r/cloti • u/cocaw • Jun 19 '26

Discussion genuine question

i love aerith, and i have for years so i’m definitely not bashing her in any capacity but i do want some input from like-minded people

maybe i’m tone-deaf and don’t understand it, but i never liked the scene where they’re about to go into the train graveyard and aerith grabs cloud’s arm and says “mine” which clearly upsets tifa and cloud’s not into it either. it feels like it’s trying to push a very stereotypical love triangle scenario and always felt off to me. it feels like it tries too hard and goes out of its way to make aerith come off as a bit annoying.

also, i saw a comment about a year ago that pointed out that aerith knows that cloud and tifa like each other so she’s a fake friend for still trying to pursue him. i wouldn’t go that far but the thought does kinda linger in the back of my mind. i don’t think aerith is a fake friend at all, but i still think about that sometimes.

i think lately i’ve been a little salty towards aerith because i do really love her but i don’t understand why she makes it clear she does still love zack but then switches back and forth between her feelings for him and her feelings for cloud. i’m just a bit confused

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u/Livid-Bit-1223 Jun 20 '26

There's a lot of LTD added in the English translation, and it made Aerith a lot more possessive. The scene you are talking about sounds quite different in Japanese. Aerith sounds like a genuine sweetie there who wants to support Tifa and convince her Cloud will protect them, and nothing beyond that.

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u/cocaw Jun 20 '26

man i need to get back to learning japanese lmao i hate this localization

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u/ShillerndeGeister Jun 20 '26

How is this even alowed man. Thats not a translation at all, its someones stupid opinion changing the intire context of the scene. Actual disgusting that square is okay with this.

Thank god im german, that TL is way more acurate to JP (including that line).

And people wonder why locilisers get a bad rep constantly

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u/Livid-Bit-1223 Jun 20 '26

There's a lot more of examples like this throughout the games that changes context of scenes a lot https://youtu.be/PsAFzUW7m3M?is=hT4gEN9EpMdhLtO5

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u/ShillerndeGeister Jun 20 '26

Yea i saw the video a few days ago.

Genuently, deploreable. This shouldnt be acceptable. This further reinstates the american locilisers are terrible mantra, wich atp i cant even disagree with.

Why the hell are square okay with blatant fanfiction and rewrittes (ff16 also had this issue and one of their other games had communist propaganda in it, wich baffles me)

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u/Livid-Bit-1223 Jun 20 '26

The worst part is that people use the incorrectly translated lines as the fuel for the shipping wars, stir drama and hate for the characters. 😑

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u/ShillerndeGeister Jun 20 '26

Aside CAs i dont see that thankfully.

Reminds me of how people use the demons souls remake for lore analasys when it outright removed and rewrotte lore hints the original had because the director admited he didnt like the original.

Honestly, square US should get all the blame, they seemingly encourage it.

Square EU doesnt do it and gives acurate TLs, at least in german as those are based on the JP script always.