Fire Emblem: Awakening Features Both English And Japanese Voice Tracks

Im so curious for that game already dammit it's a long wait until april here in europe... and I'd mostly go for english language, as much as I love original voice acting, if something like this is fully voiced, I want to be able to understand it, I just hope it's well done voice acting!

This makes me happy. Original language and subtitles for me!

i hope we get japanese voices too

I'll play both!

Japanese language of course, no brainer

Prob english

Oh my gosh, wow!! This is fantastic news! More games should have this option! :3 I consider myself a purist, so I will be taking advantage of this feature.

I suppose it's nice having the option, but I'd just stick with English.

Games dubbed only in Japanese with english/other subtitles, most gamers: "WHY CAN'T THEY DUB IT IN ENGLISH?!?!"

Game has the option of choosing between english/other and Japanese, most gamers: "I'm going for the Japanese DUB!!!"

See the issue here?

Ill stick to Japanese because I often read faster than the voice acting and end up clicking through it. It is less annoying if the speech fragment is not in a language I understand

Its also possible to settle camera to first person for fights.

English...and i can't wait for the demo today. I checked this morning but to no avail. I have my 3DS at work with wifi in the building so i'll be getting it as soon as it becomes available. Can't wait!

I usually pick English anyway, but I always like the option to choose between the two.

I'm often too tired to read when I play games at night but its a nice feature to have. I'll probably check it out once or twice.

There was a time (PS2 era) when a LOT of RPG's had this option. I'm glad to see it make a resurgence! I don't know any japanese, so it all sounds like good voice acting to me.

@dudey300: "3DS" is misspelled in "and with its release comes a gorgeous blue Fire Emblem 3D".

Anywho, I'm excited for this game. I don't understand Japanese, so I'll stick with the English.

it's jan 17, where's the download?!

@upset NOON EST
Anyways Japanese for me of course

Hate when people who don't know a single word of Japanese cream themselves over a Japanese voice option.

Love when westerners assume that the only language native English speakers understand is English.

As someone who played the game for endless amounts of hours, I can say the voice acting is superb. I honestly can't imagine the characters speaking anything other than their original Japanese voices. They chose very talented voice actors for this title.

@Lan because a lot of times english dubs sucks. it kills the mood of the game.

@krizz07 And a lot of times the Japanese dubs suck just as bad.

I would love the option to choose the Japanese voice track, since I love that language, plus I prefer the original anyway.

If Nintendo expected Japanese speakers to play the North American or European version, they would offer Japanese text. While there are obviously some westerners familiar with the Japanese language, they are in the minority. Voice acting done in the native language of a region just makes the most sense.
@LZBirdboi I couldn't even tell what "gorgeous blue Fire Emblem 3D" was supposed to mean until after I clicked the link.

Yay! Japaneese voices are probably my choice. If the english voices aren´t extraordinary, like Xenoblade Chronicles

I hope we get English dub in the EU. Just playing through Virtues Last Reward and wishing they'd given me the English dub like they got in the US.

Even if someone says the voice acting is better in Japanese that makes no difference to me; I'm a unilingaul neanderthal!

That's nice, pleasing both sides. Personally I prefer english dubbed over japanese audio. it helps give me more of a feel for the story and the character with the way they talk in a language I am familar with and what they really say in combat. There's other reasons but I see this topic is culturally sensitive so I'll leave it at that

Some people comments got me thinking, can someone who only knows english
tell the difference between good and bad japanese voice acting?

Nice. I hope there's an option to mute them also.

When do we get the demo in EU?

Probably not for Europe, if they have to put every Euro language into the game...

Japanese all the way!

@Doma
there is. it's called... oh i dunno... THE VOLUME SLIDER

lol Old school punk ftw.

@0LD_SK0OL_PUNK Are you familiar with something called IN-GAME OPTIONS? try and guess why i'd prefer that than having to mute the (usually awesome) music/everything else.

I'm not saying VA itself will be bad for sure, though the in-battle chanting i've heard in the JPN version sounds fairly irritating to me. That's personal taste, try not to take offense, dude.

i wasn't trying to be offensive myself (just heavy sarcasm), but i fear that might have, so i apologize. i played the demo earlier today, i think there is a such option, and i'm pretty sure most games are accompanied by those options anyway. i'm not sure if it's different outside the states, but whatever.

This is amazing news. In my humble opinion, the original Japanese voices are almost always superior to the American ones--The soon-to-be-out Ni No Kuni for PS3 is going to feature this, and now this game. Thrilled to hear it, and personally I think it should be a feature in most every Japanese-made game that has a lot of VA work.

@0LD_SK0OL_PUNK Yeah, well sorry for the overreacted comment then.
I wouldn't know if the option was common, since i haven't played many JPN games with voice acting. It's something i couldn't care less about in a FE game.

They only mentioned the audio tracks. Will it include english subtitles for the cut-scenes?

I like both English and japanese voices but would prefer the english. Especially if the characters themselves don't look Japanese...