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dragon504 posted...

I'm scratching my head as to why they changed some of the names.

My actual #1 gripe with the game. Why the actual hell did they change Shin to Jin??? Both are Japanese!!! Y'all just changed it to change it!!!

It felt like they just wanted to de-japaneseify the game at the expense of good names. Patroka and Ahkos (which I found out after beating the game are references to Patroclus and Achilles) are literally nothing names for the average English speaker, but every Japanese player is gonna recognize Benkei and Yoshitsune (their names in JP are literally just mythic heroes). Changing for the sake of change to something that somehow manages to be less familiar for your target audience isn't good localization. It just feels arbitrary.

Edit: oh yeah, Byakko to Dromarch. What the fuck is Dromarch supposed to invoke in me??? I know what Byakko is!!!

dragon504 posted...

Lastly, the battles seem to take a bit too long tbh. Maybe I'll get stronger/better as the game goes on, but I'm not going to hold my breath.

Rando battle length does usually feel a bit too long for most of the game, but bosses become way easier to burst down in chapter 3. The battle system feels nuanced in pointless ways until then, but then everything clicks when elemental orbs get added in.