation.

Bartz is better than Butz but not as good as Batz, which is correct as well as sounding nice.

But yeah, "N-Zone" is stupid.

[Kirobaito]

I actually liked Reina more than Lenna.

[DJZen]

I only object to changing Sarisa to Salsa. It makes Faris's backstory make no sense. Sure, Cleft of Dimension sounds cooler, but the name change doesn't mess up the plot in obnoxious ways. Okay, maybe it doesn't REALLY mess up the plot but oh well.

[The Man]

I believe the FFV Anthology translation is based on some work Woolsey did back when Square thought they'd be bringing the game out in America for the SNES, which explains the dodgy name changes. I always thought they were crap, too, but it didn't bother me 'cause I just played the ROM.

[Mr. Graves]

The ROM is better on average in terms of gameplay, but I always prefer the Anthology translation.

[Clyde Arronway]

My goodness! I've played half of the rom and I love it. The anthology makes LENNA sound like a psycho and botches names to death.
They ought to be:
Butz
Lenna
Faris
Galuf
Carol
Exdeath
Woosley the monkey butt!

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Carol is completely wrong. So are Krile and Cara-ru. Her name is Klulu. I'm not just saying this, because I though Cara-ru was a great name.

And "Butz" is supposed to be pronounced "bots," as in robots, so I prefer the vastly less misleading spelling of Batz.

[DocFrance]

I thought it was pronounced like "boots." But I really do prefer "butts" because of how comically tragic it is.

[Clyde Arronway]

Carol is an approximation of what the japaneese were probably trying to say at one point or another. The Ca is the same in both, the next letter can be L or R, thus car, then the u is probably just a wierd vowel thing; vowels are not the heart and soul of the language, so it's not extremely important. If the next letter is an R, you get carolu. U's are the japaneese verson of our silent e's, the most famous one, part of their verb of being, desu pronounded as dess. drop the U, Carol. Remember that more often than not the japaneese are trying to say somthing in english but they screw it up unwittingly, hence Engrish. We try to figure out what they're saying and viola! we get Krile.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

The Final Fantasy Japan artbook clearly labels the names for all the characters in both Japanese and English alongside their artwork. All of the names are perfect, without a sign of mistranslation; even surnames like Klauser, Vlondett, and Baldesion are not misspelled. And Klulu's name is given as Klulu. Written in katakana, it clearly begins with a Ku, not a Ka. I can scan the page if you like.

[Citizen Bleys]

Carol is completely wrong. So are Krile and Cara-ru. Her name is Klulu. I'm not just saying this, because I though Cara-ru was a great name.

Actually, her correct name is Cthulhu, which explains a lot of the mysteries in the story.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

THIS IS SERIOUS BUSINESS MISTER

[DocFrance]

Actually, her correct name is Cthulhu, which explains a lot of the mysteries in the story.

That would be the best thing EVAR.

[crono_logical]

Scan 'em all in, I wanna see these