First mail voice over?

#1 - Sept. 12, 2012, 6:25 a.m.
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I noticed something weird.

I chose a commoner option for my human guardian. When I received the first mail after completing 1 heart, it was voiced-over! Can’t remember exactly what it said but it had sound.

On other characters I didn’t get the voice over…why? Is this a bug? It would be a great if all storyline mails we get are voiced. Much easier to immerse.

#8 - Sept. 12, 2012, 4:12 p.m.
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I just checked again, commoner and street rat in human has them, but not the others.

Can we hope for an official response just to check if this is bug or not?

The original plan was to voice all the personal story mail, but due to time constraints in the production plan we decided to leave them silent. We probably have voice files for the first 10 or 20 levels for many of the storylines, but we unhooked them because we couldn’t guarantee that we’d have them all written and voiced in time. The fact that you’re hearing one or two means that we forgot to remove some files. (It’s a bug.)

#10 - Sept. 12, 2012, 5:29 p.m.
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Aww that is such a shame! I found the voice-over to be amazing it helps with immersion too. Sometimes reading those can be tiresome, but with voice it becomes easier.

Any hopes you will continue with the voiceover for and release those in future updates?

I hope so. No promises or anything, but if we have room in the budget and time to go through all the mails, we may be able to restore the existing voice files and also record the remaining ones. Don’t expect it any time soon, though.