Gamestop just called my house...said Riviera PSP will be in tomorrow. Options

[VGK]

uh....?


What happened to 7/17?

[aerozero]

I love my custom firmware, it kicks the crap out of Sony's official one.

[H. Tsukiyono]

Milllefeuilles!? WTH is that? D:

I think that is "thousand" and "leaf/leaves." I probably should have stuck with French.

I thought "Millefeuilles" was "thousand sheets" in that context. It's a multi-layer puff-pastry type of... well... cake (unless I have my pastries confused). That's probably why they changed it to "Gateau" because that's French for "cake." Both words are just about two syllables, so it's not like there's any real difference in speaking length. The problem might first have been because it's a lot of letters regardless, and GBA screens only have so much text room; then there might have been the slight issue of pronunciation when it came to voice-overs.

Now I really ought to dig up my PSP and go buy a copy before I drive myself nuts trying to do some sort of dissertation on why they changed Cierra's name for Rose when I'm not actually fluent in French. (I'm working on it, but I'm not.)

[aerozero]

They didn't change the name, VGK just posted the Japanese names and English names alongside each other for us to compare.

[H. Tsukiyono]

Er, I meant dub-wise--oh, bah. I totally misphrased that anyway. >.> I'm still stuck on RiviGBA. That's probably why I went off on that whole totally useless tangent. Sorry. ^^;;

[Feral Phoenix]

The actual NAME of the dessert is Millefeuille (NO S ON THE END!); the exact translation is "thousand-sheet"; it's a delicate pastry, like Tsukiyono says. Atlus cannot spell. In addition, it is usually pronounced "meel-fee" (although the picky French pronunciation is "meel-foy", emphasis on the y at the end), so Cierra pronounces it correctly in the Japanese recordings. It's actually a popular name for characters, especially in anime/manga/games where the people's names are food-related. (And yes, they taught us that in French class.)

And I like it a lot better than Gateau, because Gateau is misleading. It's a masculine noun. Rose is assumed to be an "it" until a certain ending of the game, so naming her Millefeuille (which is feminine) can be taken as a reference to her true gender.

...

Yeah, Feral needs to shut up.

[Xel]

I always thought that Gateau was a joke that Atlus did when translating the names. The pronunciation of Gateau is very similar to a portuguese word, "Gato", which means cat.

[Raijinili]

I thought Sting had the "s" at the end.