When it comes to non-improvements, the same can be said about the sound department, which was left untouched for the most part, including the muffled voice work from the N64 era and
poor sound mixing.
Other problems include
poor sound mixing that makes it hard to hear what's being said, items vanishing from the inventory (my torch helpfully disappeared.
One of the reasons is
the poor sound mixing and effects.
Not exact matches
The
sound is a bizarre
mix of musics with false «stings» that generally happen when no event to trigger them, and original movie
sounds (good)
mixed in with very
poor replacements (the marine Smartgun now
sounds like a WW2 MG42.
Audio shortcomings and anomalies seem more the product of the original recordings and
sound mixing than a
poor transfer to home video.
Whatever and whoever else they are, academy voters are not critics — and that, I think, explains more than anything the disappointingly
poor showing of Inside Llewyn Davis, which was recognized only for its
sound mixing and cinematography.
The visuals are solid and the
sound, minus the
poor voice acting, is pretty good too, but the gameplay is a
mixed bag indeed.
The
sound is a bizarre
mix of musics with false «stings» that generally happen when no event to trigger them, and original movie
sounds (good)
mixed in with very
poor replacements (the marine Smartgun now
sounds like a WW2 MG42.
Sound isolation, though, is remarkably
poor for an over-ear option above $ 300 — public transit and office ambiance easily bleeds into the
mix with music at a comfortable level.