Talk:Ristar (Genesis)

Japanese planet names
Curiously enough, it looks like the Japanese planet names also represent the levels' themes... if you fudge the spelling a bit and read them backwards.

The most obvious ones just added an extra 'e' at the end to make them look a bit better: "Onaclove" (volcano) and "Rewope" (power). (And yes, these were the ones that caused me to come up with this theory in the first place.)

"Neer", on the other hand, goes the opposite direction and drops a letter from green.

"Elykiki" is a bit trickier, but if you replace the K's with C's and drop the Y, it too becomes descriptive: icicle.

"Leatow" is even worse, because it's a respelling that only really works with a Japanese accent-- but knowing that "l"/"r" and "aw"/"o" aren't distinguished in Japanese, you can see how that might have been derived from "retaw" (water).

"Neous" is possibly a really garbled version of "dnuos" (sound)? This one's the biggest stretch, but I'm not sure what else it could be.

I can definitely understand why they changed these in the localized version, given that this took me way too much overthinking to figure out. :) Still, it's an interesting thing to notice...

--CodeMan38 (talk) 12:23, 17 February 2014 (EST)