[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[Stormpeaks]

Today I will remind them.
She's not very good.

I respect the courage. Props to you lmao, you about to get hit by the "omg transphobia !!!!" brigade

[LynxDubh]

I respect the courage. Props to you lmao, you about to get hit by the "omg transphobia !!!!" brigade

People probably would not have called you for transphobia if you had not thrown around terms like "biological man" in your original posts.

[Mortex]

So yeah I was bored in ff 14 and was searching forums reading this thread and had too see it for myself and I think that the English voice acting isn’t really the best. She has some really decent moments but in comparison too the jp voice and how it transmits emotion, the jp is just way better.

But she isn’t even the worst offender in English. Graha tia in English sounds super mega dead inside, like no emotions at all. I don’t know if he’s normally like this but in jpn he sounds also way better.

[Nestama]

Which once again, is on the voice director and not the voice actors themselves. The actors need the director to tell them how the scene should be performed.

For example, here's how they dub Pokemon.

[AnAverageAspie]

Which once again, is on the voice director and not the voice actors themselves.

Amen to that. The actor had genuine enthusiasm going by their tweet announcement and performance(under the accent) for the character. Any other director could have easily led that into a fantastic performance, maybe it will be in Dawntrail. All the other actors seemed sluggish to the point that any of Wuk’s deliveries were much more expressive/lively than the rest imo. Projecting myself as the voice director, budgeting session time at the curtail of endwalker patches. I can vaguely believe it to sound like a foreigner struggling to speak the off-land tongue. Tural’s language is described a melting pot, but that doesn’t make someone verbally fluent in other languages with no practice(her older miqote brother is in academics), tonality will be hindered when communicating. So, I see her quick to the point talking in the introduction to be in character and fitting. Transfuse that into the narrative foil of her playing up an overact of confidence and I could see the nuance/motive of the choice and delivery. And I would like to see that further explored by the actress in the expansion.

[Karious]

Which once again, is on the voice director and not the voice actors themselves. The actors need the director to tell them how the scene should be performed.

For example, here's how they dub Pokemon.

The same voice director that told Emet, Vauthry and Elidibus to give fantastic performances told Sena 'Just sound like crap and they'll blame it on me'. Lmao.

[Turtledeluxe]

If only there was some well known, widespread, or otherwise credible majority backlash and/or data on negative reception that made the opinion "it was bad" worth considering for more than a few moments.

[Nestama]

The same voice director that told Emet, Vauthry and Elidibus to give fantastic performances told Sena 'Just sound like crap and they'll blame it on me'. Lmao.

Yes. Bad direction will make even the best actors sound/look bad. Let's use Shantotto as an example. Candi Milo has been Shantotto's voice actor ever since Dissidia on the PSP and even voices her in World of Final Fantasy. Her voice was fantastic in those games... and then for whatever reason, in Dissidia NT, I can only assume the director wanted her voice to match the Japanese voice (higher pitched), despite her voice being perfectly fine in the previous games.

Then there's also the Vanille situation where the director wanted Georgia van Cuylenburg to match the Japanese voice, rather than "Americanise" like the other voice actors, but we already went over that... either in this thread, or one of the other ones.

[Karious]

If only there was some well known, widespread, or otherwise credible majority backlash and/or data on negative reception that made the opinion "it was bad" worth considering for more than a few moments.

Show me the data that everyone loves it.

[VentVanitas]

to emphasize how much voice direction matters, I want to bring up the fact that a lot of the VAs from ARR are actually pretty experienced and talented people. Sam Riegel, Alphinaud's old voice and the one that people seem to criticize the most, actually has quite the history with voice acting in JRPG/anime games (some of you may recognize him as Teddie from Persona 4, Silabus from .hack or Ky Kiske in GG Xrd) going far back before XIV.