Sega and Red Entertainment's Sakura Wars series has enjoyed great popularity in Japan (witness the Sakura Wars Dreamcast system), but despite that success, it's never been localized. It seemed that non-importers would never get to try the long-running strategy RPG series, until NIS America announced plans to localize Sakura Wars V as Sakura Wars: So Long, My Love on Wii and PS2.
It is the novelty of a Sakura Wars game in America, along with the appeal of a mech game set in an alternate 1920s NYC, that sustained us through this trailer (after the break), despite the voice acting. Don't worry, the game will include both English and Japanese!
To be honest, the only reason this grates on the ears is the accent, and the accent exists because the character selected to narrate is the cowgirl, and the cowgirl was probably selected because that's likely the one who narrated in the Japanese version of the promo. As for why the cowgirl sounds like this . . . she's the anime stereotype of an American cowgirl! Even in Japanese, they sound absurd. They speak Japanese strangely, or they use lots of Engrish. Except Rushuna Tendo (granted, she was not specifically an American cowgirl).
That has got to be the most atrociously painful, so-called, Texan accent. I have not, in a single day that I've lived here, heard anyone talk like that... ever!
Haha, if she indeed is Texan, then I gotta get around and see the state. I seriously, have NEVER heard anyone talk like that, in my whole 14 years of living here.
Eh, I've heard worse Texan accents. Then again, I'm not even all that familiar with them - maybe it's really good and it just sounds cheesy to some of us because "reality is unrealistic". On the other hand, maybe every voice actor attempting to do a Southern accent should first be required to play Starcraft, the best instance of Southern drawl in a game that I'm aware of.
I wanted to stick hot pokers in my ears and eyes. Do the Japanese see our culture as insane also? There's cute and light and then there's watch some of this stuff and want to kill a puppy and smack a baby to counteract and even things out. Yeesh!
