I don?t specifically want Japanese voices, I want the original voices. I must say however that it doesn?t matter where the game was released first, what matters is where the game was made (and sometimes, as in the case of Metal Gear Solid, if the creator explicitly states that he considers the English voices to be the "real" ones (although I like both English and Japanese voices in MGS)). In the same way I would never play a game like Mass Effect or Killzone in Japanese, it would just feel wrong.
Playing Catherine in English is for me akin to watching dubbed anime or movies, something I simply will not do. Thus I played the Japanese version of Catherine. Thankfully I am good enough at Japanese to be able to understand 90% of the dialog in the game, but I would still have preferred it with Japanese voices and English subs for convenience.
But let?s face it, even if a dub might be somewhat well done, it almost always changes something about how a character feels or makes the characters come off in a way that the original creator had not intended. And more often than not, dubs are NOT well done (FFX, FFXIII, Catherine, Suikoden etc etc...). That is why I will always prefer the original voices with English subtitles, regardless of which language the original adheres to (incidentally I played Metro 2033 with Russian voices).
Playing Catherine in English is for me akin to watching dubbed anime or movies, something I simply will not do. Thus I played the Japanese version of Catherine. Thankfully I am good enough at Japanese to be able to understand 90% of the dialog in the game, but I would still have preferred it with Japanese voices and English subs for convenience.
But let?s face it, even if a dub might be somewhat well done, it almost always changes something about how a character feels or makes the characters come off in a way that the original creator had not intended. And more often than not, dubs are NOT well done (FFX, FFXIII, Catherine, Suikoden etc etc...). That is why I will always prefer the original voices with English subtitles, regardless of which language the original adheres to (incidentally I played Metro 2033 with Russian voices).