i'm playing it with japanese voice acting this time bc i want to see if i like it better and

already

i do

i'm very sorry to be such a hater but i DO NOT like the way cloud's VA plays him

also, bc the subtitles are for the english script they don't always match up with the japanese and it's making me side eye some of the translation choices

english translation made it kind of...a little more catty? here and there

i had that problem with zack in crisis core lmao

2 mins in "oh i do not like this /switches"

YEAH zack's new VA is also not good

like uhhh for example in kalm, when you run into aerith in the morning, in english she goes "look who's finally up!" in i guess kind of a teasing way??? but it kind of comes off as a little weirdly passive aggressive

i guess they were going for familiarity but

in japanese she just goes "oh! ohayo!"

WHICH IS CUTE????

cute...

so i'm just gonna keep playing this one in japanese

I ALSO. forgot how hard it is to put this game down LMAO

last night i was just wandering around kalm and i'm like "ok i'll just check out one more thing- oh okay just ONE more thing" AND GIRL I EVEN PLAYED THIS GAME BEFORE

I STILL GOTTA CHECK OUT ONE MORE THING

i gotta go back to it, i got lost trying to do EVERY LITTLE THING in the first area, AGAIN

yeah that

good god this game is so HUGE they really did go fucking insane with it

i mean like i bitch a lot

but this game really is insanely impressive

it's SO HUGE

and they really put their ENTIRE squssy into bringing this 1997 environment to life

and it LOOKS so good and full

my gripes with voice acting, some story choices, and some music pacing don't even compare to the praise i want to put on the environmental work in this game

also queen's blood so addictive, only time i've ever loved a card minigame

every time a new zone opens I go right for looking for who I can play.

please come to my house and play every fucking queens blood game for me

i am literally outside your door

to be honest, if you couldn't immediately restart a game in the middle of a game, i would like it a LOT less

oh i would absolutely hate it more

what good features in so much of this game

i've reset games after not reading a card and making dumb moves. Whoops nm

speaking of voice actors, I'm going to leave you with the knowledge that the Japanese ones for cloud and Sephiroth have voice boylove drama plays together

i used to giggle about that but honestly BL dramas are so commonplace for VAs i think one would be hard pressed to find a pair that haven't done at least one together

(still amusing, but)

that IS extremely funny

i am not particularly interested in sefikura beyond playing with how very fucked up it is but honestly? tracks

I just find it funny

I will say there is no beating the Japanese voices in general. they're just perfect

honestly tho they're so good

in Japanese Sephiroth emphasizes Cloud's name whenever he says it in a way that doesn't quite come across in English very well.