Phantasy Star: Fringes of Algo

by **Thoul** » Thu Jul 31, '08, 8:20 am

This enemy from Kain's Text Adventure has the unfortunate status of being the Phantasy Star character with the most unoriginal name ever. His name is "Man." That's right, he doesn't even have a proper name, he's just "Man." When Sue becomes a playable character in the game to rescue Kain, she must defeat Man to obtain an item that is needed to free Kain.

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by **newsblade** » Thu Jul 31, '08, 9:23 am

If they were not inspired they could simply name him "Guy" (like Final Fight's character)... or maybe the PSII text translators fans should only have Romanized his name (instead of literarily translate it) to "Jin" or something like that.

by **Thoul** » Thu Jul 31, '08, 12:51 pm

Just about anything is better than "Man." Romanizing to Jin would have made sense. This guy has a buddy named Nezumi, so Jin would help build a feel of the gang members having Japanese sounding names.