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Weekend Confirmed 108 - Resident Evil 6, Lost Planet 3, Fez, Super T.I.M.E. Force
by Garnett Lee, Apr 13, 2012 11:00am PDTAndrea, the two Jeff's, and Garnett waste no time getting right to all the new info on Resident Evil 6, Lost Planet 3, and Devil May Cry coming out of Capcom's recent press event. They also have a few quick updates from a similar event held by Namco that unveiled a PC version of Dark Souls and provided an update on the status of a western release for Ni No Kuni. We also get a first look at FEZ and Andrea shares some of what she saw at PAX East, including the awesome-sounding indie, Super T.I.M.E. Force. There's much more along the way as well before putting the Finishing Moves on this episode.
Weekend Confirmed Ep. 108: 04/13/2012
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Couple of things though.
I think, unfortunately, Jeff Mattas is right that there is a segment of the population that will turn their noses up at subtitles, no matter whether it's anime, games or foreign films. Level 5 wants to reach the widest audience possible and that's probably why they're localising it.
Atlus have done quite a few localisations, particularly with the Megaten games (Shin Megami Tensei, Digital Devil Saga, Persona) and all of them have had excellent localisations. They're probably the best in the business for it.
Garnett is 100% right about Yakuza. Those games don't need English voice acting at all.
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I think Yakuza's atmosphere is accentuated by the Japanese voice acting.
Ni No Kuni really has a chance to reach a wide audience including kids/teens, who probably won't sit through having to read subtitles, even if the JRPG loving crowd would be willing to.
I actually think they would have been smart to have it ready for sometime this summer when the market is slow and kids have lots of time to play this.
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