English voice acting and singing is cringy.

[Consuela]

Dear christ are these voices atrocious. Pretend you were having a conversation with someone that spoke like this all the time. Enthralling. They have no personality. All it is is an "english accent" or what the perception of it would sound like. "Oh yes, look at me. I speak in a fine English accent." WELL ♥♥♥♥ YOU SURE CONVINCED ME with that glorious voice acting and casting.

The hidden English singing part really broke it for me. Just a squeaky awkward voice. The poor girl was trying. I remembered there is a Japanese voice option and tried it. The singing was infinitely better. A smooth, beautiful voice singing in another langauge.

Why did they put in effort to find an attractive voice in Japanese and not in English?

So why dont I turn Japanese voice acting on? How about why dont they put effort in and hire human beings that can articulate character and personality in the English langauge? That's a better question. Why is such ♥♥♥♥ voice acting and low standard acceptable?

Share your thoughts.

Thank you for your time.

[fender178]

I thought the English Voices was very well done. But that just me. To each their own I guess. They give us the option to use either Japanese if the customers don't like the English dub.

[Milo]

I was just talking about this somewhere else, the singing in the English version was quite poor, while the Japanese version of the song was very sweet. Other than that, though, I think both dubs were just acceptable, the real problem is the script which is quite bland. I also liked David Hayter as Zangetsu even though it's the same voice he does for Snake, it's the first time I've enjoyed his voice acting since MGS1.

[Consuela]

Originally posted by Randall:

David Hayter and Barbie aren’t good enough for you?

Ah, you're right. I thought Zangetsu sounded familiar. He sounds good.

I am talking more about the shopkeepers. I interact with them the most, and they are dreadful. David Hayter sounds great as usual. That does not make up for the rest of them.

[Duck]

What if it is the case that to a Japanese person the Japanese voice acting sounds awful and the English voice acting sounds good?

[fender178]

Originally posted by babby formed:

Originally posted by Randall:

David Hayter and Barbie aren’t good enough for you?

Ah, you're right. I thought Zangetsu sounded familiar. He sounds good.

I am talking more about the shopkeepers. I interact with them the most, and they are dreadful. David Hayter sounds great as usual. That does not make up for the rest of them.

I liked David Hayter's performance and I thought Miriam's performance was very well done while the other voices were pretty lackluster. At the end of the day to each their own I guess.
The only other voice that liked was Nancy's. KILL THOSE MURDERS DEAD!.

[Consuela]

Originally posted by Aspie:

What if it is the case that to a Japanese person the Japanese voice acting sounds awful and the English voice acting sounds good?

Originally posted by Randall:

I second Aspie on this. I believe it’s just a matter of something foreign interesting you.

I don't know. I should say the singing was superior in Japanese, but I havnt listened to too much of the voice acting in Japanese. It sounds a little more lively and the English sounds more flat and monotone and boring, even from Miriam. I know you guys like her, but she is just as bland as the shopkeepers to me. She just sounds like she is there to get it over with, like it's just another day, like she is going through her grocery list, one item at a time.

I am curious as to what a Japanese speaker thinks of the Japanese voice acting in general.

[Consuela]

Originally posted by Milo-:

I was just talking about this somewhere else, the singing in the English version was quite poor, while the Japanese version of the song was very sweet. Other than that, though, I think both dubs were just acceptable, the real problem is the script which is quite bland. I also liked David Hayter as Zangetsu even though it's the same voice he does for Snake, it's the first time I've enjoyed his voice acting since MGS1.

I am so engrossed with the gameplay, but I have little interest in the story or dialog. The script is not engaging and I think a part of that is the feeling that I am playing SOTN and so know generally how to progress.

[Grr. [SG CMD] Majah Lazah]

Originally posted by Milo-:

I was just talking about this somewhere else, the singing in the English version was quite poor, while the Japanese version of the song was very sweet.

The Japanese singing is just as cringey as the english.

As for for the voice acting they're both quite competent. The english script however, is pretty watered down and generic, and much like Tekken, severely lacks any cultural nuance or context present in the japanese version.

Share your thoughts.

typical weeaboo pointy elbow thread.

[Ash vs. Himself]

Originally posted by babby formed:

Dear christ are these voices atrocious. Pretend you were having a conversation with someone that spoke like this all the time. Enthralling. They have no personality. All it is is an "english accent" or what the perception of it would sound like. "Oh yes, look at me. I speak in a fine English accent." WELL ♥♥♥♥ YOU SURE CONVINCED ME with that glorious voice acting and casting.

The hidden English singing part really broke it for me. Just a squeaky awkward voice. The poor girl was trying. I remembered there is a Japanese voice option and tried it. The singing was infinitely better. A smooth, beautiful voice singing in another langauge.

Why did they put in effort to find an attractive voice in Japanese and not in English?

So why dont I turn Japanese voice acting on? How about why dont they put effort in and hire human beings that can articulate character and personality in the English langauge? That's a better question. Why is such ♥♥♥♥ voice acting and low standard acceptable?

Share your thoughts.

Thank you for your time.

The game's character sounds as well. Every time (Miriam?) swings her sword "HA! HA! HA!" I was going to go nuts. I muted voices, and it's been better.

[AliceEngine]

I turned the voices off but unfortunately that turns also the battle noises off, but I think it's still worth it. The voice acting is atrocious and unnecessary.

[жэф]

My Hero Academia has one of the best English dubs I've ever seen

[r3d_belmont456]

considering I love the PSX voice acting from SotN, I thought the voice acting was wonderfully cheesy, tho to be fair, I also kinda cringed at the tonedeaf fairy singing, at least I can say that the SotN fairy singing sounds far better even in English...

[Mystic Myotis]

Honestly the only really poor thing was the English singing. I think they were trying to make it cutesy and it didn't really work. They should have gotten Emi Evans or better still, they could have held a fan competition where backers could send in their own versions of the song and the best one got to voice the fairy. XD
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There are a couple of lines that the person in charge of the voice acting should have done re-takes on (some unnatural cadences/pauses, mostly), though that's a fairly common thing in voice acting in general and I think it's just less noticeable if you don't speak the language you're listening to.

[Silvershadow]

Originally posted by babby formed:

Originally posted by Randall:

David Hayter and Barbie aren’t good enough for you?

Ah, you're right. I thought Zangetsu sounded familiar. He sounds good.

I am talking more about the shopkeepers. I interact with them the most, and they are dreadful. David Hayter sounds great as usual. That does not make up for the rest of them.

PLEASURE DOIN' BUSINESS!

Anyway, in all seriousness, i was ok with the English Voice acting, nothing great (Except for David, the guy is amazing obviously), but not bad either. The ...singing...one tho ...I'm sorry for whoever did it, but ...the poor girl cant sing for the life of her.

[SmallGespenst]

the issue with the song isn't anything to do with the singer, it sounds better in Japanese because it was written in Japanese. there's only so much that can be done to translate a song when the words have to fit the meaning AND the music. the voice acting is fine, not exactly triple A worthy, but pretty good for a crowdfunded title. it's a shame about the song, but song lyrics are up with jokes and puns in terms of being all but impossible/actually impossible to translate.