Quote Originally Posted by Clover_Blake View Post
One of my favourite, which I ranted about with my friend... The Exarch opening his eyes slowly as he wakes up from a dream. You are the very first thing he sees and he's surprised, disoriented, as if his mind had accepted that you weren't supposed to be actually there (too good to be true?). Or at least that's how it is in Japanese...

JAPANESE:
"Eh...? You... Why are you...?"

TRANSLATION:
"THE FUTURE IS WHERE MY DESTINY AWAITS : D"

?????? ...I don't even know what that was about, but what a random way to destroy the intimacy of a scene.
What scene is this?

It's similar with anything involving Emet. Going through 5.0 as an EN player I thought the WoL was a random reincarnated Ancient with no particular connection to Emet. The first hint there is any is Shade!Hyth in Amaurot who tells you that you're someone Emet surely recognized which, without any other context, doesn't mean much. I remember when I got to 5.3 I thought, I needed this context of their relationship in 5.0. Why wasn't it there? Turns out it was there, explicitly, in any other language but EN.

In EN when Emet first sees the WoL he says is "with a soul such as that", there's no indication he recognizes you or that you meant anything to him. The cutscene before the Hades trial, in EN he says, "No... it can't be... Bah, a trick of the light!" In JP he says, "Impossible! You... how can you be here? No... it's not... you're not him/her." That's a huge difference in context. Going through ShB with context is basically an entirely different experience.