/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5458554
I can answer these.
>firm overall
It was decided pretty early on that the "shirts" that Mario equips should be renamed to "overalls" as in the Japanese version, as it's one of the things that later RPGs also standardize. It soon became apparent that character limitations was the reason that Ted Woolsey went with a different article of clothing entirely, so it was tentatively compromised as "overall" in that build. I'm actually pretty sure it was already changed back to "overalls" due to CamelCase not being completely eliminated (which was another early goal), along with at least one other thing in that screenshot, although I don't know about the current version.
>silvered steel
That character hardly talks like anyone else in the game, so his dialog was written in a way to hopefully better convey his unique ancient warrior speech style. The phrase "silvered steel" was chosen there since it happened to be an obscure Tolkien reference to mithril, a material also commonly found in the Final Fantasy series, of which this boss is based on. I should clarify that the project is being branded as a relocalization instead of a retranslation because the idea is to resemble a hypothetical rewrite that games like the Final Fantasy and Chrono Trigger ports received, which is clearly not in the cards.