Parasite Eve's subtitles are strange

I started playing some Parasite Eve a couple weeks ago and one thing that’s stuck out to me is how it presents dialog. Parasite Eve displays text at the bottom of the screen like you would subtitles for film and television, or really any kind of voiced dialog. In almost any other context, I wouldn’t give it any thought – that’s the natural place for them, after all! But in the context of Parasite…