LogFAQs > #950093358

Cyan is such a bizarre character to think about in hindsight for several reasons, particularly for me since I started playing with the SNES version. First of all, it's still jarring to think that his name is most likely supposed to be pronounced with a hard 'C' (his Japanese name is Cayenne, but that wouldn't fit the letter cap for names). It's also not made as obvious that he's supposed to be this "Eastern foreign land" type character. His archaic samurai-style speech was translated as olde English, which was a valiant attempt to try and localize it but doesn't quite fit the theme (and was only used sporadically in the SNES script anyway), his "Bushido" techniques were called "SwordTech" in the original English translation, and the fact that they're all written in Kanji is also something that just could not be translated well*, and while Doma's music sounds fairly Eastern, graphically it doesn't look that much different from any other castle in the game, which muddles the whole concept behind the style his character is supposed to represent. As a kid, I had never picked up on it.

(* Also, random trivia, but in the Japanese version you could rename Cyan's Bushido skills. But only in Kanji.)

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Okay, I rolled a 14. What's that mean? Hsu
That you're a cheater. This is a 12-sided die. Chan