I know it feels like I’m going on and on, but this is also and important point. Think of these three:
“I hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate hate HATE YOU!”
“YOU SPOONY BARD!”
“I, Garldand, will knock you all down”
Number one is one of those cases where the change gets it right. The original was a very boring and plain equivalent. This one is memorable and fits the character like a glove.
The other two are not. They are famous, loved lines. You love them, I love them, we all love them, so much that Squeenix is keeping them and even cracking jokes about them in other games. They are nowhere even remotely near good localizations. We love them because we read them when we were little, and looking back, they are just so silly we can’t help but laugh. We love them because we are influenced by nostalgia, but from the point of view of someone going through a game the first time around, they make no sense. How many of you knew a word as archaic and unused as “spoony” back then? How many know what the word means even now?
The point is, you stick that kind of line in a game now, it gets rightfully purged by quality check. That’s what I mean about Woosley being, while not the devil he is painted as, not any kind of brilliant mind either. He did a fairly decent job for the time, period.