Thread by @RavelMonte

So, what was the thing in Cyber Sleuth that I wanted to talk about? As mentioned before, there were a lot of things that changed in the localization. In the Japanese version of this, for example, Mirei doesn't call the protagonist a "Cyber Sleuth, devoted seeker of truth, savior"

She instead says the protagonist swims the waves of cyberspace and basically calls them a "digital slave and faithful servant of a female detective" and that the protagonist is Sayo's "Destined Person" (運命の人).

This isn't Sayo confused by the terms "Cyber Sleuth", it's Sayo confused about Mirei calling the protagonist a "slave and servant" and her "destined person". There are a lot of changes like that, but the ones I'm interested in are about the settings and worldview.

That's, the explanation about the Seven Great Demon Lords.. or rather, "Seven Deadly Digimon". I know that the localization is trying to establish that name, but doing that while directly avoiding calling them demons is a bit... funny ?

In the Japanese version, Mirei simply says: Seven Demon Lord-type Digimon that stands at the top of all the Devil-type Digimon, "Seven Great Demon Lords".

For some reason, the localization changed "Devil-type" to "magical Digimon" and didn't want to call them demons in any way.

The very next line is more faithful to the original text, basically stating that due to their great power they exist in all parallel worlds, the difference is in the explanation for that.

In the localization, this is explained as something from the SGDL themselves. They are a natural existence of the universe and are a defense mechanism for them, existing in many forms in order to disperse their power.

This version basically gives the reasoning for this to the SGDL-themselves. They are the ones doing so, for some reason. And this made the fanbase create theories about they making avatars and having true forms and things like that, I was one of them. However...

Instead of a vague "defense for them", Mirei directly states that is, in fact, they being sealed (封印), they are so powerful that they need to be weakened by being in every world in order for their power to be dispersed.

The next line isn't about the SGDL having a "natural existence", it's about this system (システム) not being anyone's work, instead is a system that happens naturally as a providence of the universe (宇宙の摂理).

So, not only is the nature explained in the CS quest very different from anything else in the franchise (You can easily find contradictions), but the way it was worded made the fanbase have a very different understanding of what was there initially.

Mirei didn't explain the SGDL as some kind of multiversal presence that wants to be in every universe at once in order to have some "defense". It explains that the will of the universe didn't allow something as powerful as them to exist and a system exists for that to be sure.

So, a seal exists in order to keep their power fragmented across multiple parallel worlds, it's a system that isn't maintained by anyone and simply naturally works. Of course, having this gives a new context of Mirei wanting to change the "values of the world" later in the quest.

Of course, there are a lot more changes not only in this quest but across the entire game. But isn't something that I can talk about in a good manner. Sometimes I'll try to look into the original context to see differences, I don't want to get the info so wrongly as before this.