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Tag Discussion: Sekaiju no Meikyuu 3

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Slightly convoluted situation here: Sekaiju no Meikyuu 2 never got its own tag since it's an extremely similar game to the first MeiQ, with a new labyrinth and the addition of a couple of extra character classes such as gunner and doctor magus. If it were a PC game, it might be considered an expansion pack rather than a true sequel.

However, in April of this year Atlus gave us sekaiju no meikyuu 3 which has a fairly distinctive setting, some novel gameplay elements, and a completely new cast of classes. I assume this is why it's gotten its own tag.

Danbooru's usual policy would be to umbrella-tag the series- moving posts to sekaiju no meikyuu 1 or whatever's appropriate, then implicating all games in the series back to sekaiju no meikyuu- but this doesn't really work when the first two games are held to be synonymous. (Since SQ2 has all the same classes as SQ1 did, there's no way to prove an image is based on the first game and not the second, unless it contains a characteristic NPC or predates the release of SQ2.)

Our other options seem to be:

I'm in favor of implication, personally; the only consequence is anyone specifically searching for SQ1/SQ2 posts would have to subtract SQ3 from their tag search, but that doesn't seem likely to be a major concern. However, I thought I would try to lay out the whole situation and explain why an umbrella tag probably will not work.

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While we are at it, we might as well discuss whether to use the japanese words or the english words for the job tags. It's not uncommon to see "ronin" and "bushidou" for SQ series in danbooru, for example...

F.I.A said:
While we are at it, we might as well discuss whether to use the japanese words or the english words for the job tags. It's not uncommon to see "ronin" and "bushidou" for SQ series in danbooru, for example...

I started a thread on this way back when and albert said he would prefer the Japanese class names: forum #8683

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