Tell koei your opinion officially! Rare chance for english fans!

I just returned my 360 version becuase I was so disgusted when I found out that there was no English subs. If this was a different game like an RPG I wouldn't care but this is an intense action game, I cannot go on button mashing auto pilot 50 times battle to stand there and read the text so I don't miss the story, that is if I don't miss it at all which was easy when focused on the actual game. One point of native language localization in these games is so you can focus on the game, it completely break immersion and also ....I don't know any of these characters, I grew up with the English voice actors and their personalities. Replacing them with completely different personalities and interpretations after like 15 years is incredibly jarring.

Putting text in this game during battles is as stupid and disrespectful to your fans as putting text that is very important to gameplay, secrets and story most of all on the screen in missable pop ups in a FPS during huge gunfights. At least in FPS's a lot of the time you can go into cover while you have to read these things.

I play the game on hard then chaos, you die in a few hits, I can't be reading lines of text over and over gain while I'm trying to make sure I'm not getting flanked or attacked.

the box is misleading as well, in the "features" list it just says "voice" Yeah what voice Koei, Icelandic? it's purposely written that way to deceive you and not scare you away and trick you into buying the game if knowing it only had "Japanese voice" would put you off buying. Then you're technically not supposed to be able to geta refund of the game so your extra screwed. Luckily the guy played the series and was very sympathetic to it as well and we both said how we loved the campy English dialogue and characters and not having them in the game was bad, especially since we've never had to expect this before.

First time I've ever returned a game in my life. I was calling around to stores for days asking when it would be in, drove across the city to get it too.
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chooca posted...
I filled the survey too and I put:

I loved the idea of having Japanese voice over and English subtitle. Makes a very authentic feel!





This is not a movie, it's a game, and it is not "more authentic" for speakers of other languages because they cannot interpret the language to determine if it is "more authentic" in getting its point across, anyone who says so is ignorant claiming they can understand a language they cannot. I'm a student of English and I learn something new every day and am not so arrogant as to claim I can understand the nuances of Japanese to have an opinion on whether it is more authentic in getting the point across because it cannot be understood by a layman in even the remotest possibility if it is anything near as complex as the nuances of the English language which I'm sure it is.

The characters are NOT authentic to English speakers becuase we have never met these characters before except one possibility in DW7 and as we have grown up with the English voice actors characters for 15 years or so now. Meeting them, and not understanding them in your first experience with them, most likely in complete contrast to whom you've known your whole life does not create an "authentic" experience, in fact quite the opposite, just like the Japanese being forced to listen to English VA's after they have listened to the Japanese actors all their life is not authentic.

The characters are not authentic becuase the inflections of the language spoken compared to how you read the words in English do not match up becuase they are completely different thereby creating a jarring experience disconnected from the Japanese VO, this scenario is poor in conveying the true meaning, feelings, and personality of the characters and story especially during a hectic battle

It is not authentic becuase it fundamentally changes the gameplay and how players play the game for the worse becuase you cannot be fully immersed in the game anymore becuase you constantly have to be on the look out for dialogue pop ups during battle if you want to get the story or complete in-game secrets. If this was an RPG I wouldn't really care but this is an intense action game, the worst type of game to not have proper localization in and making players rely solely on on-screen dialogue

The game is so bad in this regard think about it like this. You and your buddy are in the most epic battle ever fighting hundreds of enemies and whenever he wants to talk with you he comes over and puts a sheet of paper in front of your face saying "rock on man we're going to win!", that goes on and one like 50 times. What person in their right mind would think that was better, and he could focus on the battle better then speaking the same words or cheering on in unison. And who in their right mind would propose that he could focus on the battle better while he's reading the writing on the sheet of paper rather then paying attention to the battle.
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