The quality of the voice acting is to me, clearly a notch above the average Japanese -> Eng localizations, both in games and anime.
Anyone else agree?
I wouldn't know whether to put the credit on the VAs or the direction, or probably both, but there really is something seriously lacking the localized VAs for other games.
Deadly Premonition
Game » consists of 11 releases. Released Feb 23, 2010
An open-world action-adventure game following an eccentric FBI agent as he investigates a series of bizarre murders in the small rural town of Greenvale.
Anyone think the voice acting is amazing?
Yes that's right. That's why I was more inclined to say it was the direction being the credit. By virtue of SWERY being an eng speaker, he could give VA criticism directly on the english, whereas other localization efforts sound like they just phone it in.
To be honest I was taken initially aback by York's voice acting, but it eventually grew on me. But I can't recall any instances where York had substantial lines with emotion in them. On the other hand I was very impressed by George and Emily and some of the other characters from the onset, very nice.
@Dany said:
" I found it terrible. None of the lines of dialogue went with each other lines. Flat. "Could you elaborate on this.
It's a mixed bag, like everything in this game. I thought York was perfect, and the main cast (George, Emily) were mostly pretty good. But the supporting characters really ranged from quite good to very bad. Delivery was really weird sometimes as well.
That's DP for you--you never know what to expect.
I think it's amazing that they got this quality of voice acting out of a budget title, sure, but wouldn't call it amazing in general. Was definitely good though and held up some of the other parts of the game.
Yeah Kaysen was another great one too.
Edit: Also the way the voices faded out the further you got away from the speaker was amazing. It gave it a real 3d feel to everything, and made the camera feel like its own individual person. WHICH IT WAS. More games should learn this trick, it's really helps immersion.
Yeah I thought it had superb voice acting as well... except for Isaac and Isaiah, but they're children so what do you expect.
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