Honestly? I blame the voice director. By the way if you're wondering who were the English VAs for these characters: • Peter von Gomm voices Kyo and Ash • Eric Kelso voices Benimaru and Clark • Jeff Manning voices Andy, Ralf, Shen, and Duo Lon • Greg Irwin voices Joe and Robert • Miwa Gardner voices Athena • Josh Keller voices Kensou and Chin • Jack Merluzzi voices Iori • Donna Burke voices Mature • Rachel Walzer voices Leona • Sally Koshinaka voices Elisabeth • Ryo and Kim's VA's are unknown/not credited. The crazy part about all of this is that most of these VAs AREN'T THAT BAD (In a way). Voices like Kyo, Iori, Kim and Leona just needed better voice direction. Honestly, I hope SNK tries another shot with English VA's for KOF XV, especially since Atlus helps localize the newer games. For extra pain and suffering, you should play a KOF arcade shooter called "KOF Sky Stage", and that game used these voice actors. Additionally, there are more VA's than KOF XII (Kula, Mai, Rugal, Goenitz, Orochi Iori, Chris Shermie, Yashiro, Orochi, and Kusanagi [Clone Kyo] got English Voices here, and none of their voices were credited :/).
I know it’s XII but I’ve never been so bored watching a KOF arcade run
I expected nothing and I am still disappointed
Ah yes the KOF XIII demo
People rag on 2001 but this truly is the black sheep of the series
Naaaah they both (2001 and XII) Are okay imo i will say NeoWave is the real Black sheep!
4:43 that hitbox tho
SNK may as well release it free on Steam, I'd totally played it
Honestly? I blame the voice director.
By the way if you're wondering who were the English VAs for these characters:
• Peter von Gomm voices Kyo and Ash
• Eric Kelso voices Benimaru and Clark
• Jeff Manning voices Andy, Ralf, Shen, and Duo Lon
• Greg Irwin voices Joe and Robert
• Miwa Gardner voices Athena
• Josh Keller voices Kensou and Chin
• Jack Merluzzi voices Iori
• Donna Burke voices Mature
• Rachel Walzer voices Leona
• Sally Koshinaka voices Elisabeth
• Ryo and Kim's VA's are unknown/not credited.
The crazy part about all of this is that most of these VAs AREN'T THAT BAD (In a way). Voices like Kyo, Iori, Kim and Leona just needed better voice direction. Honestly, I hope SNK tries another shot with English VA's for KOF XV, especially since Atlus helps localize the newer games.
For extra pain and suffering, you should play a KOF arcade shooter called "KOF Sky Stage", and that game used these voice actors. Additionally, there are more VA's than KOF XII (Kula, Mai, Rugal, Goenitz, Orochi Iori, Chris Shermie, Yashiro, Orochi, and Kusanagi [Clone Kyo] got English Voices here, and none of their voices were credited :/).
The abomination known as KOF 12.
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