Quote Originally Posted by Vrahjin View Post
Basically all the voices in 6.55, and even earlier, for example G'raha in Thaleia - "Servants? What's the meaning of this?", though the Myths themselves sound alright - sound so very, very tired, almost like the actors were just over it and/or wanted to get it out of the way. Bad voice direction? Hell if I know, not my area of expertise, can only comment on the end result.

As for Wuk? She sounded fine in the trailer, mostly okay during the patch and at parts (casual conversation) slightly better than the regular voices - they sounded, again, just so over it - and other parts (stressed moments, combat) less so.
Lived through ARR and took me a while to get used to the HW voices, so I'm willing to give Wuk a chance to grow into and get comfortable with the role.
Tbh I often have the feeling the voices have more "variation" and strive a bit further from the regular voice in the patches, because it's just different if you work several hours each day in voicing the big block of text for a whole expansion or if you come in for maybe 2 or 3 hours once in a month. Reminds me of how surprisingly enthusiastic and vivid Ser Aymeric sounded in one of the Shadowbringers patches. It was a happy and enthusiastic moment, so it wasn't super out of place, but the character himself barely tends to show real excitement, with all the burdens he has to carry. And Cid sounds different in every expansion to me because although the character appears plenty of times, it's mostly in some unvoiced raid series. The post-ARR VA of Cid probably had 20-30 lines to voice for the entire game, all spread out over months, even years. I remember googling if his VA had changed more than once...) Doesn't mean the VAs are bad in general, it's just a different work environment in both voicing and directing I could imagine. (On top of that, as recent interviews show, they rarely have proper context to what is actually happening, unless they play the game themselves. This is imo a point where Wuk Lamat's VA has a really big advantage: She has been playing since 1.0, she's a real FFXIV veteran. She was around when Dalamud crashed.) And no matter who is being casted for this, being new probably adds an extra level of difficulty to this.