Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[Nothv13]

Anyone remember the bird that just so appears to attack the giants before she has to fight them and only attacks them?
Yeah that was artificial so that she won’t have her ideals challenged.
Or the obvious favoritism in the cooking trial for her.

This and then the father of Bakool Ja Ja just immediately changing his ways after an untold number of years of of sticking to the culture to the point of banishing his own son, all on only a chance of some new seeds working. Everything seems shoe horned as to not challenge Wuk's world view at all.

[Karious]

That's not all, she is outright deflecting any form of criticism. Her twitter bubble loves her, so what gives. Who needs other opinions if you get only positive feedback and shut out all the other voices, even when your work was clearly subpar. /shrug

Lmao that bitch is coping so hard. She knows people hate her performance but will pretend otherwise. I criticized her performance, she hid my reply and then blocked me. Easy to put yourself in a bubble.

[Ayalu]

I don't agree, they've tried to replicate Gaia and Ryne (and that one made sense because Gaia and Ryne had opposing elements) but it didn't work.

Wuk Lamat should not have that power level at all, we're saying she's topping Estinien which is completely absurd.
If it was a scene where her voice reached Sphene it would be okay, breaking through dimensions is not.

While a bit weird, we were in a digital space and not really flesh and blood so i thought that made it possible.
Tbh i was more confused about our usual "We summon the other Warriors of Light" trick actualy worked in this place.

[HighlanderClone]

Lmao that bitch is coping so hard. She knows people hate her performance but will pretend otherwise. I criticized her performance, she hid my reply and then blocked me. Easy to put yourself in a bubble.

I'd rather we direct criticism at FF14, Yoshi P, SE, and CBU3 directly than individual workers. This whole VA shit is a pointless distraction that will just cause everyone's feedback to turn into another front in the gaming culture wars.

[Karious]

I'd rather we direct criticism at FF14, Yoshi P, SE, and CBU3 directly than individual workers. This whole VA shit is a pointless distraction that will just cause everyone's feedback to turn into another front in the gaming culture wars.

Oh, I mean, I tried to direct criticism at the SE/FFXIV accounts on X but they blocked me too.

[Kaurhz]

Not gonna lie.

Contacting individual VAs and giving them hate, or reviewing them directly is pointless and it's a bit... Off the rails, so to speak.

The onus is entirely with the team. They are the ones quality checking the product, and should be the ones saying whether the take is fit-for-purpose or needs to be redone.

The actual VA work itself.. It was OK, but it dipped significantly at the end.

[Vyrerus]

You can avoid that VA in 3 other languages, and the text will still be in English. Sadly, it's not the voice acting that is solely responsible for how irritating Llama Tea is as a character. Nor is it the voice acting that makes her a Blackhole Sue. The writing all around her is bad, but if we consider they were planning for DT to be the new start to FFXIV sometime ago, long before the VAs were cast, then it becomes apparent that perhaps the EN localizers chose to cast Miss Bryer in an effort to curb criticism of the game itself by reducing us to arguing about a Trans actor's performance. Taking lessons from Disney on that front, I guess.

So we should do what Krogans do and ignore that aspect of things. I mean, I'm not trying to forbid anyone from talking about it, but the thread for it exists in several flavors, and it is independent of the narrative issues with Yawntrail.

[Ramiee]

Even if Wuk Lamat had the best voice acting this series ever got I would still hate her as a character anyway.
Besides that I could give less of a damn if her VA is a person who cured cancer, saved a orphanage of baby kittens and discovered the way to solve world hunger. She did a bad job, idc if its the voice directors fault either, if I have a bad meal at a resturant ill blame the cook not the guy who made the produce. It sucked.

[Xylira]

I had no idea the VA was trans until after I finished the MSQ and had already come to the conclusion that they did a terrible job. Not that it even matters to me, I don't care which person, or AI even, does the voice acting, just so long as they actually do their job well. In the case of Wuk's English VA, they very clearly did a poor job of it.

I'd say that SE should recast and re-record Wuk Lamat's English lines with a better voice actor, but that sadly won't fix the countless issues with the character related to poor writing, which is also glaringly bad.

[rofland]

i'm glad JP loathes this awful character as much as i do