[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[EliaStormblade]

And thus has the well been poisoned and camps set up for people to preemptively fall into based on their political views, rather than their opinions on a subpar performance. The modern internet sure is a marvel.

[Bonoki]

I want paid time off too

[SwadTheFrog]

This is easily the most disappointing thing about it but it's not the VA, it's the devs.

It's both - make no mistake, I found the delivery very flat and uneven, too. It's just that the forced fake accent was the most insulting part about it. Though I agree that the decision to hire this VA was a very poor move on the dev's part, if they wanted someone that genuinely sounded South American.

You know what it vaguely reminds me of? Loba, from Apex. They hired a spanish woman to voice a Brazillian woman - and because of that, she commited the casual faux-pas of speaking portuguese as if it was spanish, and it was, once more, comically insulting.

[Elodie_Einsbern]

Is that what this is? Cuz I don't mind people disliking the performance (I think she's fine), but I dislike people going out and deadnaming her, misgendering her and saying that her voice sounds too much like a man. That's not 'Godwin's Law', that's just straight calling up what it is.

It's just suspicious to me that a thread so filled with transphobia against the VA is calling for her to be fired for her "Poor performance".

You know what, I'll just say my mistake because I forgot how bad some peoples reading comprehension is. I'll do better next time and edit a quote to refer only to the part I was addressing, and not the entire quote because I was being lazy. Because its clear you read their first sentence and only the first sentence, when I was clearly addressing the last sentence they made.

[LioJen]

I don't care what this person said on twitter, what their opinions are on anything, or their politics, but I know poor acting when I hear it and I'm switching to JP voices if this is going to be a prominent character going forward. Strange they hire some amateur from Kentucky for this lead role after the majority of the cast are professional actors from the UK. Especially after they went through the trouble to replace the previous amateur-sounding VAs from ARR. I could understand if they had talent, but this clearly isn't the case. Is there another union strike going on or what? Why the sudden 180 in casting procedure for this character in particular?

It also sounded like none of the actors were in the same recording session or even heard the recordings from the others during their takes. Is this a symptom of the new one being on the other side of the world from the rest?

[SannaR]

Wow. It's funny to hear so many Spanish people get mad at a person who probably speaks a form of Spanish considering where the VA is from for not having the right accent for them. When even I a dumb gringo knows there are multitudes of Spanish and Spanish accents. Same thing for French cause almost anyone from France is going to point and laugh at a person speaking French-Canadian. This reminds me of the hate the English VA for Vanille got for not sounding Australian even though she was Australian. It is also funny that people are upset at the different pronunciation of Tural or Tuliyollal when Sharlyean has been pronounced every other which way from now til the heat death of the universe. It is also odd that people have forgotten that we won't just be in Southern Tural. That Solution Nine is practically in the PNW area. The character is also adopted, grew up with an Icelandic bun boy, has a cat boy and a lizard for brothers.

[Karious]

Wow. It's funny to hear so many Spanish people get mad at a person who probably speaks a form of Spanish considering where the VA is from for not having the right accent for them. When even I a dumb gringo knows there are multitudes of Spanish and Spanish accents. Same thing for French cause almost anyone from France is going to point and laugh at a person speaking French-Canadian. This reminds me of the hate the English VA for Vanille got for not sounding Australian even though she was Australian. It is also funny that people are upset at the different pronunciation of Tural or Tuliyollal when Sharlyean has been pronounced every other which way from now til the heat death of the universe. It is also odd that people have forgotten that we won't just be in Southern Tural. That Solution Nine is practically in the PNW area. The character is also adopted, grew up with an Icelandic bun boy, has a cat boy and a lizard for brothers.

You said it yourself, you're a gringo. You can't get into the mindset of someone who speaks Spanish or is from a Spanish speaking country and might be offended by a performance that mocks their language.

[YueFairchild]

It also sounded like none of the actors were in the same recording session or even heard the recordings from the others during their takes. Is this a symptom of the new one being on the other side of the world from the rest?

That's actually super normal for voice acting, most actors do their sessions alone, and it's up to the ADR Director to use the takes that go best together. This is why theater actors tend to do better at VA work out the gate than screen actors; they're trained to make their performance badical with or without the other cast's help.

Heck, in Japanese voice acting, the seiyuus don't even get to add their own spin on the performance. They see the premade animation, hear a beep at the beginning and end of the dialogue, and they have to fit everything into that. In the west, the whole thing's flip-flopped, and they draw based on the actors' performances.

[Atelier-Bagur]

You said it yourself, you're a gringo. You can't get into the mindset of someone who speaks Spanish or is from a Spanish speaking country and might be offended by a performance that mocks their language.

I mean Im also Spanish but Im not super sensitive about the performance. Its always people blowing hot air over the minor things.

Im not saying that the ENG VA is perfect, and I also wouldve loved to see if they did the opportunity to bring in a South American VA for the role but the VA is fine and hopefully polishes some of her recordings in DT

[Mecia]

Is that what this is? Cuz I don't mind people disliking the performance (I think she's fine), but I dislike people going out and deadnaming her, misgendering her and saying that her voice sounds too much like a man. That's not 'Godwin's Law', that's just straight calling up what it is.

It's just suspicious to me that a thread so filled with transphobia against the VA is calling for her to be fired for her "Poor performance".

Im trying to be respectful about it by saying ''deep undertone'' but what i mean by that is essentially under the umbrella of ''calling up what it is''

How am i supposed to word my issue with her voice acting?