[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[DejikoChocolla]

I legit didn't care about her politics and her acting skills. I think I've heard far worse in EW. The thing that rubbed me the wrong way was her attacking Bridget's (Guilty Gear) VA saying that a "cis woman" shouldn't VA a trans woman.
I don't know about you, but saying that and then accepting a role of a "cis" woman, plus her questionable acting skills, makes me believe she got the role to tick a checkmark instead of being qualified

[NiceNox]

I legit didn't care about her politics and her acting skills. I think I've heard far worse in EW. The thing that rubbed me the wrong way was her attacking Bridget's (Guilty Gear) VA saying that a "cis woman" shouldn't VA a trans woman.
I don't know about you, but saying that and then accepting a role of a "cis" woman, plus her questionable acting skills, makes me believe she got the role to tick a checkmark instead of being qualified

If that's true, as a hypocrite as it is, I still we should criticize her for her skill in voice acting and her output. I have my own opinion on such issue, but we should focus on her work and the result of her skill.

on the other note, I've tried switching voice to JP to try it out and, man, I can understand the gap in quality between two of them now.

[Karious]

The quality of the Japanese voice is crazy good in comparison. Effortlessly reaches that high energy I wish I heard from the English voice over.

[DejikoChocolla]

If that's true, as a hypocrite as it is, I still we should criticize her for her skill in voice acting and her output. I have my own opinion on such issue, but we should focus on her work and the result of her skill.

on the other note, I've tried switching voice to JP to try it out and, man, I can understand the gap in quality between two of them now.

It is.
But sure, we should only focus on the skill. All I can say is, it's bad. As people above already stated, is just someone trying to make their worst shot at a fake south american accent.
By the way, south americans don't really want representation, they only want a quality product, their money's worth. They already play this game for what it is, and that should be enough. Half assing representation for the sake of it begat this kind of subpar results in quality. I pray that XIV never gets spanish localization. If they start using gender neutral language, a low tier VA will be just a drop in a sea of cringe.

[Karious]

Honestly, I thought she was fantastic and I feel she will only get better. I do believe this thread is going to age poorly (just as the threads criticizing Lyse and Emet did, lul).

Lyse is still terrible, sorry.

[Karious]

Her voice work is and always has been great, tbh.

I know people have strong feelings about her actual character, so I won't comment on that. But I do believe a lot of the dislike for her VA unfairly stems from peoples' disliking of her character.

As a character, yeah, she's terrible. Her voice work was fine though.

[Destati]

I'm going to preface this by saying that I haven't gone through MSQ yet so I haven't had the opportunity to hear Wuk Lamat's voice for myself. That being said, I rarely set my expectations for voice acting very high in this game and I usually put the fault at the direction rather than the voice actors themselves.

I swear this thread wouldn't be happening (not directed at OP) if Wuk Lamat was voiced by a cis woman. Because there are dozens of other characters in this game who sound as flat as a Lalafell's chest (forgive the expression), and none of them have elicited a 20+ page thread on their voice acting. So she has an inauthentic-sounding accent? Where was that criticism with Varsahn and a bunch of the other Thavnair characters? Why is it suddenly a problem now?

I was over the moon to find out that Wuk Lamat has a trans voice actress, and I look forward to hearing her in game. At the very least I'm hoping that in Dawntrail she'll have found her groove with her and deliver a better performance.

I apologize if I come off a little heated, the transphobia I have seen over this is infuriating. I want to be clear that I think people are allowed to not like the voice acting, nor do people have to support a character just because their actor is LGBTQ+, but all these bad-faith criticisms and blatant misgendering of the actress is crossing the line.

In any case I'd like to apologize for my previous post, I saw a bunch of screenshots elsewhere that were probably taken out of context. Didn't think I was playing that card, but yikes. I'm sorry.
/gen

[Stormpeaks]

I'm going to preface this by saying that I haven't gone through MSQ yet so I haven't had the opportunity to hear Wuk Lamat's voice for myself. That being said, I rarely set my expectations for voice acting very high in this game and I usually put the fault at the direction rather than the voice actors themselves.

I swear this thread wouldn't be happening (not directed at OP) if Wuk Lamat was voiced by a cis woman. Because there are dozens of other characters in this game who sound as flat as a Lalafell's chest (forgive the expression), and none of them have elicited a 20+ page thread on their voice acting. So she has an inauthentic-sounding accent? Where was that criticism with Varsahn and a bunch of the other Thavnair characters? Why is it suddenly a problem now?

I was over the moon to find out that Wuk Lamat has a trans voice actress, and I look forward to hearing her in game. At the very least I'm hoping that in Dawntrail she'll have found her groove with her and deliver a better performance.

I apologize if I come off a little heated, the transphobia I have seen over this is infuriating. I want to be clear that I think people are allowed to not like the voice acting, nor do people have to support a character just because their actor is LGBTQ+, but all these bad-faith criticisms and blatant misgendering of the actress is crossing the line.

oh please stop with the constant victimization already, like acually for real, saying a voice actor sounds too manly after doing a transition M to F or that they have a voice too deep and it doesnt sound right is not transphobia, just stop it

[Karious]

I already had them take away Gun breakers original SFX and then deleting Kaiten. I'm tired of receiving a subpar product. This new voice hire is just the next step in a terrible expansion with questionable decisions and no content.

[Troxbark]

It is.
But sure, we should only focus on the skill. All I can say is, it's bad. As people above already stated, is just someone trying to make their worst shot at a fake south american accent.
By the way, south americans don't really want representation, they only want a quality product, their money's worth. They already play this game for what it is, and that should be enough. Half assing representation for the sake of it begat this kind of subpar results in quality. I pray that XIV never gets spanish localization. If they start using gender neutral language, a low tier VA will be just a drop in a sea of cringe.

This is kinda the standard for a typical perpetually online twitter user imo, absolutely unhinged takes and double standards. lol