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Square Enix is publishing SQ chips on September 211. This an 8-bit arranged album which includes music from a number of new and old titles and is the latest in the SQ series. Hit the jump for a list of all the games represented. Read on
In this podcast at 8-4.jp, translator/localization specialist Richard Mark Honeywood discusses the tumult over the edgy Judeo-Christian overtones in Xenogears, especially the name of the final villain.
[They] took every biblical reference they could and tried to twist it. One of the translators was a bit worried about this and was like 'I don't want to have fundamental Christians or other religious groups being upset and blowing up our office.' And I guess in the States, at that time, it was a concern. So I had two translators walk off it and I was stuck there by myself.
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