Every now and again there's a game that's dubbed so badly it's hard not to wonder how it ever got released in the first place. Castle Shikigami 2 is that game. This is the sequel to the game that was curiously renamed Mobile Light Force 2 when it was released here. Why the first game was "2" as well as why they chose to put girls on the cover of the first one that looked like Charlie's Angels while ripping out all the anime art is a mystery. Fortunately, Castle Shikigami's sequel doesn't try to hide it's anime roots and features some rockin' game design sure to please shooter fans.
Unfortunately the stellar game play is chopped up with an unintelligible storyline, sprinkled with sentence fragments strung together seemingly at random, and voiced by humans that appear to have no idea what they're doing. Seriously. The translation is so literal that scenes play out like they're from some bizarro haiku world.
The end result of the dubbing is not pleasant because it's literally difficult to even try to understand the meaning/intention of what's being said most of the time. However, there are enough howlers in here to make this one worth playing.
It's still about justice.
heli wrote:Why is milestone director in prison ?, are his game to difficult ?
I bought this game because the story and voice work was soexcellent.
Seriously, it's like they passed the Japanese text through a machine translation, did aboslutely no proof-reading, then had the worst voice actors they could find sight-read them verbatim.
shmuppyLove wrote:I bought this game because the story and voice work was soexcellent.
Seriously, it's like they passed the Japanese text through a machine translation, did aboslutely no proof-reading, then had the worst voice actors they could find sight-read them verbatim.
That's probably not far off from what happened, but the truth is that the original Japanese script is nearly as nonsensical.
cj iwakura wrote:I love that the final boss has a surfer dude voice.
Every final boss should. Anyone coming up with some crazy plot to take over the universe is probably unemployed and on at least one controlled substance, after all.
Umjammer Lammy was laggy as hell, too, but it is a rhythm game so...
(They're notoriously bad with HD TVs.)
Also, this includes a nice art gallery as well. If it was $5, I'd probably bite, but not when $10 is the same price as a physical copy(which I already own).
Still, Shiki 2 HD is pretty tempting.
heli wrote:Why is milestone director in prison ?, are his game to difficult ?
I thought I read somewhere/sometime that PS2 stuff was region locked. Though that might only apply to physical stuff, so... dunno, really.
Also, I'm too tight to take a chance (or rather, I'm sick of feeling like I'm getting stiffed paying for emulated versions of games I already have, and have running better elsewhere already).
I need to warn everybody, not to buy PS 2 classics in the psn. i recently bought shikigami ii and steel dragon ex. i did have the shienryu PS 1 classic from psn and that works with none to almost no lag. but the ps 2 classix ?! oh my god ... in this state these games are a total rip oft...so DONT BUY THEM !!!!!
another question related to the PS 2 classix : i habe a quanba q4 stick. did anybody get it to work with the PS 2 games in the PS 3 ?
maybe this will help with the lag although i think its the crappy emulation
