Please note, some kind fellows over at FF Wiki are again taking things we learned and giving no credit whatsoever, which sucks. A bit of recognition for the hours of research would not go amiss. The following is almost final. I have gone through all the things we have changed and made concessions for anything which was overly literal. I was surprised to find that 65 Attack names needed change.
I hope this goes someway to dispelling the myth that I want a literal sounding piece of crap.
Changes:- Protection goes back to Armour
- Items in dialogue boxes have a new format such as
Obtained
Dragoon Lance
- Ultimate Limit Breaks and Weapons are coloured in rainbow font. (apart from Aerith's Princess Guard)
- Materia is colour coded.
- The use of straight speech mark " is heavily restricted to proper use in dialogue only.
- Enemy Avoid (materia) becomes Enemy Evade
- Flame Emission (Enemy Skill) goes back to Flamethrower (I find it very likely that is what they meant. The Japanese for this skill is 火炎放射 compare to Flamethrower 火炎放射器 and it looks like a flame thrower.... I dunno what possessed me to call it Flame Emission, I must have been on drugs!)
- Ogrenix becomes Ogrenyx. Nyx is the usual spelling of the Goddess from Greek Mythology.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nyx - Fire-Dragon Fang becomes Red Dragon Fang
- Sea-Dragon Scales goes back to Dragon Scales
(Unless we call it Hydra Scales or something... which keeps the sea monster connection in there)
- Polar Wind goes back to being Antarctic Wind (this fits in with "Southern Polar Wind" and does not have to have connections with Earth that I first thought)
- Toxic Substance becomes Toxic Waste (again must have been on drugs)
- Gravity Ball goes back to Graviball
- Mind becomes Intelligence
- Mind up becomes Intelligence Up
- Added "Autograph of" to the information area for Signed Shikishi.
- Revive Materia becomes Rebirth Materia
- Rise becomes Life
- Araise becomes Lifa
Enemies and movesSuperball becomes Super Ball
Snap becomes Teeth Snap
Whole Body Tail becomes Tail
Defence End becomes Defence Down
Defence Start becomes Defence Up
Double Brain becomes Dual Brain
Energy Absorb becomes Absorb Energy
Big Eruption becomes Violent Eruption (dictionary gives this as one of the choices)
Great Tsunami becomes Mega-tsunami
Jumping Cartilage Sword becomes Jumping Sword (the other move establishes what the sword is)
Almost all Confuse become Confusion, as that is correct.
Lightning Strike goes back to Lightning
Magic Draining Cartilage Sword becomes Draining Sword
Neo Turk's Ray becomes Neo Turks' Ray (grammar was wrong)
Petrification Smog becomes Petrifying Smog
Petrification Finger becomes Petrifying Finger
Sad Yin Attack becomes Sad Yin
Shell Defence becomes Shell
Shield Defence becomes Shielding
Solo Wing Shot goes back to Solo Wing Fire
Harmful Smog becomes Toxic Smog
Ultra Harmful Smog becomes Deadly Smog
Petrification Glare becomes Petrifying Glare
Powerful Kick becomes Power Kick
Violent Earthquake becomes Megathrust (which is a liberty. See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megathrust_earthquake)
Triangular Attack becomes Triangular Offensive
Turk's Ray becomes Turks' Ray
Sword Upper becomes Sword Uppercut
Verbal Attack becomes Verbal Assault
Double Shield Throw becomes Shields Throw
Frog Petrification goes back to Petrified Frog
Insulter becomes Insult
Before Firing becomes Loading Cannon
Big Mouth Breath goes back to Big Breath
Big Sound Wave becomes Super Sound
Big Rotation becomes Big Turn
Finger Shot becomes Finger Fire
Freezing Finger Shot becomes Freezing Finger Fire
Consecutive Claw becomes Continuous Claw
Cursing Words becomes Hex
Damage Attack becomes Damage
Dangerous Sting becomes Deadly Sting
Electric Discharge becomes Arc
Diverting Magnetic Field becomes Diverting Field
Fire Shot becomes Fire Blast
Flame Shot becomes Flame Dart
Flap Wings goes back to Flap
Flying Upper becomes Flying Uppercut
Glass Smash becomes Smash Glass
Head Attack becomes Head Charge
Big headhunting becomes Full Headhunting
Bubble Hell goes back to Hell Bubbles
Icicle Fall goes back to Icicle Drop
Last Left breath becomes Left's last breath
Last Right breath becomes Right's last breath
Paralysis Laser becomes Paralysing Laser
Scissor Tornado becomes Tornado Scissor
Shoulder Attack becomes Shoulder Barge
Slap becomes Face Slap
Sonic Attack becomes Sonic Strike
Spider Attack becomes Spider Thrust
Sword Attack becomes Sword
Drain Tentacle goes back to Tentacle Drain
Triple Attack becomes Triple Assault
Maybe I should call Petrifying Glare Medusa
or is this a step too far
Things being looked into:Twin-Dragon Fang
Any help appreciated with this. The "fang" has to stay though no matter what.
Echo Screen > やまびこえんまく > Echo Smokescreen
Looking into this one again since やまびこ seems to have some connection with
http://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E5%B1%B1%E5%BD%A6I can't read a word of that so I await Luksy's input. It may be that when all is said and done "Smokescreen" on its own suffices... or it could be that this is some sort of legend that needs to be preserved.
Flower Prong
フラワープラング
furawaapurangu
Flower Plunge
I am sticking with this for now even though kana does not match. Funny thing to note is that プラン are plan (and this enemy is a plant). Any relevance?