Something I'll say about Sonic 06: If you play it through "other means" you can remove the load times and it becomes a totally tolerable and kind of hilarious game.
Also this was a top-tier stream, one of the best games of Mario Party ever played on the site, just incredible. Totally happy to re-sub!
This is still great! Something that might be fun to add on at the end: Kazuya's Smash announcement trailer. It's VERY similar in tone and I think would be a LOT of fun to see the reactions to after these!
Thank you Jess and Dan for the correct Batman opinions. Batman Forever rules and Batman and Robin is super fun and genuinely funny if your not expecting series Batman for some reason!
It's funny, I thought the "Please Stand By" image was FF8, but then they got different, JUST AS WEIRD, FF8 screenshot. Incredible.
I actually got be on Arcade Pit last Sunday and it was real blast! Fared pretty badly when actually playing games, but I draw a pretty damn good "Cloud Strife, but a cow"
That scene with Maria in the jail cell is one of the most unsettling things I've ever scene. I feel like it's an uncanny valley thing, something about the video quality/effects and the animation almost make it look like really low res life action. It's pretty cool.
They joked about it, but hilariously the Eligor that you can steal the Striking Staff from in FFVII is, in fact, in the remake EXACTLY. It's a fun a little bit, basically the only stealing you need to do in the remake!
@whiteshadow151: Oh yeah, the union/non-union stuff is a whole... thing. The real weird one of all of it is Zeta because unlike the others it was dubbed at the same as the original and CCA but had a different (but still Canadian, and I think technically the same company) cast.
I'll admit, I tend to not notice a lot of what it seems people consider bad acting/writing for some reason. I've always felt people get overly picky with dubs and put the JP voices on a lot of stuff on a pedestal when realistically they're not that different when you don't understand the language. And yeah, whatever you watch first will probably always feel more "right". There are VERY few anime I've watched and enjoyed both ways, starting from either language (basically Kill la Kill and JoJo?)
ANYWAY, I will say the modern NYAV Post dubs (which I believe are union) for stuff like Unicorn, NT, and The Origin are heads and shoulders above everything else and are some of my favorite dubs period.
As a fellow big Gundam fan I agree with 90% of this but do want to correct one thing:
None of the Gundam dubs were done in the 80s. The original series was dubbed in the early 2000s (after Gundam Wing) and they are generally, really good (Micheal Kopsa is an incredible Char!). The main reason I would say to go with JP VA is just for consistency within the main UC story. For example:
Original Series & Char's Counterattack: One Cast
Zeta: Different Cast
Double Zeta: No Dub
Unicorn & The Origin: THIRD Cast
90s OVAs: FOURTH cast
That said, I've watched all the dubbed Gundam I can and enjoyed the series just fine. War in the Pocket (which IS incredible and plenty easy to watch without any other Gundam experience) is a really good dub featuring a rare non-Metal Gear performance from David Hayter as the lead! It's great!
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