Oh that is a relief then.
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Tales of Symphonia Chronicles |OT| 60FPS? I lied. Its actually 30FPS
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Oh that is a relief then.
PAULINK
I microwave steaks.
I was thinking the same thing, Until I realized I paid $100 for the collector's edition, geez. Not sure if it's worth the price tag but I love Tales of Symphonia.
$100 for Colette and Marta figures = good investment for the future.
MilkyOctave
Member
It's likely they just copied and pasted the GC localization (Sacred Light, Holy Binds, etc.) and added new translations for the new stuff, then didn't do a good job to cross referencing old localizations or change the text if they did a different translation with the voice.
Rock Mountain -> Rock Pillar is probably them thinking Rock Mountain sounds really Engrishy...which it does. But they already left it as Rock Mountain in Abyss, so it's obvious again they didn't do a good job referencing old localizations.
It's really fucking lazy and/or amateurish.
Other than that, good job getting the old dub actors back in studio for a few lines even if they didn't voice skits.... and making a pretty sweet looking CE. That's about all the praise they're getting out of me.
......still better than Phantasia GBA's localization, haha.
It's not the first time. There has been arte names established in Symphonia (original)/Abyss/Vesperia/Radiant Mythology that didn't carry over to Xillia.
Namco should really do some QA on names established and maintain the consistency. While it's not a deal breaker, it's annoying when they switch around. e.g. Senkuureppa (閃空裂破
was localized as Light Spear, but in Xillia it was called Tornado Drive. On a similiar note, the arte Chirisazame (散沙雨 was known as Sword Rain, but in Xillia they changed it to Staff Rain. I'd guess the localization team thought it was weird as the character in question uses a staff and not a sword, so they had to change it. Guess same type of logic was applied when they renamed Light Spear to Tornado Drive.Other times when an arte branches off another arte, they should somehow maintain connotation of the arte family too. e.g. Gurenken (紅蓮剣
was localized as Hell Pyre in Symphonia. One boss in Graces has a move called Gurenkourin (紅蓮皇輪 which was localized as Crimson Disc. It's obvious that Crimson Disc comes from Hell Pyre, yet it isn't established like in the Japanese version.I know, I should grateful that they even bother to localize the games to begin with, even if every sword was called Sword +1, Sword +2 etc.
Argh, black and white manual? Really Namco?
I saw Tornado Drive as an attempt to fix Light Spear to not be weapon centric rather than them making a mistake. Except now the name sounds wind elemental. Oops.
Staff Rain was acceptable too and still kept the reference to the move being the same.
Sometimes they change stuff just because like allies getting Ice Arrows but enemeies get Ice Needles in Legendia... Other times they make sense, and some of them they're just plain forgetful like renaming Reid's artes in the Abyss cameo to match the old localization. A cute idea until they messed up one of the moves. Sonic Blade = Demon Fang, not Lightning Blade.
It more or less bugs me because since Radiant Mythology there's been an attempt to stay consistent but they make some really dumb mistakes (even if they made some weird naming choices in that game too Ex: renaming Tempest back to Tempest Strike from Eternia days, just because of Arche's spell? Why not rename the spell instead? They didn't bother keeping this change in DotNW anyway...)
Staff Rain was acceptable too and still kept the reference to the move being the same.
Sometimes they change stuff just because like allies getting Ice Arrows but enemeies get Ice Needles in Legendia... Other times they make sense, and some of them they're just plain forgetful like renaming Reid's artes in the Abyss cameo to match the old localization. A cute idea until they messed up one of the moves. Sonic Blade = Demon Fang, not Lightning Blade.
It more or less bugs me because since Radiant Mythology there's been an attempt to stay consistent but they make some really dumb mistakes (even if they made some weird naming choices in that game too Ex: renaming Tempest back to Tempest Strike from Eternia days, just because of Arche's spell? Why not rename the spell instead? They didn't bother keeping this change in DotNW anyway...)
Liferebooted
Banned
Yay, my Amazon CE is preparing for shipment.
Crimsonlink
Member
Crap I forgot to change the billing on my card to move to my new card. Now the game won't come till Friday.... ;_;
Dead Prince
Banned
Mine is coming tomorrow. Woof.
clay_ghost
Member
Colette just like Lloyd too much.
Mine is getting here Wednesday. ;___;
Liferebooted
Banned
Same here, Amazon over nighted mine today for free. =]
RPGCrazied
Member
Yay! My CE from gamestop.com has shipped.
GCT in other words whenever PSN wishes to update.
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Ouch, that EU CE looks sad.
RPGCrazied
Member
Yeah, I feel sorry for them. They don't even get the same box.
LaunchpadMcQ
Banned
PSN is supposed to be fully updated by 5 pm EST on Tuesdays. That's not to say that you can't look at around 2-3 pm and start downloading it if it's there (which, for the most part, new games are the first things to go up in my experience).
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
Out of curiosity I went back to look at the Japanese CE; didn't realize how sad theirs was too when comparing to NA.
I don't know if that's what you're asking, but the game detected a Graces f save file on my PS3 and gave me Abyss, Vesperia, Graces, Xillia and Xillia 2 costumes.
InternHertz
Member
Have fun getting one million chips at the casino guys <3
I spent too many hours doing it for the trophy last year x_x The real wall in my double trophy quest, for sure.
I spent too many hours doing it for the trophy last year x_x The real wall in my double trophy quest, for sure.
Earlier in the thread I said that I was sticking to the GameCube version because of the frame rate. That was until Amazon kindly reminded me that I had preordered the collector's edition last year (and which will be shipped soon). So much for that plan...
(I really need to keep better track of what I preorder.)
(I really need to keep better track of what I preorder.)
Probably because it was easy.
rocketskates
Member
yay, going to get this at midnight alongside castlevania LoS 2
sixteen-bit
Member
Did it ship? You can still cancel if it hasn't.
Just looked it up on psn and it seems to be downloadable at 12:01 AM.
John Harker
Definitely doesn't make things up as he goes along.
Already finished both games, so won't pick up, but just wanted to say ToS2 gets a bad rap... but Emil and Marta actually have a really interesting character arch. Like, they actually evolve as people throughout the journey. You don't often find that in these types of games. So, if you can make it through, I enjoyed it despite itself because I thought the characters felt more fleshed out than usual.
MaximumSpider
Banned
Picking this up tomorrow. Never played Symphonia but I'm interested.
In Europe or something? My NA CE arrives tomorrow.
Mine hasn't shipped yet and says Thursday delivery. I'm in the NA and have prime so I should automatically get Release Day shipping. Something's amiss....
Oh well, I'm honestly not in that big a hurry to play this game anyway.
Freezasaurus
Member
I played Symphonia on Gamecube. Never got around to the sequel. I think I was done with GC when that one came out. Looking forward to it, but I'm also concerned that a ho-hum HD port will ruin my memories of the game.
Mine as well, I got overnight shipping but it seems they sent it through the two day service.
The sequel was on the Wii.
Freezasaurus
Member
And that would be why I didn't play it. XD
Damn I'll be set then I have Graces f and Xillia save
HawthorneKitty
Sgt. 2nd Class in the Creep Battalion, Waifu Wars
You're in for a Jolly Yolly Bolly good time.