Any Brigandine (PSX) fans?

[Rovole]

An Englishman would refer to the whole island as "the united kingdom"

I suppose that depends on where you stand on the issue of every country in the UK having their own dedicated government except England. Specific terms are very important in political rhetoric ;).

After a translating marathon, Norgard's event text is translated and inserted.


In my estimation, Norgard's events rank as the "most botched" country in Atlus' LoF translation. Nothing earth shattering, but I think some interesting points were lost in LoF. For example in a line from Vaynard's extremely botched endgame speech:
"The war is over, but the fighting continues. May there be further advances on our land"
It almost sounds like he's hoping for more war as in "the enemy advances on our land".

A rough paraphrase of what he's actually saying is:
"The war is over;now we fight for our future. May our new land continue to progress".

Anywho, onto the "new game" opening stories.

I can't thank you enough for translating this game. I studied many foreign languages including Spanish, German, French, Korean, and Japanese and I can say that Japanese by far is the most difficult, whose text I haven't even begun to be able to decipher. Many foreigners don't realize how much of a gobbledegook mess the Japanese written language is. There are 26 letters in the English alphabet, 31 in Hangul, but in Japanese you have too many to count(most estimates state around 2,000-50,000, and thats just Kanji one of three commonly used written language systems.) Even a native Japanese speaker can end up running into characters he doesn't recognize, or he might even read the characters wrong(since, long story short, context is vital to a given Kanji's meaning.) I might as well be trying to learn ancient egyptian.

More on-topic, I feel like many characterizations were a little abbreviated... Esmeree especially, I just replayed Norgard on Hard(Taking lidney year 215 month 2 was hellish.) And one line in particular stuck in my mind, where in the banter between Vaynard and Zemeckis, Zemeckis refers to Esmeree as one of many palace women(that have been the object of his conquests,) a very callous way for a man to refer to his wife. I always thought there was more to his personality than we are meant to believe, which is why !!spoiler alert: he gives his life protecting the faction leader/faction leader's love interest/faction leader's companion, from Bulnoil.~~!! Now we know why.

Of all the features in Grand Edition that I anticipate, the one I anticipate most, even more than the Bulnoil bossfight, is the Esgares storyline.