Playing Reverse: 1999 !

[@MarcoMeatball]

damn 5 hours.

[@MrShamus22]

Marco I haven’t watched all of it yet but Sonetto definitely isn’t meant to have a fluent “normal” conversation. She’s been indoctrinated in some way by the Foundation and I highly doubt that conversation was their priority

[@WENQUHUANG]

Macro, I am Chinese and now I am sure that the game is written in British English and then translated into Chinese and Japanese. Not just because the Chinese version is not authentic as for me, a Chinese, they even use some words in Early Mordern English like "thou" "thy" "hast" and you can even see Esperanto in this game. That is why sometimes some words or sentence may be weird. Take "speakeasy" for example, it is a word USED IN THE PROHIBITION ERA OF USA , nowadays maybe not everybody knows what speakeasy really is. But I really love your videos, and watched a lot of your videos like some videos about Genshin Impact. I also love this game. Thank you so much that you pick up this game too. Have a good day. :)

[@yxz6540]

ya, u r right, absolutely right.@@MrShamus22

[@vovafint6507]

Why honkai impact is gone?

[@traptor713]

16:07 Actually, Regulus is specifically a "radio pirate," not a Pirates of the Caribbean pirate, which is why she looks nothing like a normal pirate. Basically radio pirates are people who broadcast their own radio stations without a radio license, which is why she has a bunch of records and is themed around music. In the UK in the 1960s, they would even operate in offshore facilities like anchored boats, which is what she is doing at the start of the game, so good catch on saying she looks like a holdout from the 1960s!

[@aregulargamer1]

*Suddenly emerges from water* Oi, Oi! Wh0t's all this then? You got a loicense for that radio, Guv'nor?

[@miorioff]

I absolutely love how a successful opera singing career led this beautiful man into anime gacha gaming 😂 Please never change ❤

[@MarcoMeatball]

😂

[@kapiteingrasparkiet7574]

Arknights finally found themselves a worthy contender.... This was a gem for all history lovers out there. The Voice actors absolutely nailing the regional accents. It's just incredible

[@MrShamus22]

I love how Sonetto is that “robotic” voice because she grew up in what practically amounts to a scientific laboratory

[@wheel8954]

Dont forget the drama they served especially the Ending of Chapter 2 😭

[@kapiteingrasparkiet7574]

@@wheel8954 yes. So much portrayed in this game... The historical context of the failure of capitalism (Chapter 2), the failure of democracy (Chapter 4), of bureaucratic authority brainwashing and puppeting ordinary people (Chapter 3). The natural way the VA said their lines, definitely one of the best storylines ever to be made.

[@wheel8954]

@@kapiteingrasparkiet7574 free mobile game btw... Cant wait for more story heavy content

[@ransudesu9829]

​@@wheel8954"Don't forget the heartbeat on your right" 😭😭😭

[@52qdd]

The Italian line Sonneto says when attacking is from the poem 《L'infinito》 written by Giacomo-Leopardi in 1819, so as many other dialogues. That's propably why you feel they are wierd or machine translated. I find the game designs are mostly exquisite, such as the twin girls from Shining, the last supper, John Titor, the Chicago Massacre and so on. By the way, your Enternity is originated from the oldest lady in the world who lived more than 115 years.

[@MarcoMeatball]

I don’t feel it’s machine translated! I never said that. :)

[@52qdd]

Sorry I confused some of the comments in chat. So glad you are enjoying the game, I have followed your genshin reactions for several month. You have great taste.@@MarcoMeatball

[@52qdd]

@@MarcoMeatball BTW, @IslandXD did two very good research videos about details in the game. I highly recommend everyone to check it out. :)

[@52qdd]

The essence of this game is the English voice acting, you really shouldn't miss it.

[@MarcoMeatball]

I switched back

[@Kaltsit-]

I was surprised by the story. Like. It very soon started impacting with many themes (for those who don’t know, themes are lessons taught through stories about life) I’m not even into Act 3 yet. It’s just wow.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Act 2 chapter 3 I think was lovely and somber

[@wheel8954]

So you've done the chapter 2 ending?

[@MarcoMeatball]

last thing i have to do today. I beat the boss.@@wheel8954

[@Latency345]

Sonetto's writing is rather strange. She is both very confident and uptight but at the same time timid and easy to fluster. The "Can... Could we go by bus?" is probably because she has never been outside all that much. Oh, and as for the Italian, I think there is a valid reason fot her strange italian. She was raised in St. Pavlov the whole time, which is a bag of mixed nuts (racially and mentally). Regulus even says that nobody would be able to tell that she's italian if it weren't for her occasional hand gestures. So in comparison to Pavia, who is an Italian by birth or Schneider who is also Italian by birth, it would make sense that her Italian is strange

[@literatedegenerate3800]

Legit has the most creative character designs that I found myself more hyped for lower rarity pulls just because I knew I was in for some trippy stuff. Also Dikke is now my wife. Also also A knight is now my husband.

[@MarcoMeatball]

Totally agree

[@Pro-Diletante]

OMG YESS IM SO GLAD YOUR checking out THIS GAME I never thought you would the story the characters the combat system is all so good.

[@Pibear89]

It's hard to say if it's based of AI Art. I believe ai art has scarred us in these forms of styles, which makes us suspicious for any art style that has been done with ai art

[@kiki123456able]

Ive followed a number of artists since years ago that styles are used by ai generated images so often to the point when said artists post a new work, some people accused them of using ai. It's just sad. (Sorry if my grammar is bad, English is not my first language)

[@DerekEu_Dev]

as someone that tried countless generations of AI art, no not possible not without super heavy editing that is so much more work that you better of draw the whole thing to look better. The details, even just a flower pattern will be soo messed up beyond comprehension if you use AI, the strings will never even connect to each other properly and the references to historical fasion, emblem, flag, stylized proportions all almost impossible because AI can't understand meaning of it.

[@crazykim]

@@DerekEu_Dev Yeah. As someone who has dabbled too it's easy to tell this just isn't AI. And if it somehow is, they deserve as much credit as any artist for the sheer amount of effort they would have to put in.

[@jingqiao661]

oh my god! I didn’t expect you to pick up this game! I’ve been playing in the Chinese server for the past 6 months and I will say the plot is pretty dang good in the main storyline, the voice acting is great and has intriguing characters. Even if you don’t end up liking the gameplay it’s still fun to look into the history of some characters, like how Pavia is based on werewolf legends, John Titor is a reference and speaks in hexadecimal…Sonetto is a form of Italian poetry I believe.

[@jamesjarrett5499]

I just realized why sonetto’s style of speaking is so familiar and why it doesn’t bother me-Eleven from Stranger things. Speaks with strange and rigid syntax, not really robotic, not totally emotionless… more like lack of experience or confidence. That’s actually in character for her. I did see something on the r99 Reddit that mentioned the English has been in the game since day one, and the reason it seems like poor localization is that it was written by non native English speakers with very little input on what sounds wrong or out of place. Thus we get fluent English voice active over extremely strange writing. The English va isn’t totally better by chapter 3-4 but it does seriously improve. I wonder if after all the input during global launch if they will work to correct the strange writing in the English version.

[@crazykim]

The EN voice acting for me is big hits and very slight misses. Even from the same characters. Like, sometimes I really like APPLe, it's soothing almost, and sometime's it's just.. mmm... nah.

[@crazykim]

Either way, I'd easily take this unique take over generic JP voice acting. It's solid, but as usual, it's just that.

[@crazykim]

Also the music in The Poussiere sounds so much like Pascals Village from Nier Automata, I keep expecting children to suddenly start singing.

[@aregulargamer1]

@@crazykim Big agree. You certainly can't accuse it of being generic, no matter what else you can say about it. At least it's interesting.

[@soro3969]

Dang, Marco already has Pickles in the background!

[@thisisabsurd7420]

I'm honestly surprised you ran this in Japanese. The English audio is honestly just barely wrong enough to be hiilarious to listen to, but good enough that it's still fun to follow. I honestly think it loses part of its charm in Japanese, considering it all has taken place in English speaking nations so far. and all the accents are just completely almost correct, yet still wrong enough to emphasize how the world has gone completely off the rails. And all the Russian spoken dialogue is actually spoken in Russian, while they cheat in Japanese. But if you dislike it THAT much, I get it. I just find it amusing that this is probably the first English dub in ages I've enjoyed in years.

[@MarcoMeatball]

I think it’s horrible personally and has no energy or tension in it given what’s happening. Glad you’re enjoying it!

[@thisisabsurd7420]

@@MarcoMeatball If you think this English track has no energy, I've a few game to never suggest you play in English then!

[@spanailos]

The Voice Acting is probably the best part of this Game. You rarely see such good voicing of an Asien Gacha Game. And he turns the voices to Japanese, disabling the best part of it. xD

[@MarcoMeatball]

As a voice actor myself I personally hate the English and I rarely say that

[@ZaychikSN]

the classic best and most iconic representative line of r1999… So you have a mother!

[@WateryStar]

Came for the game staying for doggo

[@_lost_paradise5089]

The year I was born:o

[@MarcoMeatball]

lol I’m old

[@plingela276]

Молодец хорошо играешь. Удачи тебе с просмотрам и зрителями

[@phestojen7966]

I love the english voice acting. I hate Sonetto's character writing XD They wrote her speech in a very janky and odd way that it feels like she's struggling against her own words rather than talking naturally which kinda sucks cause you'd think someone as structured and knowledgeable as her would be able to speak comfortably and it kinda breaks her character consistency. It's also interesting to hear from the perspective of someone who is a voice actor that the English voice acting is bad since the english voicework is what initially drew me to Reverse: 1999 along with its character art and story. I'm so used to hearing English voice acting with no accents or dialects except for American/Southern American or Japanese voice acting which has a tendency to be a bit copy+paste from character to character (though I am aware that there are differences but none that are immediately noticeable to the nonnative speaker that I am).

[@floofzykitty5072]

To me she appears autism coded, and the "struggling against her own words" you hear is how they express that she's a very restrained character. I'm not sure how much you've seen, but she only puts on the front of being extremely capable. As early as the beginning of Act 2 you can see that she often relies on Vertin for acts of initiative because she is always relying on the data bank within her head which does not always account for the situation at hand. That's not to say she isn't reliable or capable, but being fresh onto the field she is still developing her practical sense and initiative.

[@SrVerataro]

Ah yes finally a worthy contender... what? whats an arknights? Im talking about miss Sotheby's potions finally contending against Finland's wartime... "medicine"

[@MarcoMeatball]

Sotheby and her potions🥹

[@reconfox82]

55:06 😂😂😂as a Mandarin speaker this make me lmao

[@MarcoMeatball]

You will gain a lot. A LOT OF WHAT

[@reconfox82]

@@MarcoMeatball 😂

[@AndoaintheMartyr]

The turn-based system is more intriguing and challenging than Honkai star rail in my honest opinion and the english dub is top notch for someone who don't like eng dub like me especially in anime esque like games...

[@MarcoMeatball]

I love the gameplay

[@nightevermoon9529]

marco should play sdorica or guardian tales, the history is really good

[@ibelieveinwoozisupremacy8681]

Man... Your internet is fast

[@kiki123456able]

Wait it's already released??

[@MarcoMeatball]

Todat

[@kiki123456able]

it is! and a pc client on top of that? sweet@@MarcoMeatball

[@shigiryou7882]

The game was developed by a CN company named BluePoch 深蓝互动. It was doing okay in the CN market, so the developer thought it would do okay in the global market. In fact, the game tried to appeal to CN players with its authentic British accent voiceover. However, for English-speaking players, the dialog looks somewhat off (as mentioned in the stream), because, in my opinion, the original scripts are written in Chinese and translated to English. For example, at 27:47, "Could we go there by bus?". But I am not a native English speaker, so correct me if I am wrong.

[@KusuriyaV]

I chalk it up to it being a different era of time where speech differs. How we speak now isn't how people commonly spoke then.

[@7771-e6x]

I like how it’s kind of an accurate representation of how non-native English speakers would talk irl. It’s silly but it’s fun.

[@ZephyrK_]

“Could we go there by bus” is a proper sentence, it’s formal language.

[@Tohlemiach]

@@KusuriyaVbruh they still spoke like that in the 60’s and 90’s. It’s a bad localization, period. Verb tenses are constantly off, grammar is stiff and awkward.

[@MrShamus22]

I honestly think that the vocal awkwardness is intentional. Sonetto clearly isn’t a normal human and was raised by what practically amounts to a laboratory built for some sort of military work

[@indigo.child.]

M❤🙏

[@floofzykitty5072]

The only voice I really don't like in English is Sonetto's because it sounds like she can't breathe properly and her voice is so quiet I can barely hear the beginning of her lines sometimes. It's especially prevalent in one of her skill cast lines where it sounds to me like "[Inaudible], and this is an alien city". I had no idea what she was saying until I checked her voice lines on her profile.

[@riotangel4701]

Art style is nice but "luckily" for me it's turn based so can skip just like *Honkai Star Rail* . Can't imagine having to juggle multiple gacha games.

[@Tronerfull]

Honestly I started playing it to see if it was good, was surprised , the only thing i dont like is the english theme. Still prefer limbus company

[@nizarahmad3912]

some of the character voices sounded a hell lot like an AI. The office lady that worked at the foundation for example. I don't know if its intentional or not

[@treebush]

man the games translation is bad

[@MarcoMeatball]

I understand the plot fine?

[@treebush]

@@MarcoMeatball you don’t notice the rigid structure of the sentences and run on sentences? There are a lot of really odd placements of wording or improper use of slangs. A lot of it seems to be machined translated like how google translate complex Japanese. It’s unnatural English.

[@MarcoMeatball]

doesn't mean the plot doesn't make sense - yes, i noticed. but i understand the plot..@@treebush