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French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 03, 2012 9:26 am
by Angel97430
I'm french,so I play to Harvest Moon in French.I recently bought the game and I saw the names ,someof them are really strange !
Angelo > Guy
Dirk=Dirk
Ivan > Ulysse (I hate that)
Llyod > Roy
Amir > Shmidt
Antoinette > Ange (the french word for angel)
Daisy > Anémone (the same in japanese)
Freya=Fréya
Emiko > Kath (^^)
Sherry > Sophia

Many harvest moon have french names,but not as different as this ones.

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 03, 2012 9:39 am
by Kairi_Heartless
It's the same in Germany: They changed almost all names in Grand Bazaar ('though in SI all names were the same as in English)

Angelo -> Atli
Dirk -> Robin
Ivan -> Juris
Lloyd -> Lawrence
Amir -> Safran
Antoinette -> Angel
Daisy -> Anne-Moni
Freya -> Flair
Emiko -> Kagetsu
Sherry -> Antje

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 03, 2012 11:46 pm
by Lilangel
For this reason I am happy they do not make Finnish versions of these games. The horror of dealing with bachelors named Pentti and Yrjänä, and bachelorettes named Pirjo and Martta.

I guess the original french names sound exotic enough for English gamers, but the German and French localization team just wanted to make the names a bit more familiar.

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 04, 2012 1:15 pm
by chocolatechip
wow, that's really strange 0_0
For some reason I always thought that they kept the names the same in french etc.
It's a good job that the canadian version doesnt have different names from the american one. Or I'd be really confused when I was talking to people on here :P

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 04, 2012 1:59 pm
by Googaboga
I don't know I kinda like those French and German names ':D.

I hope they use some of those for future HM characters.

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 04, 2012 2:13 pm
by chocolatechip
yeah, I didnt mean I didnt like them. I like Guy for Angelo. It seems more like him. Although my uncle's name is Guy and he looks nothing like Angelo XD lol

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 04, 2012 2:18 pm
by Googaboga
I didn't mean to imply you didn't like them :<.

I just wanted to say I liked them even though this topic as about them being strange XD.

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 04, 2012 2:38 pm
by Lilangel
chocolatechip wrote: It's a good job that the canadian version doesnt have different names from the american one. Or I'd be really confused when I was talking to people on here :P
As far as I know, there is no Canadian version. The one they sell in Canada is the North America one.

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 05, 2012 3:04 am
by Guest
I have the game in Italian ^^
The village's name is Ventosa (Windy in English ,I think) and the villagers names are:
ITA-ENG
Yuri-Ivan
Dirk-Dirk
Loy-Lloyd
Agi-Angelo (I wonder why they didn't kept Angelo :?)
Sheila-Sherry
Angie-Antoinette
Freia-Freya
Anemone-Daisy
Felix-Felix
Erik-Claude
Stewart-Stuart
Sonia-Ethel
Mery-Joan
Mina-Marian
Wilber-Wilbur
Cleo-Claire
Kevin-Kevin
Aizack-Isaac
Nerina-Nellie
Shelly-Cindy
Lumy-Lauren
Mucho-Raul
Lucho-Diego
Fucho-Enrique
I personally prefer the English name's though :)

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 05, 2012 4:45 am
by Lilangel
I had to chuckle at the Mucho Lucho Fucho trio :lol: Are they some kind of stereotype names in Italian? Because the English counterparts are certainly Mexican/Spanish stereotype names.

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 05, 2012 1:02 pm
by chocolatechip
Lilangel wrote:
chocolatechip wrote: It's a good job that the canadian version doesnt have different names from the american one. Or I'd be really confused when I was talking to people on here :P
As far as I know, there is no Canadian version. The one they sell in Canada is the North America one.
well, my copy is canadian. That's why it takes a few weeks more to come out in canada than america.
My game's instruction manual has half in french, and although the actual game has USA on it, I know my SI game has CAN at the end.
But anyway, it doesnt matter. I was just pointing out that it would be strange, that's all :)

@googaboga: I know :) I like the different names too. Especially the ucho brothers ones XD

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 05, 2012 11:39 pm
by Cherry Blossom
These names are weird...
But Ivan → Ulysse?
Lolwut?

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 07, 2012 7:22 am
by lmcarl
Where do they get names relating to angels for Antoinette? Honestly, I thought it was a frenchy enough name.

Re: French names are stranges ...

Posted: Jan 08, 2012 3:26 am
by Angel97430
Yes,because Marie-Antoinette was a french queen.But I think the new name is good for her.
I really don't like Ulysse and Kath,it's not a japenese name and looks to Kathy.