4 Swords Adventure question

[Dark Jaguar]

It's more action adventure, and for me the difference is that in one, the thing you concentrate on is the stats, and the other concentrates on pure arcade style fighting skill, ignoring stats almost completely. Anyway, I enjoyed Four Swords, so the sequel certainly intrigues me. However, reading about NES and SNES games, it annoyed me to NO end to find out about all sorts of things changed or removed from those games for the American release. For example, due to NOA's stranglehold on Square at the time, they forced them to censor and ease up the US release. This was later actually altered a little further and released as an Easy Type in Japan, but it was originally made due to NOA's demans. Nintendo Japan had no problem with either the complexity or the story of the original, so they didn't ask for anything to be changed. Playing the PS1 port, and reading various FAQs on the changes, it's really a rather drastic difference and the game by all accounts is MUCH funner in it's original form. For example, the Dark Wave is just plain cool :D.

My point is, from N64 on for a long time companies had finally seemed to get their collective act together and stop doing this butchering to the US versions of games (some cases of voice acting aside :D), and they have been doing a really good job on translations it seems. This sort of thing is a step in the WRONG direction! The idea that "the US gamers wouldn't like this mode" was a bad idea during the NES and SNES days and it's a BAD idea now!