Galaki on 12 October 2009
Lux-Pain
http://www.metacritic.com/games/platforms/ds/luxpain
Metascore: 4.8
User score: 5.6
That must be 1 of the few low scored games I enjoyed before looking up the scores, LOL.
The game story is quite dark and I actually felt sad playing it. It's very different kind of enjoyment but it's a good one after finishing Browser's Insider Story. Going from quirky funny to doom and gloom :)
Translation really needed some work, in some parts, they even got the names mixed up.
Punctuating the plot is above-average English voice acting during major cutscenes. The only issues with the voice acting are that there isn't enough of it, its low volume is sometimes drowned out by the music, and that the spoken dialogue does not match up with the text written on the screen. The spoken lines are always better than the written script, which often reads choppily and has some egregious spelling and grammatical errors. Some of these technical errors are acceptable, such as the posts on the cyber cafe's chat boards. However, seeing "Burse's Office" instead of "Nurse's Office" a couple of times, male characters sometimes being referred to as she (and vice versa), inconsistencies in character name spellings (particularly between the dialogue and the database), and text implying that the game takes place in America when it clearly takes place in Japan among other textual errors in the script proper lead me to believe that different parts of the text were localized by different people and the final product was not sufficiently proofread for consistency.
