Eternal Sonata ending: What the fuck was that?

[TVC15]

Just about no fucking clue what the fuck happened there.  It doesn't help that I was playing in Japanese, and good ol' 8-4 only subtitled like a quarter of the ending, leaving a shitton of the Japanese dialogue untranslated.  Good job, 8-4!

Also it was long, and what I was able to understand was really dumb. There were some good graphics though.  On a scale of dumbness, the ending was decidedly very animu.

But good job, Tri-Crescendo.  Great game, overall.  I will probably do the Encore next year in order to get the second playthrough achievements.

[Ichirou]

lol, 8-4. That's john tv's company, isn't it?

[Van Cruncheon]

wait, it's untranslated? th' fuck!

[Mondain]

yeah, I noticed that too, the

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characters talk while the credits roll and none of the japanese dialogue is subtitled at all

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what happens is still pretty clear, me thinks:

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Chopin fights the other characters to win over his dream and fails, Polka is about to die, Chopin has a change of heart and uses his powers to let her live on, he dies in real life and continues to live in his dream world with the others, Allegretto and Polka are reunited, hug and confess their feelings, and lastly, while leaving the real world, Chopin's ghost plays one of his airs as a farewell to George Sand (I think) who was keeping him company and looking over him in his death bed

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the one thing I don't understand is

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the role of Polka's mother in all this

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but yeah overall, this game's plot is an incoherent mess

[TVC15]

I dunno, I thought the plot was okay except for the beginning and ending. . .which are the same part, really.

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Also, what about the fortune teller lady that knew Polka would draw a bad fortune?  Who the fuck was that supposed to be?

I enjoyed the game a lot, story included, but it kind of lost focus somewhere along the line, and I wasn't sure who was really supposed to be the main character.  It didn't have an ensemble cast feeling; it felt like the focus rapidly shifted between several chararacters in a somewhat unfocused way.

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[Smooth Groove]

ha ha, I can't wait for the sequel that stars Beethoven.  Don't know why they called this game Eternal Sonata, Chopin was more famous for his Nocturnes anyway.

[demi]

GREAT GAME OVERALL!?

NO NO NO NO NO NO

[Ichirou]

Dude, don't excuse 8-4's shitty translation work just 'cuz you've hung out with some of the people there.

[Ichirou]

Perhaps someone should translate YOU - "Pillock"?

lulz

8-4 blows, I guess.

[Debaser]

Dude, 8-4 is not responsible for compositing and editing the ending movie. That's squarely on Namco/Tri-Crescendo's shoulders, and this is the localization QA staff's fuckup, not 8-4's. I know whereof I speak on this one!

I'm sure 8-4 is as "WTF" about the subtitles not appearing in the movie as everyone else here.

[Ichirou]

Heh.