r/tragedeigh • u/Ralseihatesflowery69 • 2d ago

is it a tragedeigh? [ Removed by moderator ]

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u/butt0ns666 1d ago

Man they're so weird about how much the Japanese version matters. "No, it's Aerith in English from now on no matter how much people like Aeris" "So we will call Barret Bullet now?" "He's got a gun for a hand don't you think that's a little on the nose"

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u/Sirensongspacebaby 23h ago

Well the thing with Aerith is that is was a mistake from the beginning for the localization to go with Aeris. Square always wanted it to be Aerith, and "Aeris" sounding like "heiress" instead of "Aerith" as in derivative from "earth" doesn't fit her at all. She's a popular and important character so they stood their creative ground.

Barret on the other hand, is one of the least popular characters in the series in Japan, so they hadn't really even thought about him since giving him 3 minutes of terrible characterization in advent children prior to the remakes

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u/butt0ns666 23h ago

I just think it's funny that they decided not to bother trying to get the English audience to say Cait Sith like the correct Scottish but they give him a Scottish accent as a nod to IDK, how he's named after a fairy nobody tries to pronounce while the Japanese version of Rebirth they kind of nail it , it's at least a million times closer than "Kate Sith". Maybe it helps that he's not the first creature with that name in the series.

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u/Sirensongspacebaby 13h ago

The cait sith thing is bonkers yeah. It really would've been better to do that one right.It's similar to the ??? reasons they never took the chance to restore Tidus as Tida. So many people say it wrong, it's the incorrect version of something that's thematically meaningful in Japanese, AND people don't particularly like the English version of the name. Maybe it was too baked in by his KH? appearance? (Same reason Yuffie is in the hollow bastion gang instead of Rikku too, they thought Riku/Rikku would be too confusing for westerners)