Thread: The Undead Dragon and the Magic Priestess's Revenge event guide

Originally Posted by JSmith12

And Dracorich? Dracorich? Is the translation team serious? What is it it rich in dragon bones or something? I mean we have Liches with an "L" why is this with an "R"? Maybe we should change Liches to Riches, heavens knows there be more jokes to be had.

I mean, I get it if it's a word that doesn't really have an English equivalent, since the Japanese r is more a rolled r with an l attached, but when a word already exists with a serviceable transliteration there is no excuse for such a mistake.

The Japanese R/L strikes again.

Anyway, it's a problem that occurs sometimes when a translation team doesn't realize that a word was Western to begin with. I've seen Fenrir become Fenril or Fenlil (though I still think the former sounds awesome), I've heard of Orichalcum becoming Olichalcum... stuff like. I suppose there isn't much excuse for it, I don't think it would have taken much effort to look it up... I mean, I feel that when you're translating Japanese to English, words that aren't originally Japanese tend to make themselves obvious...

that would require a bit of fantasy knowledge , and not everyone is into sci-fi or adventure genre.

Originally Posted by lolix

that would require a bit of fantasy knowledge , and not everyone is into sci-fi or adventure genre.

All it requires is the internet and a search engine. It's quite trivial to do in most cases.

This event is kinda making me happy just because we actualy have to tank a paralyzing unit now and i have every immune unit in the game (thetis, rowanna, elenia) including Lianna who can heal that stuff. Well tbh i had none of them awakend, Lianna isnt even cced yet but since thetis and elenia were both cc70 i just had to chose which to AW. I went for Elenia for the obvious omph reasons. Her skill went to 4/5 with just 3 rainbow fairys too. This luck better continues during the event.
I even found use for Liddy on that map for just some extra faster clearing of dracoRich. Even placed saki, farne, grace since Elenia only needs one AW healer to tank the DracoLich. Sadly my Sheryl is still so new that shes lvl 10 , but thinking about it now... that doesnt change her skill at all. When farming the map i could just add her too. Kinda overkill but im happy i could use some units i usualy never deploy lol.

Have elenia as well , but never felt a need to raise her till now

Originally Posted by lolix

Have elenia as well , but never felt a need to raise her till now

same, though... i have to admit she is plenty powerfull when one can place her.

Luv the Pumpkin King man - these villains are much interesting than the event gurls LOL

the small asides really flesh out some characters. yuyu wanting to enjoy a pumpkin party is cute.

Originally Posted by kayfabe

Problem there is that using the internet effectively requires you to have a base line idea of what kind of questions you need to be asking. The Dunning-Kruger effect kicks in hard when it comes to language and communication. We understand ourselves so we assume other people should understand us as well.

Would that be the Dunning-Kruger effect? A bit of light reading has me thinking that it's more a case of "It's not that I'm bad at explaining myself or understanding you, it's that you're an idiot and I'm too smart for you".

Well regardless of which definition it is I wouldn't think a translation team (that is dedicated to translating) should have this problem. As MalusCourvus said foreign words tend to pop out with Japanese since there written in katakana. The only way I can think of is that using another method to translate. As an example, I typed in Vampire Lord (Eden's class) in katakana in Google translate and it gave me Vampire Road. Granted they sound similar in Japanese but one can use basic understanding to see which is more appropriate.

Also to further counter lolix, they managed to to get Dracolich's original name, Sevlml, which should be even more difficult to transliterate from katakana, but they put an r rather than an l in the dragon's new title. Unless they're trying to be different it's a poor mistake. Also Elyse for B. Iris doesn't count. That gets a slide because even though there is a discernible difference between イリス (B. Iris) and イーリス (G. Iris) in Japanese, that nuance is lost in English. (Mentioned in case anyone uses it as a counter argument)

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this is my plan - I have both Aria and Katie deployed for UP
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then when Pumpking arrives, remove both Aria and Katie - slapped in Sera and Sherry if Sherry gets killed, either put Eden, Lolonee, Gloria - same goes for the middle, put any of my 3 gurls to stop SkullGreymon

all I can do is pray to Aigis LOL