[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[MatthiusAbysswalker]

In summary:
The voice acting is shit.
Twitter accuses you of being a phobe if you say it.

[Oizen]

In summary:
The voice acting is shit.
Twitter accuses you of being a phobe if you say it.

No one should care what people say on X

[MatthiusAbysswalker]

Oh I agree but I that's where the toxic positivity is and the Devs love that shit.

[Aniise]

The VA being trans really wouldn't matter at all, but...truth be told, it impedes the way the actress can work with her voice and that's where it gets problematic.

Spoiler for last trial!

Wuks entrance and voicelines in the last trial confronting Sphene made this problem especially obvious. The actress has to strain her voice to make it sound female and higher than her natural voice. Try this yourself and then try to scream or put any emotion in your delivery. It's really hard to do and doesn't sound natural at all.

I don't care how the actress identifies at all in private, and we can all act like it doesn't make a difference for her work. But it would just be a lie.
Her voice affects her work as a VA (lol who would have thought) and makes her not the best pick for such a role.
Purely objectively, they should have casted someone whos voice is better suited, especially for such a prominent role.

The fact that Sena Bryer apparently is friends with the English localization lead Kate doesn't make the decision to hire her in spite of not being able to pull the role off look any better.
Also, her deflecting any criticism is really unprofessional behavior. But what else have we expected from someone who's second home is twitter?

[Karious]

cut for brevity

My man out here doing the real investigative journalism. Sorta confirms some of the theories I've had since January when I initially made the claim of nepotism hiring. Unfortunately I've not been able to look into it much myself (probably just because I'm too lazy to make a new Twitter), but Kate, Sena and the FFXIV_EN and FFXIV_JP Twitter accounts all blocked me on the same day back then, I guess having my old character name linked to my Twitter account wasn't a good idea. I suppose I must've been onto something though if they went out of their way to block me lmao.

[Huskie]

Yeah, I hate hearing that character speak, the voice sounds really bad. I straight up started skipping every CS where the character started talking because it was so jarring lmao

[nakano13]

I would've loved to hear Carolina Ravassa in this role. Listened to her animation demo reel the other day and it's sooo much fun!

[AlucaDragonheart]

https://imgur.com/a/Y5ZForV

If Sena and Kate are the "beating heart" of Dawntrail, how does a localizer get to have so much power over the script itself?

[Zaniel]

I am mixed, on one level it's important to have unique voices for major NPCs and the voice is certainly easily recognizable (even before the endless repetition). I don't dislike the accent or normal delivery.

UNFORTUNATELY her voice is extremely weak and carries no weight in any high intensity moment. Listen to the moment when WL attacks Bakool Ja Ja the very first time when he knocks her back. She's meant to be bellowing in anger and it comes out as a sort of weak cough. There's numerous instances of this. She also has serious trouble with any intense emotion, her voice wavers and just becomes an unstable fluctuating version of her normal talking voice. All of the above means the VA can't do combat or emotions which is a pretty monster drawback for this game. When she's just talking its perfectly fine but it collapses under pressure.

[Bananarama]

Just my two cents. Voice sounds too masculine and sounds like it's being modulated at every line somehow. Uncanny at best, and like an old man at worst. People have already discussed the obvious things(you know what I'm talking about) with the voice actor, so I won't be touching those.

One word of Llama Tea at the end of Endwalker was all I needed to be convinced to run the game in Japanese from now on and never look back. Japanese Wuklamat is more tolerable but that only softens how annoying I find her so much.