FF12; English Idiots!

March 5, 2008, 6:57 PM

So like . . . there are a few words in Final Fantasy XII that are misspelled/changed. Heres a list of them:

Manufacted - Manufactured*
Magick - Magic*
Technick - Technique*

And there are a few others. Does this annoy you? It doesn't annoy me. In fatc, I like it. I think it's interesting even if it's silly. Anyone have a theory or KNOWS why they did this? There has to be a reason . . .

March 5, 2008, 7:00 PM

haha, yeah, it's funny how they use Magick! Sometimes the subtitles aren't the same as what they say too.

March 5, 2008, 7:02 PM

I agree with the first one perhaps. The last two are deliberately spelled that way I presume.

I think they used unique spelling to add to the in-game culture and atmosphere, but that's just me.

In either case, Final Fantasy is a pretty big budget series and so I'm sure they wouldn't miss too many genuine mistakes before they published it, without there being a good reason for them.

However, you do still come across a few, especially in the earlier games. FFVII has some real classics

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March 5, 2008, 7:04 PM

I think these are just game-unique words, most games have them if you look closely. I wouldn't say they were typos or spelling errors considering the voice-overs.

March 5, 2008, 7:04 PM

I like youre optomism, net drone
I definatly agree with you a lot!

March 5, 2008, 7:13 PM

I really doubt that those three words were "mis-spelled." For manufacted, I really can't offer an answer. The last two are intentionally spelled as such. Magick actually is a real word, while I'd imagine Technick is spelled similarly in order to keep some kind of consistency.

While I'm only slipping in some possibilities, I really don't think that they're mis-spelled words.

March 5, 2008, 7:15 PM

Well I dont think they were misspelled either . . .
A company like Square Enix wouldnt have let that slip
Im just saying according to THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY
they are misspelled hahaha

March 5, 2008, 7:18 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by KourtneyVT09

Well I dont think they were misspelled either . . .
A company like Square Enix wouldnt have let that slip
Im just saying according to THE ENGLISH DICTIONARY
they are misspelled hahaha

They do, originally, come from Japan, though.

March 6, 2008, 2:13 AM

Magick and technik would be archaisms.
they made 1 mistake with manufactured, which is pretty good compared to FFVII

March 6, 2008, 2:25 AM

Personally, I can not stand when magic is spelled "magick". I've seen it in several other stories and it annoys me everytime I read it because the work just looks spelled wrong. And in the earlier FF games it was spelled "magic" so why couldn't the same have been done for XII?

And yeah, Tecnik is annoying too, though I do not see it as much as magick