7th November 2007, 10:34 PM
A Black Falcon Wrote:Ingame, you mean? Quite true... :)
It does make the blatant historical inaccuracies and inventions that they freely mix in more obvious, but even so, it's better than most on the issue, for sure. Plus the plot isn't as overly complex as KOF's is...
Um, they never said that the game was historically accurate. In fact I'm pretty sure that's what you call "historical fantasy". I recently got this game, Jeanne D'arc. It is INSPIRED by history but that's about it. You begin to notice something amiss when the lead lady has to kill orcs, and that's Soul Calibur. I mean there's a giant enchanted devil sword in the game.
I'm all for historical accuracy when the developer has stated in advance they are going for realism. However, SC NEVER STATED THAT. The world is a total fiction. It is INTENDED that you consider it a completely seperate reality from the "real world", with quite possibly a totally different future. When there are wild lizard men running around and alien inferno creatures, it isn't our world any more. It isn't supposed to be "set" in our past. Rather, elements FROM our past are "set" in that world instead. They aren't "adding to" history. They are adding some history TO their own story. Taking cool stuff from our world and sticking it in their own imagined one. And really, that is a KIND of story to tell, and you can't just say "don't do that kind of story". There's a place for historical fantasy and I actually like it.
That said, no ABF, as much as I too would like the songs translated, I know that there's no place for it during the actual battle. No, the best place is in some side menu. After you read it and get the idea you should be able to listen to it just fine in the rest of the game right? I will agree that they could have subtitled those Wario Ware songs. I get the impression those songs may have been all serious like and there could have been some dry humor to be had in the conflict between the mini-games and the mood of the song. Missing jokes are never funny... which is actually a pretty obvious statement... Huh, I wonder if there's like a "jazz" of comedy, like it's the jokes they aren't telling.
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