SE are still a bunch of lazy, cheap, filthy Children of a Lesser Godzilla for cutting out something like half of the total game dialogue by not localizing the party chat function.
Totally agree with you, Pretty much ruined the experience by doing that, hopefully one day someone will make a proper english patch for the jap version without all that dumbass inbreed yokel speak and the Party chat included.
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