[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[XiXiQ]

I don't see what the fuss is about. In english, what I heard was the Wakka (Besaid) accent from FFX. I found it quite cute.

[SwadTheFrog]

I don't see what the fuss is about. In english, what I heard was the Wakka (Besaid) accent from FFX. I found it quite cute.

Hey, don't you diss my main man, my legend Wakka. He sounded way better - go rewatch his scenes. DiMaggio knocked it way out of the park. Doubly so with dubbing that was done so long ago.

[Nebelheim]

I was mixed with the acting some lines I thought were pretty well voiced and captured the character and other lines that I thought fell flat and had no emotion. But I like the character and still thought it was a decent first impression of the character and will most likely grow on me and like it more as I play through dawntrail.

[OliverQ]

Do all the VAs get this level of vitriol attention? Or just the one everyone knows is trans?

I definitely see a lot of insults against her for being trans. It's fine to not like a VA for their performance, but a lot of people are outright deadnaming and insulting her for being too manly.

I'm always amazed at how anti-LGBTQ so much of the gaming community is.

[XiXiQ]

Hey, don't you diss my main man, my legend Wakka. He sounded way better - go rewatch his scenes. DiMaggio knocked it way out of the park. Doubly so with dubbing that was done so long ago.

How is that dissing it? It's clearly what they were aiming for.

[SwadTheFrog]

How is that dissing it? It's clearly what they were aiming for.

I'm mainly lightly ribbing because I adore Wakka - but, to speak more seriously, it's actually fairly likely that they were going for something at least akin to Wakka (Though Wakka's inspirations are a bit less South American from what I hear, but instead *vaguely* Hawaaian or Maori, I want to say? But that's not an area I'm an expert on, so take that one with five grains of salt), but DiMaggio's performance kind of just knocks it out of the park. I wouldn't say his accent is perfect, because it isn't - but it's full of charisma, energy - and most importantly, /consistency/. Wuk's accent is flat, uneven and a mish-mosh of mixed, awkward pronounciations.

[KuroMaboroshi]

I'm always amazed at how anti-LGBTQ so much of the gaming community is.

Disregarding how many of those people are in this thread to begin with (quite a few I'd give benefit of the doubt are just honestly arguing their opinions without having anything against the VA beyond her performance, while a few bad actors are poisoning the well):

Please do not mistake volume for magnitude. Just because they are very loud and visible thanks to how the internet works (being basically tailored to showing us things to get upset about since that bypasses our brain's defense mechanisms very well), doesn't mean there is a lot of them or that they make up a significant margin of the gaming population.

[Turtledeluxe]

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.

How is it both? Sena is (seemingly) a white American. But the devs chose someone who isn't South American.

In other words, I would rather somrone who has the actual heritage instead of a fake accent, but it's the devs who opted for this.

[Stormpeaks]

I don't find her voice manly at all. Maybe some inconsistencies in delivery, but it's also rather amusing to complain about a fictional Hrothgar not being feminine enough. Maybe female Hrothgar are supposed to be more masculine?

That's your opinion, quite a few people think it doesnt sound right, that the tone isnt right and that the voice is just way too deep, people have a right to their opinion, and it aint transphobia to have one.

[OliverQ]

How is it both? Sena is (seemingly) a white American. But the devs chose someone who isn't South American.

I believe she's Puerto Rican (not South American either, but considering their studio is UK based, maybe it's the best they came up with.)