Quote Originally Posted by Miitan View Post
The issue is that by seeing the Japanese text, you unconsciously form a type of confirmation bias where you recall things in such a way that it confirms your idea that the English text contains everything the Japanese text did.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but we've been discussing whether a player could reasonably arrive at the same or very similar conclusions in the EN text as the JP text. No one is saying they knew it all along to save face or something petty and lazy like that.

Can a person reading the EN script reasonably arrive at the same or similar conclusion as someone reading the JP script? Many of us propose this is the case and at this point we are showing our work. There is enough in-game context before, during and after the encounter with Midgardsormr to characterize him in a consistent way across scripts.

We're not falling back on confirmation bias; it's literary analysis on what's essentially a young adult novel.