Talk:Brilliant Lance

Quick fact check
Brilliant Lance (ブリリアントランス) and Holy Lance (ホーリーランス) are two different and technically unrelated spells. Granted, both of them appear to be rather similar in effect, but they are still to be considered separate artes/eres.

Another example of this similarity in other games can be observed within the Destiny universe alone - in Tales of Destiny 2, Judas uses Air Pressure (エアプレッシャー), while Leon Magnus, in his most recent incarnation in the Tales of Destiny remake, uses the spell Add Pressure (アドプレッシャー). Both spells look strikingly similar, but they are named differently in both Japanese and in English localization, leading to the conclusion that they are separate attacks. It can be said that both spells might be derived from Chaltier's spell Stone Press (プレス), or that they are part of a chain of spell evolution within game development. Any assumption about the connections of these three spells is mere conjecture, however.

In the case of Holy Lance and Brilliant Lance, it may be important to note that Brilliant Lance is an exclusive spell to Tales of Legendia, while Holy Lance appears in several games before and after Legendia. I don't think this is a major issue, but it is better not to allow the article say that the spell names are translation discrepancies between the games, since this is not true.

Judgment and God's Breath, however, this is one of the worst localization errors Namco Hometek has ever created (and thankfully corrected in RadiMai), and I will discuss that shortly on the talk page for God's Breath.

Mayu Miyuki 01:21, 28 October 2008 (UTC)