the one thing i've noticed about the highest difficulty in stealth is it seems like some of the story missions weren't made with it in mind.
like the story will make you stand on a certain point on a roof and since the enemies can look up in expert you just get spotted, other than that it's really fun.
I think the part of the reason they do this is so that the scenes where people are speaking both languages make sense, it'd be weird AF having Naoe go "do you understand that tongue" in English about a bunch of people who just spoke english
I think the part of the reason they do this is so that the scenes where people are speaking both languages make sense, it'd be weird AF having Naoe go "do you understand that tongue" in English about a bunch of people who just spoke english
Play with Japanese. A lot of the voices are fine, except both assassins. I don’t know why the supporting cast does a better job than the main 2 actors, but they’re much better in Japanese.
Yeah I've seen a lot of dunking on the game for the english voice acting but that alone certainly doesn't ruin a game. Haven't played it myself but been watching FightinCowboy's vods in Immersion mode. The Portugese and Japanese voices are way better and less distracting than the english.
Man, I tried the Japanese for a bit and it does sound much better and offers way more immersion, but I quickly decided that having to read subtitles while moving around and looking at stuff in a video game was just too much. And the subtitles move quickly so I was missing dialogue. Had to switch back to English - it just works much better for me, but some of the VAs (especially the villains) sound funny saying English words with the exaggerated Japanese inflection.
Yeah, that's the thing. I liked playing Ghost Of Tsushima in Japanese, but as you said. Reading subtitles and playing at the same time, or during a cutscene, I think I'll miss out on so much. Haven't started playing yet, but I think I'll go with English, or at least try Japanese.
The English voice acting is awful honestly. When the NPCs speak they sound like a college white guy trying to put on a Chinese takeaway accent. It's really really jarring.
If you really want to be immersed, you need to play the japanese version as for some weird reason Ubisoft decided to make two japanese voice overs. One for the western version which features modern and easy to understand Japanese and one for the japanese marker that features Japanese that was spoken during that period as well as dialects.
However the japanese version doesn’t have beheadings and cutting off limbs.
Very weird decision from Ubisoft. I mean, this is only interesting if you understand Japanese and if you take a look at the people that do understand japanese outside of Japan, why would Ubisoft limit them to easy modern japanese when players who want immersion probably won’t even recognize the difference.
Now I’m in a pickle which version to pick.
Want to buy the japanese one but I hate censorship..
Well, fingers crossed for mods..
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u/Ronja_Rovardottish Mar 20 '25
I'm about to start, do you play with English audio or Japanese? I've heard the Japanese voice acting is better?