The manual lies

leaf · 31, December, 2010, 01:20:03 AM

So, when I first got the game, I decided to glance through the manual to see if there was anything that changed that I should be aware of before playing. I saw the weapon unleashes thing which I instantly thought was cool, but another thing I noticed was that it said that djinn are set back randomly after performing a summon. Wait... what? Random? Why would they do that, when they already had a great system in the first two games? Well, that prompted me to do some testing once I got a couple djinn. As it turns out, djinn work the same as they always have: whichever djinn are placed on standby first are the ones that are used in the summon and come out of recovery first. If using the standby all function, djinn are placed in standby from left to right (top to bottom in GS1+2), and then in order of the characters. I dunno if they did it on purpose, or if the person writing the manual just couldn't tell the difference, but it's pretty bad to get something like that wrong.

Since I guess this isn't much of a topic on its own, you could use this thread to talk about all the little stuff they got wrong in the game, or official material related to the game (e.g. the manual that comes with it). Like, I know I saw some typos in the game, too, but I can't remember what they were atm.

Awec · 31, December, 2010, 04:06:16 AM

I haven't noticed any typos in my game... Odd.
I'll have to check more closely on next playthrough.

Frog · 31, December, 2010, 04:43:27 AM

Other than "Blados used an herb." I didn't notice any typo's in the game...

Rolina · 31, December, 2010, 09:27:37 AM

Yeah, the US manual is HORRIBLE. Get the players guide, if nothing else so that you actually have a map.

leaf · 01, January, 2011, 02:07:03 PM

Quote from: Frog on 31, December, 2010, 04:43:27 AM
Other than "Blados used an herb." I didn't notice any typo's in the game...

Nah, I'm pretty sure that's intentional. I thought it was a little weird at first, since sometimes the unimportant items are capitalized and sometimes they're not, but it seems the convention they use is whenever the item name is used standalone, it's capitalized, and otherwise it's lowercase, which actually makes quite a bit of sense. They also changed it to say "I'll give you Themis' Axe" instead of "I'll give you a Themis' Axe." Anyway, I'll have to note down the typos I find when I go back through on hard mode.

Charon · 01, January, 2011, 03:22:01 PM

At least they finally managed to get the names of the djinn right this time. >_>

ChrisButton · 02, January, 2011, 09:00:18 AM

Quote from: Charon the Ferryman on 01, January, 2011, 03:22:01 PM
At least they finally managed to get the names of the djinn right this time. >_>

If you don't mind me asking, which names weren't right?

Charon · 02, January, 2011, 11:33:26 AM

In the Lost Age manual, they said there were mars djinn named "Axel", "Guts" "Chili" and "Turbo". Ouch.

And I'm pretty sure in the original game's manual they had a bunch of mistakes on the djinn names...

EDIT: "Burn" the Mars djinn, several psynergy names incorrect...

ChrisButton · 02, January, 2011, 08:47:18 PM

Oh man, LOL. When I was a child I never really read game booklets, I just liked to skip through the pages looking
for character portraits and stuff. That explains why my attention wasn't so close to detail. Good find!

Aile~♥ · 03, January, 2011, 12:36:22 PM

But there is a Mars Djinni named Chili! In Dark Dawn, anyway. XP

Charon · 03, January, 2011, 12:59:19 PM

Remember when manuals had "notes" pages? Like, what was up with that? Any game that required you to write notes was just stupid XD

I guess it'd be useful for the Otka Caves though o.o

ChrisButton · 03, January, 2011, 07:34:54 PM

I don't like to write in my game booklets, but I suppose if I had to, I would write djinn that I've encountered
and cannot reach until later in the game when I can come back with a power so I don't forget. Or maybe sketch
a little map or something. Still, I wouldn't do that - I have paper. ^-^

leaf · 06, January, 2011, 10:53:22 PM

Found another error. And this time, I remembered to note it down! At one point, if you try to leave belinsk, you're asked a yes/no question. You can't leave either way, but they switched the answers!

And seconding the "notes" pages being utterly worthless.

MaxiPower · 11, February, 2011, 09:32:05 PM

Quote from: Frog on 31, December, 2010, 04:43:27 AM
Other than "Blados used an herb." I didn't notice any typo's in the game...

That's not a typo. When a word has a silent starting letter an can be used

Herb is in some places pronounced "erb"

just like saying its been an hour since I had a shower or something... that rule goes out the window

Salanewt · 11, February, 2011, 09:53:21 PM

Essentially. Anyway, I have noticed that they sometimes have errors when using apostrophes or for words that sound like they require double letters.

Notes are definitely useless. That could change if a game does not offer a map as you play, but one could just slip a piece of paper into their manual if necessary.

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