They changed... a lot of the dialogue... which was inevitable due to the way the mouths were moving to fit the Japanese text, now the English translation has to be made so that it will move the same as the graphics... *sigh* I swear, I was sitting here listening to the Japanese version and then I watched the English trailer and was like @_@; Um... ok... ... ... That was so not what they just said in Japanese. I guess I'll live... ... not really. The English version looks terrible now that I've gotten a chance to listen to the new trailer. They really did replace "Kimi ga Iru Kara" with Leona Lewis' "My Hands." It sounds so retarded =_= *sigh* I'm glad I bought the Japanese version, but unfortunately, my brain doesn't operate in Japanese quick enough to play that game well lol. Not that I have a PS3 yet, but when the time comes, I'm not sure I can follow what's going on with how fast you need to move to play the game. Just watching it being played in Japanese was a doozy. I could read various black magics and healing magic, but then everything else moves so fast @_@. I may have to play it in English first and suck it up, then play the Japanese version 'cause chances are that all the controls and such are the same, but it would help if I knew what the hell I'm doing lol.
Anyway, I just had to rant slightly 'cause I couldn't even finish watching this most recent trailer for the game. The English was so... gross... and the song really sucked. The Japanese song was definitely much better and fitted the storyline much better. All the Final Fantasy songs tend to fit the theme of the story, but this English version is terrible. Please don't let them do this again T__T. If they do this again I might as well just curse SquareEnix forever and hope they explode into a billion pieces or something 'cause they just ruined my fave series =_= Well, just the American branch of SquareEnix needs to be shot. I still like the Japanese branch the way it is.
I'm almost done watching the game and I must say... some things kind of happen randomly, but it's a nice story. The whole thing about Lightning's real name is kind of ... just random. It's just like one of those typical teenager moments where they're like "I'm going to change my name to feel stronger" types of things and nothing else, her real name is very... ordinary... well, I can't say ordinary, but it's nothing special to say the least. You get to hear it when the whole group goes to Gran Pulse and it's right before the final boss fight with Galenth. I was like ... "Seriously...? That's her name? Wow... I was expecting something else, but ok." Well, if you compare it to Lightning, her real name is literally like a cream puff in comparison. Which reminds me... I bet they decided not to let Snow call Lightning "Nee-san" throughout the game, so... the parts where they actually attach her name to Nee-san, I wonder how that will come out translated. Also, Hope calls Lightning-san for the first part of the game until she tells him to call her "Light," and then he calls her Light-san... He uses "-san" a lot... *sigh* This English version is doomed =_=
On a more interesting note, as I was watching the Japanese version, the line-up that was used in the sequences looks like the line-up I plan on using for whenever I get a chance in the game. A lot of times though, you only get two people on a team to fight 'cause for most of the story, the six characters were separated into 3 groups that did their own things so until the six characters reunite, you basically have a max of two people in your party. Most of the game is one to two people party until towards the last 25% of the game. I guess this helps with the "everyone levels up" ideal 'cause if they allowed me to choose my characters from the get-go, I'll just end up using the same people OVER AND OVER again lol. I play my favorites, literally ^_^ I wish that was one thing that was different about Final Fantasy VIII though 'cause Squall was at level 99 by the end of disc 2 whenever I'm done =_=; *sigh* I've considered just letting him be in the red zone for most of the game while I leveled up the other characters, but then that'd be a lot of work =_= lol.
Anyway, back to Final Fantasy XIII, though it was strange to see 2-person parties for most of it, I think it's kind of good. The battle system reverted back to ATB, which can be good and bad. I think the way Final Fantasy XII had it set up was kind of fun after a while, I mean I just program and let my characters do their own thing lol, but that's just lazy I guess one can say. The ATB system is more hands-on so it makes it more fun -- yup, no more eating dinner while your characters go pwn the bad guys -- and I like the battle theme in this game. It's very pretty compared to other battle themes lol ^_^; but still sounds like a battle theme lol ^_^ I think the only reason I really bought the cds is because I wanted the battle theme lol. I will not be buying an English version of the soundtrack 'cause that would just be a plain waste of money. No way I'm buying something with Leona Lewis in it... I don't like her very much =_= *sigh* And I'm obstinate.
Still, the graphics are beautiful. I will still buy the English version of the game, but I probably won't be able to stand listening to it much. The voices are good, but the changed dialogue and song just bugs me. *sigh* Why, oh why? *sigh* Nothing to it, I guess. Two more months to go before it's released in the U.S. And I still don't have a PS3 lol.
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