Progenitrix? Please, that's Mom Bomb.

[CrimsonThunder]

Come on SE, anyone worth their Final Fantasy salt knew what that was the moment they saw it and expected a crapton of grey bombs. It hurt me a bit inside every time I saw Ghostbuster jokes instead.


Seriously though, fun dungeon. So happy to get blown up instead of tossed in the air by a tornado all the time.

[Lambdafish]

IM SO MAD! I was so excited to see mom bomb in the trailer and was looking forward to fighting her, and she wasn't even graced with her own name. wtf is a progenitrix? I get that there are 2 of them, but come on SE, mom bomb and dad bomb.

We need to petition for a name change asap

[Limecat]

wtf is a progenitrix?

Stylistic way of naming the mob "mother", basically. Should have just called it Mombomb. XD

[Lambdafish]

Stylistic way of naming the mob "mother", basically. Should have just called it Mombomb. XD

that's somehow worse! They made mom bomb in every way (even name), but changed it so that her name is different, and people need to use a dictionary to know its meaning.
I think diabolos should be changed to Teufel so that we aren't copying past FFs anymore :P

[Ultimatecalibur]

and people need to use a dictionary to know its meaning.

Or they have familiarity with the words Progenitor and Dominator/Dominatrix.

[Tsukino]

IM SO MAD! I was so excited to see mom bomb in the trailer and was looking forward to fighting her, and she wasn't even graced with her own name. wtf is a progenitrix? I get that there are 2 of them, but come on SE, mom bomb and dad bomb.

We need to petition for a name change asap

That's exactly what it is in Japanese. Mother Bomb (same as IV in Japanese) and Father Bomb.

Typical localization team trying to push their own humor or other ideas instead of sticking with references. At least this one doesn't bother me nearly as much as removing the numerous times the Japanese script specifically says "The Floating Continent" or "The Primal: Knights of Round" in the base 3.0 story.

[Tranquil]

Typical localization team trying to push their own humor or other ideas instead of sticking with references. At least this one doesn't bother me nearly as much as removing the numerous times the Japanese script specifically says "The Floating Continent" or "The Primal: Knights of Round" in the base 3.0 story.

I might agree regarding this specific localization issue (Mombomb/Dadbomb) for the sake of nostalgia, though I don't care that much. But really - people need to read this post before they hate on the localization team and throw temper tantrums about things not being translated directly (because as we know, localization =/= translation), and because as the first two paragraphs specifically in that post state - the EN localization team is responsible for creating a lot of the terminology in this game. Do I know if that's the case with your examples for instance? Meh, could go either way, but this game is done pretty goddamn well if you ask me, having played it with the EN script and the JP script.

[Tsukino]

I might agree regarding this specific localization issue (Mombomb/Dadbomb) for the sake of nostalgia, though I don't care that much. But really - people need to read this post before they hate on the localization team and throw temper tantrums about things not being translated directly (because as we know, localization =/= translation), and because as the first two paragraphs specifically in that post state - the EN localization team is responsible for creating a lot of the terminology in this game. Do I know if that's the case with your examples for instance? Meh, could go either way, but this game is done pretty goddamn well if you ask me, having played it with the EN script and the JP script.

I'm a little tired of this being thrown around as "proof" of how the localization team shares some kind of implied equal part in development when all it says is that they come up with some names of some things that they've been asked to do. They don't write the story scripts from scratch, and they definitely don't tell the design team to put in blatant references to past FF games but with different names. They write titles, they come up with "neat" additions like Dragonspeak, and that's about it.

Furthermore, them writing about how hard they work isn't suddenly going to convince those of us with a distaste for their choices that they're doing an excellent job. I, and many others, have read (or listened to) both scripts and have decided I/we don't like many of the decisions they've made. You have experienced both and decided you like it. Neither one necessarily invalidates the other.

I actually think Ferne/Koji is a very talented person, I just disagree with practically every major decision the team has made here - spell names, Ye Olde English, overthinking Titan naming, removing direct references to other games in favor of whatever, changing the descriptions for chocobo dyes because they thought the originals were inaccurate, completely random descriptions of hunt mobs, and the absurd pun names for everything in the entire game.

[Lambdafish]

people need to read this post before they hate on the localization team and throw temper tantrums about things not being translated directly

What's in a name?

I was being purposefully pedantic in my original post just so you know :P While changing the name would be nice for nostalgia reasons, it is the epitome of first world problems

[Spiroglyph]

Seriously though, fun dungeon. So happy to get blown up instead of tossed in the air by a tornado all the time.