If we took the badly translated script *too* seriously, we'd all be busy dying to that first boss (the robotic scorpion thing) by attacking it while it's tail's up.
Oh my God yes. That confused me immensely the first play-through.
Yup that hapened to me to but it was the third time I didn't read it the first or second time, the first time I didn't have a memory card but i live through the slaughter, second i died but that was because i was obsessed in killing the motherfu**er.