Well, it sounds cool…says I…
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If you make Wiegraf too weak I’ll Vealius-ize you.
general FFT tips for first timers, btw:
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the best fit algorithm in shops will always prioritize HP, which is like the least important stat after the very early game. speed is by far the most important stat, followed by physical/magical attack, then evade. when armor that boosts non-HP stats (which is otherwise armor’s primary function as there’s no defense stat) becomes available it’s always worth hanging onto
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don’t just pick up low-level action abilities from classes you have no intention of using because you have a little JP to spare. lots of early classes have really good reaction, support, or movement abilities which you’ll equip for half of the game regardless of what class you use, and characters will actually gain a small amount of JP from classes used by other party members. for example, if you have a chemist with you (which you pretty much always should, they’re never obsolete as a support class), ramza will almost certainly accumulate enough JP over time to learn auto potion if you don’t blow it on hi-potion and antidote for no reason in the meantime.
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black mages are the only mages with decent speed, and first-level summons like shiva are disproportionately quick and powerful relative to their relatively low JP cost. MP is an issue early on but a black mage casting ramuh or shiva is really, really good and will get you through the first half of the game fairly easily, so if you’re having trouble, try that.
OK y’all
should be good through chapter 2 (dialog only, no menus/lore), gonna take a little break, would love if you’d have at it
ok don’t play it yet found some serious QA issues
omfg
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Ok, the uploaded version is good up until thieves’ fort. I somehow broke the dialog trigger during that battle (which is one of the first ones I completely rewrote rather than tightening it up) and I need to check some other iso dumps to see if I’m working from a bad one or if there’s something wrong with the editor or if there’s an unmet in-game condition for triggering it that I can’t remember.
good thing I can still finish chapter 1 at like level 5 in my sleep.
I really want to get to gafgarion and mustadio though, I gave them so much more personality
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fixed, good at least past that battle
Who translated the PSP version?
heck if i know, probably (kkkkkkkkk - erronius typology) brandaravon
Indeed aeritihing names is a crime a thousand times worse than any woolseyism
AO smith iirc
nope, everyone just thinks it was him because it was a dogshit aping of his style
in other news, chapter 1 is finally good, sorry that took a little extra time, the linked builds should all be up to date
I might finish QAing chapter 2 today depending on whether I can successfully run it in two hours
OK!!! good through chapter 2!
there’s one minor bug that I don’t understand at all but it’s basically just a throwaway dialog flag getting lost somehow.
gonna take a break before chapter 3, enjoy
it’s actually very good and Felix is a codger
but it’s also cool that he’s making this
it is actually inspired in parts and would at least be an interesting artifact that I could maybe see preferring in some cases if not for what they did to the names, which are an utter nightmare
re: the names
there’s something to be said for the formal and aesthetic consistency, at least. and I mean. . .the source material was already nonsense phonetic fantasy naming that didn’t really lend itself to coherent anglic interpretation and I don’t really think the OG US translation’s half-hearted fumbles resulted in anything appreciably better than wotl’s stab at it. or at least what we did get was certainly not the result of careful creative curation or good taste; it may as well have been machine translation.
I’m still wary of:
-the resistance to floridity and why
-cultural influence on what constitutes “natural” or pleasing pronunciation
-I grew up with it so I like it
that said I really just don’t give any shit about the naming convention and the writing surrounding it is exceedingly fun. I think there’s an unfair tendency to project unearned self-seriousness onto the script merely because it’s efforted when on the contrary it reads to me more like the equivalent of scenery-chewing bombast and every dang line is a meal
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I’m wary of this too but I’m even more wary of false equivalencies!
I totally take your point about self-seriousnes vs. bombast, but:
folmarv
argath
tietra
barbaneth
gragoroth
loffrey
zalmour
for sure, there are no universal aesthetics, we should be wary of cultural influence on what constitutes natural pronunciation, but half of those sound like lisping, the others sound like lallating, and every one of them is more distracting than the original names (vormav, algus, teta, balbanes, golagros, rofel, zalmo) which detracts from the line delivery.
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like it turns the game into a really weird community theatre production
instead of just the work of an obviously under-resourced translator
Whomst’d’ve arriveth, canst it be Guffman?
But by these foul magicks I will casteth Don’t Act
also the original has some brilliant economy of phrasing in it
I still adore “layer upon layer make your mark now, haste”
it is a text-based game and as such i experience all of the lines in a superposition between verbalized and not. the clumsiness is partially imagined/irrelevant. the part of me that finds them clumsy finds them hilarious. the part of me that just processes them abstractly doesn’t really have to worry about it and/or enjoys the density and flourish as fun to chew on.
the “original names” are katakana salad and wotl honestly is just giving them their due. in modern context i can’t not read the OG US names cynically and they all look and sound just as good/bad to me for different reasons
i’d argue that their being distracting just enhances the delivery anyway, given the material. i don’t really get the impulse to wallpaper over FFT’s aesthetic. i never really vibed with the “actually cloud is claude and aeris is alice” thing either, though.
This is meaningless, but as someone who’s played FFT for like fourteen minutes (i.e. no nostalgia or prior investment) I like the names Felix prefers better.
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