Joshua Kaufman (kaufmajs@EMAIL.UC.EDU)
Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:40:40 +0000
X-Sender: kaufmajs@email.uc.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.0.1 Message-ID: <199901151942.OAA00773@email.uc.edu> Date: Fri, 15 Jan 1999 14:40:40 +0000 From: Joshua Kaufman <kaufmajs@EMAIL.UC.EDU> Subject: Re: Traffic!
At 09:40 AM 1/15/99 -0800, you wrote:
>> >What do you dislike most about Sakura Taisen?
>>
>> It's in Japanese.
>
>Actually, that is probably one of the things I liked MOST about Sakura
>Taisen. To the Japanese learner, hearing spoken Japanese and reading
>Japanese text helps immensely. It's one thing to say "Mooshiwake
>arimasen" in Japanese class a year ago. It's complete different to hear
>it and see the hiragana/kanji. Once you see it once(or a few times), you
>learn it. Repeat process for other phrases/terms you knew, but didn't
>know how to read.
>
>And as a dub-hater, I would be darned not to be able to hear Chisa-san,
>Michie-san, and the others.
Well, I love the voices too. If it were translated but subbed I'd
pay...well, a lot of money.
>
>> it was a pleasure. And it got me in the mood to play SF3 again, cause I'm
>> only at the end of chapter one in that...
>
> Hey, I'm playing that now as well! I put it off for 6 months but
>now I'm in chapter 2 and it's great! It's a heckuvalot harder than I
>expected though.
>
>> English. Also, the quality of the music synth gets on my nerves, as it's
>> worse than some Snes games even (though the music is very good). Especially
>> hearing NiGHTS as proof of the Saturn MIDI capability...
>
> go play grandia, joshua... that's the next thing I have to
>convince you of.. The only game I bought a soundtrack for(well, ok,
>not entirely true since I bought the ST2 soundtrack as well)
I've heard a few MIDIs that were supposedly from Grandia, but nothing
seemed special...I could try DLing an Mp3 or two ::shrugs::
-Joshua