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I do agree that this part was clearly well above what she could do but that's not really on her. She has an agency that gets her these parts and she can say that she's lent her voice to critically acclaimed games like Unicorn Overlord and anime. If SE have been going to these companies in the US for South American talent then the agency is going to lean into her Puerto Rican heritage. This is just the nature of getting clients jobs and it's the nature of every person who has ever had to sell themselves in a job application.

6.1-7.0 have been an overall downgrade in voice direction and of course that's going to hurt the character with the most lines the most. A lot of people focus on the 'Speen! Lissun to me!' (which IS bad delivery) but far less people mention how poor Sphene's line delivery is in her own boss fight, or how dry Krile and Y'shtola sound, or how the voice direction has clearly told Erenville to roll his R's so hard he's at risk of taking flight etc. Voice directors and likely NDAs have fucked non-JP delivery up as well and we shouldn't be letting them off the hook.

Just recently, Faye Mata (Jade from Honkai Star Rail in this context, but also Aqua from KonoSuba, Metera from GBF and Petra from FE3H) said in a stream that she watched Jade's story trailer for the first time with the general public, and she said that she would have read her lines completely differently if she was actually told that Jade was talking to someone else as she had interpret the context herself and guessed it was a monologue. The situation VAs are put in suck ass for a trailer so imagine how fucking bad it is for a whole MMO.

This isn't to excuse poor performances or clear struggling with the role, but I think it's quite reductive to chalk everything up to Square Enix arbitrarily 'ticking a checkbox' when the issues with the game go far, far beyond Sena and it's patently unfair to lay all our hangups at her feet. Wuk Lamat and the DT story is divisive in all languages.