I'm all for clever localization but please don't just leave out important story.

[Shougun]

Pretty much, it comes off as trying too hard to sound smart on the internet, see I totally understood the thing and you didn't, praise me for being great and intelligent for speculating and firing up all my braincells to figure all this too deep for you meaning that was also not that deep and pretty clearly stated in another language.

From the ones I've seen say they understood it, myself included, the intent was not a better than thou purpose. People said "its not intelligible" and others said, yes, yes it is. You can force a lie "you needed the Japanese text" and then say not only are they lying to how they came to a realization but that they are also saying everyone else is less intelligent for the outcome.. to do that seems bankrupt though. In fact multiple times throughout my posts I've strictly said I'm not making a judgment of intelligence.

I don't think this is even a moderately fair assertion.

The text did -not- confuse me, I did -not- go read the Japanese version prior to being not confused. Reading the Japanese version only confirmed what I already had mentally constructed from the information - and the information was generally already straight forward, just not verbose and redundant.

Of course, imo, everyone has a right to their own sense of mind and may be confused for many reasons, like playing at 4am on 2 hours of sleep - pretty sure half of 1.0 is out of my memory because of that.. lol.

Again though, its not a better than thou - I just didn't feel confused and I felt respected to have a believable character response and construction of dialog.