Final Fantasy VII Remake

The PS1 era of rereleases was mostly a bunch of half-assed money grabs, but going forward, most of the rereleases are worth it for the cleaned up dialogue alone, the little tidbits of extra gameplay they toss in just being a bonus. I love a good Woolseyism as much as the next Square enthusiast, but I can do without Son of a Submariner.

You Spoony Bard on the other hand, is a classic phrase, and ironically Woolsey didn't even work on FF4. I'm glad it survived the new translations when they cleaned up the rest of the dialogue, because it's totally a part of FF culture now. Spoony bard references in several Square titles.

Rezz_sl said:

Mass uh moon. I know it's mass ah moon eh(in canadian) but I still call it mass uh moon.

Also the redone CT cutscenes are great.

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How did you get moon instead of myoon? Every instance of mune in the English language is pronounced myoon. MY JIMMIES ARE RUSTLED

I'm not a cat? Why would you pronounce the u if you are already replacing it with o's?

Rezz_sl said:

I'm not a cat? Why would you pronounce the u if you are already replacing it with o's?

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Gavinmad_sl said:

Every instance of mune in the English language is pronounced myoon.

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^^

Nevermind! All 5 words are pronounced myoon. No idea why I transliterated it as moon when I was a kid, then.

Though in my defense, all english words with -mune in them, have double m's before the u. Could very well be phonetically saying it out loud and not adding the m into the o's, hence no "y" sound being added in.

Commune, every variation of the word Immune including Premune apparently. Also Triune, Tribune, Lacune, and maybe Cohune if 'close front rounded vowel' means a Y sound. Those are just more examples of words ending une that are pronounced yoon and not oon.

Off the top of my head Munificence is an example of the mun letters pronounced myoon at the front of the word. Basically if we actually used alternate characters in English, I think all of the Us in these examples would have an umlaut.

This all goes out the window though because it's japanese and japanese people blur out genitals. They ain't right.

Japan is weird as shit (sorry Chysamere) on a lot of things. Our pronunciation of their words is probably pretty low on the weird-shit list.

ANYWAY.

FF3 when played on a nes emulator with an english patch is a pretty different experience from the DS version. With an upcoming 7 re-release with ostensibly updated graphics/systems, is it possible that the story we thought was FF7 was actually just shitty translating? I am honestly curious if that saga is something other than what the western audiences experienced.

Well according to Chysamere I had the moon rune pronunciation wrong so we're about even.

Ma-sa-moo-ne (as in net)

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I thought the last syllable was pronounced 'nay', which is how they pronounce Masamune in Samurai 7. I can't remember the last time I watched it in Japanese, so I assume the English voice actors just anglicized it to 'nay'. Sounds more Englishy that way.

Xarpolis_sl said:

Needs more Golden Saucer.

I remember thinking how crystal clear and realistic those graphics were. Kids are stupid.

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TV tech wasn't so good.

How was that posted on one website a month ago and not made news? Calling bullshit.

Edit: Yeah it's a joke site

Ray Romano would be absolutely hilarious

Gilbert Godfrey for Sephiroth or riot

Fran Drescher as Aerith

Eddie Izzard for Seph, with Gilbert Godfrey as Barret. Cid should definitely be played by DMX when he's in between prison sentences as well. Fran Drescher as Aeris, Yufi played by Brian Posehn, and Tifa done by Lisa Lampanelli with appropriate language.

Cait Sith portrayed by two bonobos pounding away, naturally, and Red XIII as read by Stephen Hawkings.

And of course, use the old script so it really meshes together.