I don't think I trust the theater kid entirely on this. So he shat himself over the name change for a fucking horse, and yet just about everything else is changed and screwed up and he didn't have any issues? This doesn't track at all.
If he had issues, he would simply get someone else to do the games. Square-Enix doesn't own Dragon Quest, Armor Project (a company chaired exclusively by Horii and his family) does and they have a near complete veto on everything that happens in the franchise including localization decisions.
Well, that sounds a lot more reasonable than the other guy's story. I guess if he's fine with the theater kid taking a dump on each game, then whatever. I'll just stop playing them
I mean, that's kind of the big issue with Japanese games these days. The rot isn't just in one place - it's a combination of theater kid localizers, domestic Japanese culture war stuff, old Japanese guys selling out, bloated corpo dev teams racing to the bottom, etc all synergizing to enshittify and sanitize everything.
Yeah I have only seen the interview with Horii complaining about stupid standards in America, it was earlier in the thread. Most Japanese devs are rather tight lipped about alot of things involved in developing a game. So there isn't much evidence one way or the other, but what little evidence outside promo hype is that interview of him saying he his pigeon holed into DEI shit.
It also had a lot of momentum due to coming out during the peak of Dragon Ball's popularity in the US (like right at the tail end of Toonami airing the Buu storyline iirc). I knew people who grabbed it just because of the Akira Toriyama art.
He doesn't know English. Like really, worse than Miyamoto who sometimes can stammer through a sentence or two. How do you expect him to understand how fucked it is?
use save states lmao
What's that? A Localizer makes an appeal to a Japanese authority to legitimize his localization?
Yes, this is one of my points - Yuji Horii will call out American Squeenix to score points in domestic interviews despite personally having TOTAL CONTROL over Dragon Quest. If he wanted to, he could easily stop this troonery and bad localization with a single word. He doesn't work for SE and SE doesn't control the Dragon Quest IP.Meanwhile, here's Yuji Horii and Akira Toriyama's Shonen Jump editor for his entire career's interview at TGS 2024, when they went off on Wokeshit and admitted they were being forced to change DQ3 to remove pronouns and fuck with Toriyama's art by Square Enix. They specifically blame it on the American side of Square Enix forcing the Japanese side to comply with "global regulations."
How did Null put it? "This all could have stopped if someone in the chain had just had the guts to tell these people no."
You're wrong that Armor Project has total control over the IP. They can't do anything without Square Enix's approval. It's a similar situation with Pokemon where nominally Game Freak & Creatures Inc & Nintendo & The Pokemon Company all have some say but we don't seem to know where the line is between Armor & SE, probably they've just never said it publically. Of course there's also Bird Studio (Toriyama) that owns owns the iconic character and monster designs and Sugiyama Kobo that owns the most important music.
Enix was just a publisher, whereas Square was an entire development and publishing house. Even at the time, there were concerns from the Enix side because Square outnumbered them by a factor of 10 in terms of headcount. The end result seems to have been the Square-ification of Enix properties rather than an actual balanced merger.
But Enix was way bigger than Square, wasn't it? Enix published a shitload of stuff -- books, novels, manga, games... And they had their own development stuff going on too. It's why Enix basically bought Square during the "merger," and the Enix side owned more shares in the resulting company.
After the merger, about 80% of Square-Enix's employees were former Square employees.
In the 3DS version, you permanently kept stuff from your beginner vocations that you learned. Only tier 2 and 3 vocations had abilities locked.
That's horrific and explains so much.
