Tom Cheng (tkcheng@HOME.COM)
Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:13:04 -0600
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.06 [en] (Win98; I) Message-ID: <3822D7E0.4E8F2A8F@home.com> Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 07:13:04 -0600 From: Tom Cheng <tkcheng@HOME.COM> Subject: Re: Debug modeI got the ST ADV DVD today. I watched all four episodes. It's "pretty decent." I think you have to have actually played the game to understand and appreciate it. Like when Kanna leaves to avenge her father, she just comes back in the next episode. **They didn't do a great job with Sumire, she just becomes a total bitch when she joins the Hanagumi. **Kouran, Kasumi, Tsubame, and Yuri kind of get screwed out of footage. Kouran just sits in the lab the whole time. I guess it suffers from the "too many characters" syndrome. It works great to introduce them all over the period of an entire game, but when you introduce them all in 2 episodes it may be rough. **Oh, I liked how they went through all of Oogami's minigames as an idea of what he has to do every day. Except Iris didn't lose Jean-Paul. **Shinguchi, Shinguji, just pick one. And AERIS Chateaubriand? Erg. It looks like they couldn't get unsubbed footage, because when Kouran, Maria, and Ayame speak non-Japanese languages, the Japanese subtitles are still there. And then there's the dub. It's not awful by any means. It's God-awful. Kouran's seiyuu doesn't speak good Chinese. Now, the dub VA is imitating her. You can imagine the result. Maria, Kazuma, Sumire, Kanna, and Yoneda seem type cast. Of course many many dub characters are typecast. It happens. No one screams an attack name better than the Japanese. Accept no imitations. And yet when Ayame pronounces Kirishima well, it still sounds out of place. Further backing up my claim that those two languages were not meant to mix. Granted I didn't watch much of the dub. Overall it was enjoyable and worth the $10 I paid for it. I am looking forward to seeing the next OAV. Does that one have Soletta? -- Tom Cheng, #1 Celes and Galaxia fan tkcheng@home.com http://members.home.net/tkcheng "I understand your opinion, ----------- NOW PLAYING ----------- I just don't care." Outer Senshi Doom | Galaxia-sama Project SING: Saturn Is Not Goth -Jedah Soul Calibur Ivy and Mitsurugi FAQs Tekken 2 combos and multipart FAQs The only Celes Chere's home