[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[Nestama]

There are points where I feel there should have been another take, but otherwise her voice has been fine.

So basically my opinion still has not changed ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Vahlnir]

I do need to feel sorry for the VA a little. This is quite possibly a career hurting production for them, because once you switch to Japanese voice, the story becomes much less painful.

I mean the artwork is stunning, and the story harks back to those nice kid-friendly games from childhood, and that trial was just amazing. Imagine that in extreme.

But the entire expansion has been kicked in the goolies by bad voice (English) acting. (JP 'tomboy' Wuk is actually ok, I think)

Maybe it's because I've heard some really, really terrible VA in all of my years of gaming, but I really don't think Wuk's VA is bad. No amount of voice acting (or acting in general) can save a terrible script, however, so I really do think that she was doing the best with what she was given. The blame largely lies at the feet of the writers, in my opinion.

[Larom]

I do need to feel sorry for the VA a little. This is quite possibly a career hurting production for them, because once you switch to Japanese voice, the story becomes much less painful.

I mean the artwork is stunning, and the story harks back to those nice kid-friendly games from childhood, and that trial was just amazing. Imagine that in extreme.

But the entire expansion has been kicked in the goolies by bad voice (English) acting. (JP 'tomboy' Wuk is actually ok, I think)

Less painful, but it doesn't null the mountains upon mountains of nonsensical plot and bad storytelling. I swapped to JP at the 94 mark and only felt a slight improvement. I'm finished now and can't really find a reason to keep playing. The story is the foundation for the rest of the game, without it, everything else is hollow. For me at least.

[wereotter]

I kinda wonder if it's UK actors trying to do US/Canadian accents? It's not just Wuk, it's all the voice acting in the wild west zone where they characters have American dialects. They seem to over articulate words at times in a way that feels unnatural for a US accent, and in general the American voice acting just was sub par compared to the voice acting with a British accent.

Wuk isn't AS bad... though it does feel a bit like she's holding back a laugh constantly even when the nature of the scene doesn't call for that emotion.

[Turnintino]

I'm fine with Wuk Lamat, my bigger issue is having Thancred's va voice 3-4 characters at the same time. If i'm not mistaken Koana is voiced by him.

Koana is voiced by Luis Bermudez.

I kinda wonder if it's UK actors trying to do US/Canadian accents? It's not just Wuk, it's all the voice acting in the wild west zone where they characters have American dialects. They seem to over articulate words at times in a way that feels unnatural for a US accent, and in general the American voice acting just was sub par compared to the voice acting with a British accent.

Wuk isn't AS bad... though it does feel a bit like she's holding back a laugh constantly even when the nature of the scene doesn't call for that emotion.

The vast majority, if not all, of the Turali characters are played by American actors (including Lamat).

[Reinha]

At 96 now and

goddamn I was having fun with the mundane adventuring with Erenville until stuff happened and now I have to drag that useless cat around again. I wish the writers didn't make her such a nuisance. "I couldn't have done this without you." OK, why are you here then? Let actual heroes do their thing and stay out of the way. Scions are better company because they are useful and can hold a conversation without complaining about everything.

The voice is somehow getting worse and when she cried in that one scene I just cringed, it was so bad.

[Gortys]

Now that the game is out? I feel the VA did a much better job later in the game at being consistent. I too in the post-EW quest felt like the accent was all over the place. My issue now is all of the VA. How come this parent/child who lived together don't have the same accent at all for example? How come these people who have lived in the same exact region their entire lives have incredibly different accent. Talk about a return to ARR - they even did bad voice direction too.

[CottonC]

Soo, just to voice my own opinion. Wuk Lamat's English voiceover is terrible, flat and does not seem to change no matter the situation or emotions that said character should be going through, not to mention screaming that sounds like read by an automaton from a teleprompter.

[Regis_Paran]

she was doing the best with what she was given. The blame largely lies at the feet of the writers, in my opinion.

It lies with both, imo, plus the voice director.

And the effect wouldn't be as much pronounced (pun not intended), if she wasn't in 98% of the voiced scenes. It's the fact that she's there, in your face, all the time, makes the issue much worse.

[Gortys]

Most english VA of anime over-emote and it doesn't sound natural. There's a bit of that in certain zones of DT as well. That's why many of us do prefer JP with subtitles in anime, games, etc. It's not being a snob as much as nobody we interact with daily talks the way these people do even under the same circumstances.