Try the Narrator audio in Japanese with English Subtitles! It is an entirely different experience with the Narrator, in my opinion. It fits the feel of what they were going for with the world. I don't like the original Narrator at all, either.

i love the original one due to nostalgia of little big planet

Originally posted by Cally Emeraldaz:

i love the original one due to nostalgia of little big planet

The voice actor did a great job but sometimes I get the feeling he is talking in an extremely condescending tone about the player and it was really irritating at times.

The japanese VA does it, too, but the tone is much less so.

The bigger issue for me though really is the talk in third-person and unfortunately that's the same across all languages and subtitles.

I know it's 3 months later but they patched in the option to turn off the narrator at minimum 2 years ago. just a few options below frequency

Originally posted by Lizara:

I know it's 3 months later but they patched in the option to turn off the narrator at minimum 2 years ago. just a few options below frequency

you cant actually fully turn it off, can you? I recently finished it and the only option was to reduce the frequency a lot, but not entirely I think.

Originally posted by Nanashi:

Originally posted by Lizara:

I know it's 3 months later but they patched in the option to turn off the narrator at minimum 2 years ago. just a few options below frequency

you cant actually fully turn it off, can you? I recently finished it and the only option was to reduce the frequency a lot, but not entirely I think.

A bit late reply, but if anyone is curious, there is an option to turn off the narrator in dialogues completely. The setting is in the audio tab, below the frequency slider (you can also turn off the gibberish the creatures speak). However, this won't absolutely completely disable the narrator as there are story beats he needs to convey in cutscenes, but this makes a huge impact on the game overall when he's not speaking in dialogues.

Originally posted by boblick:

Originally posted by Nanashi:

you cant actually fully turn it off, can you? I recently finished it and the only option was to reduce the frequency a lot, but not entirely I think.

A bit late reply, but if anyone is curious, there is an option to turn off the narrator in dialogues completely. The setting is in the audio tab, below the frequency slider (you can also turn off the gibberish the creatures speak). However, this won't absolutely completely disable the narrator as there are story beats he needs to convey in cutscenes, but this makes a huge impact on the game overall when he's not speaking in dialogues.

I just started playing this game for the first time, never seen a gameplay video but have been familiar with this game forever and people complaining about "the narrator" since forever.

Now that I've experienced it, I think the biggest issue is that..

a) He adds nothing to the game.

b) Kills any immersion, with just a random American guy speaking in my head while I'm playing some mutant furry.

c) This game has THE worst introduction ever. So I'm guessing they spent a week coming up with story and didn't really know what to do with the world. So they decided to throw in a voice to keep the player "entertained" during the empty parts. In short time I've played, the game world looks so.. lifeless, which is ironic considering it's filled with vegetation.

But point "C" is also why you can't turn off the narrator. They apparently couldn't come up with a better way to tell cinematic than to just have some random guy voice everything.

"What's that? Coming up with your own conclusions through visual storytelling? Nah, players are dumb, throw in a voice actor explaining most obvious ♥♥♥♥ happening in the world." - Lead Developer (probably)

Anyway, my view is based on short time I've played this, so I'll keep playing and see if the game proves my first impression wrong.

I think the narrator is quite lovely and he adds heaps to the game. American? did you mean British? or that American is a sub dialect of British, because that's technically true. :P

Originally posted by Chungo Beepis:

I think the narrator is quite lovely and he adds heaps to the game. American? did you mean British? or that American is a sub dialect of British, because that's technically true. :P

Sounds like a generic voice actor from the west, usually from USA (which is where most of the VA's come from in gaming industry).

I'm not a westerner and I don't care to identify every accent, nor can I recognise most of them.

It's like when westerners hear one south Indian (Apu from Simpsons) and think all Indians talk with that accent, can't be arsed to learn how many different accents are there.

I really liked the idea behind the narrator. What a lot of people don't seem to realize is that the narrator actually isn't some random voice but the little locust robot that follows you around. And that the robot is translating what the other mutants say because apparantlly your character never bothered to learn the different languages the other mutants now speak. XD