Wuk Lamat VOICE ACTING APPRECIATION

[BakoolJaJa]

Thank you, wuk lamat's english va

For taking a role that you were grossly unqualified for after stating vas shouldnt accept roles they're unqualified for
Under the pretense of mesoamerican cultural diversity and representation as a woman from louisville KY, while faking and exaggerating your accent to such a comical degree that you've got indigenous speakers wondering if you're doing a caricature
And putting so little effort into your work that you have people questioning the integrity of the development team all the way up to yoshi p himself

I appreciate your commitment to the bit

Also thank you for making me appreciate the VAs of languages I never even dared consider good. For the first time ever I listened to the German and French VA... And found them quite great! In fact, the German wukkie VA absolutely slaps. And I'm a German who otherwise automatically shuns our dubs.

You can really tell who puts soul and effort into their craft. Some of the German bits of VA give you literal goosebumps. I could actually feel sad for the character when dad lizard died. Maybe this one VA can just take over the English too. Would even have a natural accent, though not quite the correct one. But who cares, Sena is offensively faking the accent anyways.

Anybody who is seriously claiming there is no difference between the different VAs are trolling at this point. No other explanation for it. Nobody could listen to a comparison, hear the German VA scream and cry in anger and desperation, then hear English wukkie calmly say "oh shucks papa, seems u'r dead." then say they're the same...

[Aniise]

I can't state how much i loved the german VA for Wuk. Shoutout to Nell Pietrzyk, she did amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCWF8MYARkM

This was already linked in another thread, but this scene is just awesome in german. I mean...just listen. That's an emotional delivery if I've ever heard one. Simply impressive voice acting in every way.

[Ayalu]

Oh yeah i play in german its she is awesome there. Usualy the german Voice Over feels rather restrained but some Voice Actors still give a really good performance.

FOr the record i dont say all the voice actors are the same i just say the English one is fine overall. I heard the english one delivered some good sad and soft performances.

[PercibelTheren]

I thought her voice was fine. Not gonna win any awards but definitely not bad. If anything, it's the voice direction that's off in DT, but that problem isn't only on Wuk Lamat. It's clear some VAs didn't know the context of their lines.

[Sekundessounet]

I was okay with it too, a few misses but nothing new to FF.

The French dub is quite amazing too. It was lackluster in ARR (like, listen to French Haurchefant in ARR, he's literaly reading his lines), but got better and better over the years, I'd recommend trying it out. Especially in Heavensward since it's very French-themed.

[DoomRyder]

I can't state how much i loved the german VA for Wuk. Shoutout to Nell Pietrzyk, she did amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCWF8MYARkM

This was already linked in another thread, but this scene is just awesome in german. I mean...just listen. That's an emotional delivery if I've ever heard one. Simply impressive voice acting in every way.

Jesus Christ she gave it her all there.
Thanks for sharing.

[Picothea]

When I started playing Dawntrail, I could hardly get anywhere before the hate poured in online. So many people kept posting about hating the English voice, along with a ton of other complaints about the character. But I enjoyed the expansion in spite of these messages. I kept wondering if there was some major blunder later down the line that was, somehow, bad enough to undo all of the prior enjoyment... but that didn't happen.
When I got to the scene where Wuk Lamat breaks the regulator (no further spoilers), I actually thought her vocal expressions were really good. All of the complains I was hearing online immediately felt like hot air in that moment. Did they just pick out 1-2 bad scenes and pretend there aren't any good ones in contrast? Turns out, yes, that's exactly what they did.

Don't be crude and hateful, you're only alienating yourself. Even this thread is getting blind hate placed into the tags at the bottom by strange people who can't accept other viewpoints. Why do that?

[grinkdaboy]

i was not impressed with wuk lamat's english va compared to the jp/french/german dubs which were all very good. yoshida should go back to their previous recording studio instead of settling for lazy halfassed american slop

[Aldath]

Honestly, every language but English sounds incredible in XIV. I do far have listened to French and Japanese and I can't go back to English afterwards, even if I barely understand what's being said. The direction and casting are more adequate. English Alphinaud and Urianger make my ears bleed.

[Havenchild]

While I think Wuk Lamat was fine overall and definitely had some really good ENG VA moments (Living Memory, some of her more comical lines), there are definitely other moments where there is missing emotion. However, it seems to also affect more then just Wuk and her ENG VA, for example Yshtola and Krile in some moments.

Whatever studio was used for DT that's different than previously used needs a quality assessment overview done of both production and directorship cause there are noticeable issues that I refuse to believe Yoshi-P and crew just outright missed in their playthroughs. Y'shtola on the bridge post Origenics was noticed by every single person I've spoken about it with for example.