{"id":2538,"date":"2011-03-31T22:23:15","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T21:23:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=2538"},"modified":"2020-10-11T21:08:11","modified_gmt":"2020-10-11T20:08:11","slug":"mikan-watch-46-ar-tonelico-qoga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/?p=2538","title":{"rendered":"Mikan Watch #46: Ar Tonelico Qoga"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOr merely Ar Tonelico 3 as it was known in Japan. I’m not really sure what NISA thought they were achieving by making such a nerdy game even more unfriendly looking for newbies by including a Hymnos word in the title. Hymnos is the games in-universe language – Qoga, as it happens, means something to the effect of “Final” – so it’s kind of like if they named the Star Trek movies in Klingon.<\/p>\n

Except kind of not, since Ar Tonelico isn’t exactly an English name in the first place. Oh, well, I suppose the whole stripping mechanic to the battles is off-putting enough for most anyway.<\/p>\n

To get back to the point, though, that Mikan Box is in the Bistro in Eternus Shaft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Or merely Ar Tonelico 3 as it was known in Japan. I’m not really sure what NISA thought they were achieving by making such a nerdy game even more unfriendly looking for newbies by including a Hymnos word in the title. Hymnos is the games in-universe language – Qoga, as it happens, means something to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gaming","category-mikan-watch"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2538"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2541,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2538\/revisions\/2541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.beta-waffle.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}