Fire Emblem Fates' localization doesn't have the petting minigame

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Wat, really? I mean, I'm not saying shipping didn't increase FE's popularity - I've seen in firsthand with people who weren't into the series before. I just don't think I know (IRL) one single FE fan who is also a Persona fan :0

I quite love FE and I also quite dig Persona. And by Persona I mean the P2 duology and P3P (for the female protagonist). The P2 duology in particular is nothing like P3 and P4. No s. links or dating sim elements, etc. To me it's still far and away the highlight of the Persona series. I get the feeling whenever people say Persona they're thinking of 3 and 4 exclusively. 1, 2: IS and 2:EP are all vastly different from 3 and 4. Especially in terms of gameplay and dungeon design. It really doesn't make sense to say they're the same series so why Atlus titled it the way they did, I don't know. Outside of revolving around school kids (though the P2 cast is older than most of the other Persona characters) and Igor being in all of them (though even his role vastly changes between P2:EP and P3), they have nothing in common.
 
you can't have your cake and eat it too, people. you can't simultaneously advocate for games being an art form and then laud and champion the Money People for interfering with the creative process for money's sake. the few times that their infringements do things you like-- like taking weird face rubbing minigames out of games that don't really need them-- do not make up for how ready willing and able marketing departments are to totally fuck up a creator's work for the sake of marketability.

Tell me, are movie editors considered Money People? Because they're the ones keeping movies from being 8 hours long but you don't see anyone saying that they're fucking creators' works or ruining cinema as an art form
 
How is expressing my interpretation "using" you? I haven't played the game, but I've watched a lot of the translated stuff involving Soleil and came to my own conclusions divorced from any kind of controversy.

Please don't try to twist this so I'm the homophobic one. I made a thread about how happy I was at how progressive Tales of Zestiria was for having a gay protagonist. I was a massive supporter of Tyeforce's #miiquality campaign. I went off on my future brother-in-law when he said homosexuality is a choice. I'd rather not be lumped in with that last one.

If you're not going to listen to what LGBT people are telling you by defending a creepy magical gay conversion drugging then I don't think we need you as an advocate. You may not be a homophobe but you've chosen a homophobic trope as your cross to die on.

Do links regarding gay/trans conversion therapy and "reparative" rape of lesbians really need to be rolled out for you to get the picture?
 
I don't want to go off-topic but since we just had a discussion on Fire Emblem art did Kozaki create the in-game Awakening / Fates portraits or just the key art? Cause I really dig his shading on a lot of his art but I don't like how shiny everything looks in-game.
 
No, it has nothing to do with our exchange which was me asking for actual facts to back up these features were added due to middlemen requesting them after you asserted them to do so in response to Zebetite's post.

But Zebetite is also assuming this change came from middlemen as well, which we have no facts for either.
 
This minigame doesn't read as something someone thought was crucial to the artistic integrity of the game. Instead it seems like a marketing tool, added in to win over some of a niche group sitting on the fence.

It doesn't sound like the cynical marketing decision you claim it is in the Iwata Asks about the game.

Iwata - It has enough content to be a game? Maeda-san, you had so much work making three games, why did you add in My Castle?

Maeda - My Castle lets players experience living with the characters. We made it because we wanted players to really fall in love with all the characters.

Higuchi - And Maeda will do anything to make the characters more likable. He always tries to put in everything that will make players love the characters even more.

They recognized how important the new features of Awakening were to the success and popularity of that game and were expanding on those concepts.
 
No, it has nothing to do with our exchange which was me asking for actual facts to back up these features were added due to middlemen requesting them after you asserted them to do so in response to Zebetite's post.

So, instead of having an actual discussion you are just going to assume I'm wrong because I don't have a statement and you do, even if that assumption is dubious at best? How is that productive here at all?
 
You're seriously calling these hideous?



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As I've said I don't dislike Radiant Dawn's art but for fire emblem 7, I wouldn't say hideous but it's not that great.

Those are the protagonists of the game and they already look kind of generic, that says a lot of the other characters designs.
 
If someone is cancelling his/her Special Edition over this let me know.

Got you covered...sort of

Absolutely, I just did. I've always had the option of importing it but didn't because games are significantly more expensive in Japan and I get nothing for it other than playing it earlier. If the content were at parity, I have no problem waiting half a year to a year. But it's not, and I don't have any interest in being on the front line of support for NoA's localization efforts.
 
If you're not going to listen to what LGBT people are telling you by defending a creepy magical gay conversion drugging then I don't think we need you as an advocate. You may not be a homophobe but you've chosen a homophobic trope as your cross to die on.

Do links regarding gay/trans conversion therapy and "reparative" rape of lesbians really need to be rolled out for you to get the picture?

I've seen the support conversation. If it truly WAS gay conversion therapy, I'd be right there with you and call it out for being the deplorable thing it is. But it isn't, it's someone taking a drug that shifts the genders of everyone said person sees, with Soleil falling in love with the avatar because he was "nice enough" (in a twisted kind of way) to do something like that for her in an effort to get over her issues with being distracted by women on the battlefield. She didn't take the drug and was then suddenly attracted to men.

I'd probably call it misogynistic before I call it homophobic.
 
So, instead of having an actual discussion you are just going to assume I'm wrong because I don't have a statement and you do, even if that assumption is dubious at best? How is that productive here at all?

Like I said, it's not worth it to try and deal with this dude.
 
We do, though. Read the OP.

Read the OP, we don't.
We have a statement from Nintendo saying they made changes when localizing the game.

"Nintendo" in this case could be NoA, the parent company, someone from within the actual software development team, a middleman, or a 3rd party consultant in Nintendo's employment. All of that would qualify as "we" in a statement by Nintendo.
 
Can I have a summary on how does this get to 49 pages in abt a day?

"aw yeah, thank god they got rid of it"
"why the heck did they get rid of it?? it was an optional thing"
"hopefully this means intelligent systems isn't gonna have any more pandering crap"
"I'm indifferent but it was optional so I guess it would've been fine to keep in"

that's probably 90% of the posts right there
 
So, instead of having an actual discussion you are just going to assume I'm wrong because I don't have a statement and you do, even if that assumption is dubious at best? How is that productive here at all?
I'm assuming you're wrong because you asserted something you've yet to provide proof for upon multiple requests.
 
"aw yeah, thank god they got rid of it"
"why the heck did they get rid of it?? it was an optional thing"
"hopefully this means intelligent systems isn't gonna have any more pandering crap"
"I'm indifferent but it was optional so I guess it would've been fine to keep in"

that's probably 90% of the posts right there

You forgot about the anime avatars bit.
 
"aw yeah, thank god they got rid of it"
"why the heck did they get rid of it?? it was an optional thing"
"hopefully this means intelligent systems isn't gonna have any more pandering crap"
"I'm indifferent but it was optional so I guess it would've been fine to keep in"

that's probably 90% of the posts right there

You forgot "Does this mean the Character interactions and Live2D are gone as well"
 
It doesn't sound like the cynical marketing decision you claim it is in the Iwata Asks about the game.



They recognized how important the new features of Awakening were to the success and popularity of that game and were expanding on those concepts.

That is actually an interesting quote. Thanks for showing it to me.

The part where he said that Maeda would add everything in to make characters more lovable is a bit concerning to me though. Although it's great to see someone be passionate about something like that, it also makes it seem an awful lot like people were telling him what to add in the game and he was conceding to them. He probably thought they were good ideas, which means it could very well be a mix of the two, and lightens the context of it by quite a bit. I still think someone was really pushing for skinship and that's why it was in the game. I just don't feel like it was Maeda (from the beginning, at least).

Like I said, it's not worth it to try and deal with this dude.
I understand, but still I try, haha. Thanks for the advice though.

I'm assuming you're wrong because you asserted something you've yet to provide proof for upon multiple requests.
Yet whenever you are asked for proof, the only thing you respond with is "Read the OP" and no elaboration. That is no better in itself. Yet I don't just immediately assume you are wrong and discount all of your opinions, instead I try to have a discussion based on them.
 
"aw yeah, thank god they got rid of it"
"why the heck did they get rid of it?? it was an optional thing"
"hopefully this means intelligent systems isn't gonna have any more pandering crap"
"I'm indifferent but it was optional so I guess it would've been fine to keep in"

that's probably 90% of the posts right there

Don't forget "Preorder cancelled, I hope NoA burns in hell"
 
i dunno if someone answered you but that was also done by kozaki

Cool cool! I want to search up more of their art cause I really like it.

As I've said I don't dislike Radiant Dawn's art but for fire emblem 7, I wouldn't say hideous but it's not that great.

Those are the protagonists of the game and they already look kind of generic, that says a lot of the other characters designs.

To be fair, that's generally what they go for. They go for the style that's in for the time, genericness may be one word to describe it but that's also what's popular. 80's, 90's, 00's, all the art styles follow the popular anime art trend of their era.
 
Hey now, only the ones before 6 were ugly.

I'll give you the official art for 1-4 but FE5's is pretty decent IMO.

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Super generic (like ridiculously generic) but I like the watercolor/marker look at least :P

Cool cool! I want to search up more of their art cause I really like it.

You do realize you don't need to look far since he's the artist for Awakening and Fates, right? :D
 
Don't forget "Preorder cancelled, I hope NoA burns in hell"
Those posts were a bit strange but yeah. Its their choice.
I still love fire emblem enough to try to look past NOA's choice here.

Cool cool! I want to search up more of their art cause I really like it.



To be fair, that's generally what they go for. They go for the style that's in for the time, genericness may be one word to describe it but that's also what's popular. 80's, 90's, 00's, all the art styles follow the popular anime art trend of their era.
Go look up Lily Bergamo. Then be eternally sad that the game became Let it Die.

I have no idea. Some evidence seems to indicate they are still in but who knows.
They better still be in in some way.
 
I've seen the support conversation. If it truly WAS gay conversion therapy, I'd be right there with you and call it out for being the deplorable thing it is. But it isn't, it's someone taking a drug that shifts the genders of everyone said person sees, with Soleil falling in love with the avatar because he was "nice enough" (in a twisted kind of way) to do something like that for her in an effort to get over her issues with being distracted by women on the battlefield. She didn't take the drug and was then suddenly attracted to men.

I'd probably call it misogynistic before I call it homophobic.

If you're going to keep insisting that it's okay when plenty of LGBT people on GAF have expressed why it makes them very uncomfortable and despite the many explanations regarding the homophobic tropes it belongs to then you're not worth giving the benefit of the doubt any longer. This is a blindspot you have that I hope you one day address.
 
I guess those people doing the fan translation had the right idea after all.

I'm pretty disappointed that something optional got cut though. It sucks not having a choice at all.
 
Only minigame is confirmed out. Live2D would remain and be used for the conversations even without the minigame.

I thought the only other place those models were used were during confession scenes?

*I have not been keeping up with import impressions or anything
 
While this is nothing I actually need or care about I still dont understand why this was taken out.
Why is this okay for Japan but not the rest of the world? If they were trying to hide this mechanic because it is shameful for them then they litterally just drew more attention to it. I doubt many people would have cared about it in the final game anyway.
 
Cool cool! I want to search up more of their art cause I really like it.



To be fair, that's generally what they go for. They go for the style that's in for the time, genericness may be one word to describe it but that's also what's popular. 80's, 90's, 00's, all the art styles follow the popular anime art trend of their era.

Just some easy links to see some of the Artists associated with Fire Emblem and the card game.

8 Sachiko Wada - http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/sachikowada.html
9-10 Senri Kita- http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/senrikita.html
13-14 Yusuke Kozaki- http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/yusukekozaki.html
#FE http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/toi8.html

Daisuke Izuka Art Director for Cipher and worked on 11-12 (which had multiple artists working on it iirc).
http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/daisukeizuka.html
 
Go look up Lily Bergamo. Then be eternally sad that the game became Let it Die.

I already know that one :CCCCC

Just some easy links to see some of the Artists associated with Fire Emblem and the card game.

8 Sachiko Wada - http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/sachikowada.html
9-10 Senri Kita- http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/senrikita.html
13-14 Yusuke Kozaki- http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/yusukekozaki.html
#FE http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/toi8.html

Daisuke Izuka Art Director for Cipher and worked on 11-12 (which had multiple artists working on it iirc).
http://worldofcipher.com/index/illustrator/daisukeizuka.html

Oh wow! Thanks Drax!
 
Cool cool! I want to search up more of their art cause I really like it.



To be fair, that's generally what they go for. They go for the style that's in for the time, genericness may be one word to describe it but that's also what's popular. 80's, 90's, 00's, all the art styles follow the popular anime art trend of their era.

the cipher art is what i feel some of kozakis best stuff lol (the art in it for the most part is nothing short of amazing) There is a wiki for it set 3 is unbelievable

also random tibit: Kozakis also designed the characters to the new anime bubuki/buranki
 
How would that work exactly? You just look at them and talk basically?

As far as I know the only instance in which live2d is used outside of the petting are the confession scenes, so if they're handled like awakening you look at them while they say a couple of lines.
 
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