The. Only thing joe will do in this trailer is his ass taunt
And all will be right with the world again
I'd be perfectly fine with that, lol. He can still get to show off his moves while fighting the "real" intros of trailers going forward... he'd just never be acknowledged like the rest, leading to his agitation, ha.
To add to this the Engrish adds so much charm to the game
Especially now-a-days, where these actors also do the OVA's, motion comics, commercials, and even voicework in in silly things like Robot Chicken or Family guy skits. It's nice to have some English equivalence to the JP Seiyuu so that you can get another interpretation of the characters.
While I doubt that it'll be the case, I hope that they at least do English voice acting for characters that would normally speak English (the Bogards, for example). My ideal scenario is for SNKP to go either the Street Fighter route (English & Japanese being selectable on a character-by-character basis) or the Tekken route (languages accurate to their country of origin). But given all of the Japanese voice acting we have so far, a variant of the Street Fighter route seems like the most likely option (if any).
I'd love to have this as an option too. I LOVE the JP Seiyuu (Harumi Ikoma\s voice is memorable for me on all the characters she plays for SNK, for example), but just as it was weird to hear Kyle Hebert voice Ryu for the first time, but now he's almost as memorable for his HADOUKEN's as the traditional JP Seiyuu work for me.
KOF has had the same voice actors for years for a lot of their characters would be weird to hear them in another language. And yes the Engrish is part of the charm for some characters. I don't want to hear Terry speak proper English.
Definitely (though some had to have been, and have been replaced over the years, and they mentioned some will be in this game), they've also had English takes. Fatal Fury OVAs, Samsho and AoF's, The Maximum Impact games, and some voicework in XII all has US voicework for characters.
I love SNK Engrish, even how they squeezed lots of it into Trouble Witches NEO on XBLA. But having a "proper" English dub right alongside an SNK-Traditional one would just add to, and not detract, from the appeal of the work.
I'd be fine with them speaking in Japanese and Engrish. Although some of the voices annoy me (mainly Angel and Athena), I'd rather leave it as it already is.
I had "Psyco BALL! PSYCHO SWORRRRDD!" ring in my ears for so many years, it was more a "face of KoF" rather than anything I ever found annoying. It's always funny to me how often I heard such voice lines, but never fought ill of any of them. It took the internet to make me think "Oh, these might actually annoy someone!"
SNK Engrish will always remind me of those days. They way I knew I liked a random arcade game I played was that I'd be repeating the attack and death sounds all the time with my siblings after playing. Games like Data East's TumblePop would probably have been forgotten by now, if not for their engrishy, memorable voice clips.
