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FrodoGate222
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To be fair, Daisuke hasn't been voicing Sol for a while. It's been Joji Nakata since 2007 with Guilty Gear 2 Overture |
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Lord Geo
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Yeah, I was going to bring that up, too. Once Guilty Gear started getting more in-depth story modes & cutscenes Ishiwatari essentially retired from the role, outside of voicing Sol's grunts & shouts during battle for the 2D entries. Even the static image scenes for the original XX's story sequences saw Sol voiced by Hikaru Hanada first, before Jouji Nakata took over.
I think the last time Ishiwatari ever voiced a character was in Battle Fantasia, which came out earlier the same year as Guilty Gear 2, where he played Freed Velez. Last edited by Lord Geo on Fri Jan 24, 2025 11:34 am; edited 1 time in total |
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LinkTSwordmaster
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That Xbox Direct that dropped the other day was a real trip, the Ninja Gaiden announcement was big enough that it seemed to blot out the rest of what was announced, in spite of the other games on it looking like they had some promising elements. Not something I tend to expect from Xbox these days.
The new Phantom Brave is out, and while I imagine the PC release of FF7R Part 2 is probably going to be occupying most JRPG players for a while, I still want to see Phantom Brave do well. It's not often these days that NIS gives us something new that's not trying to shill Laharl front and center, and it's weirdly-refreshing seeing them return to one of their earlier PS2 side stories. They really need to recapture that PS2-era charm badly - whether that's with 2D sprites or not I cant say, but even if I find the Phantom Brave series to be a bit underwhelming compared to other Disgaea titles, it's refreshing that they didn't go for the obvious cash-grab that would have been a Disgaea 8 announcement. |
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FinalVentCard
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That stuff came in too last-minute to be discussed this column, I'll talk about Ninja Gaiden next week. |
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Lord Geo
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At least it'll give you time to see how Ninja Gaiden II Black is actually being received, as I've seen some complain that it's really more just Ninja Gaiden Sigma 2, with all of the changes that fans didn't like maintained (& even the removal of two bonus bosses that were in Sigma 2), except with all of the gore of the original NGII added back in. |
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AiddonValentine
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Oh Lynch, what an artist. Within a day after he died not only did Criterion make a documentary about him available for free until the end of the month, Plutotv has made Twin Peaks available in the US for a limited time. You know someone has made an indelible mark on a medium when their death causes people to go "We gotta make sure as many people as possible have access to this guy's art!" (Also funny Norio Wakamoto comes up as he was the Japanese dub voice for "Big Ed" Hurley in Twin Peaks).
Anyway, it's very funny what sorts of influences you find in Japanese media when it comes to foreign stuff. Like how the Belmont family in Castlevania is named after Jean-Paul Belmondo who subsequently was the inspiration for the look of Cobra in Space Adventure, how Dario Argento's Phenomena inspired Clock Tower, and so on. And looking back it's not surprising Twin Peaks clicked with Japan what its focus on the inherent surrealism an outsider coming into a small town and the darkness that lays in small town communities. |
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