Talk:Bell Tower: Difference between revisions

:::The reason that they used katakana instead of hiragana for suzu, when "no tou" (のとう) is in hiragana, is beyond me. Whatever the case, it was made ''clear'' in Crystal that suzu was meant as "bell", considering the Clear Bell uses the katakana suzu rather than the hiragana one. And with the Tidal Bell and Bellchime Trail in HGSS, they could not translate it any other way and have it make sense anymore. Sure, they could've called Bellchime Trail the Tinfoil Path, but... no. '''[[User:TTEchidna|<span style="color:#FF0000">''TTE''</span>]][[User talk:TTEchidna|chidna]]''' 19:47, 4 April 2010 (UTC)

::::Actually, I believe the Japanese developers intended the tower's name to be Tin Tower, but wanted the "Tin" part to be also a pun on the word "Bell". I mean, "Tin Tower" makes more sense when you consider that the other tower's original name was "Brass Tower". Moreover, I always thought that the metals the towers were made of were specifically chosen so that they would reference the version names: tin is silver colored, so it could be a reference to Pokémon Silver (or the Pokémon that used to rest in the opposite tower, Lugia, which is Silver's mascot); whereas brass looks somewhat golden, so it works as a reference to Pokémon Gold (or the Pokémon that used to rest in the opposite tower, Ho-oh, which is Gold's mascot). NoA probably changed the tower's name to Bell Tower because the pun didn't work in English, and/or because they thought that the name sounded too close to "Twin Towers". - [[User:Ericss|Ericss]] 16:05, 22 March 2012 (UTC)