Screen Gallery – Final Fantasy Tactics: The Lion War

They’ve definitely screwed up the random character names. Cynewyn? If I wanted a bunch of extraneous “y”s in my character names, I’d just play World of Warcraft.

I wonder if they’ve fixed the “solar calendar”. I’m born on March 19th, Pisces… but the game always had me as something else.

Someone forgot that “fundament” is an archaic formal English word for “butt”.

I seriously hate the faux olde-English language style they’re going with. It was fine when Arcanum did it, but that stuff is was annoying in FF XII and it’s flat-out grating now.

Well…that can actually change, depending on the movement of the actual constellations (which Western Astrology ignores). Example from Wiki, Pisces is generally regarded as Feb 19-Mar 20, but in 1977 the sun was in Pisces from Mar 12-Apr 19.
(Granted, that still falls in Pisces, but I’m not sure where Pisces runs today, so it’s still kinda relevant?)

I wonder if they’ll still use Serpentarius, or update the name to the newer name Ophiuchus?

And the extraneous Y is used to represent the more classical Old English setting, along with things like fete, foodstuffs, etc.

A few more retranslations in case people missed them:
Sweegy Woods - Siedge Weald
Sand Rat Cellar: Sand Rat’s Sietch
Thieves’ Fort: Brigands’ Den
Lenalia Plateau: Lenalian Plateau
Gained JP UP: JP Boost
Wizard: Black Mage
Priest: White Mage
Equip Change: Reequip
Feather Hat: Plumed Hat
Lancer: Dragoon (not in this image set, but in others)

And what is with Ramza’s name in that Job Equipment screen?

@SomeDude: It annoys you? What other type of speech would fit the setting? I think the language fits perfectly, as it did in FFXII.

Games Matsuno tend to be involved in, no matter how little, tend to have that olde-English flair. And I eat it up. It fits Ivalice.

Darrien: Good god, that’s really interesting. I didn’t know that. Funny thing is, I’m born in 1977 so hrmn.

March 19th is supposed to be the last day for Pisces… but yah, it’s a small nitpick but yah I didn’t like it when it had me show up as Aquarius or whatever.

I’m also not a fan of the new translation. All I really wanted was fixed grammar and spelling, and I would be fine. This is just too much from what I’m used to.

English translations…

the time grows near my lovely….

The problem is that it’s not exactly old English, and so it’s grating to both read and hear. The fake accents they had to affect during the voiceovers in XII (In the case of Fran, they were intermittent.) amplify the annoyance factor because they’re trying to affect an actual legitimate accent onto words that don’t have actual pronunciations, so it completely throws off the actor trying to mimic the accent.

This “half-fundamented” Elizebethan stuff just reeks of some substandard DM trying to cobble together some words to impress his gaming group.

Plus, the jerk took out Sweegy Woods, my favorite location in the entire game.

I’ll play it, because I loved Tactics, but I’m fairly certain that the original, jacked up English and all, is going to remain my favorite version.