[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[Batbrat]

Yeah, I'm sorry, but this voice casting was pretty baaad. I don't really want to argue about politics or anything, so please dont try to hide behind some shield like that as a reason to why everybody should be ultra accepting right now-that shouldnt be the main focus, as right now, we're currently talking about character accuracy, ok, not whatever causes you may virtuously support irl. Ok,

The voice casting just doesnt sound South American at all, and it fluxates in a way that suggests that they likely dont even know what a South American is lol. You're telling me not ONE South American woman with a genuinely heavy accent was available for this? Because that person whoever they are does NOT sound like they speak even a lick of spanish LMAO. They focused way too much on trying to sound like a genki anime tomboy girl instead of sounding like a South American woman from a very distinctly cultured far away land. and I say this all as someone who doesnt even usually CARE about VA stuff. I'm usually pretty lenient-like, some of the other VAs clearly arent what their voices should be from either, right? But at least you can't tell. It's not that blatant. This however, was a bit cringe. Come on. Come on guys. It sounded like they were half going for an Indian accent at times lol-like it just kept going all over the place. If youre going to fake an accent, that's fine! British actors do it all the time in American movies and vise-versa! However! You need to learn how to PICK! JUST ONE! accent, and keep it consistent. and that's what this person is currently unable to do. and also, most importantly, it should actually sound like the people/culture that you're going for. How you can do a borderline Indian accent for South American, whenever everybody in the WORLD knows who Shakira is, is just astounding. It's just astounding to me. Try harder, do better.

[Junepi93]

Yeah, I'm sorry, but this voice casting was pretty baaad. I don't really want to argue about politics or anything, so please dont try to hide behind some shield like that as a reason to why everybody should be ultra accepting right now-that shouldnt be the main focus, as right now, we're currently talking about character accuracy, ok, not whatever causes you may virtuously support irl. Ok,

I can't help but feel if "politics" here wasn't involved nobody would be up in arms about the voice acting choice. Awfully strange for everyone to be sooo angry about this, to the point that people are saying they'll never listen to the English version ever again, but I'm supposed to leave "politics" out of it. Riiight.

[Eraden]

Mao gonna chime in here. Mao actually liked Lady Fuzzy Cat. Mao had to muchly resist urge to pull out whiffle sticks and brushes and start brushings and pettings Lady Fuzzy Cat. Mao needs to remember to bring Mao collection of whiffle sticks and brushes to new land. Is time for Mao to get SERIOUS!

[Jettinson]

This got the most unnecessary intense reaction for a voice, damn.

I thought she was alright, really enjoyed her banter with Erenville but she could use better consistency but that's it from me.
Also telling to switch to Japanese voice acting despite forgetting how different all the cast sound is jarring.
If you want the highly energetic Wuk Lamat, the door is open for japanese, she sounds great but I am fine with a lower tone and I do not want to lose Erenville's english voice as well as Krile, Estinien etc.

I am more curious how the future characters sound especially the Miqo te in the Dawntrail poster

[Thighland]

Alright, since the last thread got deleted, I'll write this again.

I didn't enjoy Wuk's english voice.
Not because the VA is trans, and not because they are not south american enough.
The voice is simply not good.
The delivery is shaky, inconsistent and lacks the energy required for a tomboyish character like Wuk Lamat. And the awfully forced accent doesn't help.
I probably wouldn't mind that much if Wuk was just a side character, but she is supposed to be a major part in the coming expansion.
So I'll probably switch to JP for Dawntrail, since we've reached a point where the downsides outweigh the upsides in my opinion.

I don't think the VA should get fired over this, but I think it is important to give honest feedback, so Squeenix can make better decisions in the future.

[Somnolence]

Not because the VA is trans

This unfortunately hampers discussion or criticism of such things.

Better to just generate all voices with AI in video games when tech is perfected to avoid any controversies and issues IMO.

Who I am kidding, somebody would complain about stereotype accents despite them being the result of actual AI model training data on real people

[ArcaviusGreyashe]

Better to just generate all voices with AI in video games when tech is perfected to avoid any controversies and issues IMO.

That's got to be bait.

[Rannie]

Meh the vocal timbre of the voice was fine the acting sounded bad and that she wasn't used to voice acting period. Also the accent wasn't all that great and sounded unnatural....

[YueFairchild]

Meh the vocal timbre of the voice was fine the acting sounded bad and that she wasn't used to voice acting period. Also the accent wasn't all that great and sounded unnatural....

Exactly. She'll improve over time. Like I said in the other thread, her girlvoice is great, better than mine.

[WantlessYoYo]

If the intention was a south American/Spanish accent they didn't get it
As a Spanish person myself and who's had the pleasure of working with latin people in English environments, as well ln this game on a static, you can clearly see a distinction on the accents when one of us talks, and I can say they just, didn't get it
Now this is only IF the intention was going for a Spanish one, if not I don't have a word

That aside I said it on the deleted thread, don't know if it's the accent she's trying to make or her range but it feels limited in terms of expressions, I swapped to JP to make a quick comparison and I was happy to see how much of a cheerful personality she expressed on japanese, whereas on English I CAN see they're intending too but it's like, midway
This seen pretty much in the bird scenes where she's supposed to be scared or when hunting with the excitement, as others have said it falls flat

Maybe not a recast like people say, I just hope she gets better at it, I really do, but dependant on the rest of the cast on Tural (in the sense if same as Thavnir with the Indian accents wich came wonderfully) I'll just play on japanese no problem

Speaking of picking nationality for VA, didn't they hire actual Indian people for Endwalker and came out pretty good if you ask me, it really felt natural(this last part is genuine curiosity)