Launch Trailer Hype Thread

[Hinoto-no-Ryuji]

Having finally gotten the chance to watch it in Japanese, I'm pretty certain that - totally aside from the usual localization liberties - at least two lines are spoken by entirely different characters between it and the English version. Gosetsu's line about causes and battlefields is definitely occupied by a different character in Japanese, and I'm fairly certain the final line of the trailer is a different one as well. Is anybody whose Japanese is more at the FFXIV level able to give us a comparative analysis?

(I also want to say that "Tis better to bend with the wind than stand tall and be broken! Therein lies hope; therein lies freedom" is a different character too, but that's more my hope that that isn't Yotsuyu's actual English voice than anything else, as it's pretty obviously her in Japanese).

[Fenral]

Having finally gotten the chance to watch it in Japanese, I'm pretty certain that - totally aside from the usual localization liberties - at least two lines are spoken by entirely different characters between it and the English version. Gosetsu's line about causes and battlefields is definitely occupied by a different character in Japanese, and I'm fairly certain the final line of the trailer is a different one as well. Is anybody whose Japanese is more at the FFXIV level able to give us a comparative analysis?

Line about causes and battlefields is more or less the same, but spoken by Alphinaud, not Gosetsu. Safe to say he won't be going anywhere, even if the trailers try to throw us off.

Final line is still Zenos, except it's more along the lines of "I have no use for the weak but as fodder for my blade. Let me see you withstand my [mumblemumble]." Acting a little too hard there, Kousuke Toriumi.

[Lineaelina]

(I also want to say that "Tis better to bend with the wind than stand tall and be broken! Therein lies hope; therein lies freedom" is a different character too, but that's more my hope that that isn't Yotsuyu's actual English voice than anything else, as it's pretty obviously her in Japanese).

I actually thought that "Tis better to bend with the wind than stand tall and be broken." is said by the elderly AuRa we saw in the Revolutions video. Mainly because the voice sounds old and it sounds like an old woman's advice. I sure as hell hope it won't be said by Yotsuyu or her voice is terrible!