Wuk Lamat VOICE ACTING APPRECIATION

[BakoolJaJa]

Honestly, it's kind of ridiculous how many people who have clearly never even heard a person speak Spanish are all over this thread, lying and acting like the accent is authentic. You could be praising the voice acting without lying. THAT is why people come to a "positive" thread and start arguing in it. Because the initial post is full of transparent, obvious nonsense.

Oh and claiming that the VA is Puerto Riccan. She is NOT Puerto Riccan. Literally just go and open Google, the only reason this misinformation ever spread is because of a tweet that claimed "oh look, she's in Dawntrail and she's even Puerto Riccan" when that is completely incorrect!.

She's never been to Puerto Rico. She doesn't speak Spanish. She's from Kentucky. If you go opening articles about her biography/life, you'll find that she flaunts her roots from "all over the world."

Supposedly she has GERMAN, CUBAN, DOMINCIAN, PUERTO RICAN and more EUROPEAN (whatever that means) roots. Aka like many Americans she did a crappy MyHeritage test, saw that she has 1% of each and started telling people she's got ROOTS. Meanwhile she and her parents are just from the USA.

So please get out of here with this nonsense about how she's doing an accurate accent and about how she cares about picking appropriate roles. Find something legitimate to praise about the performance.

[Picothea]

Learning to use the ignore list after I began using the forum. It works great! Anyway, hearing from others how Dawntrail's English localization has gone out of its way to hire actors belonging to the represented regions is very uplifting. I'm looking forward to hearing more of them all in the patches.

[Midare]

Learning to use the ignore list after I began using the forum. It works great! Anyway, hearing from others how Dawntrail's English localization has gone out of its way to hire actors belonging to the represented regions is very uplifting. I'm looking forward to hearing more of them all in the patches.

I'm someone from the represented region and I think I've not been represented well.

South americans don't sound like that, and we can pronounce the "ph" sound.

Fitting the role it's more important than being of a distant heritage they don't hold anymore.

[Cheapshot]

I'm someone from the represented region and I think I've not been represented well.

You’re a cat person from a video game continent?

[SwadTheFrog]

You’re a cat person from a video game continent?

Funny how *now* that they've messed up representing different peoples after folks celebrating it for years, it's "just a videogame, bro, it's not *actually* referencing latino american culture, it's cat people :^)" - because, /really/, why should you care about us?

It's not like underrepresented people and cultures have a right to opine on how sections of their culture were presented. It's all just set dressing.

Oh, wait.

[BakoolJaJa]

Funny how *now* that they've messed up representing different peoples after folks celebrating it for years, it's "just a videogame, bro, it's not *actually* referencing latino american culture, it's cat people :^)" - because, /really/, why should you care about us?

It's not like underrepresented people and cultures have a right to opine on how sections of their culture were presented. It's all just set dressing.

Oh, wait.

They'll spend 14 forum pages telling you how they love the "accuracy" of the VA's fake accent and how much the VA "cares" about correctly representing latinos, but once you point out just how incorrect their statements are they go - "lel it's just a fictional catgirl, who cares?"

So do you "VA praisers" care about these things or not? Make up your minds already. Otherwise every conversation is just moving goalposts. And disrespectful to boot. Using a group of people like a tool, just to make a nonexistent point. And then they are the ones who claim that WE are being toxic and disrespectful just by pointing out the truth about VA quality and inaccuracy. Can't make this up.

[Cheapshot]

Funny how *now* that they've messed up representing different peoples after folks celebrating it for years, it's "just a videogame, bro, it's not *actually* referencing latino american culture, it's cat people :^)" - because, /really/, why should you care about us?

It's not like underrepresented people and cultures have a right to opine on how sections of their culture were presented. It's all just set dressing.

Oh, wait.

Nah. It’s because some people are talking like they’ve got the VA’s DNA in a beaker, or their childhood on blueray without receipts. If someone says they’re latino and their dads side of the family is puerto rican and I can’t, after personally looking quite hard, find anything to the contrary, I’m not going to disbelieve them and hoist a pitchfork cause some stranger on a forum says they know more about her than her. I’m sorry but that would be incredibly irresponsible. I wouldn’t want to be treated like that, so I’m not going to treat someone else like that. That’s toxic.

Edit: And like which irl country and accent is Wuk Lamat supposed to represent out of all the influences from all across south and central america anyway? That’s a lot of places and countless accents. This is a fictional place.

[Midare]

You’re a cat person from a video game continent?

So why is her heritage so important?

People do you have any idea how many Regioanl dialects exist within each country, which quirks in the language exist only a few dozend miles appart from region to region.
South America is not a small region there could be a lot of Dialects non of you ever heard because they are usualy not shown.

But beside that who ever directed the Actor could at any time stepped in and said something against it but knowing that heavy use of dialect exist mostly in the english version of FF14, she probably got told she should use it.
And it got approved at the end.

I know, I live here.

She doesn't have the inflections latin americans normally have when speaking, not even by going with "neutral latam voice overs" standards.

The fact that the director heard that and went "Yeah, this meets my standards" speaks very poorly of them.

But on a side note, I do want to point out that the JP voice actor deserves appreciation. Going shoulder to shoulder with an industry beast like Ono with only 9 roles under her belt, she truly tried her best and it shows, specially considering the character she was handed.

[Antharaes]

You’re a cat person from a video game continent?

Doing your nickname credit I see....Got called on your bs and now trying to weasel out....Way to go!

[EponaTBHSMH]

Current Wuk Lamat VA needs to improve on the portrayal of certain emotions compared to VAs in other languages.

She does happiness and sadness well but rage and intense moments felt lacking IMO