Blizzball addicts may have noticed that in Final Fantasy X, Wedge and Biggs work as guards at the blitzball stadium and can be recruited for the player’s team. The double act served comic relief as incompetent Galbadian Soldiers who frequently encounter the party in Final Fantasy VIII. In Final Fantasy VII, Biggs and Wedge work as members in Avalanche – a rebel group founded by Barret Wallace. However, this mistranslation has been fixed for the re-releases and even Square Enix developers themselves made fun about it in Final Fantasy XIII: B&W (Biggs & Wedge) Outfitters retail network’s logo spells out “V+W”, which is directly refers to the English mistranslation. It’s quite understandable considering the Japanese name ends with “kks” and not “ggs”. Wedge & Biggs Artwork for the original Final Fantasy VIIĭid you know that the original translation had Biggs named as “Vicks”? In Japanese, his name is ビックス which reads as “bikkusu” with a “B”, but the English translator of the time didn’t see the reference to Star Wars.
