I have been waiting for this moment.
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Now, I shall bring Smashboards despair.
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Except not really. I watched the things that got posted in this thread and wanted so badly to refute claims and spread absolutely murdered expectations, but things... maybe aren't like that. First off, I want to bring up the video description wording again, since it's still floating around here and there.
Google translate is a great tool, but it is not the be all, end all of translation. It struggles with syntax, and this is especially true for Japanese, where the construction of a basic sentence is ass on head compared to English. Where English typically follows subject-verb-object, Japanese follows subject-object-verb, that is to say, in English where the subject does to the object, in Japanese the subject to the object does.
Google does an ok job of keeping this in mind, but sometimes, stuff gets a little funky. Ultimately, this is splitting hairs, but look what you get when you just start separating the kanji out line by line and putting them back together piece by piece:
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(the kanji right after 9 is a "counter" and right before is the equivalent to "number" abbreviated as "No.". It is fair to call that kanji the equivalent to superscript "th" or "nd" or "st", as in 4th, 2nd or 1st.)
I remember that it was mentioned that in Steve's video, it said the same except replace 8 with 9, and in that situation, they are not calling Steve 8 or Sephiroth 9, but instead saying that the 8th/9th additional content will not be announced. Again, this is major splitting hairs as both readings say the same thing, just one of them assumes that they consider Piranha Plant the first "paid additional content", which is likely not the case. Just something I wanted to point out very badly.
I just... happen to remember a time that we were told that Nintendo learned from the Grinch leak, that maybe they ****ed up thinking it was ok to leave Shadow the Hedgehog and Isaac the Venushog to the last minute as assist trophies, and they realized that the fans feel slighted by that. I don't expect much from Nintendo, and I don't think that we're bigger than we are. There's a good chance that all of our wishes have never reached any ears, and they either have no idea how many people they're disappointing, or they're aware that there's just not that many of us... But I just don't think Geno's costume is coming with Sephiroth in 26 hours.
If it means we're getting strung along for another year, so be it. Something is definitely sketchy about the fact that the English twitter has advertised this presentation twice and not mentioned that there will be no additional fighters, the fact that this presentation is at the same time as the last Nintendo direct, and it will air at a reasonable time of day in every region that Nintendo serves.
Something is up and I, of all people, have hope.
Well Jon Nintendolife has been wrong several times before, so there's that~