Speech In Fighting Games

Since I got used to playing the Japanese versions of lots of fighting games when I was younger, I have generally switched any fighting games I get to Japanese audio. Since I don’t speak Japanese that well, I never really paid much attention to what the characters were actually saying.

But now that I stop and think about it, wouldn’t it be off-putting?

There are games in which characters don’t just make generic sounds of effort. Instead, they will say complete sentences and even taunt the op...