That's Ultimania in a nutshell hahaha. They just verify info but leaving it in the form of a question to "tease" what comes next. Thankfully the interview stuff verifies what is "teased". That twitter user said they'll be translating more of the actual interview and character profiles now that they have their hand on the book.
I like that answer
so he stayed in shinra like 3 month ?
he spent 5 years in mako pod (i don't know the real name).
Shouta
if you see any mistakes please let me know haha| 幻 | Illusion | An illusion of Sephiroth that only Cloud can see | ||
| 黒マント | Black Hood | Black hooded man that has the appearace of Sephiroth | Sentences in bold* are the literal translations of the statements from Japanese | |
| 回想 | Recollection/Memory | Past Sephiroth | when they do not match up exactly with the English localization | |
| ？？？ | ??? | Not a black hooded man, but an existance that is perceived as Sephiroth by Cloud and the others. |
| CHAPTER | 場所 (Location JPN) | LOCATION | Form | Explanation (JPN) | Explanation (EN) |
| 2 | 八番街市街地 | Sector 8 Neighborhood | Illusion | 八番街と炎に包まれニブルヘイムが重なって見えたときに出現 | Cloud sees Sephiroth when Sector 8 burns like Nibelheim did |
| 2 | 八番街市街地 | Sector 8 Neighborhood | Illusion | クラウドがエアリスと出会ったときに出現 | Cloud sees Sephiroth when he meets Aerith |
| 3 | 七番街スラムの天望荘 | Sector 7 Slum Stargazer Heights | Black Hood | クラウドが隣人のマルカート（ナンバー４９）をセフィロスと誤認 | Cloud mistakes Marco (No.49) for Sephiroth |
| 4 | 七番街スラムの天望荘 | Sector 7 Slum Stargazer Heights | Illusion | クラウドが就寝中にセフィロスの声を幻聴として聞く | Cloud hears Sephiroth's voice as an auditory hallucination while sleeping |
| 8 | 伍番街スラムの教会 | Sector 5 Slum Church | Illusion | クラウドの意識のなかに現れ、「 私はお前の主人だ」と呼びかける | Sephiroth appears in Cloud's consciousness and says, "I'm your everything". "I'm your master"* |
| 8 | 伍番街スラムの子供達の秘密基地 | Sector 5 Slum Kids' Hideout | Black Hood | クラウドが黒マントの男（ナンバー２）をセフィロスと誤認 | Cloud mistakes a black hooded man (No.2) for Sephiroth |
| 13 | 六番街スラムの七六街道 | Sector 6 Slums, 7-6 Highway | Memory | エアリスの家へ向かう道中、クラウドが「われこそ古代種の血を引きし者」 と言っていたセフィロスを思い出す | On the way to Aerith's house, Cloud remembers Sephiroth saying, "Within my veins flows the blood of Ancients." |
| 13 | 六番街スラムの七六街道 | Sector 6 Slums, 7-6 Highway | Illusion | 上記の回想の直後、クラウドに「喪失がお前を強くする」と語りかける | Immediately following the above memory, Sephiroth tells Cloud that "But through suffering, you will grow strong". "Loss will make you strong"* |
| 16 | 神羅ビル61階のビジュアルフロア | Shinra HQ 61st Floor Visual Entertainment Hall | Illusion | 映像の最後に出現。バレットやティファには見えていない(途中で映像が切れた) | Sephiroth appears to Cloud at the end of the video presentation. He is not visible to Barret and Tifa (the video cuts out prematurely) |
| 16 | 神羅ビル69階の廊下 | Shinra HQ 69th Floor Hallway | Black Hood | パルマーとすれちがう。 黒マントの男(ナンバー49)が、 ジェノバ細胞の作用によりセフィロスに見えていた | Due to the effect of Jenova cells, black hood man No. 49 takes on the appearance of Sephiroth and passes by Palmer |
| 16 | 神羅ビル66階のエレベーター前 | Shinra HQ 66th Floor in front of the Elevator | Memory | 厳密には、意識が朦朧とするなかで声が聞こえるのみ。 語られる内容はセフィロスがニブル魔晄炉で話していたもの | To be exact, Cloud hears a voice while experiencing a hazy flashback of Sephiroth talking at the Nibelheim reactor ("Mother, together we will..." scene) |
| 17 | 鑼牟最上層のジェノバポッド前 | The Drum, in front of the JENOVA Pod | Black Hood | クラウドたちと対峙。これ以降は、ジェノバ細胞の作用により、 クラウド以外にもセフィロスに見えるようになる | Conrtontation with Cloud and the others. From now on, due to the effects of Jenova cells, black hood man also looks like Sephiroth to the rest of the party. |
| 17 | 鑼牟最上層のジェノバポッド前 | The Drum, in front of the JENOVA Pod | Black Hood | ジェノバを抱えて移動している姿が、監視カメラ映像に映る | A figure carrying JENOVA is seen on the surveillance video camera |
| 17 | 神羅ビル70階の社長室 | Shinra HQ 70th Floor President's Office | Black Hood | プレジデントを刺殺して、ジェノバBeatに変貌する | He kills President Shinra, and transforms into JENOVA Dreamweaver |
| 17 | 神羅ビル70階の社長室 | Shinra HQ 70th Floor President's Office | Black Hood | 黒マントの男（ナンバー２）がジェノパを回収したのち、屋上から飛び降りて逃亡 | A black hooded man (No.2) recovers JENOVA and then jumps off of the rooftop. |
| 18 | ミッドガル・ハイウェイ | Midgar Highway | Illusion | ハイウェイの終端にたどり着いたクラウドの前に出現 | Sephiroth appears to Cloud after they arrive at the end of the highway. |
| 18 | ミッドガル・ハイウェイ | Midgar Highway | ??? | クラウドたちを運命の壁の先へといざなう | Sephiroth beckons the party to change destiny. (The JPN text refers to Sephiroth's portal as "destiny's wall", but in the EN version, they just talk about changing fate) |
| 18 | 運命の特異点 | Crossroads of Destiny | ??? | クラウドたちと戦う | Sephiroth fights Cloud and the rest of the party |
| 18 | 世界の先端 | Edge of Creation | ??? | ともに運命にあらがうようクラウドに呼びかける。ちなみに、このときのセフィロスの一人称は、 5年前にジェノバに会う前のセフィロスと同じ「俺」になっている(ふだんは「私」)。 | Sephiroth calls to Cloud, with whom he defied destiny. Interestingly, this Sephiroth refers to himself with a different first person pronoun in the Japanese text, which is more like the Sephiroth before the Nibelheim incident. "watashi" vs "ore" |
Maybe? There's not enough information to make a definite conclusion. It's more or less a mystery at this point as to what you fought at the end of the game that looked and sounded like Sephiroth. Could be a past version. Could be a future version. Could be something else entirely. Does Aerith know? She sounds like she does, but she doesn't elaborate.
Yeah, it's more the assumption I'm going with based on Aerith's comments and Sephiroth's at the end and what plays out at the edge of creation. Everything up until that point was either an illusion, memory, or Jenova based so the difference had been established. Nonetheless, The change in how he refers to himself and demeanor differing from the others is very interesting.
Yeah, it's an interesting thing that only really comes across in the Japanese text. I haven't yet done a playthrough in Japanese audio so I didn't notice. It makes me wonder if there are any cues in the English dialog that is a reference to how he spoke in the past, pre-Nibelheim.
I played it in JP audio, but it wasn't something I focused on. Will be fun on the hard mode replay to see everything with a new perspective. I just wish the localization wasn't so free at times, because I'm hearing something different from what I'm reading, lol. Oh well.
It's always tricky with that kind of thing, so I sympathize with the localizers and tend to give them the benefit of the doubt. Their job isn't necessarily to do a direct translation, but to adapt the words to a different language and culture and perhaps form metaphors, allusions, and references that might resonate with that culture more than the original Japanese words. As long as I feel the general emotion is conveyed properly, and that the prose sounds natural in English, I think that's a job well done.
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Yeah, I hope Squeenix can allocate more resources to the team without diluting quality. It seems the devs have a lot of passion and motivation for their work, so I wish them the best.
It would be funny if saving her gets you an even worse ending lol.
Next part of the Ultimania interview is translated by Audrey. This time it's with Co-Director's Hamaguchi and Toriyama and Battle Director Teruki Endo. They reiterate the sequel is in pre-production, talk about how to properly depict the open world of Gaia, and other things:
(this should have been done a while back even a year) clearly shows the lack of direction and vision for this project. i give up on these incompetent fools bring on FF16 (minus nomura) i'll take my chances on that at least it will be new and hopefully a full game upon release.
