cringe dialogue

nobody talks like this. nobody in any region, age group, culture, inside, or outside the skate community talks like this. calling manuals "mannies" and footage "footy", and then doubling back and saying it again just to make sure the players know what is being said. it sounds like how a boomer thinks skaters talk. Slappy saying "jabrony" over and over isn't funny, it's cringe.

I had to turn off VO completely and don't even read the on screen text, it's so bad.

it's way too late for anything to be done about it but who wrote the script and who approved it?

I also find it incredibly condescending that my character has to look at the phone to listen to the off-screen NPC. gamers have been receiving information from characters off-screen for decades and never wondered how our character is receiving the information because of didn't matter. we, the player, are receiving the information because it's on our screen. maybe it's just me but it feels gross to inhabit a fantasy world where my character is looking at a phone. my character can fall off a building a dozen times due to a made up technology but has to literally look at a phone to receive information? come on. we aren't THAT devoid of imagination