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Entire Twilight Princess Script Available Online
1up notes, briefly, an enormous present for any dedicated Zelda fan that hasn't been able to work through Twilight Princess yet. The extremely cogent 'Mgoblue201' has uploaded a massive text file to GameFAQs, with the entire script of the game available to read. The author means business: he has jotted down every line of dialogue in the game, including the ones where you as a player try to do something nonsensical, or when you do something out of the ordinary. Mgoblue also offers a good deal of interstitial text to connect the various scenes. Here is some of his work from the very first scene of the game: "FADO: Hey hey, where are you goin' without Epona? Hurry on up an' bring her with you, bud. [Link rushes through the shadowy coat of the forest, which parts ways to let in the path to the springs, where he finds Ilia bathing Epona in the eerie glow of the twilight]" At the end of the document he looks at some of the apparent inconsistencies between the Zelda games, and attempts to make sense of the fractured 'Hero of Time' timeline. If you want to find out how the game ends, or don't understand something you breezed past, Mgoblue has you covered.
How long until someone invokes the DMCA to shut this horrible infringement down? Any guesses?
The author means business: he has jotted down every line of dialogue in the game, including the ones where you as a player try to do something nonsensical
So what does it say about writing down all the dialogue in the game?
Wizard Needs Food, Badly
I realise there is probably a good technical reason why this isn't possible but wouldn't it be a bit easier to download a rip of the game and extract all the text? I know it wouldn't give context but it would greatly reduce typing.
Has anyone else noticed that GameFAQs is blocking the direct link to the file, so you actually have to search for it?
I have downloaded it. If you want, email me at lgrinberg@gmail.com, and I will send you the link to my server.
Where's the script to Final Fantasy VII? I still don't know wtf happened.
That's the sort of grunt work game testers do, forcing every possible case in the game.
So what does it say about writing down all the dialogue in the game?
I just tried it. A mysterious metallic character appears in front of Link, and says:
Hello, there! It looks like you're trying to write down the entire dialogue! Would you like to know more about...
* copyright infringement,
* videogame addiction,
* psychiatric help?
If you want to critique a video game story, or describe what it's saying about the world, or argue some point about the story, you need to reference the source materials.
But the game isn't easily browsable. You can't (yet) tell a video game, "Take me to page 274, I need to see what Cecil said right there."
It makes citations a real problem, too.
The main character Cloud is insane due to radiation exposure, being a SOLDIER and other crap, his girlfriend Aeris is an alien from a tribe that exists to heal the planet due to their Gaia hypothesis magical materia and that's why she has the white materia with Holy. So Aeris gets stabbed by Sephiroth the psycho with the Jehovah, err, Jenovah cells (and any allusion to Revelation is strictly coincidental), and uses the black materia with Meteo err, Meteor now that we can have 6 characters for spell names. You can also thank the mad scientist guy and the decapitated body of the evil alien thing with the cells of evil, and the evil megacorp sucking the planet's energy dry, among others.
In the end, they all gain ridiculous powers and kill off Sephy to a bunch of operatic music using the white materia to stop the black materia and rebalancing the planet's chakra with yin and yang to destroy the evil infecting it and leeching it dry.
In short, it's an environmental morality play saying that humanity is an infection that Gaia is trying to destroy, but that we'll be okay if we all learn to live in harmony with nature by adopting animist religious principles like those native to Japan, instead of trying to dominate the planet and suck out all its coal/oil/gas/nuclear materials, err, I mean materia.
Simple, no? But really, many of the Final Fantasy games have been about the environment and how we have to keep the forces of nature in balance, along with random magical science like incorporating quantum mechanics into the Spirits Within movie, materia as nuclear energy, loads of Gaia hypothesis stuff and various other random references to all sorts of different things.
This makes me sad to be a Michigan student. :(
How many fulltime jobs can one man have?
Clippy is dead.
No, really. He's dead. Honest.
Karma: Chameleon (mostly due to the fact that you come and go).
So if you had the time and inclination, you could cobble together a choose your own adventure version of Zelda, right? You have the dialog trees and narrative progression already. If you combined it with a googlemapsy version of Hyrule, you could have a web 2.0, ajax enabled monstrosity, right there at your fingertips.
come for the naked robots, stay for the zombies
I've always loved the silly (and sometimes crazy) copyright notices that come with FAQs. How many people even read this crap? :]
/\ i. Legal
/ \ / \ standards, and if you rip off it in any form, you will be sent
/ \/ \ to the gallows. No, actually most of this text is taken
(Some "junk characters" were stripped to appease the lameness filter.)
/ \
/______\ This FAQ was fully written by me and submitted to Gamefaqs.com
/ \ / \ under my jurisdiction. Therefore it abides by federal copyright
/ \
-------------- verbatim from the game, so I have no dominion over it in a
litigious sense.
It's much easier to simply read the disk then write a program to extract the data. Since Wii mod chips are coming, at least some people can read them.
"Screw Sun, cross-platform will never work. Let's move on and steal the Java language." - Visual J++ Product Manager
Crickey, has this guy run his comments through a digital thesaurus or something? I read the first few introductory paragraphs, and they contain the most inappropriate words and turns of phrase...doesn't really make me want to read the rest of the doc (I've completed LoZ:TP anyway).
[Happosai]
nothing to see here move along, seriously what is with these completely useless articles on slashdot of late. this has been up on gamefaqs for HOW long now? come on, i expect more sometimes. i'm going back to 4chan, better and faster news
Some person: "Blah blah blah blah" ......
Link:
Another person: "Blah de blah de blah blah"
Link: (gestures)
Some person: "So you must blah de blah blah"
Link: (nods)
Another person: "What do you think about xyz?"
Link: (shrugs)
etc
Wow, I actually know that guy. Through internet frienship only of course, but I've known him since about 2000. That is really weird, I think I'm going to have to go harass him tonight when I get home from work.
Reviewing just the first hour of video games.
And I thought _I_ didn't have a life!
To answer the question on everybody's mind, it took me, on average, between an hour or two a day. But I did not simply supplement that with my internet time. Instead of scouting slashdot or checking out zany youtube videos or keeping up my facebook or myspace, none of which I actually do, I worked on the script. Yes, I do have time for college and sports and 24 and Boston Legal and, believe it or not, other people. No, I am not a mouth breather who has memorized Pi to the 300th digit and gets his kicks out of, blindfolded, being able to tell the difference between a Celeron and a Pentium by licking them. I do not do Rubix cubes in my sleep. I devoted some time so other Zelda fans could finally be able to read the game's dialogue at their leisure. And the response has been decent. I'm getting a lot of sites that want to host the file. So it isn't all bad. But man, everybody wants someone to write the guide, but then that person gets put under the meat grinder when they do it.
Also, there is no dialogue rip from the game that I am aware of. Perhaps I am wrong, but even if there was, it would be an absolute nightmare trying to organize it all. Think nearly 500k worth of dialogue all jumbled up in a completely random order, and for every line I come to in the game, I'd have to find it in the word file and place it in its proper order. Just for my sanity I'd rather do it the way I did it. It also gave me the chance to play the game again and enjoy it. By the end, it was probably about a 50 hour file, which is how long it took me to beat the game the first time.
I was holding off buying a Wii here in Japan because I wouldn't be able to understand the story and dialog. With the English dialog written out, it seems I have a workaround. I wish games had foreign subtitles like on DVDs.