07-08-2009, 06:50 AM
Playing through Star Ocean at the moment. Who ever said that Lymle (the little girl) was annoying was dead-on. Adding "kay?" to the end of all her sentences just because they did something like that in Japanese is still incredibly stupid. This character, however, suffers from much more serious issues.
This habit of just phoning in voice acting for video games is getting really old. Did the VA even look at this character before they started reading lines? Was their script printed one word per page? The character is a stereotypically "cute" little girl, but the voice acting is more mechanical than just about anything I've ever heard. What sucks is that she has some pretty badass magic, but, given the choice, I will never use her.
Aside from that (and I made it sound worse than it actually is), I'm enjoying the game quite a bit. The story is fine, nothing spectacular but it works, and the combat is a lot of fun. I feel pretty cool about pulling off a Blindside and seeing my character just barely escape an enemy's attack. In slow motion.
This habit of just phoning in voice acting for video games is getting really old. Did the VA even look at this character before they started reading lines? Was their script printed one word per page? The character is a stereotypically "cute" little girl, but the voice acting is more mechanical than just about anything I've ever heard. What sucks is that she has some pretty badass magic, but, given the choice, I will never use her.
Aside from that (and I made it sound worse than it actually is), I'm enjoying the game quite a bit. The story is fine, nothing spectacular but it works, and the combat is a lot of fun. I feel pretty cool about pulling off a Blindside and seeing my character just barely escape an enemy's attack. In slow motion.
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"It's on my brain, driving me insane. It's on my mind, all of
the time, and if it left... I would be fine."