Quote Originally Posted by Atelier-Bagur View Post
As someone who actually researched and read the original JPN script for most of Haurchefaunt's lines....yeeeeah I'm gonna actually have to give it an L on the writing department for that one. Like I said, the character was expected to be a somewhat major player in the story that was supposed to be taken seriously. You really think JPN Haurchefaunt would've been much more substantial if he was a walking erotic stereotype rather than how they handled him to be more of a humble and respectfully optimistic individual? Its baffling people like you wanting to regress rather than improve. Pretty sure SE only apologized because the rabid fanbase was at their throats about it and they were clearly trying to save face, otherwise they'd retconned his personality already. But they did not because it turns out people like how he's written now compared to the original script.

I'm all for wanting to keep the writing as close to the original intention of the script, but Haurchefaunt's case is one of the rare moments where the localization improves on the given character rather than taking away his value.
I don't think it detracts from people's ability to take him seriously. He already does so much for the player at that point, so in my view, as a character, he has earned his right to be comedic.
I personally don't see what's wrong with it, since it's perfectly appropriate for the 'T' 13+ rating and no worse than anything else that seeks to appeal to this demographic. Jiraiya from Naruto is 'worse' in this regard.

And yes, I genuinely do think JP Haurchefant would be better because changing him also required them to change other aspects about his character, including interactions which drastically changed the mood of these scenes. I'd rather have him as a bombastic and humorous pervert than a what he is now, because it's very clear that in the JP version that's not all he is.
I personally found it creepy how he was re-written, it didn't feel right, it felt like he was trying to establish an emotional connection when the pieces for that simply were not there.

And I think you're assuming too much, it's very clear what they apologized for and even agree that going through with the change itself, in addition to how they handled it, was wrong and they admitted it was wrong, even admitting that they deprived us of a proper character. Whether or not certain people gravitate more towards how he was re-written than they would the JP variant is irrelevant, that type of argument would be something to deal with procedurally in the way of feedback with the scenario writers, NOT by flat out revising the script because they were afraid of offending people.

Why they don't go in and retcon it, I genuinely don't know. I would be satisfied with a flat-out overhaul of the text based on what language preferences the player sets in-game, if not having the text align with the spoken JP in the cutscene.