gaemz played in 日本語
charting personal progress for self affirmation + motivation to continue my inadvisable attempt to learn this language with my tiny busted brain
only including ones I've played/comprehended a relatively useful chunk of! Cant wait 2 be able to engage with more a e s t h e t i c / challenging / region exclusive stuff but babygames and big silly jrpgs with similar vocabularies and lots of VA are currently my bread n butta
only including ones I've played/comprehended a relatively useful chunk of! Cant wait 2 be able to engage with more a e s t h e t i c / challenging / region exclusive stuff but babygames and big silly jrpgs with similar vocabularies and lots of VA are currently my bread n butta
14 Games
shockingly easy to understand the major plot points here considering how odd the cosmology/worldbuilding first appears! might return to and write a full review of this one eventually it's super strange
adorable and singular, perfectly captures the feeling of grasping for words/looking for verbal buoys to cling to when speaking a different language. gotta do a full review of this one when i finish it
VERY playable and worth checking out even if you cant read Japanese!
VERY playable and worth checking out even if you cant read Japanese!
only played like 3 hours or so of this tbh but it's neat, love the shameless Aria of the Soul ripoff track during the character creator
I know the english script/game layout pretty much by heart so this was an immersion no brainer. Very moving/cool to experience this story through a new lens, the laughing scene is just as goofy/intentional/essential in Japanese btw
Ds version.
only played a few hours because tbh this series kinda puts me to sleep. understanding mr drippy is a true hell but the rest was quite accessible
only played a few hours because tbh this series kinda puts me to sleep. understanding mr drippy is a true hell but the rest was quite accessible
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for me there's different high/low points in both! The JP VA feels a bit muted/fuzzy at times and almost like the recording quality wasn't as good. I'm so attached to the Eng VA I grew up with that moments like Yuna's sphere/the big Yunalesca "NOW IS THE TIME 2 CHOOSE" speech felt less impactful because the moments of emphasis are so different. Was really interesting to see that Lulu and Rikku sound a bit less exaggeratedly cold/bubbly in the JP version, which I wasn't expecting and makes them feel a bit more lived in. Maechen's eng VA is also 100% the winner in my book
Man I hated tidus's jp voice lol
i love eng Tidus voice so much, literally no other jrpg protagonist has the the same goofy intonation and it feels really memorable. I'm sure if the game were to come out now, when gaming VA pipelines are more industrialized, they would just give him some totally forgettable standard shonen anime cadence
I agree, he is really memorable. Outside of the shounen standard cadence, I also don't really enjoy the kind of post-troy baker style of VA found in the XIII games or in XV. I like to play those in japanese
Hattori
3 years ago