it was obviously meant as a tie-in with FFXII but suffered from being about twice as pretentious as FFXII.
yeah that pretty much. if they had just done a straight retranslation with the goal of being more accurate or readable I probably would've liked it!
Anyone who thinks the original translation is better than the PSP one has got some serious nostalgia blinders on them.
or hates fake old english? or likes humorously bad dialogue? or thinks that purposefully obscuring the language is a bad choice? or...