Hurrah, a welcome return!
Incidentally I think Selphie's line: "T'as qu'a croire!" might have translated better as "That's what you think!"
Moar soon, plz!
Hurrah, a welcome return!
Incidentally I think Selphie's line: "T'as qu'a croire!" might have translated better as "That's what you think!"
Moar soon, plz!
"I work in one of those humble call centres... Apparently, what we're doing at the moment is 'sprinkling our magic along the way'. It's a call centre, not Hogwarts." ~ Caroline Garlick, Ayrshire, BBC News Magazine
Youve been gone for so long.
Ive Lolled at so many things.. wth was Watts doing there? xD
Thanks, thanks, and here ya go!Originally Posted by Tallulah
Hurrah, a welcome return!
Incidentally I think Selphie's line: "T'as qu'a croire!" might have translated better as "That's what you think!"
Moar soon, plz!
After reading what started off as a weapons magazine that turned into a naughty S&M fetish column, we return to Linoa's attempt to interfere with the plan by having the Priestess wear a bad pun.
Linoa: "I'm not a Seed, but..."
Linoa: "...I am courageous!"
(As opposed to "I'm not a SeeD, but I can do this!")
Linoa: "I uh, wanted to offer my congratulations."
Linoa: "And so I brought you this welcoming gift."
I should probably start taking screenshots of the dialogueless action, as it'll be easier to narrate the game's events. Edea zaps Linoa with a light beam and knocks her on her ass, then does some telekinetic crap to drop her on her ass. Again. Afterwards, she retracts like half her hair and walks through the Stargate to make a big acceptance speech.
All in one image, here goes...
Edea: "Pathetic puppets... pitiful yes men*... Look at yourselves! Today you make a celebrity of the one whom you condemned for generations! Don't you carry the tiniest morsel of shame? How can you bring yourselves to celebrate the very being whom you so demonised? Today you glorify that which you have always hated! Don't you even comprehend? I am the Queen of all the Necromancers, and I am now your new leader! A new era will finally begin!"
Deling: "Edea, is everything okay?"
Edea: "Take a look at your sheep! They know no better than to follow! We should at least give them their money's worth... Worry not, my poor, poor cattle! You needn't wait much longer, for this is only the beginning... the beginning of a new reign of terror! Your worst nightmares will very soon come true!"
Selphie: "This is not cool."
*The word she used was "girouette", which is a wind vane. I figured "yes man" was the nearest thing.
At this point, Edea animates the gargoyles, who promptly start knocking crap in seventeen shades of brown out of Linoa, only to be pwned by Squall and Irvine who are hungry for some new spells.
Break. A straightforward pun on "monolith".
Got a new G-Force too!
Ahuri does indeed mean Carbuncle, but it's Carbuncle in the less glamorous sense of the word. Instead of meaning a deep red stone, darker than a ruby, it means a zit on your skin, or a bump on a smooth surface. Kind of cruel really. I ain't had a chance to summon it yet though.
Linoa: "I was all alone..."
Squall: (Well you are amateurs.)
Squall: "I haven't forgotten your order, you know?"
Squall: "Stay by my side and I'll watch over you."
Meanwhile, down in the sewers (of which five miles are plugged with crud and sludge), we meet some more monsters.
With the ability to launch a powerful "Infarctus" attack...
...conjuring a large pink heart which explodes on the enemy. Kinda like a lame Magic Girl show.
Irvine takes a shot at Edea, but she catches it (and that's after he freaks out about shooting her), so Squall runs after her and meets none other than his high-school sweetheart Seifer!
Seifer: "Squall, you will die!"
Squall: "You really are in la-la-land, Seifer."
Edea: "A tiny seed..."
("Graine" is the French word for "seed"... Squall actually makes mention of this during the prison scene, so I'll see if I can get him to do so
Edea: "Planted in an infertile garden."
Linoa: "I want to fight. I wanna be useful!"
Irvine: "I have to redeem myself."
Edea: "Pretentious creatures!"
(As if that wasn't obvious)
Time for Edea to lay some serious Priestess/Necromancer (we're not sure at this point) smackdown on them! One of them, anyway.
And that's it for disc 1. Now when I've got a bit more time I've gotta rip an ISO of disc 2 and continue playing. Next stop: Winhill, 20 years in the past! (Give or take.)
Bestiary: Chapter 8
Iguion
Iguanor - Sounds like a future Power Rangers villain.
"Mutated from a gargoyle. Uses petrification attacks and also knows how to cast Boomerang."
What's Boomerang? We'll find out a little later, hopefully.
Creeps
Formicide - I believe this is the proper term for "ant poison".
"Mostly made of shadow... some believe it is in fact a biological life form. Kills its enemies with its final sigh."
Edea
Edea
"This powerful sorceress reigns over Galbadia. Her powers are limitless."
And yes, I forgot to scan Seifer. D'oh! Maybe I have a save a bit further back. If I do, I'll go scan him later.
See you on disc 2!
YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!
"Stay by my side and I'll watch over you."
awwww, isn't Squallypoo sweet?
This is making me feel guilty...
I am trying SO HARD to learn French on my own. I have been playing the GBA rereleases en français, but I have like no confidence....
Certain things aren't meant for certain people to learn, unfortunately. I spent four and a half years failing to grasp three basic chords on a guitar (could never get G, C and D to sound right) and yet my first bass lesson today was the single most optimistic thing I had ever attempted to learn.This is making me feel guilty...
I am trying SO HARD to learn French on my own. I have been playing the GBA rereleases en français, but I have like no confidence....
Despite being confident (albeit not fluent anymore, thanks to lack of practice) in French and German, I know for a fact that I cannot, and never will be able to learn Russian. My brain simply refuses to take it in for some reason. Maybe the case is the same with you for French, and maybe it'd be worth learning another language, unless French is of particular use for you.
Alternatively, try reading up on as many aspects of your own language's grammar as possible. The sooner you can differentiate perfect tense from imperfect tense, or between nominative, accusative, genitive and dative nouns in your own language, verb conjugation, adjective declension (actually there's no adjective declension in English, bad example) and so on, you'll find that almost any other language will welcome you with open arms... would you believe that knowing the four cases, something I had to learn for German (they exist in English, but are much less apparent to native speakers), will make learning Japanese easier?
From what I've seen:
wa = nominative particle; it connects the subject to the verb.
ga = accusative particle; seems to connect the object to the verb.
no = genitive particle; no roughly translates back into English as the 's in the middle of Emma's piano.
I'm sure I identified a dative particle at one point but I forgot which it was)
Simple, straightforward exposure to a language won't be enough to learn it either. You're gonna have to find a way to absorb some cold, hard theory too.
Believe me, I know how you feel. Seeing someone pick up a guitar and play it still makes me feel sick.
Last edited by ReloadPsi; 05-18-2008 at 06:06 PM.
I don't know what it is about French. It's similar to your Russian debacle.
Ich kann Deutsch sprechen. Ich lerne schon drei Jahre es.
I've always wanted to learn French. However, my school doesn't offer it, so I have to take German and Spanish instead.
How may I get my hands on a French version of an FF game? Are they PAL? PAL doesn't work in the US, does it?
Funny...my school doesn't offer German so we have to take French or Spanish instead!
They are indeed PAL, so you'd have to get a PlayStation emulator in order to play it. I use an emulator called PSXfin, which emulates the hardware of a PlayStation, rather than the software, making it a lot more compatible with games through my experience, though in the case of FF8 you need to use a program called Alcohol52% to get around the anti-piracy code in FF8 (in other words, you need to rip an ISO from your own disc).
YouTube - PSXfin - playstation emulator tutorial
I got my copy of French FF8 off Amazon.fr a few years ago, no idea if they'll still have brand new copies. I wanted to get FF9 but for some reason the price was insane, and I've not checked in a long time.
Well whaddya know? Brand new copies of the platinum versions are still available. Just make sure they've got a blue sticker reading "Déconseillé aux moins de 12 ans" so you know it's the French version (that's the censors' advisory for that particular region). Worldwide postage might set you back a bit, but I'm 100% certain it will work in that emulator I mentioned.
Last edited by ReloadPsi; 05-19-2008 at 06:47 PM.
strange never seen it before and what's with version number being same as psx emulator?
Aw, poor Carbuncle for becoming a zit..
Anyway, this is great stuff. Really interesting to see the differences.
I think I dont like FFVIII anymore after hearing her say that..
When we last left our heroes they were helpless at the mercy of the Priestess. We change the disc in a state of suspense, only to find...
Damn it, it's this guy again. Oh well, translation:
"I told you not to walk outside on your own! Then there's the monsters, and you know all too well that monsters favour little girls like you! They'll catch you, tear out your eyes and drink your blood! If something like that were to happen to you Ellone, Uncle Laguna's gonna be really sad."
I need to stop copying these files in the order I snapshot them. Here's a "Cimeterre", analogous to a "Saw Blade", which can be refined into 10 "Ankou", the Death spell. I can't actually find the word "Ankou" but I'm positive it's connected to "ankyloser", which means to become stiff. Fair enough! Also, spells seem unable to be longer than 8 letters in this game anyway, or else Reflect wouldn't have become "Boomerng".
Laguna tells Ellone she can come across to the pub.
"Charge!"
She gets a rollocking off Raine for going out on her own...
Literal translation: "You didn't keep your promise. You're nothing but a piggy-head!"
^_^
Laguna welcomes Kiros, and begins talking...
Regarding Ward...
Lit: "He never did find his tongue again."
As a reminder, when Laguna and Co. got chased out of Centra, Ward, rather than losing his voice in an injury, simply refused to ever speak again, on the principle that apparently he was jinxing everything all the time, rendering that Soul Crush utterly useless. Bleh.
And with regards to "What became of Julia..."
"Her first song was entitled "Eyes On Me", right?"
More English!
"You stand before the monster-hunter of Winhill!"
Yeah I know, this line's the same, but it's still cool.
"Saignée" = "Drain". The word literally means "Bloodletting" :E
"Do you do this useless patrol every day?"
"Most notably the Buchubuchus, which my aide-de-camp particularly hates..."
Get ready for this, it's the best evasion of (s) in dialogue I've ever seen. (It's not.)
"How many monsters did I kill today? Uh, 23 I think."
Raine offers her felicitations and the two go for a nap before dinner (yeah, never made sense to me either). Laguna goes on a big speech about losing Raine, which surprises Kiros so much that...
...his name changes slightly.
In most languages, the letter "I" is pronounced like the "EE" in "sheep", English seems to be the only exception. To get the "I" in "mist", most other languages use the letter "Y". Exactly why they messed this up is anyone's guess, but you need only play the German translation of Final Fantasy VII for some really amusing mistakes.
"So good to see you again, Zell. The parallel world again?"
Zell says all the stuff Laguna and "Kyros" just went over, about how he's a prison janitor.
"We all went up against the president. It's the death penalty for us."
Squall wakes up, and reflects on his experience...
"Seifer looked... like a loony."
Then the guards burst in on the other cell, talk tough and beat Zell senseless...
The Brute: "Hey, chicken! Are you Linoa?"
(The Brute is, of course, "Mean Guy" in the English version... both names kinda make me giggle)
"Let him go! That's me!"
"Well then, unlucky one..."
"...my childhood dream is reality at last. I've become the Priestess' Knight."
Squall: "...a torturer."
BONUS BOX!
Squall called Seifer a "bourreau". When looking it up, I discovered that a "bourrasque" is a "Squall". Weird!
"This truly is a fairy tale!"
I have this horrible vision of her shouting this for every spell she casts during battle.
Literal translation: "It would seem there's an occult screen here."
"I won't talk..."
Another weird one, this time ackowledging the existence of...
"Seed is the... English word for 'graine'. So the actual... mission of Seed..."
"...is to sow seeds around the world... and cover it... w... with flowers..."
Squall continues hisstory and The Brute leaves a Moomba to watch him. Meanwhile, with Zell having cleverly retrieved everyone's weapons in an offscreen act of heroism...
"Right, let's go tickle!"
Yeah.
"Perfect!"
^^
"Victoru!"
The Moombas say a bit more in this one, but we'll get to that later.
"Here are the prisoners, Mr Biggs and Mr Wedge."
(I'm not 100% sure if the M. stands for "Monsieur"; Mr)
Biggs: "Now I'm just a lieutenant!"
Wait, wasn't he a lieutenant back in Dollet?
Oh well. I usually spend ages drawing 100 Regens from this guy, though I honestly couldn't be bothered on this occasion.
Okay, 100 Récups then. Still not interested this time.
Wedge isn't speaking to us, understandably.
"Me? Lieutenant? That's scandallous!"
You must have thought I was bluffing, Mr Bond!
Zell asks the Moomba for Squall's whereabouts...
"Dunnu. Sorru." (The original sentence would be "Sais pas. Désolé.")
Conveniently, the Moomba's love of the letter U sets off the alarms.
Yeah, someone screwed up with this one. "Cabal" means a clan, so they've apparently taken the word "occult" to have a bit of a different meaning (remember the Occult Screen before?) and made some kind of "anti-clan screen", so "The anti-clan screen will be suppressed."
With Squall rescued (like a few random encounters are gonna stop Seeds from rescuing their friend with the anti-clan screen out of commission), we consult the Moomba for help.
Actual: "Vite, vitons, raccourci! Niveau, niveau, ou est niveau?"
Translation: "Quick, quick, shortcut! Level, level, where's level?"
"So if we jump down there we'll land outside?"
"It's worth a shot but if we miss we're done for."
Oh Quistis, your sense of humour is legendary.
Then Zell gets tonfa'd by a Brute...
"That's scary..."
Squall pwns him, remarking that he "was thinking of going easy on him too." Zell starts to hump his leg...
"Let go I say!"
Enter Irvine...
...and Linoa, kicking him downstairs.
"Stop trying to play the hero!"
CARD GAME INTERLUDE!
The "Shumi Tribe" card is just called "Shumi" this one, seeing as there's only one Shumi on the card. Makes sense to me.
"Très content. Merci beaucoup."
"Very happy. Thank you so much."
No dialogue here, but look to Linoa's left and you'll see the word "TAKASHIN", presumably the Japanese equivalent to the "CAUTION" on the right. Thought it was cool.
After their daring escape (actually they just sort of wandered off) Selphie goes all wacky about the missile launch on Trabia Fac, so she asks Squall to reorganise the teams...
"It's a heavy responsibility. Talk about your suicide mission..."
"...this 'Chief' thing is doing my head in."
Squall, Linoa and Quistis commandeer a train and head home, leaving Selphie to go after the missile base.
"A Galbadian's after us!"
"Hey! STOP!"
"Impressive."
"Oh, let it go!"
"Ahhh! NO!"
"I hope he didn't hurt himself TOO badly..."
Coming up next: The Missile Base! For the to let you to know, I'll be playing it the "proper" way, which means sneaking around until the guards figure out we're not supposed to be there, but I'll make a spare save so that I can go back some day and explore the other options. But now it's time for...
Bestiary: Chapter 9
Seifer
Seifer
"Having left the BGU, he's become the Priestess' Knight. Has fire magic and a powerful sword."
GIM52A
ExoSekelet - Pretty obvious. Nice that you can actually say the names of these monsters without sounding like a total dork for having actually remembered the letters and numbers.
"A robot made in Galbadia to support the infantry. Fires missiles and casts spells."
GIM47N
Pikasso
"An old model of support weaponry. Equipped with a laser cannon, it also uses metallic fists."
Guard
Trooper - Even more English! Geez...
"A prison guard in the form of a Galbadian soldier trained to cast Sleep to capture escapees."
Wedge
Wedge
"Demoted (along with Biggs) after the fiasco with Dollet's Communication Tower. Always works alongside Biggs."
Biggs
Biggs
"Former officer, demoted after the Dollet operation failed. Hates Seeds."
Mean Guy is my favorite NPC.
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