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 Eve, a game without any voice acting, it feels strange. It stands out because of how often Parasite Eve is silent. The very first scene sees Aya pulling up to an opera, and apart from the sound of the vehicle pulling to a stop, there’s basically no sound to speak of. No music plays in the background. It’s just the sound of footsteps as Aya and her date step forward, eyes fixed to the bottom of the screen to read the next line of dialog. Advancing dialog one line at a time is weird when it reads as traditional subtitles. I keep expecting it auto-advance after a beat than wait for me to press a…