Collection of SaGa changes
Dec. 16th, 2020 10:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
marchionessofmustacheApparently there were several... localization changes made to the Final Fantasy Legend games in the Collection of SaGa on the Switch.
A lot of it is really... random. Now I'm not the kind of person to be mad over localization being "censorship," and I'm not upset about the changes in CoS. It's just... super strange.
Like there's a part of the game where someone says the stairs are colored differently (in the original)... they changed it to "pigmented differently" like???????? I can vaguely assume why the word "colored" was considered "bad," but that... makes no sense. Like... wow.
It doesn't take away from the game, and doesn't bother me that it was changed, it's just... why LOL
Other stuff makes sense, like "Red Bull" being renamed to "Red Horn" to avoid any kind of stupid copyright thing, despite how dumb the need for that is, but that's another story.
They didn't un-censor anything either. Opium is still "Banana," and God is still "Creator." But what's funny is that the people saying they don't want to support the game because of the changes are saying so because they want the original game experience to be preserved... but those same people are supportive of uncensoring even though it would change that original game experience lol.
In short, people are ridiculous for various reasons lol.
Personally I'm not buying it because it's Switch exclusive and I have no desire to play it on my Switch. If they made a mobile or Steam port of it, though, I'd pick it up right away most likely. But it's also Saga so I might get weak and buy it anyway just to support the series lol.
A lot of it is really... random. Now I'm not the kind of person to be mad over localization being "censorship," and I'm not upset about the changes in CoS. It's just... super strange.
Like there's a part of the game where someone says the stairs are colored differently (in the original)... they changed it to "pigmented differently" like???????? I can vaguely assume why the word "colored" was considered "bad," but that... makes no sense. Like... wow.
It doesn't take away from the game, and doesn't bother me that it was changed, it's just... why LOL
Other stuff makes sense, like "Red Bull" being renamed to "Red Horn" to avoid any kind of stupid copyright thing, despite how dumb the need for that is, but that's another story.
They didn't un-censor anything either. Opium is still "Banana," and God is still "Creator." But what's funny is that the people saying they don't want to support the game because of the changes are saying so because they want the original game experience to be preserved... but those same people are supportive of uncensoring even though it would change that original game experience lol.
In short, people are ridiculous for various reasons lol.
Personally I'm not buying it because it's Switch exclusive and I have no desire to play it on my Switch. If they made a mobile or Steam port of it, though, I'd pick it up right away most likely. But it's also Saga so I might get weak and buy it anyway just to support the series lol.
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Date: 2020-12-17 04:47 pm (UTC)That being said, I pre-ordered this as soon as it was announced, and ... here it is. Sa Ga lives! And I can happily retire my ancient Game Boy cartridges.
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Date: 2020-12-17 06:02 pm (UTC)