[Feedback] Wuk Lamat's English Voice

[Brian25]

The voice actor has no range. The voice was good when in the happy go lucky Wuk Lamat phase, and it really felt like it fit with the character. However, any scenes that needed emotion other than happy were truly some of the worst voice acting I have ever heard, it is so bad that it makes the OG Minfilia sound good.

Wuk's voice in the final fight is the most immersion breaking thing ever, I don't want to spoil anything but just know Wuk ruins the scene with her usual happy voice, instead of the anger/desperation needed. The whole setting is one of anger and desperation and she is voicing lines that are indicating such, yet we get the same exact voice as every other time you hear her speak. There is no emotion behind it, it just falls flat.

I don't ever listen to the Japanese audio, but I heard the Japanese comparison for the final fight and they are worlds apart, you hear the rage behind the voice, it was so well done. Even parts where the Wuk is showing strength, you hear the growl in her voice.

[Renka777]

I rarely post but i had to do it after hearing bad opinions about this character english voice and when i got to listen to it shortly on youtube i was like.. oh god

This voice dosnt match at all to the point that it is embarassing, i really feel like they (english team) decided to go into the street and pick the 1st person they find for this character...

Also there's plenty of trans woman/man capable of amazing vocal skill, if the english team absolutely wanted "lgbt representation" why they didnt pick any of them instead of a embarassing badly one ?

To be honest i'm not trying to be mean but the game is far from being cheap for us (subscribe, base game, extension...) so i don't think we deserve to see some huge shitty choice like that, the MSQ is already horrible.. there was no need to make it even worse

Yoshi-P if you care about your playerbase, replace this VA

[FlowerMilk]

At 96 now and

goddamn I was having fun with the mundane adventuring with Erenville until stuff happened and now I have to drag that useless cat around again. I wish the writers didn't make her such a nuisance. "I couldn't have done this without you." OK, why are you here then? Let actual heroes do their thing and stay out of the way. Scions are better company because they are useful and can hold a conversation without complaining about everything.

The voice is somehow getting worse and when she cried in that one scene I just cringed, it was so bad.

Yeah when she cried I was genuinely like "oh no this is the part of the story where I'm supposed to feel something and I feel literally nothing at all" and just cringed too. I was genuinely trying to like Wuk Lamat and empathize with her, but I just felt literally nothing towards her. I teared up about the small barely any voiced cutscene involving

Krile's family

though, even though it played such a small part. I wish we got more of that instead of more Wuk Lamat.

[SDaemon]

The voice actor has no range. The voice was good when in the happy go lucky Wuk Lamat phase, and it really felt like it fit with the character. However, any scenes that needed emotion other than happy were truly some of the worst voice acting I have ever heard, it is so bad that it makes the OG Minfilia sound good.

Wuk's voice in the final fight is the most immersion breaking thing ever, I don't want to spoil anything but just know Wuk ruins the scene with her usual happy voice, instead of the anger/desperation needed. The whole setting is one of anger and desperation and she is voicing lines that are indicating such, yet we get the same exact voice as every other time you hear her speak. There is no emotion behind it, it just falls flat.

I don't ever listen to the Japanese audio, but I heard the Japanese comparison for the final fight and they are worlds apart, you hear the rage behind the voice, it was so well done. Even parts where the Wuk is showing strength, you hear the growl in her voice.

This. In scenes were it is lighthearted or happy ect the voice is fine, but when the scene calls for any sort of other emotion beside light, soft cheerfulness it is like the VA is incapable of real intonation. It just sounds the same regardless of what is going on, absolutely monotone. Scenes where she is suppose to be yelling in anger just sound like she is softly chiding. Sadness? She lets out a soft cheery voice.

[Isala]

This. In scenes were it is lighthearted or happy ect the voice is fine, but when the scene calls for any sort of other emotion beside light, soft cheerfulness it is like the VA is incapable of real intonation. It just sounds the same regardless of what is going on, absolutely monotone. Scenes where she is suppose to be yelling in anger just sound like she is softly chiding. Sadness? She lets out a soft cheery voice.

The text: "WHY?!"

The voice acting: "why."

[AngelCheese77]

I felt the same way when many of the VOs were changed after ARR into HW. But I got used to them and love them now.

But her voice is fine, especially (IMO) when you learn she comes from the same land as another NPC we have made friends with. Besides, is there anywhere SE has stated what the character is supposed to sound like they are from?

It's bad. I feel like the character was miscast. Why did an American get hired for the role when the hiring studio is based out of London and everyone we've gotten has been from the UK so far?

The accent and pronunciation varies wildly and it shows how amateurish she is in comparison to the rest of the cast. I don't want to have to listen to a mid delivery from a character we're going to be stuck with for the entire expansion.

Give us the ability to swap language for specific characters so I can listen to the superior Japanese Tomboy Wuk.

TRANSPHOBES NOT WELCOME. THIS IS A TOPIC ABOUT BAD VOICE ACTING.

[JimCasey_RF6]

I'm in full agreement that the English VA for Wuk Lamut needs to be replaced. They clearly need a lot more experience before being able to handle VA'ing someone like Wuk. The lack of emotion expressed in their lines ruins a lot of the scenes. It's a shame and embarrassment that this was allowed to happen

[Swad]

At this point they need to kill the character off at the start of 7.1 and get a new writer for the story. Have them sacrifice themselves in a text only cutscene and get a new writer.

[Mostly_Raxus]

Wuk is:

Forspoken 2: no energy boogaloo

[VerdeLuck]

I said before I didn't like the character in 6.5 but even after giving it more time I really do not like her character, the writing for her, or her voice. She reminds me a lot of Lyse, and not in a good way, and babysitting her for this expansion was not very fun.
It's a shame the topic has hit a nerve on the culture war though, so now saying you're not really a fan isn't allowed. You either absolutely adore her and she's perfect or she's singlehandedly the thing ruining the game and needs to be written out asap.