Playing Muramasa: The Demon Blade recently, I've noticed that the lack of English voiceover actually seems to add to the game rather than subtract from it -- the spoken Japanese actually goes well with the atmosphere. Naturally, its less work for a studio, but if it works out well, more power to them.
In a recent chat with XSEED, Siliconera found out that much anticipated Fragile: Farewell Ruins of the Moon will likely keep its Japanese voice track as well. A rep said "All signs from the dev team are that the Japanese voices can be included together with the English voices for Fragile. We should have final confirmation on this later as an English build becomes available for the first time.” Neat!
However, fans hoping to hear the original Japanese voices in Sky Crawlers: Innocent Aces may be disappointed to learn they definitely will not be included. XSEED says that this was due to a licensing issue with the Japanese voices for territories outside of Japan. Too bad!
Of course, Fragile could come with Romanian voiceovers and I'd still be happy, because I'm finally going to get to play it. This is easily my most anticipated game of the year. Do you care if an import retains its Japanese voice track or not?
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1:00 PM on 09.11.2009
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Because it's not an American game and is (surprise surprise) a Japanese game. It saves a colossal amount of money to not record other language tracks, and plenty of people don't care for the English voices anyway and on a niche game like this the kind of people playing it are the kind who wouldn't want the English voices.
(That was mostly for Topher.)
See: Cowboy Bebop.
@Zeta Crossfire
The voice acting isn't better but people think it is because they can't understand anything being said besides what they're reading. It's like when Naruto fans whine that "Believe it!" is annoying and nonsensical compared to "Dattebayo!" because they never understood Dattebayo. It's actually just as annoying for the Japanese.
Placebo effect but with sounds basically.
Great news!
I preferred the Japanese voice acting in Blue Dragon and I didn't have any problem relating to the characters (outside of the weak plot and characterization that is).
Muramasa and now Fragile.... do I smell an awesome trend?