Point. But I dunno, I think they explicitly do that kind of thing for BB and especially GG because those games really are thematic throwbacks to that "edgy 90s" era in anime, and just do more to stick with the overall "tone" that fans expect of it.
It really came to a head for me not in BB or GG (where the rock-and-roll culture surely kinda fits it), but in the Ragnarok Tactics game Aksys published for PSP/Vita. No matter how innocent or nice a character, they all seemed to speak in the same "tone" after a while, and it was annoying. Then Muramasa Vita, which sounds pretty tame / rustic through a lot of the work, but then just gets overblown at other parts, leading to a fairly harsh mood / culture whiplash that just seems weird. It's more even between characters in Muramasa, for sure (nothing has been as off to me as RagnaTacts), but it still just seems to be part of their style.
But on the other hand, you look at Aksys' localization of Arcana Heart 3, and you really don't see much, if any, of that (or at least, from what I remember of playing the English version). Maybe it was because Examu insisted on a certain tone being maintained, or maybe it was because ASW/Aksys had a bit more respect to reign themselves in for the sake of working on another's property. It'd be interesting to find out the truth, but perhaps it'd mean that similar respect would be given to SNKP's product, if such were to happen.
They definitely seem to be able to play a more balanced roll, I just dislike them at their worse, lol. I feel Xseed has the same variety of words and use they do, they just seem to know how to write it overall better, and their moods and characterization seem more nuanced.
Of course, for all I know, SNKP could be going for a different tone here... we'll see. It's something I consider each time a 90's era property gets remade / updated. The "Final Fight Streetwise" chance, haha.
Thanks for providing a good reply to this, as I know this... really isn't KoF centric at this point, and it's something I don't think most of the people who play games like this care about. It's hard to make 50+ Unique personalities and "voices" of dialogue and class, so I'm always REALLY surprised when, somehow, over ALL THE YEARS of switched presidents, developers, publishers, etc, SNK(P) somehow always sounds like they're making translation for arcade machines in the SNES era, lol. Even their engrishy Trouble Witches NEO translation, felt very SNKish.
Considering that they haven't really talked about online features much at all, I think anything may be subject to change. Especially if a publisher pulled the trigger relatively recently, and may still want to review a few things before beginning their part of the marketing cycle.
*nod* I wonder if that could change the release time too? The best playing online games are really the ones with online latency and functionality in mind, so I hope whatever they've been building off of for the game already considers these things. I keep hoping they've went the KI route of running the game at a higher internal frame rate, with "rollback" code that basically has twice as many frames to roll as normal, leading to fantastically smooth-looking and feeling netplay.
