Re: KH3 Listing in SE German Store Confirms English Audio Only

man i feel bad for the international fan of kh fans if it true that really suck i guess it not really in our control though

Sad but not a deal breaker. Although my Latin American Spanish sub dream is dead, I'm just excited it comes out soon.

I mean, they are still working on voice acting for English. Imagine if they included all other languages. I'm not saying the game wouldn't benefit from additional languages, but the time and effort to coordinate voice acting for those languages would take some time.

Today, is the day international KH fans cry.

WAIT but does this mean if KH3 releases in US it will have English AND Japanese audio? Or will it just have English audio? I have to decide between which version to buy depending on this situation......

Meh oh well. Would've been really really awesome to play KH in German again but eh I guess I'll have to just play it in English then. Not a big problem.

i'll be really pissed if they also dont include jp audio
i'm gonna accept no german dub although i'm not very happy, but only english would be
just rude??

Damn, that's a bummer. Sorry y'all.

This is awful. This game will have in-game dialogues, and this is almost impossible to a not bilangual person to follow the action on the screen AND the subtitles at the midle of a fight. I'm french, I growed up with the french dubs and I was hoping with all my heart for european dubs. Sorry for my bad english.
Sora's french and german voice will always be my favorite.
"Mes amis sont ma force, et moi la leur !"

The voice talents seem to be more diverse for this game considering the amount of characters featured. I'm not surprised that this is the case.

Maybe as a later DLC, iirc Zelda BotW got it also after the release

Considering it is already confirmed that Nomura & co. apparently packed this title full with story content and Yokomura has to compose much more music than ever before the scale of KH III overshadows I and II in scope so I guess there is also much more voice work to do, especially if the lesser NPCs are also voiced.

It's already a huge task to do that in two languages, doing in in four or five would probably delay KH III to April 2019 or something.

Man. I can only imagine how infuriating this must be to international KH fans.
I mean, if I had grown up with the English voiceover and all the classic actors, only to have to switch to a Japanese dub for every game after KH2, that would be extremely jarring, and really detach me from the characters.

Bummer, we were never going to get Italian dub but I'm sad regardless for the German/Spanish/French fans who were hopeful, I know the feeling.

I'm completely fine with this. I've always hated the German dub anyway so I'm actually happy to hear this but I do feel sorry for everyone else. The only thing I want is being able to switch between Japanese and English audio but unfortunately it seems unlikely...what a pity.

we're getting english voices? Yes dude!!! Yes!!!!!

There's actually a petition going round that some European fans have started up. If you feel so inclined then do sign!

https://www.disneycentral.de/kh3/signieren.php?sprache=en

Personally I think it's doable in the next seven months, and they would only need to cast new va's for aqua, Terra and xehanort. If they could fully localise ff15 they can do it for KH3 where there's a precedence.

I feel like it's much more of a pressing issue now due to text boxes being redundant. Watching something in a different language with subtitles is very different to playing, as watching shows is incredibly passive entertainment, unlike a game where you would be engaged at all times. I can see this being really detrimental to players in fast paced cutscenes or in-battle speech due to their attention being split. Which also brings up a lack of emersion as a reason for localisation.

Would probably get a language update later in the year

Can't they just add the European audio dubbing as free DLC down the line? The demand is clearly there, I think it's just a scheduling issue more than anything else.

I really hope the Japanese version comes with English as well...

Or that they allow us to swap around audio and text options. I get tired of having to order two copies of each game because I like to hear both. My KH display shelf is...crowded to say the least.

I simply cannot choose between them. I first played the game in English, so there is the nostalgia factor and wanting to finish it with the "original cast" per say.

But...Miyu is my one true love and honestly, does a much better job with Sora imo. So hrm...

Sorry for those who been expecting their language to be dubbed for 3, but English and Japanese are the two only origianl and official audio for the game since the beginning.

My 1st language is not English but since I've played all the titles in English so far the language and voices themselves have become so natural and proper for characters. If Kh was a game like FFXV where its originally JP game then I'd prefer JP dub but this is KH. English is not just another option other than Japanese but I think it might be more fitting than JP.

And usually dubs other than the origianl languages arent that good so I don't get why some people are so mad for this. +Considering the time and effort they'd put for multi language dubbing, I think this is just right.

Ps. Maybe switching between two languages would be awsome, but that would mean they have to put 2 different lip-synching in a game so its okay

Boo hoo hoo, welcome to the world of a not popular language native speakers! :redface:

A real shame, but given the amount of money that would be put in to the massive scale of voice work in this one, I'm not really surprised either.

I would be legitimately surprised if we even get dual audio in the West considering all the red tape around licensing Disney’s Japanese talent

On topic, I feel for everyone not getting their dub. The European dubs of 1&2 were fantastic

This is is extremely disappointing. Major bummer. The fact that Final Fantasy XV was fully localized had got my hopes up. I don't really understand Square Enix's decision.

Hello ! I'm a french fan of the KH games. The european fans learnt a few days ago that we won't have any dub in our languages. Since then, we tried to peacefully make Square change their minds.

We have a petition going on here : https://www.change.org/p/square-enix-european-dub-for-khiii
We also have a hashtag on twitter where we try to make our voice heard : #EUdubbingforKH3

If you would like to help us spread the word and reach Square Enix, it would be amazing !

And for those that fear the game would be delayed if we win : don't worry ! It doesn't take this long to dub a game. And they could just add a DLC for voice acting instead of delaying it, so you won't lose anything. If we manage to have european dubbing, it's a win-win situation !

Thank you so much for reading, and thanks for the article !

Sorry for pulling out this old thread but in the past few weeks I have noticed that even a lot of niche or less popular AAA titles have 4-6 different dubs which makes me wonder how they can have the budget to do so but Kingdom Hearts can't.

I was going to play the game anyways but considering they're also targeting a younger audience with the game I don't understand why they wouldn't dub it. My 12 years old cousin was actually looking forward to the game until I told him it won't be dubbed and (just like the majority) he doesn't like reading subtitles even though his english isn't too bad for his age. I'm assuming the main reason why they didn't bother making more dubs is because of the large variety of characters and the expectation of people to hear authentic voices for all the Disney characters and that would probably all cost a lot more than dubbing a game like Darksiders 3.

Has there even been a case where a game received dubs through an update after the release?