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Persona Q2 to not be dubbed?

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Gold Arsene

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I felt this was worth its own thread.

From the IGN article on Persona Q2's release.
Persona Q2 will feature a Japanese voice track with English subtitles and UI heavily inspired by Persona 5.
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https://m.ign.com/articles/2019/01/...the-west-with-release-date-collectors-edition

Now this doesn't entirely rule out a dub but it rasises my concerns. Given how character focused this series is this would honestly be enough to make me pass on this title I would otherwise get Day 1.
 
tuffy

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It's a 3DS title released at the end of the system's lifespan and not expected to sell many copies. Given that dubbing is relatively expensive, it's only natural that Persona Q2 would not get one just like EO Nexus will not.
 
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They did the same thing to Strange Journey Redux last year, I am not surprised at this point since people don't care about 3DS as much. It's disappointing, but I get why they aren't doing it.
 
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It makes sense for a late 3DS release, but it's also pretty bad when it's a fanservice game revolving around the characters people love meeting each other and interacting with each other. The English voices are 50% of the actual characters for many of the fans who prefer the English dubs, so a lot about it is lost when it's in Japanese only.
 
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Obviously both options would be better... but Japanese voice acting is 99% of the time the best option imo.
 
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tuffy said:
It's a 3DS title released at the end of the system's lifespan and not expected to sell many copies. Given that dubbing is relatively expensive, it's only natural that Persona Q2 would not get one just like EO Nexus will not.
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Normally I can understand this but Persona is a series with a heavy emphasis on its characters.

If it's not dubbed it goes from Day 1 to "eventually" for me personally.
 
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Not surprising since Atlus's recent 3DS games haven't had dubs. I prefer Japanese voices anyway so it's fine for me.
 
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Opa-Opa said:
Obviously both options would be better... but Japanese voice acting is 99% of the time the best option imo.
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No.
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Just no.
 
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Considering that i only ever played atlus games dubbed, this really makes the game less interesting.
 
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Seems like a dub is just a reckless waste of money for a game that is going to be extremely niche.
 
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Rosebud said:
But the chars are the same, with the same text.
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If that's how you look at it I'm obviously not going to convince you.

But the English versions of these characters are the ones I'm attached to. There the ones I like.

Plus I don't have to have my ears bleed from Japanese Teddie and Rise like I posted above.

Most times I can tolerate no dub if it's absolutely the only option. But I draw the line in a game where the entire purpose is to bring these characters together.
 
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As someone who loves the English cast for the Persona games, this is quite the hype-killer. I get that it's late in the 3DS's life, but still.
 
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As stated in the previous thread:

I don't blame them for no dub at all, if it's true.

It's a 3DS only game being released in 2019 featuring a cast of like 20 characters. Considering they're mostly all pre-established characters, some with pretty big VAs, that just sounds like a huge money sink with little profit to be made.
 
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KtotheRoc said:
Even if this game had a dub, I wouldn't have been surprised if Rise (and P3's FeMC) were recast.
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And there's an 90% chance there'd still be better then Rise's Japanese voice.
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It was either "localize subbed only" or "don't do it at at all". I'll take subbed over nothing.
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And I'm happy for those who can overlook this and still want this game.

As someone who played Q1 on easy mostly for the Story and Characters(which I liked) I'm not one of them.
 
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I was already on the fence about buying it due to how it handles certain stuff but this just made the decision a whole lot easier.

I get why they did it, but I have no interest in a game revolving around character interactions with no dub.
 

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The game has a lot of unsubbed battle chatter that Atlus USA aren't going to sub. Not having an English dub means missing out on a lot there.
 
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Opa-Opa said:
Obviously both options would be better... but Japanese voice acting is 99% of the time the best option imo.
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I think it's actually great in the Persona games and something I will miss here. Also Persona games didn't feature japanese voices until Persona 5 as far as I remember. That's might be a problem here, because people are already used to at least the voices of Persona 3+4 characters.
 
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Crazy Izanagi said:
No.
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Just no.
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I like things in the original and although there are obviously some miscasting in Japanese VA, I believe they put more weight to their dubs.

Like anime... since dragon ball z was over, I've never watched a dubbed anime again. Same as movies... since I was a teenager. (Brazil here... and that goes for any language, subtitles are always my choice.)
 
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Non native English speaker here. I glad the horrible english voices are gone. I would rather have spanish, but Japanese is better than English dub. I was not a fan of P3P nor P4G dubs.
 
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Crimson said:
The game has a lot of unsubbed battle chatter that Atlus USA aren't going to sub. Not having an English dub means missing out on a lot there.
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That's true. Like Tokyo Mirage Sessions #FE, there are flourishes during the battles with more fanservice and dialogue that won't be subbed at all.
 
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Opa-Opa said:
I like things in the original and although there are obviously some miscasting in Japanese VA, I believe they put more weight to their dubs.

Like anime... since dragon ball z was over, I've never watched a dubbed anime again. Same as movies... since I was a teenager. (Brazil here)
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That's good for you. Honestly that's fine.

But for me 90% of the time I prefer dubs unless there's simply no other option available to me.

Helping the matter is that Persona's dubs are fantastic.

Plus like Crimson said above there's in battle dialogue that I just straight out will no longer understand losing a lot of that personnel touch.
 

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Still there day one, but I won't lie: I'm disappointed.

I suppose this comes with the territory when releasing a 3DS game in 2019.
 
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Opa-Opa said:
I like things in the original and although there are obviously some miscasting in Japanese VA, I believe they put more weight to their dubs.

Like anime... since dragon ball z was over, I've never watched a dubbed anime again. Same as movies... since I was a teenager. (Brazil here... and that goes for any language, subtitles are always my choice.)
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You and are quite the opposite. I'm dub only for anime. Tried watching JoJo subbed twice and lost interest both times. When I watched it dubbed, I fell in love with it and binged it until I ran out of English episodes.
 
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That's a bummer but not a big surprise. Better than not getting it at all.
 
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Crazy Izanagi said:
Normally I can understand this but Persona is a series with a heavy emphasis on its characters.

If it's not dubbed it goes from Day 1 to "eventually" for me personally.
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I think what you meant to say is that Persona generally has excellent dubs that sometimes excels the Japanese version. In case of Persona 5, I feel the Japanese is the strongest and given they are the leads it doesn't hurt me as much. I am let down by the P3 and P4 cast not getting dubbed though :/

Wanted to hear more Tara Platt as Mitsuru.
 
TheMrPliskin

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While I understand the reasons for not having a dub it's still a huge disappointment given how focused this series is on it's characters and the fact that this is meant to be a fan service game.
Crimson said:
The game has a lot of unsubbed battle chatter that Atlus USA aren't going to sub. Not having an English dub means missing out on a lot there.
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This bothered me a lot in Tokyo Mirage Sessions so this is also disappointing.
 
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Be thankful that the game will be localized.
 
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