I think sometimes people forget that "VOICE ACTING" was cool just to experience in a video game- just like 3D graphics was, no matter how rough back in the 90s.
Tbh, its a shame the PSP version did not got the english translation, even with that, it can be cool if somone makes another patch with the english dub
Thing is the person voicing Baofu is Richard Epcar who is a very established voice actor and actually quite good, you may know him as Batou in Ghost in the Shell (which he did before this), Raiden in the Mortal Kombat games, Gaius van Baelsar in FF14: A Realm Reborn, Zangetsu in Bleach, Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts, etc. Suffice to say this is definitely a combination of script & voice direction letting the game down more than the voice actor here.
Too bad that Altus almost completely ignore the fact that they have persona2 in persona series(there was a p2 song&costume dlc in persona5 but that’s that) :(
This is some Dhar Mann voice acting I’m just waiting for him to say” hey Dhar Mann fam this is why you should never corrupt your town because your actions have a way of coming back to you”💀 Edit: the voice acting is worse than revelations persona the localization of terrible
Being honest, those guys had the voices, but not the passion or reading understanding to see the tune the characters were talking, at least on some dialog, but in combat... Well, we have wonders like "Hold it down!"
@@lukemorgan6166 early 2000 voice acting, especially for games and anime, wasnt the greatest. From his comment I can assume this games VAs were also in their early careers, so they didn't have much experience either. Thats why he would rather give them some slack. It makes perfect sense.
@@UMAtronicMgs 1-2-3 all have excellent dub, Persona 3 had a pretty decent dub except dub if you ignore few characters, Tales of symphonia and abyss have also excellent dub, ffx too if you ignore that the voice director tried to match lip movements as much as possible. FF12 still currently has one of the best dub in video game. Many game before 2008 have good dub…
Doesn't sound bad to me. Sure, not amazing, but considering the era (and formatting) it sounds pretty good. Like compare this to any other voice acting on the PSOne
"You make me laugh..." "Yeah, that makes me laugh!!" ...Like seriously, man? This kinda makes me glad that I didn't play any games that were heavy on voice acting when I as a kid. Though that's more on the direction and localization's fault. The only exception to that was Tak 2, and I remember the VA in that game being pretty good.
No shit after playing through a few hours of the psp fan translation I decided to play the ps1 version to feel the differences, and honestly, I kinda fell in love with ulala all over again 😂😂 her voice lines are funny as hell
@@remlapwastaken8857 I always get my comparison symbols mixed up so I'm guessing you think that saying anything after P3 is good, isn't pretentious? That's fine, but that's nothing to do with my opinion. P5 is very hammy, almost all the time, including otherwise played-straight scenes. Take Ann in Big Bang Burger for example. That's not to say it's *bad*. Ham is neutral. Adachi is also all ham all the time.
@jeffreygauthier9703 that's SMT oldheads in a nutshell. Once P6 comes out, they're going to pretend that P4 was an underrated masterpiece in every way. They'll even pretend they thought Marie was a well written character and say her dungeon was ground breaking
Idk I kinda like her EP voice. The pompous British tones weirdly fit her character. Granted nothing is going to beat her seiyuu vomiting broken heavily accented engrish everywhere but there’s a charm to it that I enjoy. Leagues better than whatever the fuck was happening with Tatsuya
The guy sounded like he was echoing from inside a tube and the woman sounded a little like there where metal vibrations from the mic cover or something. Either way 10/10 4Kids level voice acting (if you know, then you definitely know)
This was recorded at the very same studio as the other Persona games btw. Late 90s Los Angeles anime dub VAs, featuring our good friend Lani Minella from San Diego as Maya, Lisa and others. HOW?
I do enjoy anime and video game acting from the PS1 generation but I wonder what the recording process is like for this game and Innocent Sin for PSP. Like if the actors were given any context and how long they were in the recording booth. My best bet is 5 minutes each considering how theres a little over 10 minutes worth of actual voice work in both Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment.
@@alexmorpheus6762 innocent sin first! eternal punishment is basically a continuation of innocent sin, and without playing it first you'll be missing a lot of context. so eternal punishment goes second. hope you enjoy!! :D
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Clearly the voice actors are doing their jobs pretty well. The writing is what needed work.
That and they needed Good Voice directors who understood the material.
Or maybe better translation, idk
All of the above?
The Voice actors of Ulala & Baofu they are incredibly good
yep no hate to the VAs!! i actually like them all haha this part just sounded silly to me
Didn't know this game had voice acting. I can see why no one brings it up
there's like some sections in the game where there's good voice acting
@@Hella_Animations anyone voiced by Dave Wittenberg is automatically a good voice in this game
@@lowhp_comicAgree
Yeah it's pretty awful.
But thankfully it's definitely in the, "so bad it's good" category.
all the versions of the game have dialogue kinda making it obvious that you havent played it
4kids tier voice acting
This is how the voice acting sounded in winx club (the 4kids version)
Dog shit dialouge gets dogshit acting. Not much they could have done lol
That chakram is too powerful for yew
Not different from most persona games tbh
Hey, they gave us king dehdehdeh!
In case you didn't know, this is how adults speak
Can confirm. I am an adult.
Yeah, this is how adults speak.
Yeah, that makes me laugh.
Yeah, this is how adults speak.
American adults
Baofu got all the homies laughing uncontrollably
Real Baofu or Shadow Baofu?
@@dreamfirefight9456yes
@@dreamfirefight9456The female Baofu
I think sometimes people forget that "VOICE ACTING" was cool just to experience in a video game- just like 3D graphics was, no matter how rough back in the 90s.
You were almost a Jill Sandwich was legendary
I mean Diablo 2 had the rewards of cutscenes since you’ve been spending hours in gameplay in the different acts.
Legacy of Kain emerged in 1997-1999 and still had phenomenal voice acting not just by PS1 standards but even by todays standards
@@ci7210 honestly, og re1 has far memorable lines than it's remake.
After seeing this I’m officially buying persona 2 eternal punishment
as you should
@@akihiko_sanadayour channel banner is so cute
Femc deserves more love❤❤❤❤
@@Yammatti aw thanks so much!! i wholeheartedly agree
Tbh, its a shame the PSP version did not got the english translation, even with that, it can be cool if somone makes another patch with the english dub
@@CarlosSilva-bh4bi isn't there a fan translation of the psp version already? (yes, i'm talking abt EP btw, not IS)
Fifteen freaking years later, the voice of Baofu is the voice of Sojiro in Persona 5, not mad, just shooketh on how long it is
What? Sojiro is Jamieson Price. Baofu's voice actor, Richard Epcar, plays Principal Kobayakawa.
@@chroipahtzhe meant Japanese voice actor.
That really doesnt sound bad, specially compared to other games in the 90s and eastern european games in the 00s
it was recorded in LA like all other Persona games to come after all
They just let anybody be a voice actor back in the day. The worst part is this was decent for the time.
If it isn't cactus man
@@HazIsLazy Wait...do you recognize me from Discord?
@@Chelaxim yeh Vincent
Thing is the person voicing Baofu is Richard Epcar who is a very established voice actor and actually quite good, you may know him as Batou in Ghost in the Shell (which he did before this), Raiden in the Mortal Kombat games, Gaius van Baelsar in FF14: A Realm Reborn, Zangetsu in Bleach, Xehanort in Kingdom Hearts, etc.
Suffice to say this is definitely a combination of script & voice direction letting the game down more than the voice actor here.
@@Daelucav The Voice of Maya (Lani Minella) is also the voice of Eve in Mass Effect 3.
yeah 😏 that makes me laugh 😈
UGH...It's not TOO LATE!
DURAGON RISHUAL
No, don't go... D-Don't leave me alone...
Not the voices, not the writing. It's the timing. It's terrible because there's a gap at every phrase
tbf, its not as bad as that tatsuya cutscene
thats my favorite one because of how laughably bad it is LOL
@@akihiko_sanada a perfect example of so bad its good
don't leave me aLoNe
@@Shadowwolf-1337 please no please no nO......
See i thought shadow maya's voice was good until shadow Baofu did the "yeah what she said" gag
Nice good voice and good game!
Too bad that Altus almost completely ignore the fact that they have persona2 in persona series(there was a p2 song&costume dlc in persona5 but that’s that) :(
@@kamiya4700 persona 2 deserves more
@@kamiya4700 It's not ignored. Persona 1 and 2 are always there when there is an event about Persona in Japan.
This is some Dhar Mann voice acting I’m just waiting for him to say” hey Dhar Mann fam this is why you should never corrupt your town because your actions have a way of coming back to you”💀
Edit: the voice acting is worse than revelations persona the localization of terrible
To be fair no one ever spoke more than 3 words in revelations (except philemon)
Being honest, those guys had the voices, but not the passion or reading understanding to see the tune the characters were talking, at least on some dialog, but in combat...
Well, we have wonders like "Hold it down!"
Bro this is from 2000 having voice acting on a PS1 game is awesome.
this is just how I normally sound
I rather give the voice actors some slack because it was early 2000 voice acting and they were still early in their careers.
That makes zero sense
@@lukemorgan6166 early 2000 voice acting, especially for games and anime, wasnt the greatest. From his comment I can assume this games VAs were also in their early careers, so they didn't have much experience either. Thats why he would rather give them some slack. It makes perfect sense.
@@HimmyJimnot to mention that english vaing for japanese games were mostly bad until like 2008.
@@UMAtronic hell even nowadays it ain’t perfect
@@UMAtronicMgs 1-2-3 all have excellent dub, Persona 3 had a pretty decent dub except dub if you ignore few characters, Tales of symphonia and abyss have also excellent dub, ffx too if you ignore that the voice director tried to match lip movements as much as possible. FF12 still currently has one of the best dub in video game. Many game before 2008 have good dub…
Maya is the only fine one cuz it's rouge the bat
And Lucas
Are you a simp?
Shut it transphobe
Makes sense, both have the "Heart" thing 😂
Can we talk about that music that sounded like it was about to become fire? Sounds like Kenichiro Fukui’s work.
It's the persona 2 boss theme
Unrelated, but this OST really slaps.
it really does!! one of my favorite OSTs in a video game
Ok but can we talk about how Shadow Baofu's eyes are purple instead of the usual orangish yellow and it just goes hard
Doesn't sound bad to me.
Sure, not amazing, but considering the era (and formatting) it sounds pretty good.
Like compare this to any other voice acting on the PSOne
So Compared to Mgs 1
@@Jfray252 or Symphony of the Night, Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Ape Escape
yeah, its def not the worst. just thought it sounded a little silly lol
Even platformers like Crash Bandicoot and Spyro had some pretty good voice acting
Especially the ones from SpongeBob with Clancy Brown and Tom Kenny
"You make me laugh..."
"Yeah, that makes me laugh!!"
...Like seriously, man?
This kinda makes me glad that I didn't play any games that were heavy on voice acting when I as a kid. Though that's more on the direction and localization's fault. The only exception to that was Tak 2, and I remember the VA in that game being pretty good.
No shit after playing through a few hours of the psp fan translation I decided to play the ps1 version to feel the differences, and honestly, I kinda fell in love with ulala all over again 😂😂 her voice lines are funny as hell
"dont underestimate me you (beep) bastard" is forever etched into my memory. i love ulala so much lol
@@akihiko_sanada the beep made that one infinitely funnier
The script isn't doing a lot for these voice actors to begin with... Wow
Song is a fucking bop
Well, music is catchy.
Let's think positive!
Genuinely no less hammier than the delivery of Adachi in P4G or the entire cast of P5.
We've really hit the pretentiousness level of P3 bad that we're excusing 4kids level of phoning it in?
@@remlapwastaken8857 I always get my comparison symbols mixed up so I'm guessing you think that saying anything after P3 is good, isn't pretentious? That's fine, but that's nothing to do with my opinion.
P5 is very hammy, almost all the time, including otherwise played-straight scenes. Take Ann in Big Bang Burger for example. That's not to say it's *bad*. Ham is neutral. Adachi is also all ham all the time.
Eh. You're pulling my leg now, you're exaggerating.
You've really regressed if you think this is somehow better.
@@PerfectAzrael Nobody said better.
@@Vulgarth1 We all know what you're thinking and implying. Don't play dumb.
The reverb voice sounds like he'll quote lowtiergod
now I'm actually glad that I emulated the version without eng voices
Truly an eternal punishment
Yeah, that voice acting sure makes me laugh.
wait, are people saying it's bad? it sounds great.....
compared to the japanese version this is one of the worst in the series
@@johnny8363 as always, english va is inferior to japanese va
Wait, are people like this game so much that they pretend the voice sound great ?
@jeffreygauthier9703 that's SMT oldheads in a nutshell. Once P6 comes out, they're going to pretend that P4 was an underrated masterpiece in every way. They'll even pretend they thought Marie was a well written character and say her dungeon was ground breaking
@@remlapwastaken8857 Nah they are right about this one except her dungeon was trash. Anyways SMT oldheads hate everything after p3
It makes them laugh
The Japanese version is well dubbed
I feel its because back then they barely took videigame dubs seriously
This sounds less like dialog, and more like someone looking at the options on a title screen for the first time
Everybody mocks the voice acting but that writing is no prize either
Honestly I kinda liked it but I grew up on bad dubs so idk
i agree, its honestly endearing in a way
The role was emotionless robot they killed it.
Wait until you hear Eriko’s voice…… hoo boy
Idk I kinda like her EP voice. The pompous British tones weirdly fit her character. Granted nothing is going to beat her seiyuu vomiting broken heavily accented engrish everywhere but there’s a charm to it that I enjoy. Leagues better than whatever the fuck was happening with Tatsuya
British Yukiko
Man Atlus really improve on English dub since then
Live for this
Well, it was the PS1 era, and a JRPG to boot. Not many companies cared yet.
I feel like shadow baofu sounded sarcastic when he said yeah that makes me laugh
God I love this game
The guy sounded like he was echoing from inside a tube and the woman sounded a little like there where metal vibrations from the mic cover or something.
Either way 10/10 4Kids level voice acting (if you know, then you definitely know)
That last line seems written badly and hard to act out well.
Old school persona being the best game ever!
You had to be there!
This was recorded at the very same studio as the other Persona games btw.
Late 90s Los Angeles anime dub VAs, featuring our good friend Lani Minella from San Diego as Maya, Lisa and others.
HOW?
even the subtitles don't know what to make of this
this game was great
Yeah, that makes me laugh
why’s he sound like he got shot with an elephant tranquilizer dart
I do enjoy anime and video game acting from the PS1 generation but I wonder what the recording process is like for this game and Innocent Sin for PSP. Like if the actors were given any context and how long they were in the recording booth. My best bet is 5 minutes each considering how theres a little over 10 minutes worth of actual voice work in both Innocent Sin and Eternal Punishment.
This made me laugh
Yeah, this makes me laugh.
this game is fire tho
This honestly slaps, why are we complaining?
This really isn’t that bad, especially for the time it released.
Honestly.
I think the title should be "Good writing" lol. Poor voice actors working with what they are given
Great veg- voice acting.
This is my laughing face.
yeah. that makes me laugh.
That made me laugh.
Good.
good dialogue too lol
THE MUSIC⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️⁉️
why that sounds like a arcsystem round start?
Me when something makes me laugh >:)
Yeah, that makes me laugh.
when they said “that makes me laugh” I felt it
I think they made them laugh.
I wanna play Persona 2 now, which one is this? Innocent Sin or Eternal Punishment?
Punishment
Yep its Eternal Punishment! Its my favorite out of the two, I highly recommend you check them out and hope you enjoy these amazing games :)
@@akihiko_sanada I am about to complete Persona 1 PSP. Should I play Innocent Sin first or start with Eternal Punishment?
@@alexmorpheus6762 innocent sin first! eternal punishment is basically a continuation of innocent sin, and without playing it first you'll be missing a lot of context. so eternal punishment goes second. hope you enjoy!! :D
I don't know if that's bad voice acting so much as it's redundant writing
what is your problem, this is really good as far as persona dub goes
(laffin')
Shadow Maya is current standards good! Baofu on the otherhand 🤣
I dont see anything wrong with this. At this era, people having no complain but enjoying the game and plots. The peak of gaming ecstacy. ✨✨✨
Still better than Maken X dubbing :D
I guess that makes him laugh?
Man, someone call ATLUS and tell them some loser company ripped off their iconic Persona Trilogy.
That "How about ME" was really the only part I didn't like.
Otherwise, it wasn't bad.
This is why this game has few voice acted lines
what's wrong?
you didn't notice the complete deadpan delivery of Shadow Baofu's line?
@@guywithrevolver i think that was done on purpose
@@Joueur_3030 but he had an exclamation mark
His name Bofa
Maya: 🤨
Hey! It's the good Persona game! :D
Oh, it's actually not an unironical video. Finally. With all the shitpost ones done by zoomers you can't ever tell...
wow
Persona2 will forever live on in my heart. Since Atlus doesn't acknowledge its existence
Me? Well…
It really wasn’t the bad, the writing wasn’t doing them any favors though
Do...do you guys think they laughed?
Baofu deez nuts!