23/03/2009

Funny Bits in Star Ocean 2 (36)

New continent, different dialects, I guess? The most peculiar aspect of the Lacour accent is the absence of interrogatives. Just kidding, I don't think it happens often, but it's funny nonetheless.

All the weapon shops in town (there's four of them) can't sell you weapons because of the tournament: the rule is that entrants need to find a shop that's going to provide them with the necessary equipment for the battles, effectively sponsoring them in hopes of getting more publicity. As Rena would later say, to some people the Tournament of Arms is just a big gimmick to make money; and it seems to work wonders, if we look at the number of people shopping around here. There's even people from the 'cold region'! Where's that, you ask? I don't know myself: there's actually no town on Expel that could be in a cold region, and the only place with snowy peaks is an abandoned island with some ruins on it. There must be very small villages scattered around in that cold region, so small that they don't appear on the map, but it still bothers me that you can't visit there, because of the people you see around Lacour Castle wearing snow caps and such. It also bothers me when I see Rena and Celine's relatively skimpy dresses next to them: either our heroines are stoically enduring the cold, or the snow people must be really suffering the heat.

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