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husband has been playing the remake of Grimgrimoire and it's quite the riveting game despite its simple concept
Also it has a particularly Emet-Selchish character both in looks/voice and role of story and naturally I find him the most interesting (as well as the handsome student whose name is like a letter B version of Vincent Valentine lmfao)
there's a character whose voice actress is just Not Doing A Good Job At All though, and in modern day I can usually theorize there's A Reason for it (a la Adventures of Elliot having a glaring bad voice acting quirk in one specific area that ends up being On Purpose and I was able to figure out what was going on WAY before I should have known as a result) in this case, while the character does technically have a quirk that would explain it, in this case I think she's just bad. idk.
(and to further capitulate, the actress herself may not be bad, usually these things, incorrect tone while line-reading, happen as a result of bad or a lack of voice direction. Could easily be the issue here, but it's kind of an isolated case if so.)
It's one of those things I'd want to look into while doing my deep dives, but wikipedia loves to only focus on the japanese side of development, even when the same things apply in localization! (again, to bring up 13 sentinels, they explain how one voice actress voices 3 different characters and it required a great vocal range.... in japanese. But I can confidentially tell you the exact same thing was needed in the english voices as well, and I know this specifically because my husband would not stop gushing over how amazing allegra clark is at vocal range)
The lack of attention paid to the localization efforts makes me so mad
Like, considering how much flack ffx's english voicing gets, it should not have taken until THIS YEAR for me to find out that they were limited by data size. Like apparently each voice line had to take up the same amount of data as the Japanese version, or else it would cause issues??
And that does SO much to explain how quick the reads are.
@katrani WAIT THAT'S CRAZYYYY
to 13 sentinels' credit the wikipedia page did have a section devoted to english voice recording; mostly in the context of the difficulties presented by Covid happening - only Kaiji Tang got all his stuff done before the studio had clsoed down, so everything was done in zoom calls, makeshift setups, the whole shebang, with a TON of hauling ass done by sound editing team to do clean up and have everything uniform in quality. HUGE kudos to them by the way. Square COULD LEARN A FUCKING THING OR TWO (the shit english actors have been having to deal with in ff14's latest expansion alone is driving me up a wall)
Said in the first question even!!! (So apparently this info wasn't even available until 2016 which is also wild)
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