Tales of Phantasia

One gets the feeling that, if Nintendo had released the SNES cart in the States when it came out, that the same problems would have been present. We saw the same thing with FFV; compare its commercial release stateside to the fan-translated one. Why Nintendo isn't as good at altering game content as rabid fan groups I never will understand.

The reason that the game was a GBA release is clear, though; in the minds of the marketing people, there's no room for 2D games on 3D platforms ( I know there are exceptions, but I'm talking generalities). The GBA is, by and large, a 2D platform.

I just wish they'd removed the voice acting entirely. I hated the original Japanese voices, and the American ones, though an improvement because they can be understood, are still pretty crappy. Better to have silence than poorly sampled dialoge any day.

Jam it back in, in the dark.