05-25-2025, 09:06 PM
i see what you mean about the chinese VA - that was butter smooth and while i understood nothing natively, that was very well voiced indeed. the cadence! the little hesitations! eeeee.
the plot made 100% more sense in the subtitles in that video than it did with whoever is in charge of the english localisation, i mean, its still fairly thin but it hung together better and i was able to follow along with the internal logic better, whereas in english there were gaps of understanding you just had to take on faith and leap across. why is it that fan content is so often superior to the official product, i wonder. particularly in localization efforts.
and yes, Caleb could have singled her out in the crowd but maybe it was just one of those gap problems i was having. all the leadup to that point had a "ship" traitor and the "explosion" traitor and then suddenly i get hauled out of the rank and file with no indication of why. like, if they'd had a sentence in there where Caleb half-paused walking up, eyes raking over the gathered forces, some acknowledgement that i might have been spotted? sorry, my brain does get hung up on things that aren't foreshadowed well or at all. i am, perhaps, starting to get greedy for better writing :P
Well, if you push aside all the very legitimate reasons he couldn't contact us....
it has to be something so obvious it ought to be a fish slapped to my face. the house blows up out of nowhere, taking my brother and grandmother to an early grave. Caleb, unbeknownst to me, is NOT dead and wakes up "somewhere else" - and doesn't immediately try to get ahold of me. rational me, after thinking about it, figures out that Caleb likely woke up under sedation and/or restraints and was immediately pressed into service after brainwashing or whatever, but THIS Colonel Caleb has a lousy excuse of "well, i just don't remember what happened" and skips over really ANY sort of explanation, and girlfriend just appears to accept it. it's like Rafayel wearing a domino mask as a disguise - its so inadequate as to be nose-pinch worthy.
i guess if they had her introspect that maybe there's something going on that's more than meets the eye and decides not to pursue it right then and there, that'd be something. like, she HAS to know something ain't right, right? the Caleb she knows would have pulled out his IV's and crawled to get to phone to check on her from his recovery bed and the fact that he didn't should be this big, jarring moment and its just a souffle pulled too soon from the oven.
/i am so critical of a plot of an otome game, its awesome
PS: "Wrong, the N109 was in me." - bwahahah! oh god. that made me grin out loud, PERFECTION
the plot made 100% more sense in the subtitles in that video than it did with whoever is in charge of the english localisation, i mean, its still fairly thin but it hung together better and i was able to follow along with the internal logic better, whereas in english there were gaps of understanding you just had to take on faith and leap across. why is it that fan content is so often superior to the official product, i wonder. particularly in localization efforts.
and yes, Caleb could have singled her out in the crowd but maybe it was just one of those gap problems i was having. all the leadup to that point had a "ship" traitor and the "explosion" traitor and then suddenly i get hauled out of the rank and file with no indication of why. like, if they'd had a sentence in there where Caleb half-paused walking up, eyes raking over the gathered forces, some acknowledgement that i might have been spotted? sorry, my brain does get hung up on things that aren't foreshadowed well or at all. i am, perhaps, starting to get greedy for better writing :P
Well, if you push aside all the very legitimate reasons he couldn't contact us....
it has to be something so obvious it ought to be a fish slapped to my face. the house blows up out of nowhere, taking my brother and grandmother to an early grave. Caleb, unbeknownst to me, is NOT dead and wakes up "somewhere else" - and doesn't immediately try to get ahold of me. rational me, after thinking about it, figures out that Caleb likely woke up under sedation and/or restraints and was immediately pressed into service after brainwashing or whatever, but THIS Colonel Caleb has a lousy excuse of "well, i just don't remember what happened" and skips over really ANY sort of explanation, and girlfriend just appears to accept it. it's like Rafayel wearing a domino mask as a disguise - its so inadequate as to be nose-pinch worthy.
i guess if they had her introspect that maybe there's something going on that's more than meets the eye and decides not to pursue it right then and there, that'd be something. like, she HAS to know something ain't right, right? the Caleb she knows would have pulled out his IV's and crawled to get to phone to check on her from his recovery bed and the fact that he didn't should be this big, jarring moment and its just a souffle pulled too soon from the oven.
/i am so critical of a plot of an otome game, its awesome
PS: "Wrong, the N109 was in me." - bwahahah! oh god. that made me grin out loud, PERFECTION
