Fantina?

[magpie]

Alright, so Fantina has a distinctly (and stereotypically) French accent in her English text. This got me thinking. I own a Japanese copy of Diamond but I can't read a lick of Japanese.

So, how did they represent Fantina's "accent" in the Japanese text?

 

[legendary pkm master]

i dno wut u mean but her name is unique
anyways
where is she?
i cant find her i want to battle her in her gym and get my third badge

 

[magpie]

i dno wut u mean but her name is unique
anyways
where is she?
i cant find her i want to battle her in her gym and get my third badge

She's actually the FIFTH gym you'll challenge.

 

[legendary pkm master]

ooo thanks man
whats the next town with the 3rd gym?

 

[EspeonFTW]

I do believe it is Veilstone. Be warned, as you have to pass through a maze like area, and is difficult if you don't have high level pokemon.

 

[[Paper Snow]]

I was wondering that, too. I think in the Japanese version, she might have an english accent, since her name is "Merissa". Though that's completely just an educated guess. o 3o

 

[Zephray]

When translating games into English, they sometimes give characters accents for no reason whatsoever... That is the case with this. I played through the scenario you described on the Japanese Pearl version, and there's no accent to her Japanese. It was merely Pokemon USA making the personality more entertaining.

 

[FracOMac]

i like the german guy more

 

[EmberStar the Blaziken]

I didn't notice that much, she is still an easy leader. Just get a pokemon with Crunch.

 

[Leopiz]

I didn't notice that much, she is still an easy leader. Just get a pokemon with Crunch.

Aww, and I liked her so much! *Cries*

*Gives Fantina Dusknoir and Giratina*

Anyways, I don't own the game, but I think it's kinda nice she has an accent. I dunno why.

 

[hiou2]

could somone give an example of her french accent, like text or something.

 

[Ophie]

It's mostly that she speaks through weird sentence structure, like putting adjectives after nouns and placing subjects in the middle of sentences when they should be at the front (even though French grammar says that the subject should be at the front). She also mentions before you fight her that she just recently immigrated to Sinnoh from a faraway place and is still learning the laws of the land.

I didn't realize she was supposed to be French until after I had beaten her; I just assumed they wanted to put a gypsy persona on her.