A while ago I've measured time differences of unskippable dialogues (eg. visions in Echoes of the Past, Botchlig ritual with the pellar, etc.) between all language versions with audio availabe for the game. I did this for the old patch (1.06) but the outcome should be the same for the current one as well. Here are the results shown as a comparison to the most common, english version:
- Japanese: -4,5s
- Polish: -2,8s
- Portugese (BR): -2,4s
- English: 0s
- Russian: +1,6s
- French: +6,6s
- German: +11,6s
The japanese version is the fastest one in the game, saving ~4s over the english one and ~2s over the second fastest, the polish one. If your version of the game doesn't include japanese audio and you're playing on the old patch, you can download all the files necessary from the "Resources" tab.
NOTE: The numbers I've presented here are not 100% accurate - I've decided not to measure dialogues that basically are just one, short dialogue line, since they wouldn't change the overall order on this "leaderboard", so it would be just a waste of time. I believe the actual results would differ for +/- 0,2s, so you can treat presented "scores" as a good enough estimation of the potential timesaves/timelosses.
Over the past couple of months the top runners of the game have decided that to make competition, especially for world records fair, we need to introduce an fps cap at 120 fps. Its a fact that higher fps increases the speed with which the AutoHotkey skips through cutscenes and slower PC's with older
