What are you playing?

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Re: What are you playing?

Post by Complicity » Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:42 am

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One must wonder what a pozzed Demon's Blazon would look like.
Being a jap game, one has only to worry about the "localization".
Something something demons are genderless, something something they/them pronouns.

Gargoyle's Quest 1 and 2 are also the products of ye olde conservacuck lolcalization.
This is the ad of the first game in Japan:



Compare it with the artwork on the Western release.
I've recently replayed the (very short) game with this new translation



That confirmed by doubts; Firebrand/Red Arremer was never a gargoyle, he's a demon.
The subterranean world the game is set in is called the Demon Realm, not the Ghoul Realm.
The real name of the penultimate boss, who's on your side but fights you to test if you really are the Red Blaze, is Lucifer.
The supreme leader of the demons' name is not "King Darkhoan", but the Dark Lord, and in the final dialogue at the end he says that now that the King of Doom's army is defeated, demons should move to the surface and buckbreak humans.

But i guess things nowadays are "better", because the leftist hack who voiced the protagonist of Cucksona 5 wrote a wall of gaslighting about it on Twatter.

I may have found some lolcalization shenanigans in Blade Chimera too; there's a dialogue with a secondary npc, a woman who's part of the SMT2-like demons sympathizers' faction, in which the protagonist tells her how in the SMT2-like church he works for all fighters are men and all wahmens are field supporters for practicality, while she says she's as good at fighting as any man.
I'm sure most of the dialogue is the same in Japanese, but not the "patriarchy" name drop.

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Re: What are you playing?

Post by rabidtictac » Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:19 pm

Of course Firebrand was always a demon. He's based on the Red Arremer from GnG, which is a demon that serves the Devil. In later levels of GnG, Red Arremers appear everywhere right before fighting Lucifer/Beelze/Satan (all three of these are different bosses but they are all also names for the Devil.)

Japanese don't have the same reverence for the Christian monomyth that westerners do. They just think Christian stuff is "neat" and so they will use it. As I'm sure you well know, the Japanese conception of hell and demons is more aligned to either Shintoism (spiritual paganism) or Buddhism.

King Arthur in GnG was always a christian dude using holy crosses to murder the shit out of demons.
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Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:46 pm

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Japanese don't have the same reverence for the Christian monomyth that westerners do. They just think Christian stuff is "neat" and so they will use it.
Next your telling me NGE isn't as deeply symbolic as every weeb thinks it is.
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Re: What are you playing?

Post by Complicity » Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:16 pm

rabidtictac wrote:
Wed Jan 22, 2025 4:19 pm
Of course Firebrand was always a demon. He's based on the Red Arremer from GnG
I knew that, the arcade GnG is one of the first games i've ever played.
Somehow though, the localization imprinted in my head the notion that Red Arremers were red gargoyles, and that gargoyles and demons in Makaimura were the same thing.
I forgot to mention that the second stage of GQ1's real name is not "tower monster", but the Tower of Babel.
There is a less known appearance of Firebrand in the armored form Red Arremer Joker in the jrpg Namco X Capcom:

https://youtu.be/moExYzom1ww?si=zSblwJZv5JgsghDY&t=119

He is Firebrand and not a generic Red Arremer, because he's referred to as the "demon hero who ended the Crest War".

It seems that Ender Magnolia has finally exited early access. I was beginning to think the game was dead and abandoned.

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Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:22 pm

At least Illusion of Time lets you climb the Tower of Babel.
Not sure about the US version Illusion of Gaia, though...
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Re: What are you playing?

Post by Le Redditeur » Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:26 pm

VoiceOfReasonPast wrote:
Wed Jan 22, 2025 5:22 pm
At least Illusion of Time lets you climb the Tower of Babel.
Not sure about the US version Illusion of Gaia, though...
I think you need to collect all 50 red crystals to open the Tower of Babel in Illusion of Gaia. Some of them are very missable.

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Post by rabidtictac » Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:30 pm

I don't remember if I ever did everything in Illusion of Gaia. I beat the game on snes cart and saw the ending but it wasn't easy for my little kid self. I remember being stuck for ages against one of the very first bosses.
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Post by VoiceOfReasonPast » Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:34 pm

Le Redditeur wrote:
Wed Jan 22, 2025 7:26 pm
I think you need to collect all 50 red crystals to open the Tower of Babel in Illusion of Gaia. Some of them are very missable.
That's just for some short bonus dungeon featuring the optional superboss. The Tower of Babel is the final dungeon in the game.

And yes, collecting dem crystals is annoying.
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Re: What are you playing?

Post by Old Black Man » Thu Jan 23, 2025 8:05 am

Not sure where to put this but I love the way Sonic Adventure 2 portrayed muslims. Gotta love that Dreamcast.
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Re: What are you playing?

Post by Le Redditeur » Thu Jan 23, 2025 12:36 pm

... Why would Sanic ever need to portray Mudslimes in the first place?

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