GFCA-32~3: Castlevania Original Soundtrack

[mrnutz]

Products represented
Castlevania: Lament of Innocence (US), Castlevania ~Lament of Reality~ (Japan)

"Lament of Reality"? I have never heard this and could find no references to it. The game is called simply "Castlevania" in Japan.

[mrnutz]

I went ahead and made the change.

[Cedille]

I think the title of this particular album have been intentionally kept as Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, since, while romanized Japanese titles were used for other Castlevania album, it was assumed that a plain "Castlevania" would just confuse people, aside of a small group that knew lots about the series. I totally understand it if someone objects, for the sake of consistency or something else, but I think we would still benefit from having some discussions on the title order that remained in stable condition for years.

[The Gambler]

Originally Posted by Cedille

I think the title of this particular album have been intentionally kept as Castlevania: Lament of Innocence, since, while romanized Japanese titles were used for other Castlevania album, it was assumed that a plain "Castlevania" would just confuse people

I got that impression too. However, there's no way to circle around that the game's Japanese title is just that. I think that line 4+ in the edit field "other names" is perfect for such a case. This way we have the correct OST name on top but we can still find it if we do a quick search for "Lament".

[layzee]

Speaking of consistency and confusing localised titles, how about:

http://vgmdb.net/album/1072
http://vgmdb.net/album/109

"Tales of Destiny 2" should bring up both in a search result. Or not.

[Hellacia]

What would be really good is if you could search "Tales of Destiny II" and get the "Tales of Eternia" product, which would then show you a link to the Tales of Eternia Original Soundtrack if you were looking for it. But I guess people would still be confused to see results for the Tales of Eternia soundtrack when they're looking for Tales of Destiny II? I dunno.

[Secret Squirrel]

Originally Posted by Hellacia

What would be really good is if you could search "Tales of Destiny II" and get the "Tales of Eternia" product, which would then show you a link to the Tales of Eternia Original Soundtrack if you were looking for it. But I guess people would still be confused to see results for the Tales of Eternia soundtrack when they're looking for Tales of Destiny II? I dunno.

There's a Tales of Destiny II release under Tales of Eternia. I think I could modify the search so that it finds those results too.

[Hellacia]

Now that I think about it, it would be no more confusing than adding alternate titles for soundtracks and having them come up in the results, right?

[layzee]

More similar levels of naming clusterf***s:

JP: Gunbird
EN: Mobile Light Force

JP: Shikigami no Shiro
EN: Mobile Light Force 2