Why Aren't Thunder Spells Actually Called Lightning in the Game?

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If that's the case then the English crew are idiots. In every game prior to this one the single target spells were Fire, Thunder, etc. AoE spells were 'agas'. It's like they went out and hired people who had never played a Final Fantasy game in their lives and said "Ok, you develop our new game".

It's very counter intuitive as a career black mage to be casting Fire II as my AoE instead of Firaga.

Well, Fira is an AoE. It's just the naming convention is changed between JP/DE version and EN/FR version. Makes no sense to me why they split it like that but SE does whatever they did.