Race Change

Snowglare · 03-14-2014

You could use gibberish or symbols (e.g. kanji or hiragana) instead of Western-style letters. Words could turn backwards or upside-down, scrambled, periodically replaced by random words that make no sense in context. Any old nonsense'll do.

Or just use romanized Japanese. There's no reason for characters in Final Fantasy to speak an Earth-based language, and no reason not to. The original games are all in Japanese before translating to foreign tongues.

I guess I could take or leave broken English? It can work when it's done well. Depends on the context, but it's vaguely insulting in general. I tend to prefer people speaking one language fluently, rather than mashing two together in some awkward lingual sandwich.

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03-14-2014	#10
Snowglare Process Master Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 886	You could use gibberish or symbols (e.g. kanji or hiragana) instead of Western-style letters. Words could turn backwards or upside-down, scrambled, periodically replaced by random words that make no sense in context. Any old nonsense'll do. Or just use romanized Japanese. There's no reason for characters in Final Fantasy to speak an Earth-based language, and no reason not to. The original games are all in Japanese before translating to foreign tongues. I guess I could take or leave broken English? It can work when it's done well. Depends on the context, but it's vaguely insulting in general. I tend to prefer people speaking one language fluently, rather than mashing two together in some awkward lingual sandwich.