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These are the same devil. Seiten is the Japanese name for a Chinese figure, Wu Kong is contraction of the Chinese. Though there are many Chinese names / epithets for the same character. This is why at digitaldevildb.com we use the most commonly accepted academic name of original dialect pronounceable in English. --[[User:Yksehtniycul|Yksehtniycul]] 01:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC) |
These are the same devil. Seiten is the Japanese name for a Chinese figure, Wu Kong is contraction of the Chinese. Though there are many Chinese names / epithets for the same character. This is why at digitaldevildb.com we use the most commonly accepted academic name of original dialect pronounceable in English. --[[User:Yksehtniycul|Yksehtniycul]] 01:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC) |
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| + | PS: I get that these are listed by game, but the reader should be able to immediately tell that those are the same devil from game to game somehow. Especially the jump from Japanese to English (Atlus of America) names on the same page is very jarring (unless you go back translating which is even more misleading) --[[User:Yksehtniycul|Yksehtniycul]] 01:50, 31 July 2009 (UTC) |
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Revision as of 01:50, 31 July 2009
"Fury" vs. Hakaishin
Afaik Fury means something else in the English Devil Summoner games. But anyway, Fury should be a disambiguation (education) page.
Structuring the wiki this way makes it impossible for me to contribute because I don't know anything about the Atlus of America games. Megami Tensei isn't like a game like Final Fantasy. It's set concretely in Tokyo with very Japanese terms, and all of the language and entities referenced within it have a 1:1 relationship to historical/cultural phenomenon. That is, it is not set in a fantasy universe, and it doesn't just draw on mythology etc. for inspiration, it is a rule that everything must have some basis in human history and thought. The only games that have ever broken any of rules are Giten Megaten on occasion and the Last Bible games (at least in terms of setting)
I actually prefer reading the wiki to playing the games, but I can hardly find my way around it much less work on it as is... and I can only imagine how inaccessible it would be if such logic was followed to it's ultimate conclusion. If the key terms are to be ignorant of the games' basis in reality and mythology then what's the point? --Yksehtniycul 01:27, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
Seiten Taisei vs. Wu Kong
These are the same devil. Seiten is the Japanese name for a Chinese figure, Wu Kong is contraction of the Chinese. Though there are many Chinese names / epithets for the same character. This is why at digitaldevildb.com we use the most commonly accepted academic name of original dialect pronounceable in English. --Yksehtniycul 01:37, 31 July 2009 (UTC)
PS: I get that these are listed by game, but the reader should be able to immediately tell that those are the same devil from game to game somehow. Especially the jump from Japanese to English (Atlus of America) names on the same page is very jarring (unless you go back translating which is even more misleading) --Yksehtniycul 01:50, 31 July 2009 (UTC)