Lance M. Hatami (michio@jps.net)
Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:37:26 -0700
X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01 (Macintosh; I; PPC) Message-ID: <36DF2745.2DC0@jps.net> Date: Thu, 4 Mar 1999 17:37:26 -0700 From: "Lance M. Hatami" <michio@jps.net> Subject: Re: Sakura Taisen: How did you find out about it and decide to buy it?
> > don't think I have one) but it's mighty impressive. One thing that
> > bothers me every time I play Sakura Taisen though is that one scene
> > calls Japan "Nippon." It probably has to do with some WWII treaty, but
> > for historical accuracy, it really bugs me.
>
> Did you play ST2 yet? Orihime will be calling you "Nippon no Otoko" for
> pretty much the entire game... I found it hilarious though considering how
> they developed her character.
I think that's one reason why I didn't like Sakura Taisen 2 very much,
because of the way it stereotypes foreigners. The way Orihime speaks is
the exact way people in Japan make fun of the way most Americans would
speak Japanese, which is really bad. After all, no one else speaks like
that in the game (I haven't played Kohran's New Year's level, so I can't
say how Percy Howard speaks), but I wish they would lay off things like
that. After all, if that's the case, someone really should go after
Japanese English, because everyone knows that they need to get help with
that (Southern All Stars used to be good about checking out their
English in songs, but with "Paradise," you'll see why they need to keep
doing it). With enough foreigners living in Japan, you would think that
they would spend two hours getting their English checked over.