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Oh Dear, Arc Rise Fantasia’s Dub…

By Spencer . April 20, 2010 . 6:45pm

Last month, Ignition announced they were going to dub Arc Rise Fantasia instead of leaving the original voice acting. IGN posted videos with the results. Before watching lower your expectations… lower than that.

 

 

L’arc’s emotionless countenance sums that up. This battle tutorial video, believe it or not, is even worse. Voiced lines differ from the text, a problem Ignition had with Lux Pain.

 

 

Thanks for the (painful) video links and tip Denpa no Sekai.


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  • The Icon

    I think it’s karma for not bringing Deadly Premonition to PS3.

    • http://www.youtube.com/B4ULoveShine Tim_at_where

      How it is karma, when Arc Rise Fantasia has always been a Wii-exclusive?

      • The Icon

        I was kidding.

  • The Icon

    Is this the new business model for Ignition? Release campy games and hope they build an audience? First Deadly Premonition, now this. Arc Rise seemed like a classy JRPG, but forget about that now. I still want DP on PS3 though.

  • Vanilla

    Ignition needs to start doing their localizations for free.

  • [The Hunter] Doomrider

    This kind of awkward voice acting would fit perfectly in Silent Hill!

    The voices in the first clip really remind me of some conversation scenes from the first game, awesome

  • ForeverFidelis

    This anger is sweeping me up into a frenzyyyy

    KILL KILL

    MUST KILL

    GOTTA KILL

  • Hello_Hello

    I’m all for dubbing games, but this is embarrassingly bad. I have a feeling this bad dub is going to eclipse the game like it did for Chaos Wars.

  • MrRobbyM

    I haven’t seen a siliconera post with this many comments in a long time. That says a lot, Ignition. I almost hate you as much as Namco Bandai, almost.

    • Ereek

      It’s sad. ignition is alienating their target audience, that is: Us. People like Siliconera readers are their targets. Admittedly this audience is a picky bunch at times, but the fact that it’s mortifying pretty much everyone here really makes a negative statement.

      • MrRobbyM

        Exactly. I hope Ignition knows their work is horrible and that they get a lot of bullshit for this so they learn. So many good games ruined by them.

        • http://geekouts.blogspot.com/ miruki

          I wonder if they’ll ever learn? They’re doing the same stupid mistakes over and over again….

      • http://www.siliconera.com Ishaan

        For what it’s worth, I don’t believe for a moment we were ever the target audience to begin with…not in the long-term anyway. Ignition have said many, many times that they’ve got western-focused projects in the pipeline, so by the looks of it, this localization gig is a rather temporary line of business. That or whomever plans the budget for these localizations is doing an abysmal job.

  • Darren M

    Does Ignition heavily censor their facebook, twitter and forums, or is nobody complaining? I would find that hard to believe…

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