Talks about otome games, drama cds, and occasionally provides advice? Running away endlessly from my backlog of hobbies.

Ilinox

Haha, it must be the extreme pessimist in me that I'm not happy hearing about otome game localization news because otome games rarely get quality translations and I've never seen a localization for a CN otome game follow its original schedule. So, my thoughts have been "What fool is trying to localize a 5-year-old game?" LOL.

I didn't want to listen to the ENG voices at all (not out of any particular reason, just that I already know I'm attached to the CN voices) but the reactions made me curious about how bad it could be and, well... LOL. I'm neutral to Osborn's voice but I did notice it had a southern accent, which is kind of amusing and stereotypical (people are going to hear him literally drawl out the word kitten LMFAO). But then Evan's voice appeared and I was so taken aback that I couldn't differentiate between Charlie and Jesse's voices, and then Sariel's voice blasted me again just when I was pulling myself together HAHA.

No offense to the voice actors, but everything is giving off "I just picked up these people off the streets" or the whole Taisho Alice incident where it was just one dude and a group of his friends. The direction isn't there and they also all sound so young with similar timbres (except Evan pushing his voice way too low LOL).

God bless you, you're much stronger than me for being ready to play it. I keep ricocheting between thinking the management and everything leading up to its release so far has been ass, and then thinking that these aren't necessarily signifiers of the translation quality which can just be average and that's enough... r-right? Like, as long as there's no lines missing then it can't be horrible, right...? The only things I'd be interested in looking at for translation quality are iconic lines and the puns, haha.

Haha, it must be the extreme pessimist in me that I'm not happy hearing about otome game localization news because otome games rarely get quality translations and I've never seen a localization for a CN otome game follow its original schedule. So, my thoughts have been "What fool is trying to localize a 5-year-old game?" LOL.

I didn't want to listen to the ENG voices at all (not out of any particular reason, just that I already know I'm attached to the CN voices) but the reactions made me curious about how bad it could be and, well... LOL. I'm neutral to Osborn's voice but I did notice it had a southern accent, which is kind of amusing and stereotypical (people are going to hear him literally drawl out the word kitten LMFAO). But then Evan's voice appeared and I was so taken aback that I couldn't differentiate between Charlie and Jesse's voices, and then Sariel's voice blasted me again just when I was pulling myself together HAHA.

No offense to the voice actors, but everything is giving off "I just picked up these people off the streets" or the whole Taisho Alice incident where it was just one dude and a group of his friends. The direction isn't there and they also all sound so young with similar timbres (except Evan pushing his voice way too low LOL).

God bless you, you're much stronger than me for being ready to play it. I keep ricocheting between thinking the management and everything leading up to its release so far has been ass, and then thinking that these aren't necessarily signifiers of the translation quality which can just be average and that's enough... r-right? Like, as long as there's no lines missing then it can't be horrible, right...? The only things I'd be interested in looking at for translation quality are iconic lines and the puns, haha.

Okay I have a mixed bag of emotions. Like on one hand, I'm extremely excited that my favorite game of all time is getting localised which means there's demand for it/maybe more people will like it which means MAYBE I'LL BE SEEING MORE LN MERCH IN LOCAL CONVENTIONS/ANIME SHOPS!!! (I am choosing to ignore potential fandom nonsense). 

On the other hand, I kind of really really dislike the casting/direction/voices oh my god. Listening to it made me physically recoil. Nothing personal against the VAs ofc, I tend to not enjoy eng dubs when I already know what a character sounds like to me so I'm already biased against it (I do play lads and the eng dub also makes me die inside, but I ignore it too bc to each their own yea? Me not liking it doesn't mean it's bad etc.) but 💀 osborn started out okay (in the sense that the voice didn't make me cringe, haven't really thought too much about if it fits him) before I got blasted by Evan 💀 被创到了 like what in the young adult trying to act like an alpha daddy??? This is NOT him. Then Jesse and Charlie which was like I guess could be worse but I really struggle with trying to differentiate all the eng voices (tbf that is likely a me problem + very short lines but still) and Sariel oh god. What have they done. 被创到了x2 because WHO??? WHO IS THIS. Those lines using that tone??? I'm dead. They've killed me with cringe. Stay behind me kitten sounding headass, I can see the tumblr gif of the guy whipping the bed already. I can't take it seriously sorry holy shit hahahahaha also seeing like one/two comments about how he's monotone like ??? I actually think the voice is a bit too emotional.

Also I definitely have 0 trust in the translation based on past experiences, and also don't hold out much hope for its longevity. I know the game doesn't even exist yet so it's overly pessimistic but tl quality + this game really needs you to read and hold space for opposing ideas/grey morals etc so yeah.

Will I play it the day it comes out? Absolutely. Do I have faith in it? No. Do I still hope that the game is well-made and succeeds, despite my own misgivings? Yeah! We'll see!

Ilinox

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