The bad news is the voice acting.
We really don't want to cast any aspersions on what looks like a truly fantastic puzzle adventure game, and we don't want to suggest that the game is in any way bad. But we just can't let voice acting like this go by without comment. Apparently, Nintendo wasn't able to solve the puzzle of where to find people who speak with British accents.
[Update: the trailer has shown up on Gametrailers, and has been added to the post.]
[Via NeoGAF]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 2)
1-23-2008 @ 6:49PM
hvnlysoldr said...
Because unlike other Robin Hood's I can speak with an English accent.
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1-23-2008 @ 7:01PM
Joshua said...
Did the Japanese version have voice acting?
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1-23-2008 @ 7:35PM
TD said...
I don't know, the acting doesn't sound so bad to me.
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1-23-2008 @ 7:37PM
TheFreak said...
Was the voice acting in that trailer really so bad?
Maybe I've just been tempered with the type of audio fare presented in Dracula X Chronicles...
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1-23-2008 @ 7:41PM
Mog said...
The acting in the trailer wasn't that bad, IMO. Can't wait
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1-23-2008 @ 7:55PM
HellsHammer said...
The music in this series is unbelievable. It fits absolutely perfectly. I want this whole trilogy.
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1-23-2008 @ 8:03PM
Ramses said...
I actually like the trailer. The accents where actually well done, not too overly exaggerated.
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1-23-2008 @ 8:32PM
mauroh said...
Funny... i didn't think it was half bad either... are our standards that low?
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1-23-2008 @ 8:40PM
GatorSax2010 said...
I didn't much care for the woman's voice, but the rest wasn't half bad. Regardless, as a fan of Phoenix Wright, logic puzzles, and runaway ferris wheels, you better believe I'll be picking this up.
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1-23-2008 @ 9:28PM
Feigr said...
When will they atleast put in the option of japanese voice and english subtitles? This is as far as I know the standard for anime (I rarely watch any).
Now this game maybe didn't have japanese voices in the original so it's a bit much to ask here, but for other games, like Castle Shikigami 3 that's coming out for the Wii I bet they will only have english voice acting in the NA/EU, if any at all.
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1-23-2008 @ 9:55PM
Dave said...
Why would you want to have japanese voices in this game, I mean the game is completely un-japanese. From the setting to the art style it's all european. There's no point in having japanese voices in a game like this and anyway the animated cutscenes are probably only voiced.
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1-23-2008 @ 10:20PM
JC Fletcher said...
Yeah, I just want... you know, European voice acting.
1-23-2008 @ 10:53PM
Waffala said...
JC Fletcher is right; I know Nintendo doesn't like Europe, but it would have been nice to have some British voices done by Brits, not British voices mimicked by Yankees. I'm surprised how many comments here are panning the concept of, you know... legitimacy.
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1-24-2008 @ 12:07AM
Ren said...
I honestly had no problems with the voice acting AT ALL. In fact, I was sold when Layton said "My word....".
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1-24-2008 @ 1:17AM
Jamar said...
I prefer the Japanese voice acting over this. Seriously.
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1-24-2008 @ 3:15AM
Brent said...
This game looks amazing. I can't wait. Voice acting is neither great, nor bad. Real Brits would've made too much sense, I suppose.
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1-24-2008 @ 4:05AM
Hung said...
I thought it was fine. I honestly couldn't tell the difference.....but I'm not British, so maybe it's just me.
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1-24-2008 @ 6:28AM
Ethan said...
Plummy works.
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1-24-2008 @ 6:54AM
dAn said...
The Professor's voice wasn't too bad, but dear Christ, the rest was quite horrible.
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1-24-2008 @ 7:10AM
mauroh said...
Yeah... I guess it WOULD be better with real brits, but if you compare this with other dubbed games [Lunnar Knights, Luminous Arc, etc..] we should be grateful as is... it's no secret that american dubbers pretty much suck anyway...
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