Does Gonta talk "dumb" in JP text as well?

[masuat]

From what I can tell, Gonta speaks normally, as far as his JP voice acting and lines are concerned. He's naive, but it doesn't affect his eloquence. However in text, he clearly talks like a toddler.

Am I wrong? If not, why is there a disparity between the text (dumb) and his speech (normal)? Was Gonta's character interpreted faithfully in the localization?

(I'm playing with EN text and JP voices.)

[Doloris]

They, for some reason, made Gokuhara use Tarzan speech in the localization. Nobody knows why. All we know is that it's... a bad decision.

[Narbartor]

It makes sense though, learning english is very hard when you spend at least 10 years in the forest

[Battler Ushiromiya]

I mean, Gonta's talking like a caveman makes sense. Dude was raised in a jungle for ten years of his life, no ♥♥♥♥ he's not gonna know how to talk properly.

[Nexils]

Gonta, Angie and Tenko all speak in third person in the Japanese version of the game.
Some people say it makes a character more childlike, but I personally think it just sounds weird and makes them seem 'dumb'.
So, if you consider it 'dumb' as well, then, yes, Gonta still talks in a weird manner in Japanese (and so do Angie and Tenko).

[treeflower]

I think it's to keep the impression of his intellect the same between JP and EN versions of the game.

[Monsieur Crow]

Originally posted by Nexils:

Some people say it makes a character more childlike, but I personally think it just sounds weird and makes them seem 'dumb'.

iirc, in Japan, using third-person is generally considered childish, as it evokes the image of a child that doesn't have the best grasp of Japanese's grammar structure or honorific system; Angie's supposed to be "out there", Gonta's been out-of-touch with humanity for years, and Tenko's views on men are arguably childish.

It doesn't really carry over for the Western world, since we generally associate third-person with either less intelligent folks (think of Tarzan), or for arrogant folks (like Salvador Dali), the former of which perfectly applies to Gonta; the latter, however, doesn't really apply to either Tenko or Angie, so I feel it was fine for them to change it.

[Battler Ushiromiya]

Originally posted by Monsieur Crow:

Originally posted by Nexils:

Some people say it makes a character more childlike, but I personally think it just sounds weird and makes them seem 'dumb'.

iirc, in Japan, using third-person is generally considered childish, as it evokes the image of a child that doesn't have the best grasp of Japanese's grammar structure or honorific system; Angie's supposed to be "out there", Gonta's been out-of-touch with humanity for years, and Tenko's views on men are arguably childish.

It doesn't really carry over for the Western world, since we generally associate third-person with either less intelligent folks (think of Tarzan), or for arrogant folks (like Salvador Dali), the former of which perfectly applies to Gonta; the latter, however, doesn't really apply to either Tenko or Angie, so I feel it was fine for them to change it.

[Monsieur Crow]

Originally posted by Battler Ushiromiya:

Originally posted by Monsieur Crow:

iirc, in Japan, using third-person is generally considered childish, as it evokes the image of a child that doesn't have the best grasp of Japanese's grammar structure or honorific system; Angie's supposed to be "out there", Gonta's been out-of-touch with humanity for years, and Tenko's views on men are arguably childish.

It doesn't really carry over for the Western world, since we generally associate third-person with either less intelligent folks (think of Tarzan), or for arrogant folks (like Salvador Dali), the former of which perfectly applies to Gonta; the latter, however, doesn't really apply to either Tenko or Angie, so I feel it was fine for them to change it.

Not sure what you're trying to say here.

[masuat]

I hadn't done any of Gonta's events throughout my run of the main story. After doing the first few in the post-game, I get the Tarzan thing now. It probably doesn't hurt or drastically change how his character performs, so I think it's a reasonable choice by the localization team.

[Battler Ushiromiya]

When you have a message that's just a quote, that means you agree with that statement.

[GamerSwag69]

Stupid choice, but makes sense.

[X3LL3N]

He wsnt really dumb on the french version, just ignorant