Re: Petition For Sakura 3
Chris Gama (gamahouse@EARTHLINK.NET)
Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:36:07 -0600
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Date: Fri, 27 Aug 1999 19:36:07 -0600
From: Chris Gama <gamahouse@EARTHLINK.NET>
Subject: Re: Petition For Sakura 3
How bout this idea: Who cares who brings it out, as long as they do, and
they don't mess with the gameplay, AND-- they make an option to have
Japanese voice with English subs, or English voices!! I mean, if they do,
they're probally gonna dub it when they make it anyways, why not leave the
original Japanese in and make it an option to turn it on or off? i mean,
it's not like they dont' have the storage on the disk!! Even if it was a 2
or 3 disk game, they could do it!!
----- Original Message -----
From: Joshua Kaufman
To:
Sent: Friday, August 27, 1999 6:17 PM
Subject: Re: Petition For Sakura 3
> At 05:01 PM 8/27/99 -0400, you wrote:
> >>> Atlus also translated all the voices in Thousand Arms into English, so
by
> >>> your estimation, if Atlus did the ST3 translation, the game would be
> >ruined.
> >>
> >>Perhaps. but if Atlus is keeping the Japanese opening of TA intact(a
> >>Hamasaki Ayumi song no less), it does give rise to a possiblity of
subbed
> >>games. We could always hope, right?
> >
> >
> >Rival Schools also had the original Japanese theme song intact. I
believe
> >in Atlus' case, the US division simply didn't have the resources or a
good
> >enough singer to translate the song and re-record it. They could have
gone
> >the Evil Zone/Mega Man 8 route and done a new synth-y song for the
opening
> >or just preserve the original Japanese version, and they luckily chose to
go
> >with the latter.
> >
> >>
> >>> I dunno why everyone is so against WD doing the translation...I mean,
> >it's
> >>> not like it's going to make the import original hard to find. If WD
were
> >to
> >>> translate ST3, just don't buy it and play the import. :P
> >>
> >>In theory that's correct. But i know tons of people who hate Bishoujo
> >>Senshi Sailormoon because of what they've seen(ie DiC). So in that
> >>respect, WE could in fact buy the import(and I'm sure we will buy the
> >>import). But what if a company's handling of a game turns away people
who
> >>would have enjoyed the game? In that respect, I do believe sometimes
it's
> >>better to have nothing at all (in contrast to those idiots who keep
saying
> >>"It's better to have something even if jacked up, than nothing at all").
> >
> >
> >But you also mentioned once how one of the reasons you liked ST was
because
> >it was a bit of a 'niche' thing. Thus, it shouldn't matter to you if
people
> >are turned off or on to the series because of a translated game. I know
it
> >certainly wouldn't matter to me if I enjoyed the Japanese version of
Sailor
> >Moon and I spoke to people who didn't like the DiC translation. I'd
still
> >be enjoying the Japanese version. Besides, it's not as if we would have
> >nothing at all, we'd still have what we've had all along...the import
> >version of every single ST game. There'd just be a US version out there
> >also for other people to enjoy. Besides, let's face it, it would be very
> >hard to ruin ST...and considering the top-notch writing that the ST games
> >have had, even if WD did do a translation of ST3, they wouldn't have to
do
> >much rewriting (no random townspeople in villages saying dull messages to
> >replace, since all of the dialogue is spoken by important characters).
The
> >villains might use some more florid prose (like Ghaleon's 'all the
world's a
> >stage' speech in the US version of Lunar: SSSC, which did exist in the
> >Japanese version, albeit in much shorter form), but other than that, I
can't
> >think of much they'd change.
>
>
> Agreed. The only really bad thing I can see is a bad dub, which
> unfortunately even in WD or Atlus's case would be quite a good
possibility.
>
> -Joshua
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