2009-05-07, 10:28 PM
It would be interesting I think to properly translate KF2 and KF3 after KF1. If my plate wasn't already so full I'd try to help with a project like that.
In my experience after playing thru 10 Armored Core games with plots way more ambiguous and disjointed than KF. Fromsoftware likes to make games where the players final action brings ruin upon their world... they probably make more games (in the core series) that way than not. Again, I've no technical authority... just intuition, given my many years removed from the KF games, whose atmosphere I always enjoyed but plot more or less dismissed, I'd hazard to guess that the ruin/curse upon the kingdom of KF3 was a direct result of Alf's folly in KF2. Hence the hidden ending, where Lyle rectifies Alf's legacy and the true nature of Seath is revealed (as the final "true" KF3 end boss)
KF2 is intentionally confusing and complex... which is admirable, as it further immerses the player by further expanding upon the theme of subjectivity. But KF3 mostly brings closure to everything, and more or less ties up the Geara/Seath taoist (it really is just thinly veiled taoism) saga.
Notes: Alf (presumably derived from Alfred) is called Alexander in the US version if anyone is confused. I think the site would be much better off if it would try to be true to the original content. English localizations are really just bastardizations (however good/profitable they are) at the end of the day.
The only reason I connect Holy (no distinction from "saintly" in Japanese) with light, is all the instances of stuff like Light Needle, etc.
PS: Doesn't this forum have a SPLIT tool in the admins toolbox?
In my experience after playing thru 10 Armored Core games with plots way more ambiguous and disjointed than KF. Fromsoftware likes to make games where the players final action brings ruin upon their world... they probably make more games (in the core series) that way than not. Again, I've no technical authority... just intuition, given my many years removed from the KF games, whose atmosphere I always enjoyed but plot more or less dismissed, I'd hazard to guess that the ruin/curse upon the kingdom of KF3 was a direct result of Alf's folly in KF2. Hence the hidden ending, where Lyle rectifies Alf's legacy and the true nature of Seath is revealed (as the final "true" KF3 end boss)
KF2 is intentionally confusing and complex... which is admirable, as it further immerses the player by further expanding upon the theme of subjectivity. But KF3 mostly brings closure to everything, and more or less ties up the Geara/Seath taoist (it really is just thinly veiled taoism) saga.
Notes: Alf (presumably derived from Alfred) is called Alexander in the US version if anyone is confused. I think the site would be much better off if it would try to be true to the original content. English localizations are really just bastardizations (however good/profitable they are) at the end of the day.
The only reason I connect Holy (no distinction from "saintly" in Japanese) with light, is all the instances of stuff like Light Needle, etc.
PS: Doesn't this forum have a SPLIT tool in the admins toolbox?