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  • I played Onimusha twice. The first time in English, restarted and played it in Japanese. Japanese sounds way better.

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #22544  by G-man Joe
 Tue Mar 20, 2001 11:49 am
<div style='font: 11pt "comic sans MS", Modern; text-align: left; '>The English voice overs could have been better but they're not as bad as some of the other games I've heard.

But even ~with~ excellent English voice overs, it still won't sound as dramatic when spoken in Japanese.

Why?

The Japanese have these inflections that are low, sometimes grunting, barking, sometimes hissing sentences. The very syllables sound dramatic. You'll notice that their language has a lot of "ka" "ki" "ke" "Ti" "Te" sounds. In our language, that sounds very threatening.

Example "I'll KICK your ass, you CocK sucKIng fucKer, then I'll Kill you!"

English language is spoken in softer tones and to us, Japanese voice overs will always sound better than English, no matter how good the voice overs are.

Agree? Well....maybe not. But SOMEONE has to. =8^)</div>

 #22546  by WolfSamurai
 Tue Mar 20, 2001 12:29 pm
<div style='font: 14pt Agatha, Modern; text-align: left; '>Are you kidding? Of course I agree.</div>

 #22555  by S.Cody2
 Tue Mar 20, 2001 2:47 pm
<div style='font: 10pt "Copperplate Gothic", Modern; text-align: left; '>I think that's a part of better acting, in any language.</div>
 #22559  by Don
 Tue Mar 20, 2001 3:20 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Well, their te is pretty close to the America ti sound.</div>

 #22571  by WooJin
 Tue Mar 20, 2001 10:41 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Actually, they do. Te + little i = Ti. How else would they say Paati?</div>

 #22573  by Ganath
 Tue Mar 20, 2001 11:01 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>'Patte', perhaps. Pronouncing the 'te' as 'teh'.</div>

 #22592  by WooJin
 Wed Mar 21, 2001 9:11 pm
<div style='font: 11pt Modern; text-align: left; '>Just trust me when I say this :P</div>

 #22595  by Crono
 Wed Mar 21, 2001 10:32 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>You're absolutely right, though. English has very soft and flowing vowels. It makes singing much nicer, but voiceovers much worse (unless the person can do accents and dialects, to add drama or sharpness).</div>

 #22597  by Ganath
 Wed Mar 21, 2001 11:13 pm
<div style='font: 12pt Modern; text-align: left; '>*Shrug* It also might be German screwing with my pronunciation... I swear my spelling got worse once I started taking that language...</div>

 #22601  by Gentz
 Thu Mar 22, 2001 12:20 am
<div style='font: 9pt arial, Modern; text-align: left; '>Yeah, he's right.</div>