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P4 is bad about honorifics but still mostly listenable. P3 dips in and out of outright incompetence on a frustrating basis.
The biggest offender is Fuuka, who takes over as spotter halfway through the game (like Rise in P4); practically every other word out of her mouth is an honorific of some sort, and her dialogue is (for the most part) painfully stilted. And it's not the VA's fault, either: it's Mela Lee, who's also Rachel Alucard in BlazBlue.
In short, I blame the writing and direction, both of which improved dramatically for Persona 4 (even if they insisted on shoehorning honorifics into the script for no good reason).
The biggest offender is Fuuka, who takes over as spotter halfway through the game (like Rise in P4); practically every other word out of her mouth is an honorific of some sort, and her dialogue is (for the most part) painfully stilted. And it's not the VA's fault, either: it's Mela Lee, who's also Rachel Alucard in BlazBlue.
But the absolute worst line in the game is delivered by Chidori, one of the members of rival group Strega: when she finds out her Evoker's been taken, her reaction is vomit-inducingly awful. The crazy part is that her VA, Karen Strassman, is also Aigis: while some of Aigis' battle cries are similarly nauseating, she absolutely nails the final scene where Aigis confesses her love for the protagonist. This, FYI, is the sort of scene that English dubs typically never get right. In other words, the same VA delivers both one of the absolute worst lines in recent English dubbing history as well as one of the best lines in English dubbing of all time.
In short, I blame the writing and direction, both of which improved dramatically for Persona 4 (even if they insisted on shoehorning honorifics into the script for no good reason).
