The Whole Dragon's Crown Sorceress Thing

[psychospacecow]

I always liked the Tekken approach where the character was literally just a human who happened to have an animal head.

example

From the wiki,
[quote = http://tekken.wikia.com/wiki/King#Trivia ]King does not speak, but instead growls like a jaguar. These growls are however translated into speech via subtitles, and the people he interacts with seem to clearly understand what he says. [/quote]

That being said, I haven't played Dragon's Crown so I really can't comment beyond what I've seen about it. I personally like the designs because everything about that game is over the top and fits well on small screens like you'd hope a psp game would.