#sf2 sheela

[claire-starsword]

Sheela always gave me the impression of being the oldest or at least oldest-sounding woman in this team, but paying attention, she and Sarah are the two members with the highest voices actually, on par with most young girl NPCs. Taya, Janet and May have a slightly deeper voice on par with the adult woman NPCs (I think May's has a slight difference but I can't confirm due to the sudden storm that decide to boom just now).

Meanwhile Karna has a noticeable deeper voice that's on par with Eric, Peter, and other male characters. So that's a peculiar fact.

[starswordartblog]

Finally. Sheela’s og design is so so important to me, it has been an inspiration to me for cool female warrior design for over a decade, and in particular it was a big influence on Verona’s design. That’s right fellas, even before i was on this full-on shining force obsession it was already haunting my art in some way. Anyway i have always been disappointed that in game art didn’t reflect the actual design, but no more. I win.

[tisbore]

Sorry.. more SF2 stuff.. lol. I cheated and changed Sheela to Sarah.

[claire-starsword]

Organizing my thoughts and observations on the Shining Force II localization at Neocities, and it's better to get the worse out of the way first, so here's a retranslation of the meeting with Sheela. You know there's gonna be some garbage in there.

(It's Astral. The garbage is always Astral)

[claire-starsword]

“Of course this was all a dream, or did you really think your friends were assholes that would cheer for a forced marriage between you and a comatose girl? You defeated Zeon with acrobatics stunts so zany you banged your head in the ceiling. Chester carried you back. The princess did suggest a bit too eagerly you needed cpr, but Sheela told her that’s not how it works, at all. Maybe she does have a thing for you. You gonna have to deal with that, but with her awake, and first let’s actually care for her reunion with her father you know, the guy who actually desperately missed her all this time. They’ll be finally okay. Everyone is okay and waiting for you. But honestly, haven’t you done enough for a while? Get some more goddamn rest for now.”

[claire-starsword]

aw this is cool tho, the game sadly doesn’t give much for Sheela but I guess this implies she understood Lemon wasn’t responsible for Red Baron’s actions.

actually given that Lemon’s sprite doesn’t look any difference as Red Baron and he was an important guy I feel people would have recognized him, and the nickname was a deliberate separation between “nice captain dude we once knew” and “murderous rampaging monster”. Not that they knew he was possessed, but they wanted to believe that at least.