E3 2016: Persona 5 Won't Have a Japanese Voice Option in the West

Well...eh...I'll...I'll survive. I guess. My real issue that some of the voice actors can't always pronounce their own names. They should hire all Latinos or something because those seem to have a easier time nailing it. I just can't feel like I'm in Japan if everybody speak weeblish.

Generally speaking, that's a deal breaker for me. But if the English voice acting is even half as good as the one in Persona 4 Golden, I'll be more than happy.

To be honest, even though I love jap games, I never truly like hearing a language I don't understand and having to read the dialogue.

It's a shame since the japanese voice cast has some real talent. Not a deal breaker though, persona's dubs have so far been solid.

@belmont It takes EFFORT to learn a language. If you keep going the subs wont have to be read half of the time. Not trying to be rude here just saying. I had to learn English the same way.

Their VA is usually very solid, but come on even the "evil" (in the mind of many) Square Enix gave us voice options for FFXV....

It's a shame that the option isn't there for those who wanted it, but I'm not too fussed. ATLUS tend to have great VA as far as their dubs are concerned.

@Riririn English is not my native language, why would I want to learn Japanese too?

Out of interest, will the Japanese version have English subtitles? Occasionally Japanese games do, and if so players could just import it.

I usually try the English voice acting first but because usually it's terrible in most games I just switch to jap which I quite enjoy.But I'm currently playing Persona 4 Golden and the voice acting in that is superb so not at all bothered...unless they get voice actors from an Atelia game..then I will be..

A great voice acting that almost no one talk about is the Bravely series, almost every single character nails it!
That said, as a Brazilian, I find Portuguese voice acting awful but english is always good-to-go to me.

@starnivore my only issue with Japanese voice acting is that there only seem to be a few distinct archetypes regardless of genre. If you're not familiar with the language I guess it would be harder to distinguish but when you use it on a daily basis, you do start to wish for a bit more variety. That said, I'll always prefer to play a game in its native tongue, rather than dubbed.

Always prefer original voice acting. Japanese VAs are much better at tone and some of the nuance gets left out of translation

I dislike Japanese VO's, I'd rather put up with poor english voice acting. I stopped playing Virtue's Last Reward because of it. Just my personal opinion.

@naruball
That's what I'm sayin. Persona 4 Golden had one of the best voice actor casts of any JRPG I've ever played. Superb. I trust this will not only suffice, but exceed expectations.

I don't care about Japanese dubs anyways, but...

@hi-drnick oh yea, I don't speak japanese at all but I can agree with that. it's an issue anime in particular has, it lives and dies on cliches. Still, I can't imagine a better fit for a magnificent bastard mc than the guy who voiced lelouch, the original magnificent bastard.

I still love Japanese voice acting

Atlus has always been extremely against dual audio, I don't know why.

Not that there is anything particularly wrong with their dubs, but they must know that a lot of the audience for the Persona games appreciate the option of having the original voice acting.