[PS2] Chaos Wars

Hmm...I'm slightly disappointed then. I was looking forward to this game. I'll probably still pick it up because it still sounds good, but I suppose I'll begin lowering my expectations for it (well, they weren't very high to begin with).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

So I picked up this game yesterday because I found it sitting in a Gamestop and I suppose I'll give my impressions of it. First impressions were bad.

I left it in the English Voice Acting the first time around before resetting it and putting it in the Japanese track. Seriously, the English voices in this game sound like utter shit. Partially, that's because of the translation having a lot of errors in them as well, but some of it is just inexcusable. The captions clearly say "summon" buy the guy says something along the likes of "salmon" so I'm guessing they only had one run through this and called it a day. The last thing about the voice is that some of them sound horribly unmotivated, and it sounds like they were reading a piece of paper in front of them monotonously. Either that, or their script has no punctuation marks whatsoever and they couldn't be arsed to throw them in themselves.

But past the shitty voice acting and translation, the game itself isn't that bad, being a strategy RPG in the vein of Phantom Brave. The lack of animation for talking scenes is a bit cheap, but I've been playing Fire Emblem for a long time now, so this doesn't bother me as much.

It's pretty average beyond that though. As from what I got from the story, guy goes exploring in a cave with some friends, finds something (I seriously have no idea what he finds, actually) gets sucked into some other world, and wants to get back to his. Teams up with another person who jumped worlds (called "Knights") and the Gate Master and they go along their way.

It's not a bad game. I generally use the Japanese voices if there is an option for them, so the English voice acting doesn't blemish it too much, except for when the times I forget to turn on Japanese. Game play seems pretty solid and story maybe a bit cliche, but not too bad.

How ya doing, buddy?

I think the game itself is actually quite rare where I am. I went to Gamestop and picked it up for $40, and it happened to be the last (un-gutted) copy.

I don't know about anybody else, but I thought the game-play was quite solid. There's lots of dialog to sift through though. Outside of battle, I've only seen one of two types of screens: the save screen, and the screen with 2 static portraits of talking characters. I'm going to guess you won't see much else. Of course, I've only played the first two battles and stopped after that, I can't say for sure, but I hope there's more action to come.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by JazzFlight

No one plays with the English VO on. The only reason they had that was because Sony forces games to have an English VO track (so they used their damn family members as voice actors, it's true).

You should have just switched to the original Japanese VO track.

I put it on the first time just for laughs. At first it was just hilariously bad. Then it stopped being funny, and kept going downhill. Around the time of the first battle, I turned it off and put on the Japanese voice track and restarted the game. Haven't looked back since.

And yeah, the voices aren't done by professional voice actors. The guy seriously got his family in on the game. To be honest, I can't think of anybody sounding so emotionless, and it's not even the robot kind of emotionless voice.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?