its a good day to be a weeb. Japanese Voice acting is awesome as always

[AngaratoSvartberg]

embrace your inner weeb. it makes this story alot more bearable.

english VAs are realm reborn level cringe. its really really bad. please get your shit together and replace some of them for future patches/expansions.

that is all. sorry for the shitpost but im actually shocked. was watching preach and zepla go through the story and heard the english for the first time and i felt like i didnt even wanna keep watching. feeling second hand embarrassment.

please get your shit together i love this game and it deserves better

[Darkrai4014]

I mean shitpost aside I agree. Ive played with JP voices from the start. Not to put people down for wanting to enjoy the EN voice acting, thats fine for them. But hearing the complaints about Wuks voice and Zone 4 of the MSQ was interesting lol. Meanwhile Daisuke Ono as Zoraal Ja absolutely killed. I was very pleased with the JP voice acting this time around.

[PaleYonder]

Meanwhile Daisuke Ono as Zoraal Ja absolutely killed. I was very pleased with the JP voice acting this time around.

Absolutely, best performance in this expansion for me. I switched partway through, and he immediately stood out, like "Hey I can take one of them seriously now! Cool!" A real case of making something good out of the overall poor writing, and as far as I'm concerned they're more than welcome to give him a future main character role (far away from all this).

[Gilihere]

Bro it aint even close, Ono just kills it every time

[Granyala]

I don't find anything wrong with Wuk's EN voice.
Yeah, her emotional expression isn't typically anime-esque over the top and more subtle but it's there when you actually care to listen to her voice.

I just wish they'd actually voice the entire MSQ. this constant back and forth between mute and voiced cutscenes is ... weird, to say the least.

[Midare]

I don't find anything wrong with Wuk's EN voice.
Yeah, her emotional expression isn't typically anime-esque over the top and more subtle but it's there when you actually care to listen to her voice.

In the part where the alpaca spits on her, the camera zoomed dramatically and then up the mountain to give extra dramatism.
In JP, she screams.
In EN, she's like "aaaaaah".

The scene called for the over the top acting, it was supposed to be comedic. I don't know what the voice director told her, the direction as a whole was quite questionable (ex. The seemingly text-to-speech sound of the elderly lady in the Hanu village), but it sounded like the VA herself sounded quite limited there. She sounded as if she could be saying "aaah no... I dropped my donut..." instead of "Oh shit! An animal spat something very stinky on me!!".

[Larirawiel]

It is never a good day to be a weeb. And wait until Weebpolice reads this. xD




Cheers

[Cidel]

In the part where the alpaca spits on her, the camera zoomed dramatically and then up the mountain to give extra dramatism.
In JP, she screams.
In EN, she's like "aaaaaah".

The scene called for the over the top acting, it was supposed to be comedic. I don't know what the voice director told her, the direction as a whole was quite questionable...

This isn't the first time this sort of thing about delivery has happened either. One particular scene that often comes to mind is right after you defeat Tsukuyomi and Asahi does his villainous gloating scene. He's half-giddy, half losing-it and his eyes are wide with shrunken irises and is clearly excited at the "catch-22" he thinks he has the WoL in. In Japanese, Asahi raises his voice with barely contained insane glee when he throws up his hands in a Gladiator's "are you not entertained" fashion. In English, it's barely above a calm whisper while performing the same theatrics. And then the part where he throws his head back and laughs while swinging his body around sounds as hammy and comedically insane in Japanese as it looks, while in the English version he can barely let out a raspy chuckle that doesn't match how he's practically convulsing in laughter.

Granted, much later on when Fandaniel reveals he has taken control of his corpse and has that rather one-sided conversation with Zenos, the English version actually redeems himself with his insane laughter at that part when he figures out the remaining Unsundered are no more.

Which leads me to speculate that the Japanese VAs must regularly get much more detailed and accurate info on how their lines are to be read, if not actually presented with the cutscenes they will be voicing... I don't say this to excuse bad voice-acting or miscasts, but there certainly is a noticeably better delivery that makes me wonder if there's disparities in how much the different languages have to work with.

[Asari5]

its weird. i've never really heard from english talking people the engish va is good. mostly negativ things.
and then we have the german community with so many people being obsessed with english.
they say the german va is garbage (some of it is but there are also some pretty good ones and many okay ones) and no matter what the english one is so much better. and everytime there is a difference they always go 'what? in english its like this. thats different... cringe.... bad'. often to see in twitch chats.

and im like: 'if you want good va then change it to japanese'... but no they would have to read even in the voiced cutscenes how terrible... and also compare the translation to japanese not that sometimes inaccurat english localization

[Local_Custard]

its weird. i've never really heard from english talking people the engish va is good. mostly negativ things.
and then we have the german community with so many people being obsessed with english.
they say the german va is garbage (some of it is but there are also some pretty good ones and many okay ones) and no matter what the english one is so much better. and everytime there is a difference they always go 'what? in english its like this. thats different... cringe.... bad'. often to see in twitch chats.

and im like: 'if you want good va then change it to japanese'... but no they would have to read even in the voiced cutscenes how terrible.

Personally, I think some of the english voice actors are p decent or very nice but of course that is my subjective opinion (I really like the voices of G'raha's, Erenville's, and Krile's. The twins are also pretty nicely voiced). I will say, Wuk Lamat definitely does sound flat and her accent does not sound natural. Beyond that her EN voice acting is... okay. Nothing to write home about.