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A great deal of research was done on Early Modern English to achieve this goal. The character of Cyan has been rewritten most extensively of all, in order to present a consistent and believable representation of archaic speech. But insofar as it can be done, this project aims to represent the intentions of the game’s designers as closely as possible, while sounding as though the text had originated in English in the first place. Given its status as a popular and well-established game, and the necessary compromises involved in translating a complex work of art between two starkly different languages and cultures, it would be somewhat misleading to claim that any one translation of the script for Final Fantasy VI could be considered completely definitive in every respect. Some of the memorable ‘flavor text’ from the SNES version has been retained, but only in cases where the meaning of the story was unaffected by the difference in wording. The goal of this rewrite is to strip away the confusion that has surrounded the translation of this game, yielding a version that is faithful to the meaning of the Japanese script in all of its story and character details.

The initial SNES release had a great many translation errors, and while later versions have sought to correct these problems, they often introduced new inaccuracies and other oddities into the text. The game’s dialog has been extensively rewritten in order to accurately convey the meaning of the original Japanese, with particular emphasis placed on being readable and natural in English. This is a large-scale rewrite of the script for Final Fantasy VI, heavily based on the live translation stream featured on the Legends of Localization website.