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enigmaopoeia	Oct 24 2008, 10:34:33 PM
DOLPHINATSU WILL KILL U! Posts: 3,667 Group: Marquess Member #1 Joined: 04/23/06 Gender: Female ♀	I am curious about what you guys felt about the Americanization of Clock Tower II. We already know that Agetec done to not alienate gamers by the heavily Japanese setting of Clock Tower Ghost Head by changing the characters names to common American names, change the location from Japan to California, and finalizing everything by giving it English voice acting. But with how much they done to convince us that Clock Tower II is a storyline about an American teenager with multiple personalities in Salinas, California; was it all believable? Because if you were playing the game, you knew that there were a few kinks. Such as when Alyssa left the station in the Opening Movie, you clearly read Japanese letters behind her. Some of the rooms in the Tate's House was very Japanese, unless Agetec wanted to convince us that the Tate Family were into Japanese culture. And maybe some other stuff I haven't mentioned gives us the impression that maybe it's not completely set in California. In short, do you think that Agetec should've gone all the way with Clock Tower II? Now we're not talking about doing the name and location changes, they done that. But should they try to alter everything in the game? Such as changing the lightswitches in Scenario-1 to make them inside the room, changing some of the character's clothes to something less Japanese like Alyssa not wearing a schoolgirl uniform [Unless they want to convince us she came from a boarding school in England! BRICKED], or even something as extreme as altering the appearances of the characters to really make them more convincing such as making Alyssa Hale a blonde! Posted Image Yaranaika? BRICKED Of course I call this the olde Atlus way of Americanization, since they have done this with one game titled Revelations: Persona for the PlayStation. Where they try to change the Japanese setting to something of a more western feel, even giving cosmetic changes to characters to change them from their brown or black hair to the more western red or blonde hair. Even going as far as giving them tans or even completely changing the ethnicity of one Japanese teenager into an American American complete with Ebonics. \|\|\| orz So yeah, tell me what you think! ^^;; Have they done enough or should they have done so much more?
	~ enigmaopoeia @ Don't Cry Jennifer

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