bouteillebleu | Disgaea - a note. (Reply)

I'm not entirely sure why, but for some reason the UK PAL release of Disgaea doesn't have any option for Japanese language. This is rather odd, as the US release had the option of either Japanese or English for certain plot scenes (though the voices in battle couldn't be changed), and I personally would've preferred a Japanese option... it's not as easy to tell if the Japanese actors are overacting, and if they do they tend to be not as bad as the US ones. Hearing characters talk in American accents gives almost as much of an air of "foreignness" as hearing them speak in Japanese, so it's not as if the English version would sound more natural. I think I'll just have to chalk it up to KOEI being rather odd when they brought it out over here.

Still, Laharl has a satisfyingly insane laugh, and the Prinnies are as "dood!"ish as ever. So it's not all that bad. Also, one of the initial Prinny Squad has a name that's only one letter off my own, so I'm going to try to raise her (him? it?) to as high a level as I can.

And hey, at least it was released over here. Could have been like Chrono Cross, never to be released in the UK because, well, the publishers wouldn't expect anyone to buy it.

Edited to add: It looks like the Japanese voices have been completely removed from the UK version, and unlike the US one it's on a CD - the Japanese voices may have been removed for it to fit.

Also, for a slightly more impassioned view of this, and one I'm tempted to agree with, see the post here by