Valkyria Chronicles Hits Stateside November 11
by Keane Ng on August 16, 2008 at 2:19 pm
Sega’s PS3 exclusive Valkyria Chronicles looks good. It looks really good. Alternate WWII-timeline, elegant painterly graphics, cameos from Skies of Aracdia characters and some newfangled take on strategy-RPG gameplay? We won’t even have to wait too much longer for it, either, as Sega has announced that the game will come out on American shores on November 11.
For the serious Japanophiles out there, the game will include the original Japanese voice-over work - a nice backup option in case the American voice-overs are too hammy. Hit the jump for more info.
Sega Japan recently released downloadable extra episodes for the JP release of Valkyria, but so far mum’s the word on whether this content will be making it over to the US PlayStation Network. It’ll definitely not be on the retail disc, Sega confirmed in a conversation with Siliconera.
Source: Siliconera
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on August 16, 2008 4:24 pm
“the game will include the original Japanese voice-over work - a nice backup option in case the American voice-overs are too hammy.”
It is real interesting that the Japanese voice cast seems to take it’s job more serious and the quality is so much better for games and anime than their english counterparts.
on August 16, 2008 4:58 pm
I think that’s only partially true, usually the problem is that Japanese producers don’t really know what to do when they would hire people, but the process is getting a lot better - if you look at the JRPGs released in the last five years or so no particularly bad VA jobs are there, and there are even some REALLY good ones, like Persona 3 (where there was only one bad voice).
on August 16, 2008 9:08 pm
I am not too big on rpg’s in general but I like me some Anime and any time that I have made the mistake of watching one that has been re-voiced in english it looses it’s seriousness. or should I say it becomes corny. I really haven’t seen one yet that has improved. the emotion that is conveyed by the Japanese voice actors feels much more genuine
especially anger and fear.
on August 18, 2008 6:09 am
Good news. I’ve changed Soul Calibur 4 to use the Japanese voices and it makes a huge difference, plus their lips now move in time with the speech!
I’m hoping the same will be true for Infinite Undiscovery, looks great but the only thing that made me cringe was when the character anounces each move he’s about to make in a cheesy american accent.
This game sounds intriguing.