Quote Originally Posted by Telkira View Post
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.
We'll just have to agree to disagree. I know a lot of people (including a few JPN players) who didnt much care for JPN Haurchefant and actually would've been turned off from the character if they were trying to force some sort of romantic relationship with the WoL, which it was clearly doing. I still think the localization team had nothing to apologize for. Nobody cares except die hards who actually go out of their way to look up japanese translations.

In many cases with localizations I would agree that most of the time, the english script ruins the original depth of a character; one notable example is Kairi from Kingdom Hearts whom actually has more of a character than what was localized. But like I keep defending, ENG Haurchefant is one of the rare Ws where the character actually is better than the original version. He just seriously comes off as too pushy, creepy or annoyingly eccentric, and with many moments in both ARR and HW's story where he's there to be taken seriously, I cannot imagine many people would've connected with him if he was blatant about his affection towards you. Heck G'raha is getting dangerously close at times with his dialogue but I rather like my characters having room for interpretation rather than "HEY THIS GUY REEALLY WANTS TO GET IN YOUR PANTS, THIS IS HIS CHARACTER TRAIT".