Talk:The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past & Four Swords

Dialogue changes
About the dialogue changes in the GBA version, to my knowledge they were done in order to be more accurate to the Japanese version. This is noted elsewhere in this article (and in the ALttP article) and I think this is what the intro should say. I haven't checked myself, but I have seen others stating in ZU that the Japanese text remained the same. Zeldafan1982 00:37, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * Yes, that comment was from when the section was on the ALttP page, but you're right, it was mainly just correcting it. However, a couple of the changes, namely the change from Wise Men to Sages do seem to be intended to connect better with OoT. It should be noted they did fail to correct certain other things, like the Sanctuary being a church, the Palaces being temples, and the Sage being a priest in the Japanese version, so it's not like they completely re-translated the whole game. They were picky with their corrections. I will adjust the opening shortly though. 02:20, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * It seems that NOA followed their old policy in regards to religious references. About the sages, the reason I am a bit hesitant to accept that they changed the name to fit better the timeline, is that they were named Seven Sages in the SNES version. It really depends on the instructions the translators had. It's just a bit speculative (although not impossible) to say that this change was for the timeline. Here's a relevant quote, taken from here:
 * "TSA Camp Hyrule: A Link to the Past sufferred a bunch of changes from it's Japanese counterpart, Triforce of the Gods. One example is the Japanese manual says the Master Sword was forged before the Imprisoning War, where in the US version it says during the Imprisoning War. Which version is usually more accurate for the games and manuals and why are such big discrepancies made?
 * Bill Trinen: Uh-oh! Zelda fanatic on the loose! We actually went back and introduced some consistencies to the LttP text on Game Boy Advance. The question about the Master Sword is a tough one. Legends are things that are passed down over time. In the telling, certain details tend to... change." Zeldafan1982 22:46, 11 February 2013 (UTC)
 * That's a good quote, it shows that the changes were really to make it more consistent with the Japanese, I suppose. You're probably right that it's not a good idea to assume... but Wise Men was not really an incorrect term. In the depictions of them they do appear to be old men, and it turns out in Hyrule Historia they are not the same Sages after all, so it is curious that they specifically chose that name over other things to change. However, given that the timeline has revealed them to probably be an entirely different bunch of sages altogether it really makes no sense to keep this speculative comment anyway. 23:22, 11 February 2013 (UTC)