When everybody's name is some kind of pun, it was inevitable.
It's really jarring going from very-Japanese games that do one style to another.
not just japan. any formal language differentiates the ranks and relationships, english doesn't have that so it's all just (you). translators could use thou, but that would look and sound even more archaic (although some culturefags would probably get a stiffy because "muh shakespeare").
It is the same in Russia bc commies abolished all the honorifics and they never returned as they sound too archaic. The hillarious part is that the word is, literally, woman. A ton of women promising to murder/kick/yell at someone calling them women (instead of the word for teen girl), no pooning necessary.
How did localizers butcher World Ends With You? Don't know that story. I tried to play via emulation but doing the stilus shapes with a mouse was a lot harder than expected and dropped it from mechanical annoyance.
I agree that in the case of twewy having a bunch of zoomers talk like modern zoomers is very fitting even if it's aping western ones. However in the end, the game sucked monkey balls and had no promotion, a trend Square Enix seems to do on every non-FF game they released the last 5 years (the latter, not the latter... well mostly). It's kinda the same reason I don't have an issue with Nagatoro saying "Sus" in the translation, since it's a slang that's fitting someone of her age.
I'm pretty sure you can just emulate the most complete version of Persona 3, unfortunately I forget which that is. FES? Sorry, I'm not entirely sure.
All the 5-year old sounding Japanese girls sound the same to me.
There is always that weird choice you have to make where you either get a diminished experience with locations being icons in a flat map instead of running around but you are allowed to actually control your party and have an epilogue or you have to go with the original PS2 game and pray your party members don't behave like retards.
However, the dub does seem to suffer a poor sound balancing in certain scenes like the one below, where the victim is far louder than the JP dubbed doctor.
That's a weird generalization as I can easily recognize a good dozen different Japanese female VAs in fictional medias, much like their male counterparts, considering they do sound widely different from each other. Not to mention they often do an excellent job to have different tones depending of the character they play, which can sometimes make harder to recognize the VA on the spot.
iirc Persona 3 FES has the post-story content while Persona 3 Portable had Female MC + controllable party members (at the cost of all dialogue parts & cutscenes replaced in the VN format due of the console's hardware).
I think so.
They still have VA schools in Europe and Japan so I'm not surprised. Here? I don't think we have any of those anymore and anyone worth a damn going into acting school actually goes into acting. Voice acting has become a dead art in this country and you're likely never gonna get a Billy West again or without a miracle someone like Mel Blanc.
Pretty much, if there were actual standards, faggots like Yong would get laughed out of the industry.
I agree. People talk about how all English VAs sound the same, but I swear I can only differentiate about a dozen or so voices in the subs. So many of them sound 99% the same. Maybe if I knew Japanese I could more easily pick apart differences or regional accents or something, but I don't. The girls, agreed, are the biggest standout for me, almost all of them sound essentially the same.
I know you want to take a jab, but that is just being ignorant.
Wasn't that game made by Cliff Bleszinski aka the cuck who made sure to tell us how gender neutral bathrooms in the award winning LawBreakers were so important? Not surprised. Bulletstorm's humor always was too tryhard if you ask me, kind of like proto Borderlands.
If you want to see the state of American voice acting you should watch some of those dubbed live action Netflix originals. Some of the most dead pan voices you'd ever hear. I get wanting voices to sound normal but they never can manage to not sound like a bored child reading a passage out the book for the class.
