Talk:Phantasy Star II: Kinds's Adventure

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BetacommandBot (talk) 04:55, 18 February 2008 (UTC)

Kain versus Kinds
I think that the name of the character in this article should be listed as "Kain" for several reasons. The first is that since this is the English language Wikipedia, the English name of the character should be used - as discussed and decided here.

Now while this game was never officially translated into English, leaving the romanization somewhat open, a precedent had already been set in Phantasy Star II. For the sake of consistency - and indeed I had to look at the article to even understand who "Kinds" was, it makes more sense for the name to be "Kain".

Third, the name "Kinds" is just plain awkward. Especially in the possessive "Kinds's". It looks and sounds terrible as a name. Even "Kainz" (so as not to discount the "zu" at the end of the Japanese name) would be preferable. And while I'm putting it all out there, "Kinds" even has the wrong connotation for the character. Granted the name has nothing to do with its English connotation, but it still carries one all the same. Kain is a machine-wrecking nutjob. He's not "kind" and shouldn't be "Kinds" either. I'll leave it alone for now, pending some argument, but after a few days I'm going to make the change. Godheval (talk) 15:02, 23 July 2008 (UTC)