Disgaea and Rhapsody: A Voice Acting Adventure

by JC Fletcher { Sep 23rd 2008 at 4:00PM }

Siliconera spoke with NIS's Jack Niida about the DS versions of Disgaea and Rhapsody: A Musical Adventure, both of which happen to be out this week. Much of the interview focuses on the voice acting in the two games, which we imagine is somewhat of an important issue for the otaku who comprise the majority of the Nippon Ichi audience. There's more to read, as well, about Rhapsody's battle system and new characters in Disgaea, among other things.

Rhapsody will use the original Japanese songs from the PlayStation game, along with new tracks recorded by the original cast. The voice acting outside of songs will be in English. The English musical tracks will not be present due to space concerns. The script is also pulled from the PlayStation release, but the English text has been cleaned up!

As for Disgaea, the same seems to be true. Niida told Siliconera that "All the voice acting is there, but unfortunately, we had to compromise on the dual language and English musical songs."

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Tags: disgaea, disgaea-ds, nis, rhapsody, rpg, strategy, voice-acting

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

Strike Man @ Sep 23rd 2008 5:04PM

You can count me in the crowd that's a little disappointed that the original English songs will not be present on the DS version of Rhapsody.

Who will help the sunburned pirates now? :o

Kia @ Sep 23rd 2008 7:06PM

Count me in too. Not everyone is a subbie elitist, y'know. Much preferred english tracks here. -_-;

CJC @ Sep 23rd 2008 9:28PM

I too would have preferred Rhapsody's music in English.

Weaboos be damned, I'd rather have something I can sing along to, rather than just read along with.

aj @ Sep 24th 2008 1:22AM

I thought it was about copywrite issues more so than space issues.

Nabe @ Sep 24th 2008 11:37AM

I'm pretty sure the songs were made in-house.

Lungkisser @ Sep 24th 2008 3:26PM

I don't want a mix of languages. I want to listen to the voice acting in english, AND hear the songs in english, not some english and then japanese. Besides, from what I remember, the songs in Rhapsody on the PS1 were quite good. Forget the subtitle elitists.

Of course, they also got rid of the awesomely unique small-scale grid SRPG battle system, so... maybe forget the whole thing altogether.

chibi_wings @ Sep 24th 2008 5:46PM

i'm still looking forward to it, japanese or english. And I guess I'm in the minority because I actually want the japanese songs. And this has nothing to do with subtitle preference, I would be equally satisfied if everything was in english, I'm just curious about the japanese music tracks. ^^

Hoshi @ Sep 24th 2008 6:18PM

The English songs were not included because there are new songs in the DS game that the Playstation version didn't have, and they couldn't get the old voice actors back. They didn't want to use new voice actors, so they just stuck with the Japanese songs.

I'm surprised that all of the dialogue is in Disgaea DS, however, because the Japanese version removed the pre-battle audio dialogue.

In both games, I wish the dual-audio was present, and probably won't be buying either. (I did buy the Japanese release of Disgaea DS)