It’s only the English va that sounds kinda off and has no emotional range. Every other va for who does it so much better and makes the character still way to overbearing in the story but at least you can listen to a decent voice acting and not whatever English is.
I mean I had worse death threats and people telling me they beat my ass in old CoD lobbies then whatever happens here. Voice acting and acting in general is a polarising job and even more so if you get a main character role. Your entire performance makes or breaks the game or expansion and if you fluff it up then people will fire at you, some nice and some are ass holes. Like I work as team leader in customer support and the threat of violence at the phone is pretty common, but you don’t see and hear us having a meltdown over stuff like this and try gather sympathy points form the online crowd like this person is because they are LGBTQ and let’s be real if this person wasn’t LQBTQ and trans this entire drama would never be this big.
When a story high note makes you cringe and your ears bleed then yes it can ruin the entire rest of the expansion. Or in general any emotional part the English va had was cut short by the most boring and sleepy sounding voice acting you can do. Like the person even says they lack some voice range for this kind of field and then still do the role knowing they can’t perform the best.
I think Sena Bryer did a great job and I was overjoyed to see a trans voice actor in FFXIV. Wuk was pretty endearing and Sena conveys her naive optimism well.
It wasn't perfect (speeeeen), but I really don't think that's her fault. The English voices were all over the place in Dawntrail - Thancred, Y'shtola, everyone in Shaaloani... I mean, Erenville's entire village had a standard American accent, which is hilarious and inexplicable when he's standing next to his mom. Something went really wrong with direction, quality control, and in-world consistency here, but that's not on the VAs.
On one hand you should never doubt this kind of thing as it is pretty common with die hard fans but on the other hand when some one writes the word misgender first and the death threats later even I smell something fishy
The German and Japanese voices sounded great. The English voice made me want to tear my ears off.



I don't understand German, but I agree with you wholeheartedly. Nell Pietrzyk (I hope this is her german actress' name, it get's listed almost nowhere, or then it's just Shimoyamada and Bryer) is hands down my favourite of the four!
When a friend shared this with me, I was caught by surprise by the german VA.
Like good god, she sounds like she's feral and about to jump straight to Zoraal Ja's throat, as someone who's furious over the murder of their father would.



As a german who plays the game in german (a lot play on english in my experience) i can tell you it was a pleasant surprise for me aswell.When a friend shared this with me, I was caught by surprise by the german VA.
Like good god, she sounds like she's feral and about to jump straight to Zoraal Ja's throat, as someone who's furious over the murder of their father would.
Ususaly the german voice actors feel very restrained in emotional delivery but damn Lamati`s Voice Actress, there was fire behind it.
Last edited by Ayalu; 08-08-2024 at 08:08 PM.
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