Professor Layton and the Curious Accents

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Professor Layton and the Curious Accents

Posted Jan 23rd 2008 6:00PM by JC Fletcher
Filed under: Video

The good news is that a new English-language Professor Layton and the Curious Village trailer has appeared, on GameStop's website, of all places, and it basically confirms that the American version of the game will feature full voice acting in its cutscenes.

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.

Gallery: Professor Layton and the Curious Village

[Update: the trailer has shown up on Gametrailers, and has been added to the post.]

[Via NeoGAF]

Tags: gamestop, layton, level-5, puzzle, trailer, training, voice-acting

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1-24-2008 @ 1:05PM

shaffy said...

I think its been done pretty well suites the art style and sound just like them old british cartoons which it also looks like.

1-24-2008 @ 6:24PM

rikki said...

Wow. I would have preferred plain old American VAs over Americans-obviously-faking-it. I know everyone's insisting that the feel of the game is European—but it isn't like the Japanese VAs attempted British accents, or even spoke English.

The woman was awful, but not the worst I've heard. The rest are tolerable...though I still wish they'd hired the studio that did such an excellent job on DQ8.

1-24-2008 @ 10:45PM

Salty Soil said...

I admit the woman's voice just sounds odd. The rest sounds fine though.
Should we really be expecting triple-A voice acting on a handheld game? Especially since it's a new franchise for the West.

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