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claire-starsword · 11 months ago

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Authentic Story of the Shining Force - Saint Fencer Max - Chapter 4

Translation notes:

This is the last boob joke. We're free at last.

Here's the retranslation of every scene with the Spring of Recollection in the game. Overall, her speech here is fairly close to what she says in Waral in-game, with a few details from her final appearance sprinkled in, like her care for Cain. It does misses a few nuances though, like the Legacy being more than just Dark Dragon.

I don't think I've ever seen art of the Spring, but notably, she gets a portrait in the GBA version, and it looks a lot like the manga design, with the slightly wavy hair and especially the blank eyes.

Obviously, the manga rushes through the plot since it's short, thus a lot of places are skipped. I didn't even feel like pointing them out before. However I will point out Waral not being here this time, because Waral happens to not be in the beta map either, and it has very contradicting lore between the ASCII guide and the World Book, meaning it might have not been well developed. Besides, Chapter 5 is very weirdly structured. You get two ship battles that are basically the same, you get to Waral by accident, you advance the plot by going to Ring Reef for no reason and everyone telling you it's off-limits while letting you waltz in anyway, and hardly anything happens in the shrine besides you hearing about the Manual, which is not even a big deal because you get to Rudo by accident later (two ship accidents!! why repeat this plot point!!) and would go to Dragonia anyway to help Bleu. Basically, I obviously can't prove it, but it wouldn't surprise me if the ocean shrine was initially thought off as only a plot scene, and the battles/town added much later for gameplay reasons.

Perhaps worth mentioning, the GBA version also makes a point to mention that Max got lost in the shrine alone, and everyone was worried about him, which does remind me a lot of the ship scene here.

uh oh. i hit image limit for the first time and i don't wanna remove either of these pics. more notes on a reblog later.

#shining series #shining force #saint fencer max #saint fencer max translation #sfm max #sf cain #so. gamers. fans. friends and followers. are we good? are we normal? are we normal about the last pages? i'm not #unfortunately my typesetting does not do it justice but at least i put up a fight #those unending creaking noises mess me up so good #it's just. so good. all of this #why did the gba version wasted time with boring villain epilogues #when it could be giving me the Good Stuff (angst of a long haired anime man)#also is his hair dyed? the eyebrows kinda imply that. i'm not sure i like that but i'm not sure i dislike that either #his hair is so good tho #anyway i could talk about him forever and i will but i gotta talk about the spring too #i really like the sword of light being here. it works aesthetically at least. the mishaela plot is very dumb #i had a whole thing about the sword of light typed but i took it out for later cause it doesn't have much to do with the manga #will probably come though! the three max cain plots are the same basically but there have some difference in the details #that has mashed together in my brain #so i wanna pick that apart at some point #anyway back to the mango. i dearly miss the nuance about the legacy even though it took me a while to notice it in the game #between this and the pseudo-magic introduction the manga does suck a bit at portraying the ancients #but i like how despite the weird pacing of the manga this part kinda flows better #with the spring's revelations all here in the middle #instead of popping in manarina like 'yeah boy you're hero of fate wait three chapter until we elaborate on that though'#naturally the game has good battle content to keep you happy through it #but the manarina scene feels kinda useless to me #anyway i probably had more to say about this while translating but i'm very sleepy #i will never shut up about this chapter though. mark my words

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