Disgaea 4's English voices (first clips)

[kuroshiro-neko.livejournal.com]

I don't see a post about Disgaea 4's english voices, so here they are:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DCYf9nWnmw&feature=channel_video_title

I like them so far. Although Valvatorez shouldn't whisper like that...

Comments

[burnfist23.livejournal.com]

http://cyberdance.livejournal.com/223466.html

Oh well, it was an old post anyway so some people wouldn't have seen it.

And agreed on Val's whispering. I understand it's to make him sound frustrated, but don't make his whispers so quiet that he ends up mute for half his lines.

[kuroshiro-neko.livejournal.com]

Sorry I didn't notice your post edit... !

I'm happy to see that the actors are putting some effort in the voice acting, I'm also glad all the voices suit the characters.

[grifstar.livejournal.com]

They aren't that bad. Seconding (Thirding?) the Val thing though. Although I rather have to deal with that than Vic again :|


And fff, Emizel sounds like Tsukasa/Jr/otherrolesicantrememberrightnow |D

[kuroshiro-neko.livejournal.com]

I never got used to Mao(Vic)'s voice. It was very sharp, the complete opposite of his japanese soft voice. The difference was so big that I think it made his personality sound different :( .
Same with Geoffrey/Jiiya, however unlike Mao, the english voice actually favored him. It made him sound more trustworthy and reliable.
His cranky high-pitched Japanese voice was so out of place that made him look suspicious right from the beginning.

Val's voice sounds classy and mature, I like it.

[grifstar.livejournal.com]

Vic kinda bothers me on a more personal level due to how much of an egotistic ass he is irl (Although that brief time when FMA was still fairly new and not that popular yet, he used to be pretty awesome). What's even more annoying is that his army of raving fangirls are the ones that are fueling it and most of them are way too stupid to even notice it in the first place.

I don't generally have a problem with his voice or his acting even though every role he does sounds almost exactly the same, and can usually still enjoy anything with him in it. It's just when I take the time to think about it it's just... mreh. :|


tbh I never actually heard a whole lot of D3 in Japanese. Although what I have actually heard of it, strangely enough I think I actually like the English cast more over all. I think it's partly due to a lot of character sounding completely different (like Mao) and by then I was too used to the English dub, and also most of the actual story in D3 was just way too bland 80% of the time that I really just couldn't care. Really I was gonna try to do a whole playthrough in Japanese one cycle (like I generally try to do with every N1 game after I beaten it once) but I ended up getting so bored with it I started to skip almost every scene after the first episode.

And idk, Geoffrey never sounded subtle in any language, but I think that was more his writing's fault

But rambling off again. I know exactly what you mean about personality changes through voices. Usually the voice can still 'work' with them, but yeah, it can completely change that character and worse yet can completely alter everything else and can give a totally different message across. Which is also why I generally favor Japanese over dub because that's how it originally was supposed to sound (even though some sites love to bicker over that), it just... for some reason didn't work for me with D3 orz

Soul Nomad has that same problem too though. Japan's Gig sounds a lot more classy, smarter, and more of a wiseass while ours(Yuri's) is way more brash loud and arrogant. Both versions still work in their own way, and I like them both, but for two completely different reasons. There's probably other examples out there too but I can't think of any.


Good gawd I ramble orz

[kuroshiro-neko.livejournal.com]

I don't know much about him yet. What you wrote about him piqued my curiosity so I checked youtube videos about him.
I see that he used the same voice type for Edward and Mao ;;. I know he has tons of fangirl although that surprises me, I thought most anime fans watched subs instead of dubs.

I heard both Japanese and English D3 voices. There are some major differences especially in Mao/Geoffrey/Sapphire. Sapphire english voice acting made her look like an "always sleepy" girl. In the Japanese voice she's much more emotive and expresses anger when she's attacking her enemies. Both Almaz's voices don't have many differences, but I remember that in Japanese Almaz lets out high-pitched screams when he is scared. Overall, the english cast is good so there's no shame in liking it!
I understand why the story wasn't your cup of tea even though I enjoyed it.
I can see its flaws, the mix between humor and drama was very unbalanced IMO. And unlike Disgaea1, (where the characters travel to various places and change the subject several times) in Disgaea 3 the characters never truly get out of the Evil Academy, furthermore the majority of the plot is focused on exploring Mao's heart hahah.

Yess, it's amazing how a voice can say so much about a personality.

And no worries, I ramble a lot too :>.

[grifstar.livejournal.com]

There's definitely parts in 3 that I liked, but too much of the main story felt like a filler. Which is nothing new for Nippon Ichi games, especially for Disgaea and anything else with a Netherworld setting (I wouldn't be surprised if D4 suffers it too). Problem with most of them I think is that they spread themselves way too thin and when they finally need to seriously buckle down it's already on the last chapter or so. Making the main story mode longer would probably fix this a lot, which is what I always hoped for in future games (after all you got a 9999 level cap yet post game generally starts at around 100, what's the big hurry there?). Yet they still have never done it :|

Basically D3 didn't really seem like it use its time all that wisely imo, less than what they usually do. Though I think Makai Kingdom is still the worse. I loved the concept behind the Heart Bank and how it more or less explains why demons are typically 'evil' (even if it's only for that verse). And I'd admit that I thought the whole ordeal with Mao, Mao's inner demons, his dad, and Aurum was somewhat interesting too, even though it was extremely predictable once all the cards were on the table and it's not all that original either.

The school setting I was always kinda mixed about since while it was something different for once and kinda cool in that respect, after awhile it just seemed overly pointless and mostly just a distraction. Especially when the whole point of it was never actually attend it, even if that was part of the gag. Also when you start having dialogue like 'it's the most fearsome thing in the world, a senior!', you.. kinda just lost some intimidation points there.

I was also pretty disappointed that the whole thing with Almaz and Mao going through a personality swap was barely played on too. I remember that was one of the things that really had my interest about D3 when reading bits about it so when it was only actually used like once it was a bit saddening. A temporary evil Almaz would've been so cool, or something ;o;



But yes! R-rambling again XD;; Still liked the game over all, just thought it could've been waaaay better than it turned out to be. Nothing fanworks and RP can't somewhat fix, but still.