With Apologies to Sena Bryer

[DBriggs304]

Dunno about all the Twitter stuff, but they put it out there making it worse. As far as the work they did, they're awful at voice acting. That's one of the main annoyances of Wuk...that damn annoying voice...and in nearly every scene. It's terrible.

[HighlanderClone]

All the various times she was meant to yell but it coming out soft and emotionless or any instance of her trying to be "angry" she seems to not be able to show any emotion other then happy and maybe sad in scenes.

That's obviously because of natural constraints. It's bizarre that the sound and voice director didn't even attempt to control for it.

[HighlanderClone]

Even if the writing was better and they got the best Hollywood movie producers it still wouldn't save the horrible performance the voice actor did for wuk lamat. Nothing would save the voice performance the voice actor did a horrible job but people want to find others to blame for her performance rather then blaming the actual performer.

But this is just ass backwards lmao

Wuk Lamat's voice acting is like 0.000001% of the issues with FF14. It's tiny, irrelevant compared to the gargantuan avalanche of writing mistakes and atrocious characterizations in the MSQ.

[Boblawblah]

But this is just ass backwards lmao

Wuk Lamat's voice acting is like 0.000001% of the issues with FF14. It's tiny, irrelevant compared to the gargantuan avalanche of writing mistakes and atrocious characterizations in the MSQ.

I can't believe I'm saying this, but I agree with HighlanderClone. While we likely have very different ideas about what is wrong with FFXIV, the voice acting is a very small part of the issue. Show all the screaming Germans you want, it's still bad writing.

[localareanetwork]

But this is just ass backwards lmao

Wuk Lamat's voice acting is like 0.000001% of the issues with FF14. It's tiny, irrelevant compared to the gargantuan avalanche of writing mistakes and atrocious characterizations in the MSQ.

I just see it as a poopy cherry on top of a landfill. I play in Japanese since I start playing, but still disliked Wuk Lamat.

[ZXN]

I didn't like Wuk's voice personally. It wasn't awful per say, but it was not good. I was able to tolerate it, just like I did the character. A lot of things Wuk said just sounded bland or hollow. Moments when it seems there should've been a lot of emotion into the dialogue either didn't have the expected impact, like Wuk screaming Papa for the 3rd time at Gulool Ja Ja's death which to me sounded like she was doing a soft yell and trying not to wake a baby up in the other room, or was, as some people put it, screamed in lower case, like the good ol "Sphene, listen to me!" during the final trial which lacked any sort of impact.

At the same time though, I don't want to just join the dogpile and go "Wuk's VA was 110% complete dogwater" because to me personally it felt the same way for some of the other voices as well in Dawntrail. Somethings just overall sounded...off. It's like the devs didn't bother doing much, or any, quality control with most of the lines. Like they just went "Good enough" and just rolled with what was given and didn't bother to give the VA's direction for some of these moments.

[Archeron]

Nothing productive comes from Twitter, it seems like most people are just there for attention seeking, or to be a Drama Queen. If you're really recieving death threats why don't you do something like maybe... Report it to the police? Back it up with evidence? Stop giving your harassers the spotlight to let them know they got to you. Did nobody learn how to deal with this kind of crap with bullies in school? The true motivation behind this is probably just to farm out attention for pity and clout points, and to put themselves out there for future employers to notice.

And yes, the voice acting in this expansion sucked. Thats not even up for debate. Is anyone going to tell me the flat delivery of lines, awful fake accents, and embarassing dialogue is deserving of praise? It's not. Go replay the cutscenes in Shaaloni and tell me the American accents there were great. Go tell me that Cahciua (Or however tf you spell her name) didn't have some of the weakest voice acting in this entire expansion. Whose fault is it? I don't care. I'm the end consumer, and its not my job to dissect the inner workings of CBU 3 or the Localization teams. Vote with your wallet if it really matters to you that much.

[CuteBucket]

There's a lot of posts in these pages of actual valid critique of Sena's performance, and I appreciate those. For the few people who insist on misgendering her, though, it really kills all credibility of your criticism. I can dislike her VA work and also think her twitter posts are super cringe and don't make her look like a pleasant person to be around without misgendering her. It's just going to get yet another thread locked. It's rude. Don't do it.

[Aword3213]

There is no reason to doubt her.
People did send death threads and doxxed people for really petty and dumb stuff on the internet.
Heck people did that just because they were unhappy with the Skin Quality of a specific skin in league of legends, that champion had a very...passionate fanbase and some very bad actors.
And as additional example poor Jocat got harrased and targeted because of small fun video. He luckily recovered but peopel can be really vile.
There are people on the internet that do that for completly unimportant stuff like a botched VA Job or being hypocritical on the internet.

And yes Wildheaven i think its better to risk it and show empathy for someone who could aswell fake it then risk the chance to deny it someone who suffered under it.

It’s #MeToo #BelieveAllWomen #VictimsDontLie all over again

[Aurumis]

I believe the current situation of outright hatred in these forums toward Wuk Lamat has grown enough to draw attention to a very serious matter.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ffxiv/comme...XTF4JIHhOBAQAA

Many of you have very respectfully given feedback on a few of the elements you’ve found needing adjustment, along with suggestion to improve them. That’s what the forums are for. Many, many, many others of you, multiple times, have openly voiced your disgust, contempt, outright hatred of said character for ruining your experience in Dawntrail.

And now, a few of you, for WHATEEEEEVER reason…have felt justified in doing the above. This particular brand of malice, like I said in another post. . .is disgusting. I’ve been playing 14 since 2.0 and I have not once seen the collective community go behind the scenes/character to do what’s transpired here, be it this forum, Reddit, wherever. Not the first time, but this…

the problem IS NOT THE VA, it's the character, THE CHARACTER, she is NOT the character, PEOPLE SHOULD SEPARATE VA FROM FICTIONAL CHARACTER. And ACCEPT the character is fucking bad written and that's why people hates it. NOT THE PERSON WHO VOICES IT.