Comments on: Nintendo’s Next Wii Game Is Takt of Magic

By: Pichi

Pichi — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 17:20:08 +0000

Is this game connected story wise to Lost Magic or just the gamplay?

By: honorless

honorless — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 11:56:38 +0000

Holy lol. In the PS2 game Mad Maestro (JP name was Let's Bravo Music, I think) you play as a conductor whose NAME was Takt. I always meant to look into it, since it seemed really odd that his name wasn't “localized” into something American-sounding, but never got around to it.

My mind is so blown right now! Thank you, haha!

By: MisterNiwa

MisterNiwa — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 05:28:43 +0000

Yes.

By: fallen

fallen — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 03:40:50 +0000

This is definitely the most ethnocentric I've ever felt — it never occurred to me that there could be Katakana words adopted from other languages that were never also adopted by English. Wow. Thanks for the eye-opener.

By: MadMirko

MadMirko — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:55:12 +0000

Lost Magic had its moments, but they didn't get the controls right. The Nunchuk could probably help, so I'm curious how this one turns out.

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 02:16:31 +0000

So, should we all start calling this “Takuto obu Maagicku?”

By: jp

jp — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 01:15:32 +0000

That's the same word.

“takuto” is the Katakana form of the German word “Takt”.

By: Raccoon

Raccoon — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:54:16 +0000

Hehe, I just checked my denshi jisho and it's indeed a Japanese loanword from the German “Taktstock”, which means wand or baton, but only in a musical sense as I described above (think of Eternal Sonata ^^). As always, the Japanese shortened it to only “Takt”, distorting the meaning, because the crucial part of the compound word is “Stock”, which means cane or stick in German *g*

By: Ishaan

Ishaan — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 00:00:38 +0000

They probably did mean “wand” or “baton.” Wind Waker's Japanese title was “Kaze no Takuto” — Wand of the Wind.

By: Raccoon

Raccoon — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 21:52:39 +0000

“Takt” means something along the lines of rhythm, cycle, measure, beat or stroke in German, mostly associated with music. But I'm not sure this is what they actually meant or intended ^^