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JTurner82 on 23 April 2010
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Kenryoku_Maxis said:
JTurner82 said:
Kenryoku_Maxis said:
SaviorX said:
Ouch that is pretty bad, worse than Baten Kaitos lol
Poor guys, I commend them for trying though. I would imagine there would be a little backlash if there was no English subs.

Not really.  The few games that have come out that had Japanese voices only, hardly anyone even cared.  And those games were about the same level of priority as this game.  As in, they weren't expected to sell much or at all outside of Japan. 

The people who whine about how they can only stand English voices are about the same or perhaps less than those who complain about wanting Japanese voices.  The difference is, when you have a dub that's this bad, and its the only option, you start to see why people are requesting for a second audio track option with the original Japanese voices.

Especially since they probably spent all of a week and very little money making this dub.


True, I have heard much better game dubs than this.  Nonetheless, as bad as the localization is, I really can't think of any other reason to skip this title.  It's the first genuine RPG for Wii, and a pretty good one at that (according to the reviews in Japan)  That and to me, voice work is not a major reason to purchase a game:  the content and entertainment value is.  And I'm sure they'll have an option to mute the voices (don't they have something like that in the Japanese version)?

But that's the point.  When you have a game such as this, which features voices as an option, you shouldn't have to turn the voices off.  It should just come with an option for the original voices.

Its a stark contrast to an example such as Dragon Quest VIII on the PS2, which the original game didn't have voices and they ADDED voices to the western release.  And some of the voices in that game were pretty bad as well.  Yet people were willing to put up with those voices just because they thought Yangus and Jessica were good.  Yet now people are complaining about the voices in this game are bad and are willing to buy a game and turn the voices off?  Where's the threshold for 'bad voices'?  Where does the general public decide to turn the voices off....or decide to not buy a game based on the voices.

That's the point I was trying to bring up.  These game developers who are churning out lackluster and cheesy dubs are at a point now where they pretty much need to start putting the original voices on the games.  Because its going to start effecting their sales, if it hasn't already.  I already know plenty of people who skipped over major JRPG titles because of the bad voices; such as Star Ocean 4, Tales of Symphonia/Vesperia and even Final Fantasy XIII.

The Symphonia]dubs were actually quite good; I had no major problems with it.  That said, I AM getting this either way, whether I like the voices or not.