Context on this game's voice acting: The dub on Chaos Wars is the result of a CEO hiring his family members to do the dubbing job. It has attracted the game lots of attention and is always good for a laugh. The voice acting makes everyone sound like they're stoned. Note that the CEO knew his company couldn't afford a decent localization, but Sony mandated an English translation. The game was obscure enough he knew he could get away with it too (most people who wanted this game would switch to Japanese immediately, anyway).
R.I.P. Rachael Lillis, 4Kids legend, voice of Jessie and Misty among others. Recently lost her battle with cancer but boy did the fans come through for her on her gofundme. ❤
Holy crap, I had no idea. One of the voices of my childhood :(. Pretty cool that her range was good enough to give two very distinct voices in the same show.
Omg really?? That's so awful, I had no idea... RIP Rachael 😢 I still have my (I think it's called) "To Be A Master" CD where the cast sings about the show. At least I'm pretty sure it's the OG voice actors... though I haven't listened to it since I was like 8 lol 😅 but I remember Misty singing about how she liked Ash haha.
@@justinburchette I have that as well, as well as the pokemon movie 1 and 3 soundtracks (I missed out on 2). I'm pretty sure Jessie and James are the usual VA's, but I don't think the other singing voices are. The Misty song is actually from Pokemon the Musical, a US original story that toured way back when. Never seen it, probably floating on youtube somewhere. It featured the reveal that Delia once dated Giovanni, but that Ash's father is NOT Giovanni since they broke up too long before he was born. That probably isn't canon though.
@@professorhaystacks6606 Oh, wow! I definitely did not know any of that! Haha my childhood brain probably thought it was the original VA's and now my adult brain just assumed it to be true. Like I said, I haven't listened to it in *years!* (Am I misremembering again though, or did they not have spoken parts that actually _were_ the original VA's? Idk, I seem to recall that being the case, but... well you know lol 😅) Ah, that's so cool that you have those soundtracks, though! Like I assume you mean on CDs, right? That's super cool. I have a whole lot of old Pokémon memorabilia. From the movies specifically though I have a few of the Ancient Mew cards that haven't been opened yet. I think maybe my ticket stubs... and also a gigantic Legendary Birds card lol. *Edit:* Oh I actually do remember Pokémon the Musical! I remember seeing advertisements for it on TV and begging my mom to take me lol. I'm sure she never did, I think I'd probably remember it otherwise. That's the one that had the Mewtwo variant though right? I can't remember if it was like Armored Mewtwo or Mewthree or some shit like that 😅
57:23 this is actually not a glitch, but completely intentional. It’s a joke from shadow hearts where the game prompts you to name Roger (something the game doesn’t do anywhere) only for the game to just ignore that prompt. Also you are right in assuming that it’s another spoiler as this Roger Bacon is different from the Roger Bacon at start of shadow hearts.
If it's any consolation hes stated he has 0 recollection of dubbing majima. Also i now kinda wanna hear Hidenari Ugaki yell Kazuma-chan just for that stiltedness
i bought this game when it came out and can say it that either the game made zero sense or the translators were high on carbon monoxide because it was like reading a book written by a 1 year old chinese baby that was forced to write in russian then translate what he wrote into english
You know, the only thing I know about this game besides "voice acting bad" is that one of the characters has an ult called "Seed the Puppy" [or maybe low video quality made it look like that] and my jaw still drops every time I say that.
I guess I'm one of those rare few people who was actually looking forward to "Chaos Wars" back when it was releasing. I remember finding a single 1-page ad of it in the GameInformer magazine and managed to preorder a copy. Heck, I even took that page out and put it up as a poster of sorts on a wooden pin board I had in my room. Had that thing up for a good number of years before the board got too run down and had to get thrown out. And you know what, I did enjoy the game. I actually knew about a good number of the franchises in it. And for those I didn't, I quickly did since either I'd later find their games to play, usually on PSP, or just learned general information about them through related media. Its kind of funny listening to your gameplay complaints because...well, a lot of those were just standard SRPG fare at the time. If anything, "Chaos Wars" is on the tamer end. It's main problem just being the very long and constant loading times on PS2 due to how butchered the English porting was. Like, the original JP version apparently didn't perform that great either but the localization did more than just introduce bad voice acting, it outright added new bugs and performance issues. Like one I kept running into was this menu bug that caused everything to turn transparent and basically impossible to read. As for why this game exists? Who knows? Almost nobody asks for them but there are tons of crossover games like this featuring a complete grab bag of niche and popular IPs that exist seemingly just because. You want "Fate", "Nanoha", "Haruhi", "Black Rock Shooter", "Touhou", "Dog Days", and more in a single game? "Nendoroid Generation". You want "Blazblue", "Guilty Gear", "King of Fighters", "Soul Calibur", "Tekken", and more? "Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos". You want "Blood+", "Darker than Black", "Sgt. Frog", "Orphen", "s-CRY-ed", "Read or Die", "Slayers", and more? "Heroes Phantasia". You want "Familiar of Zero", "Higurashi", "Symphogear", "Twin Angel", "Infinite Stratos", "Di Gi Charat", "Super Sonico", and more? "Super Heroine Chronicle" I could just go on and on, haven't even touched some of the more obvious ones like "Namco x Capcom" or "Super Robot Taisen". The only difference between them and "Chaos Wars" is that "Chaos Wars" somehow got localized. Localized poorly obviously but still localized.
I appreciate that you commented this because when he said how Rin just is randomly either spawned or not in the base when you sometimes require her to progress, i immediately felt like that HAD to have been an issue with the port. Like I genuinely can't think of a japanese game I've played with that level of faulty flagging. Sometimes there's glitches or bugs that can break flags for a singular instance sure, but a whole necessital & recurring event type not flagging the required NPC spawn?
I definitely doubt that translator on reddit's legitimacy because of this. although "tengaio" (天凱凰）is some chuuni nonsense, it doesn't sound like katakana at all, and anyone would guess the "ten" was 天 in relation to the heavens. Then again, its not like claiming to be the chaos wars localizer holds any prestige, so maybe that was just an easier explanation.
@@andreyfisher7068 I love Idea Factory so much. Their best games are like eating a fruitcake with no utensils and their worst games are so bad it is downright endearing. Literally haven’t played a single game I couldn’t find some joy in. Especially since most of their manuals are completely useless in explaining how to actually optimally play their games. Beautiful
@@blackchibisan8116 my long lost brother, I know exactly what you mean! Which ones are your favourite of their lines, mine would be the Spectral/Generations of games.
@@andreyfisher7068 Generation of Chaos on the PSP was my first and it has been a spiral ever since. It is still my favorite, but binging the spectral force series is winning me over. Agarest war is… a choice. And I get it but have a hard time explaining to anyone because of obvious reasons. I still remember a conversation had between Lees and one of the somewhat generic elf generals in Generation of chaos where she talked about making Lees into a pet in a highly suggestive way… and then I never found it again. I swear it was one of the elves with pink hair, but I could be wrong. But I’ve never forgotten it. That and recruiting Jack Sparr- I mean Jackal with the red pirate lady(easily the most broken commander) and that whole exchange.
To the defense of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the voice acting gets better as the story progresses as the recording sessions were done chronologically (which is not the norm in professionally recorded media). Typically there are days when specific tones are recorded: One day the cast voices the dramatic scenes. Another the comedic scenes. Then on another the battle quotes and screams, etc. Not saying that XC2 doesn’t sound awkward at first (absolutely does), but the further you go, the better it gets, especially when it comes to the DLC campaign. As for Chaos Wars… you don’t need any knowledge in voice acting to know that it’s a bunch of relatives and loved ones to the localization team doing what they have no knowledge or experience of. My favorite will always be “Wow. I cannot move my body…”
There are so many Japanese game companies that get away with outputting 90% garbage. Idea factory and compile are some major offenders. At least the d3 published games were advertised as low budget
Are they the same person? I found shadowfyre, made me think of Ramzaes, found out I wasn't subbed to Ramzaes and had to hunt down the channel because I forgot the name.
Loved the video man! Been enjoying your content as of late. One game series I’d love for you to cover is the Disgaea series. Either a general video about the series or each installment by itself. It just feels like your type of game. I mean you can name a Prinny (penguin guy) after whoever you want!
"Back in the day" When anime games and jrpgs were pretty scarce in NA and one of the only few publishers of them were NIS America I used to pre order every single game since they always lowballed the stock and if you missed the initial launch window there was a good chance you won't be able to get a MSRP copy. Chaos Wars funny enough was one of the few games I wasn't able to get a copy of. I didn't put a $5 down payment on it and my gamestop ended up not having any copies left. I was pretty bummed out about it back then but now I don't know if I dodged a bullet or missed out on one of the best dubs ever.
I desperately, passionately want (need) someone to translate that behind the scenes DVD. This game's existence has been a mystery to me for so long. 55:24 You can swap dead units out for other ones, but ONLY if the story is not forcing them to be on the map. Which means most of the time when someone dies you're stuck with em anyway.
Growlanser is my absolute favorite series, and it's wild that it was featured in a crossover game. I really love 2, 3 (Bundled on the PS2 Called Generations) and 4-Wayfarer of time. There is a PSP Remake for 1, but that is only been partially fan-translated, and I cannot wait to get for it to be completed. There's also a 5 & 6. I haven't played much of it since they went with 3D-Models over sprite work.
Just a few things since I’m too obsessed with this game. Hiro does not use a sword, she is one of the two characters that uses scythes, and yeah there are way too many swords. The element for a character does actually contribute to damage as well, not just resistances. More often than not, Hyoma will do more damage with fire attacks than water more often than not. The characters in the base you have to talk to advance the story are always there when they need to. It’s still easy to get locked here if you don’t know about that though. Also that one hit fiasco, notice the letters saying “death.” It’s just a death status. Not everything in this game is a glitch… just most of it Rin doesn’t have a special realize form like the other three main characters, so you didn’t miss anything with her. And just general advi- oh who am I kidding, nobody cares. I’m going to say it anyways. The general crew size I like is around 6-8, giving you some variety as well as being able to utilize skills that give you stat boosts when characters are in the party but not on the field.
Yuri-- oh I'm sorrry, _Uru's_ dub voice sounds like a more deadpan flavor of the late 00s/early 10s gay best friend. like, you could put his voice clips over some vaguely twinkish guy filing his nails and the energy would fit.
@1:03:00 - If you'd ever played the Disgaea series and spinoffs, you'd probably be better acquainted with the randomized strengths and weakness of various opponents. Can't tell you how often I instinctively thought an enemy that's emitting flame would be weak to ice and strong to fire only to find out that it's entirely random, so burning a fiery enemy is entirely possible!
Okay to be fair though. Golden Boy's voiceacting was peak comedy and it was all on purpose. The voiceactor for Kentaro was mostly ad-libbing. It is similar to the Ghost Story ENG VA.
After this video, the only thing I understand is that the game itself is worth playing only to giggle from the bad voice acting, since you really can't find anything quite like it.
Oh, Chaos Wars...I really enjoyed Shadow Hearts and Growlanser so initially thrilled to hear the cast in a crossover was being localised. Then, well, the result. It feels like a fever dream to me but no it's very real and it's out there. I totally believe that reddit thread that's "this was translated with zero context given for anything, including character names" and that no doubt that carried over to the voice 'direction'. I'm surprised the voice actors didn't totally butcher Hayatemaru though, they keep giving that name a good try (Yoichi as 'Yoshi' though...).
I was SOOOOO excited for this Game when it was being released, as I am a Gungrave and SH Fan. I can usually deal with Bad VA, but for the first time ever I had to change to Sub. Thanks for covering this :).
As someone who lives and breathes obscure weird JRPGs I got this day one! It's definitely a bizarre mix of stuff which I was half familiar/half confused by. The random skill learning reminded me of a less refined version of the SaGa titles, which I adore and seeing as how we were in the midst of a drought of the series was kind of happy to see. But yeah like most Idea Factory titles it's a mishmash of great concept and severely unbalanced execution. Far from the worst game I've played but all the issues definitely put it below average for sure. If some stuff was ironed out could see it being a very solid 8/10, instead it's closer to something like 4.5/10.
I still love this video game. I’m well aware it’s trash, but I still have great memories of this game and I revisit it a lot. As such I probably know more about this game than I ever should.
Oh my god!! I thought it was just bad dream when I was 16!? But chaos wars is real!? I spent full price on it hhaha, also switching it Japanese voice acting did not help at all… some how they phoned it in too
Surprisingly, Compile Heart and Idea Factory International have acknowledged several monsters featured in this game. They also have voices that aren't grating, so that's a plus.
Pretty sure SRW games at least tell you who's mandatory for the next map so you can throw parts on them(and money) to try and make them survive the next stage.
"why is the music jamming" it's because the ost was composed by Sound Horizon (or rather Linked Horizon), the same band worked on the soundtrack of Bravely default and made the opening songs of Attack on Titan
You won't like it if you play this game because the music is very overused. Like, I'm pretty sure they only have like 3 musics in the whole game, and one of them is the song you'll hear 99% of the portion of the game
I'm only 3 minutes in and I'm like 'yeah you can do emulations random guy I'm not subscribed to! .....how did I get here again?' but seriously I'm in for the ride
bro did not know i would ever hear anyone in the world who watched golden boy too lol i had a vhs as a kid and loved that motorcycle woman episode lol i watched the series a few years ago, VERY EDUCATIONAL !!
I disagree with the assessment of Shadow hearts, Alice is not "A quiet type anime girl" That's like a surface shallow understanding of her character. Kindhearted, open-minded, snarky, sweet, sneaky, self sacrificing, brave as well and boiling all that down to "Yuri's horny and Alice is a quiet type" Will make people who never played them think: "Wow, these sound like bad games. I'm not gonna play them." And its why instead of giving cliff-notes on the characters and games- you can link to videos explaining it or just stick to talking about the crossover itself.
4:33 The remake of Trials of Mana has the weirdest mix of voice acting I may have ever heard before. Some of the voice actors are really good like Duran, Hawkeye and Charlotte(Yes the character is annoying, but I think that was the point and the voice actor does a great job with that). But then some of the others are really, really bad, like Riesz and about half or even most of the elementals. Then you've got some in the middle like Kevin and some of the side characters.
This is literally the "we are going to do a super robot wars WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS" or at least it feels like it. It was a nice concept but Idk nowadays how good it would flow in the market. Maybe if they invented neptunia and threw it there at the time who knows.
I actually enjoyed this game back then i still remember spending lots of hours stats up every characters hahaha,at the time when my favorite game is games with big cast of characters like suikodens this game just feels fun (probably also help that i was just a teenagers so im not too bothered with the VA)
I remember buying this game when i was like 9 years old in 2009 for my little sister, she never played it but god if i did Tho I didn't speak a word of english so i never knew what was going on or the mechanics Kinda wish i could replay ot but i really don't feel like using emulators
this is only infamous because the localizers were nepotistic and they did not care about the game they were tasked with translating... kinda like all Localizers in this god damn industry
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Context on this game's voice acting:
The dub on Chaos Wars is the result of a CEO hiring his family members to do the dubbing job. It has attracted the game lots of attention and is always good for a laugh. The voice acting makes everyone sound like they're stoned. Note that the CEO knew his company couldn't afford a decent localization, but Sony mandated an English translation. The game was obscure enough he knew he could get away with it too (most people who wanted this game would switch to Japanese immediately, anyway).
Yes most of this info are from the So Bad It's good Video Game page on TV Tropes.
Perhaps we'll see more of those dubs if every game voice actor join SAG AFTRA and quit in protest.
English dub is the only way to play this game.
R.I.P. Rachael Lillis, 4Kids legend, voice of Jessie and Misty among others. Recently lost her battle with cancer but boy did the fans come through for her on her gofundme. ❤
Holy crap, I had no idea. One of the voices of my childhood :(. Pretty cool that her range was good enough to give two very distinct voices in the same show.
Oh man why am I just finding out about this? She once did an interview for some random fan site, which was strange but also kind of cool.
Omg really?? That's so awful, I had no idea... RIP Rachael 😢
I still have my (I think it's called) "To Be A Master" CD where the cast sings about the show. At least I'm pretty sure it's the OG voice actors... though I haven't listened to it since I was like 8 lol 😅 but I remember Misty singing about how she liked Ash haha.
@@justinburchette I have that as well, as well as the pokemon movie 1 and 3 soundtracks (I missed out on 2). I'm pretty sure Jessie and James are the usual VA's, but I don't think the other singing voices are. The Misty song is actually from Pokemon the Musical, a US original story that toured way back when. Never seen it, probably floating on youtube somewhere. It featured the reveal that Delia once dated Giovanni, but that Ash's father is NOT Giovanni since they broke up too long before he was born. That probably isn't canon though.
@@professorhaystacks6606 Oh, wow! I definitely did not know any of that! Haha my childhood brain probably thought it was the original VA's and now my adult brain just assumed it to be true. Like I said, I haven't listened to it in *years!*
(Am I misremembering again though, or did they not have spoken parts that actually _were_ the original VA's? Idk, I seem to recall that being the case, but... well you know lol 😅)
Ah, that's so cool that you have those soundtracks, though! Like I assume you mean on CDs, right? That's super cool. I have a whole lot of old Pokémon memorabilia. From the movies specifically though I have a few of the Ancient Mew cards that haven't been opened yet. I think maybe my ticket stubs... and also a gigantic Legendary Birds card lol.
*Edit:* Oh I actually do remember Pokémon the Musical! I remember seeing advertisements for it on TV and begging my mom to take me lol. I'm sure she never did, I think I'd probably remember it otherwise. That's the one that had the Mewtwo variant though right? I can't remember if it was like Armored Mewtwo or Mewthree or some shit like that 😅
57:23 this is actually not a glitch, but completely intentional. It’s a joke from shadow hearts where the game prompts you to name Roger (something the game doesn’t do anywhere) only for the game to just ignore that prompt. Also you are right in assuming that it’s another spoiler as this Roger Bacon is different from the Roger Bacon at start of shadow hearts.
Correction: I forgot the word ‘else’ after anywhere.
Is it a different Roger Bacon from the one in Koudelka?
@@nordinreecendo512 Same guy in all 3 games koudelka, SH 1 & 2
hearing mark hamil say “kazuma-chan” just took 10 years off my life
If it's any consolation hes stated he has 0 recollection of dubbing majima.
Also i now kinda wanna hear Hidenari Ugaki yell Kazuma-chan just for that stiltedness
I wish "Uru" would take my Tengaio away!
that sounds... dirty
i bought this game when it came out and can say it that either the game made zero sense or the translators were high on carbon monoxide because it was like reading a book written by a 1 year old chinese baby that was forced to write in russian then translate what he wrote into english
So...this is just a disgaea game wothout the disgaea charm
Yea
Im surprised it took so long for someone to cover such an infamous game like this at length.
You know, the only thing I know about this game besides "voice acting bad" is that one of the characters has an ult called "Seed the Puppy" [or maybe low video quality made it look like that] and my jaw still drops every time I say that.
I mean one is called Euthanasia so I can believe that 😂
Why does Yuri sound zesty as fuck!? Oh god my ears!
I guess I'm one of those rare few people who was actually looking forward to "Chaos Wars" back when it was releasing. I remember finding a single 1-page ad of it in the GameInformer magazine and managed to preorder a copy. Heck, I even took that page out and put it up as a poster of sorts on a wooden pin board I had in my room. Had that thing up for a good number of years before the board got too run down and had to get thrown out.
And you know what, I did enjoy the game. I actually knew about a good number of the franchises in it. And for those I didn't, I quickly did since either I'd later find their games to play, usually on PSP, or just learned general information about them through related media.
Its kind of funny listening to your gameplay complaints because...well, a lot of those were just standard SRPG fare at the time. If anything, "Chaos Wars" is on the tamer end. It's main problem just being the very long and constant loading times on PS2 due to how butchered the English porting was. Like, the original JP version apparently didn't perform that great either but the localization did more than just introduce bad voice acting, it outright added new bugs and performance issues. Like one I kept running into was this menu bug that caused everything to turn transparent and basically impossible to read.
As for why this game exists? Who knows? Almost nobody asks for them but there are tons of crossover games like this featuring a complete grab bag of niche and popular IPs that exist seemingly just because.
You want "Fate", "Nanoha", "Haruhi", "Black Rock Shooter", "Touhou", "Dog Days", and more in a single game? "Nendoroid Generation".
You want "Blazblue", "Guilty Gear", "King of Fighters", "Soul Calibur", "Tekken", and more? "Queen's Gate: Spiral Chaos".
You want "Blood+", "Darker than Black", "Sgt. Frog", "Orphen", "s-CRY-ed", "Read or Die", "Slayers", and more? "Heroes Phantasia".
You want "Familiar of Zero", "Higurashi", "Symphogear", "Twin Angel", "Infinite Stratos", "Di Gi Charat", "Super Sonico", and more? "Super Heroine Chronicle"
I could just go on and on, haven't even touched some of the more obvious ones like "Namco x Capcom" or "Super Robot Taisen". The only difference between them and "Chaos Wars" is that "Chaos Wars" somehow got localized. Localized poorly obviously but still localized.
I appreciate that you commented this because when he said how Rin just is randomly either spawned or not in the base when you sometimes require her to progress, i immediately felt like that HAD to have been an issue with the port. Like I genuinely can't think of a japanese game I've played with that level of faulty flagging. Sometimes there's glitches or bugs that can break flags for a singular instance sure, but a whole necessital & recurring event type not flagging the required NPC spawn?
Drying pans are nice to have. good thinking Brock.
I'm a super fan of Brock, but even I had to cringe at that xD
"Tengaio" is specifically referring to Yuri's ultimate transformation, normally translated as "Seraphic Radiance"
I definitely doubt that translator on reddit's legitimacy because of this. although "tengaio" (天凱凰）is some chuuni nonsense, it doesn't sound like katakana at all, and anyone would guess the "ten" was 天 in relation to the heavens. Then again, its not like claiming to be the chaos wars localizer holds any prestige, so maybe that was just an easier explanation.
This was an Idea Factory game… wasn’t it?
Oh yes it is.
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I love Idea Factory so much. Their best games are like eating a fruitcake with no utensils and their worst games are so bad it is downright endearing. Literally haven’t played a single game I couldn’t find some joy in. Especially since most of their manuals are completely useless in explaining how to actually optimally play their games. Beautiful
@@blackchibisan8116 my long lost brother, I know exactly what you mean! Which ones are your favourite of their lines, mine would be the Spectral/Generations of games.
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Generation of Chaos on the PSP was my first and it has been a spiral ever since. It is still my favorite, but binging the spectral force series is winning me over.
Agarest war is… a choice. And I get it but have a hard time explaining to anyone because of obvious reasons.
I still remember a conversation had between Lees and one of the somewhat generic elf generals in Generation of chaos where she talked about making Lees into a pet in a highly suggestive way… and then I never found it again. I swear it was one of the elves with pink hair, but I could be wrong. But I’ve never forgotten it.
That and recruiting Jack Sparr- I mean Jackal with the red pirate lady(easily the most broken commander) and that whole exchange.
They're games have been getting better over the years.
To the defense of Xenoblade Chronicles 2, the voice acting gets better as the story progresses as the recording sessions were done chronologically (which is not the norm in professionally recorded media).
Typically there are days when specific tones are recorded:
One day the cast voices the dramatic scenes.
Another the comedic scenes.
Then on another the battle quotes and screams, etc.
Not saying that XC2 doesn’t sound awkward at first (absolutely does), but the further you go, the better it gets, especially when it comes to the DLC campaign.
As for Chaos Wars… you don’t need any knowledge in voice acting to know that it’s a bunch of relatives and loved ones to the localization team doing what they have no knowledge or experience of.
My favorite will always be “Wow. I cannot move my body…”
There are so many Japanese game companies that get away with outputting 90% garbage. Idea factory and compile are some major offenders.
At least the d3 published games were advertised as low budget
An obscure Ramzaes channel doing lengthy videos on obscure JRPGs? Count me in!!!!
Are they the same person? I found shadowfyre, made me think of Ramzaes, found out I wasn't subbed to Ramzaes and had to hunt down the channel because I forgot the name.
This gives off major Disgaea vibes
I was going to say the same thing! Idea Factory clearly took more than a few ideas from NIS when making this.
It's as if Idea Factory copied Phantom Brave's gameplay with Disgaea's humor and made them worse
More like Phantom Brave and Makai Kingdom
Wait, this voice... Ramzaes? Is that you?
I know right! Its so similar it cant just be a coincidence
That is my reaction too
I've been thinking this for ages. It has to be him right!?
I'm glad someone else hears it!!
Why did he not advertise this channel? I just found it through sheer coincidence
1:40
the lack of any acting somehow made this line threatening. but i still laughed
It's that casual psychopath voice where you just don't care if the other guy notices or not.
Loved the video man! Been enjoying your content as of late. One game series I’d love for you to cover is the Disgaea series. Either a general video about the series or each installment by itself. It just feels like your type of game. I mean you can name a Prinny (penguin guy) after whoever you want!
"Back in the day" When anime games and jrpgs were pretty scarce in NA and one of the only few publishers of them were NIS America I used to pre order every single game since they always lowballed the stock and if you missed the initial launch window there was a good chance you won't be able to get a MSRP copy.
Chaos Wars funny enough was one of the few games I wasn't able to get a copy of. I didn't put a $5 down payment on it and my gamestop ended up not having any copies left. I was pretty bummed out about it back then but now I don't know if I dodged a bullet or missed out on one of the best dubs ever.
I desperately, passionately want (need) someone to translate that behind the scenes DVD. This game's existence has been a mystery to me for so long.
55:24 You can swap dead units out for other ones, but ONLY if the story is not forcing them to be on the map. Which means most of the time when someone dies you're stuck with em anyway.
Wait, Seto Kaiba is also the voice of Dr Z from Dinosaur King?!
Holy shit! Thats crazy
Growlanser is my absolute favorite series, and it's wild that it was featured in a crossover game. I really love 2, 3 (Bundled on the PS2 Called Generations) and 4-Wayfarer of time.
There is a PSP Remake for 1, but that is only been partially fan-translated, and I cannot wait to get for it to be completed. There's also a 5 & 6. I haven't played much of it since they went with 3D-Models over sprite work.
Yeah I saw that 1 isn't fully translated yet so hopefully soon!! Although the crunchy ps1 voice has so much charm to it haha
Just a few things since I’m too obsessed with this game.
Hiro does not use a sword, she is one of the two characters that uses scythes, and yeah there are way too many swords.
The element for a character does actually contribute to damage as well, not just resistances. More often than not, Hyoma will do more damage with fire attacks than water more often than not.
The characters in the base you have to talk to advance the story are always there when they need to. It’s still easy to get locked here if you don’t know about that though.
Also that one hit fiasco, notice the letters saying “death.” It’s just a death status. Not everything in this game is a glitch… just most of it
Rin doesn’t have a special realize form like the other three main characters, so you didn’t miss anything with her.
And just general advi- oh who am I kidding, nobody cares. I’m going to say it anyways. The general crew size I like is around 6-8, giving you some variety as well as being able to utilize skills that give you stat boosts when characters are in the party but not on the field.
as soon as Idea Factory was mentioned i knew i was in for a ride
When I got the game as a kid, I dead ass thought they recorded the voice acting in the back room of the gamestop I bought it from. XD
Yuri-- oh I'm sorrry, _Uru's_ dub voice sounds like a more deadpan flavor of the late 00s/early 10s gay best friend. like, you could put his voice clips over some vaguely twinkish guy filing his nails and the energy would fit.
OMG YOUR SO RIGHT
@1:03:00 - If you'd ever played the Disgaea series and spinoffs, you'd probably be better acquainted with the randomized strengths and weakness of various opponents. Can't tell you how often I instinctively thought an enemy that's emitting flame would be weak to ice and strong to fire only to find out that it's entirely random, so burning a fiery enemy is entirely possible!
As a fan of Shadow Hearts, it really hurts to hear Yuri (Uru’s name in the shadow hearts came from) talk like that.
Wow. I really can't move my body
You act like the English voice acting in this game doesn't add like 3 points worth of quality.
Okay to be fair though.
Golden Boy's voiceacting was peak comedy and it was all on purpose. The voiceactor for Kentaro was mostly ad-libbing.
It is similar to the Ghost Story ENG VA.
Zard is giving bargian-bin Danny Devito
After this video, the only thing I understand is that the game itself is worth playing only to giggle from the bad voice acting, since you really can't find anything quite like it.
bad voice acting... my first thought is Megaman "WHAT AM I FIGHTIGN FOOOOAAAOOOOAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!" and "Dr. Wawe?"
I'm fine with kids doing character's voices..if it's for a bloody kid. But that's a grown man bro. No adult sounds like that 😂
Oh, Chaos Wars...I really enjoyed Shadow Hearts and Growlanser so initially thrilled to hear the cast in a crossover was being localised. Then, well, the result. It feels like a fever dream to me but no it's very real and it's out there.
I totally believe that reddit thread that's "this was translated with zero context given for anything, including character names" and that no doubt that carried over to the voice 'direction'. I'm surprised the voice actors didn't totally butcher Hayatemaru though, they keep giving that name a good try (Yoichi as 'Yoshi' though...).
Hayatemaru is basically an average 4channer user. "Come on guys, recruit Hitler. It will be funny." lol
I was SOOOOO excited for this Game when it was being released, as I am a Gungrave and SH Fan. I can usually deal with Bad VA, but for the first time ever I had to change to Sub. Thanks for covering this :).
As someone who lives and breathes obscure weird JRPGs I got this day one! It's definitely a bizarre mix of stuff which I was half familiar/half confused by. The random skill learning reminded me of a less refined version of the SaGa titles, which I adore and seeing as how we were in the midst of a drought of the series was kind of happy to see. But yeah like most Idea Factory titles it's a mishmash of great concept and severely unbalanced execution. Far from the worst game I've played but all the issues definitely put it below average for sure. If some stuff was ironed out could see it being a very solid 8/10, instead it's closer to something like 4.5/10.
5:29 I'm sorry, but that delivery was perfect. Good to learn more about this game.
I still love this video game. I’m well aware it’s trash, but I still have great memories of this game and I revisit it a lot. As such I probably know more about this game than I ever should.
Yuri Hyuga in a game with bad voice acting: Aw, sh*t, here we go again.
Whoever voice directed this had to be indefinitely half asleep or a phantom
Oh my god!! I thought it was just bad dream when I was 16!? But chaos wars is real!? I spent full price on it hhaha, also switching it Japanese voice acting did not help at all… some how they phoned it in too
This video was [𝐑𝐀𝐓𝐇𝐄𝐑 𝐂𝐇𝐀𝐑𝐌𝐈𝐍𝐆]
That Grisaia meme (this video in general tbh) brought back suuuuch memories.
Surprisingly, Compile Heart and Idea Factory International have acknowledged several monsters featured in this game. They also have voices that aren't grating, so that's a plus.
Pretty sure SRW games at least tell you who's mandatory for the next map so you can throw parts on them(and money) to try and make them survive the next stage.
They do indeed
To be honest i liked this game when i was a kid. I played it with my sisters although we never beat it but it was good memory
Ramzaes, is that you?
The GG Smell of the game fits so well considering GG1 was an kusoge too
This gonna do numbers fr.
It looks a lot like they tried to copy Disgaea games.
"Anything can happen in this world"
anything can happen in a roll hack
If this game had many cross overs and some from Atlus, I'm surprised it didn't feature Dante from the Devil May Cry series. 😂🤣
"why is the music jamming" it's because the ost was composed by Sound Horizon (or rather Linked Horizon), the same band worked on the soundtrack of Bravely default and made the opening songs of Attack on Titan
You won't like it if you play this game because the music is very overused. Like, I'm pretty sure they only have like 3 musics in the whole game, and one of them is the song you'll hear 99% of the portion of the game
ALRIGHT WHY DOES URU SOUND LIKE GAY PINOCCHIO 😭
my thoughts exactluy
@CheesyRam , is that you? Nah, probably no- [Gungrave theme intensifies]
Good to see you again, Raz.
I'm only 3 minutes in and I'm like 'yeah you can do emulations random guy I'm not subscribed to! .....how did I get here again?'
but seriously I'm in for the ride
I’ll have you know that I did subscribe and like before you got to that part of the video.
"God Damn the stupid clock!!!" Got me. XD
bro did not know i would ever hear anyone in the world who watched golden boy too lol
i had a vhs as a kid and loved that motorcycle woman episode lol
i watched the series a few years ago, VERY EDUCATIONAL !!
You forgot the masterpiece of "Dinner, Dinner"
Yay! Another person who fall into the rabbit hole that is Chaos Wars brainrot
Can we agree that the opening is still a banger tho
uru: its us coming out :3
I played this game with a friend when I was kid. We loved it.
The only thing worse than the voice acting is the usage of Spongebob clips.
I'm going to check this game out. I loved the Neptune games. They're so funny & this one seems right up my alley
Thanksgiving must be a ball with this family between bites.
Woah, its Ram Zaes! Missed you buddy! I just wonder why do you keep changing your name and brand and deleting old videos?
Arc rise fantasia mentioned!! That games voice acting is bad, but it had heart, and the actors at least tried kinda.
TLDR. Nepotism.
I disagree with the assessment of Shadow hearts, Alice is not "A quiet type anime girl" That's like a surface shallow understanding of her character.
Kindhearted, open-minded, snarky, sweet, sneaky, self sacrificing, brave as well and boiling all that down to "Yuri's horny and Alice is a quiet type" Will make people who never played them think: "Wow, these sound like bad games. I'm not gonna play them." And its why instead of giving cliff-notes on the characters and games- you can link to videos explaining it or just stick to talking about the crossover itself.
4:33 The remake of Trials of Mana has the weirdest mix of voice acting I may have ever heard before. Some of the voice actors are really good like Duran, Hawkeye and Charlotte(Yes the character is annoying, but I think that was the point and the voice actor does a great job with that). But then some of the others are really, really bad, like Riesz and about half or even most of the elementals. Then you've got some in the middle like Kevin and some of the side characters.
This is literally the "we are going to do a super robot wars WITH BLACKJACK AND HOOKERS" or at least it feels like it. It was a nice concept but Idk nowadays how good it would flow in the market. Maybe if they invented neptunia and threw it there at the time who knows.
42:19 😂
Couldn’t stop laughing at this bit
1:05:35 Yo, that's some weird-looking bird.
Ok but i love this artstyle
I actually enjoyed this game back then i still remember spending lots of hours stats up every characters hahaha,at the time when my favorite game is games with big cast of characters like suikodens this game just feels fun (probably also help that i was just a teenagers so im not too bothered with the VA)
The only other game on par with Chaos Wars is arguably House of the Dead 1 & 2
Goldman’s VA was pretty blursed
I love the voice acted cutscenes and character designs from this game ngl, I think I'll try the Growlanser games.
they're really good. especially 1
Growlanser is seriously one of the most fun series ever
50:29 bro isn't even trying
Ram Revie has a second channel?
It's bad voice acting, but the low energy feeling is quite nice. Quiet night in. Nobody screaming. Would be good if the game wasn't crap.
I don't know if you take suggestions but a game I think might be cool to talk about is The World Ends with You.
I remember me and my brother getting this game. had a good time laughing at just every single thing about it
8:53 POCKET DOGS MENTIONED 🙌🙌🙌🙌
The voice acting is bad but it’s not actually a bad game, it’s pretty fun just really grindy. E tomahawk for the win!
Since when did ramzaes have a second channel?
RAMZEAS?
I remember buying this game when i was like 9 years old in 2009 for my little sister, she never played it but god if i did
Tho I didn't speak a word of english so i never knew what was going on or the mechanics
Kinda wish i could replay ot but i really don't feel like using emulators
Holy shit I didn't know Randy Feltface was a JRPG buff!
A Dub full of energy
this is only infamous because the localizers were nepotistic and they did not care about the game they were tasked with translating...
kinda like all Localizers in this god damn industry
Trouble Witches back on the 360. The Eng dub was pretty bad. Feels about the same as this honestly.