Xenoblade Chronicles 2: English VS Japanese Voice Acting Comparison
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- The Japanese voice pack has been released for Xenoblade Chronicles 2! We show off several scenes back to back so you can hear what some of the major characters sound like! Which do you prefer?
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English: Aah... ooh... the brazier does my weary old bones much good.
Japanese: NOAAaaAaaAUAAAAAAGH
10/10
Sounds lewder for some reason
I just find it funny how Nia's English VA is about an octave deeper than her Japanese.
I like that about the English VA though; the Japanese VA is just the generic high-pitched tsundere voice and I HATE IT.
Japanese sounds abit too young and english sounds abit too old. They just couldnt get her right 😂
MagicHadi i dunno, the fact there are many videos praising Nia and her heavy welsh accent seems to disagree
Goddamn I love both :D
I also like how Malos breaks the “villains need a really deep voice” stereotype
Never handle a man's turtle.
yes
Instantly thought, "Yup Zeke is awesome".
Twiggster I freaking died at that part. 😂
Twiggster *17 Lenny faces*
Behold the mighty, CHEEK! PI! ULTIMETO! KEM!
That is one of many reasons I love the JP voices.
Oh god the japanese version of gramps
much better
They could have switched his and Bana’s JP VAs, and I think that would have sounded fine.
earrape
Japanese Gramps though....
"OOOOAAAOOOAAHHHH!!!"
For some reason when nia says “what the bloody hell is this?” She reminded me of Gordon Ramsay
@@abeedo Iirc, Ramsey is Scottish, while Nia's VA is Welsh.
@@PhoenixBlazer39 have Morag say it
*Handling a man's turtle!*
I like this guy already.
I find Gramp's English voice more suited for the character so far(in my playthrough), the japanese one give off a perverted old man vibe.
In the Japanese dub Gramps pretty much made a prostitution joke. So he is a dirty old man :)
That's the point of having old man character archetype tho
Because he is a little pervert. English VA is completely out of character.
U watch too many ecchi 🤣
@@senjusan6359 i prefer the english VA who tf wants a dirty old hag character?
I like both, honestly. My only issue is the voice direction and syncing. The voices just don't match up with the mouth movements as good as they should and it feels way more disconnected in comparison.
IcyBlaze true. But let’s be honest, that’s actually how the Japanese have their anime all the time. They only fix really bad lip synch in Home releases, most of the time it’s just empty flaps and since the audience in America mostly can’t watch the shows Raw, you can’t tell since you have to read the subtitles or something else visually interesting.
It’s apparently one of the chief complaints of a dub company since they have to match flaps or be called a poor production.
So to me it’s nice to see them just use the same script and not have to pay as much attention causing even more odd acting just to match up
Agreed, I think both are solid. The only strong preferences I have are Rex, Dromarch (Nia’s Cat) and Tora in the dub and Nia for the sub.
Monolith is actually known for accurate translation rather than lip syncing a bad dub because they have to create sentences to match it. It wasn't so bad in the xenosaga series because the lips wern't so well structured. Amazingly though xenosaga 3 resynched the dub.
+masteroflag Anime isn't 3DCG though, mouth flap matching is considerably more important for that thanks to the uncanny valley, and often what happens is that companies will re-program the flaps to fit the translated dialogue rather than the other way around. Doesn't look like they did that here though.
I like both when they speak.
Rex English voice is awful at emotional and actions scenes, and it is a shame because his voice fits otherwise.
For some reason I love the hard British accents in this; thought I would hate it but it fits amazingly well!
cant say the same ive never heard such bad voice acting
I like the Japanese voices more, but having English voice is more immersive... decision decision...
If you can't read, English is better.
Then again, if you can't read, why play a JRPG?
Immersive?! How immersed can you get with that lip-synching?
Yeah tough. I feel the same way, but will I want to read subtitles at 3am... possibly drunk in bed
Same Here, bud.
Usually go for Dubs for the same reason. But not really a fan of how Nintendo does it. It's not inherently bad, but feels like they take zero direction from the original Japanese VO (Characters have a totally different tone and feel). I tried the English VO a few times while playing the first few hours and just couldn't get into it.
i swear everytime someone speaks in english i expect a "m8" at the end of their sentences
4:24
This guy has Cloud and Rohan's voice actor.
And I think that the blue big pimp thing has Joseph Joestar's voice actor.
Wamuu, not Joseph if you're talking about Bana.
Yes, Jin has the same voice actor as Cloud Strife. Both were designed by Tetsuya Nomura.
Yet he behaves like Sephiroth XD
Is the blue pimp is wamu!!!!
I can't stand Rex voice actor in the english version, he's like just reading the lines, he doesn't try to transmit an emotion, so plain.
I don't know, I love his Scottish accent, and I felt his delivery was decent.
I heard from another person in another video that an interview with Pyra/Mythra’s VA that they weren’t provided context or direction by the people at monolith, take it with a grain of salt, but that might be the reason.
@@NeonPegasus1979 after playing the 1st xenoblade the main character's voice acting was extremely excellent then i heard rex's va and i felt so disappointed that rex didnt have as much emotion as shulk 😥
When Mythra and Rex are in the same bed, Rex's scream was so bad that it was comical.
@Kwonchis
Maybe it’s the same problem that I have with Japanese voice acting: I was born and raised around the English language, I have the ability to appreciate the subtle emotion and the emphasis on specific words and in certain sentences. For example just the opening scene there I’m able to discern the depth of Rex’s English voice acting but I can’t for the life of me tell listen to the Japanese actor and hear anything but mindless ramble. Are you by chance a native English speaker or did you grow up around a different language? I feel like with languages there very much is something to the likes of “cross-racial identification” that can occur with language as well.
Why is there an American flag on the thumbnail?
Americans...
TripleJump because we can?
Maybe because all the voice acting was done in a studio in the US, even though there’s clearly UK voice actors?
Because 'Murica
Often the English language option is associated with the American flag. God knows how many times I tried looking for the Canadian flag.
I'm glad they used British/Irish voice actors but the Japanese version's voice actors are fairly famous and experienced and the end result is much much better than the English. There are no real cringy voices in JP except for some of the common blades. Zeke uses Kansai-ben and Byakko ("Dromarch"?) uses a lot of keigo which is more natural in JP than the way he speaks in the English version. A lot of the English version's translation seems pretty unnatural to me, although I understand that translation is a super difficult job!
Is xenoblade one JP better than english?
@@TimelessWolves I think that one is a tie (I've played both). The English voice acting of one is really good. Some of it is a bit goofy (It's Reyn time!) but also more funny and interesting as a result.
there's no Irish VAs in XC2 as far as I know, just Welsh and Scottish (which I love to see being Scottish myself)
Unnatural? Play MegaMan Battle Network 4. Then, get back with me on unnatural translation.
Brace yourselves, the dubs vs subs debates are coming
DoHickey My body is ready
Lol “debates”
More like all out war because neither side wants to listen.
+Andres Marrero Maybe one side would listen more if the other only talked in Japanese.
Oh, wait, then they likely wouldn't know what they're saying. _My, what a ridiculous thought, to think that talking to English-speakers in Japanese would make it easier for them to understand and relate. Hmmmm._
@LordDragox412 Nice bait.
English solely for the "HANDLING A MAN'S TURTLE" line. Line delivery was nothing short of flawless and actually left me in stitches.
Which is weird because "turtle" is a euphenism for penis in Japanese but not English. They had to rely fully on the delivery of the line to make it funny
"English voice acting" *puts American flag in thumbnail*
Gazer01 AMVs
It's really annoying of them. The arrogant blokes.
Ricardo Gutierrez But you kinda do. It's not exactly English. I mean you spell colour 'color', drop lots of letters and change 'u's to 'o's and 'z's to 's's. That's why there's English (Global) and English (US) on most language selections for spelling etc.
I don't understand why this is a big deal. There are mixes of accents in the game, it's not all british accents.
You do know there are also American voice actors in this game as well right?
In America they speak simplified English, don't they?
Sheesh its like two different games.
Yeah, you can tell the dub's not in sync with the lips, but that's a common issue that can't be helped much. I still like the dub save for a few bits spoken from Rex, but then again, I'm not much for languages I'm not familiar with.
That being said, I feel Tori's dub voice fits more.
I agree, I like the english dub (especially Pyra's voice), but I hope monolith soft does a patch where the lips sync with the english dub. We don't need another Sonic Adventure 2 esk voice direction in 2017.
wade Noble Like I said, I'm not sure how it can be helped. They'd have to go in and change all the mouth models in every cutscene for a language they likely are not familiar with. You don't really hear about Japanese games changing their models' mouths for English dubs.
@@noircore The only example I can think of is Final Fantasy 13
Is it me or is Zeke's Japanese voice actor the same guy who does Seto Kaiba in the Japanese version of Yugioh?
You'd be correct, that is the voice actor of Kaiba
Pretty ironic casting that Tsuda is playing a tryhard since Tsuda has played actually cool dudes.
Well a lot of the Japanese dub cast has also done animes mostly due to the fact that there aren't that many voice actors.
Yup Zeke's Seiyuu is the same one that did Seto Kaiba, and i love it lol, like i can now picture Kaiba being somewhat a goof ball xD
You forgot to add the yelling comparison
Dull Fiction malos sounds like will ferrel/steve carrel/tom cruise when screaming
God the yelling was the reason I HAD to switch to Japanese. I wasn’t minding it so much until the first scene of yelling.
yea the 1st 3 chapters of any kind of yelling were meh at best, but it does seem to improve much better after tht. Rexs yell in a certain point in Chapter 6 was pretty good imo.
I like your attitude. DONT FORGETMEDONTFORGETMEDONTFORGETME.
The japanese voices seem much more accurate to their age, more childish, while the english ones seem like adults' voice
Though I didn't know rex was aussie voiced
Most westerners don't wanna play as childish kids so it makes sense
@@DameOfDiamonds He still looks like a first grader so I'd say you're just moving the goalpost.
Japanese for me. I'm curious to see how many from north america would prefer the japanese dub, though. My first language is spanish and I've always watched anime in japanese with spanish or english subs if spanish isn't available in good quality. Why would it be different with a videogame?
I love Japanese over English dubs. The voice casting and voice acting of Japanese dubs are craftsmanship level unlike English dubs.
I unfortunately learned from experience from interacting with these people of why Japanese Dub haters hate Japanese:
1. They're too lazy to read subtitles
2. They hate Japanese by default because it's not in a language they understand
3. They have a bias towards English because it's the language they're used to
4. They're just plain haters because they're jerks
kamenriderantinomy
The reason for such a contrast between the two is actually because (1.) to do VA jobs in Japan, one must go through special voice acting schools (with exceptions to young children voicing child roles) and (2.) seiyuu take their voice roles much more seriously than others to the point that in essence they become the character while in the recording booth (since the staff even gives them such mundane details about the characters that most would never actually see such as ex. Love Live’s seiyuu for Eli and Nozomi both were even told what those characters’ ideal boyfriends would be like, favorite foods, etc.)
Let's use the term "Seiyuu" to differentiate Japanese voice actors from other voice actors just like the term "Anime" is used to differentiate Japanese animated works from other forms of animated media.
I already knew that Seiyuus put their heart and soul into the roles they portray which is why I have an appreciation for the craft. Seiyuus going the extra mile as far as method acting either on their own or with the guidance of the voice director shows in their work which is the reason why Japanese voice acting resonates with so many people including myself.
Some spots better Japanese some better English hard decision.
Rex ruins alot of epic or emotional scenes... Everyone else is great!
I don't know... I accept both!
fuck it just play it twice
That's...kinda true
wha... you can't just... NOT PICK A SIDE *HOW WILL PEOPLE RAGE AT YOU*
Benjy Bumbrix If i had to pick a side i will pick japanese.
God bless Zeke
I get two completely different feels listening to both languages. It completely changes the personalities imo
It really was lazy of em not changing the subtitles wasinnit? It feels more natural in JP.
Rex and Nia's English voice... Fucking Kill Me
That scene with Zeke was hard to look at with the mouth not being in sync, but I can definitely can see why Rex was said to be sassy lol
Still playing the dub tho
MAZ It's not just Zeke, Mia and her blade seemed out of sync too
Meta Gamer I hope they get a patch to fix that, it's nothing major but it would be nice.
Would have to re-animate every cutscene in the game
Yeah, I see what you mean. With any luck Nintendo will send out a patch to fix it.
They would, but they did re-voice every cutscene in the game as well...
Holy balls, hearing Nia's Japanese VA after having a whole game of Welsh accent from her is weird.
They are both annoying in their own unique ways
This
Oof I really do like both. They scream "better" in the Japanese one but I love the British accent so much ooooof
Both sound really good! Only fault with the dub is the atrocious lack of lip sync in the animations
Dominick Wheeler hopefully they will release a patch to fix that.
Andres Marrero I'd love to be optimistic about it but they didn't do ANY lip syncing at all. The same animations are used for both languages, meaning any potential patches would have to make changes to the entire game.
I'd prefer getting it later with lip syncing. I'd sacrifice not playing the game for a while more so I can have a better experience.
I don't care about lip sync at all. I play games that have no voice overs at all but the characters still move their mouth and make gestures as if they're speaking :') I kinda got used to those silly animations and stopped thinking the words actually come out of their mouth at this point, hahaha.
After listening to this, I think I have favorites in both languages. I'm using the English dub in my playthrough however because I like their accents a lot. Also I can deal with mismatching lip flaps--what really would bug me though is that the English subtitles is the same for Japanese. For example, the names of nearly everything is different in Japanese and yet the English subtitles still say Pyra/Genbu/Turturs/Pandoria/etc.
I'm not gay, I'm just British.
NeosGX 01 so your not happy?
Its a yugioh abridged reference
evil bakura
I'm not british
i'm gay
I was quite unsure what audio to choose, living in the UK I'm cool with the British accents, but I love Japanese anime as well so it was a tough call. Now thanks to this video I decided (with just 2 min). I think the Japanese version is way more expressive in the deliver. Thanks!!!
I absolutely love both English and Japanese but I love Pyra's Japanese voice actress so I'll be going with Japanese
TheBoltMaster Wow, it's almost like they're seiyuus and do anime work.
Honestly I LOVE Pyra's English voice actress. She sounds more mature, like a well put together older girl (like late teens, maybe early 20's). Her Japanese voice songs like a little anime girl tbh and doesn't suit her character in my opinion
I fail to see how Pyra's voice is whiny
@@xKOSATx can you please describe her character please? I'm having a hard time deciding which dub i should go with,
@@blackpepper2610 Pyra is technically an old character who has experienced a lot. I think her English voice reflects that, but her Japanese voice, to me, just sounds like a typical young Japanese girl. However, a lot of the other English voice actors bothered me, so I ended up going with the Japanese, at the cost of the perfect Pyra voice
Sucks that the lip sync is off on the English version because I honestly do prefer the English voice actors overall, especially for the female characters.
Ironic that with the Japanese dub I’d hardly even be paying attention to the lip sync anyway because I have to read text.
Srly? the anglish dub for the girls sound awful, western women have awful deep voices, I prefer the japanese all the way, so cute and so pleasent to hear
i agree with the female characters, it just gets tiring hearing most of the girls VA in Jp, its like all of them are too young. Cant stand it when its a serious story, if the story was alot more light hearted then id b fine with it. I like my women to sound young (when it fits their age) but still hav a voice tht fits them and their personalities, not bc its "cute" and such bc tht honestly sounds like the typical fan service.
@@Daigon95 they are young
+Holow _101 They look young but anime style can make a woman in their late 20s look 19.
@@Daigon95 but Nia is young ,poppi too XD and Pyra well she is eternal young
The fact that Zeke is a new Reyn
I’m torn between the two to be honest. In the English version, there are lots of good actors, but also a handful of just okay actors, and some of them don’t really have the type of emotion in certain scenes which really takes you out of the moment sometimes. And the Japanese voice actors do kind of step it up in terms of the emotional dialogue.... just some questionable stuff like Gramps going OUUUUAAAUUUUHH
I'd say both voiceovers aren't really great, english one more so than the jp one, but holy cow there is actually 0 effort put into adjusting the lipsyncing for the english dub
Especially in that zeke scene where there are straight up lip movements during several seconds of silence
It just makes me feel like even the development team just didn't have any faith in the English dub, and that makes me sad, because I think - GENERALLY SPEAKING - that the English performances here are rather decent. Just because there's a Japanese voice option doesn't mean it's OK for the English voice work to just get ignored when it comes to lip-syncing.
Laggalot101 Uh, I don't think it was lack of effort and more time constraints. I mean seriously.
You do know how long lip syncing in gaming takes right? Especially in games with this cartoony feel. Consider the fact that when they revealed this game for the first time and already gave it a release year that (at that moment), you could surmise that at that rate there was no way in hell the game would have had accurate lip syncing.
Look at the Kingdom Hearts series. Games with arguably some of the best lip syncing in an action JRPG. Why do you think most Japanese games in general with VA come out later outside of Japan in about a 5-7 months or so especially, in an RPG. It takes time and money to do so. Unless they delayed the game (them being Nintendo, which is what I thought they were going to do) there was no question, that there wasn't gonna be accurate lip syncing. But yeah, no amount of syncing does leave a lot of dead air and honestly they should've delayed it slightly.
Though to be fair, I don't think it'll ruin the game for anyone nor should it you.
Still like some of the Eng dub and some of the Jap dub, though.
But then it doesn't lie on the actual voice syncing. Nothing says they couldn't pop the man back in the booth and give a more paced, not slower, script to fill in that silence, I think the lip syncing is an unfortunate product of trying to match the captions. And if they were trying to match the lips, they should've just gone old Chinese movie lip syncing and let it lie, but they tried to do...something, and most of us can't really nail it down.
Oh, don't worry, I'm very willing to believe that lip-syncing takes a while to get right. But then, I'm also definitely not expecting perfect lip-syncing, I'm not that demanding. However, in these comparisons alone, there's whole seconds of silence with mouths moving, or the other way around. I feel like even just a bit of effort could've gone a long way here. It doesn't need to be Kingdom Hearts levels of quality lip-syncing, it really doesn't need to be perfect (it definitely wasn't in the previous two games), but I really feel like there's a few extreme instances of desync here that just should not have been allowed to fly.
Laggalot101 I hope that they release a pack to fix the issue, it would be nice.
The Japanese voices sound like standard fare. I like the English voices for the most part, except for Pyra. She sounds pretty flat -- um, yeah.
Zeke and Tora are already my favorite characters.
The scene at 10:30 just got me all in to Xenoblade lol I’m gonna pick it up in like an hour on my lunch break. That was a great scene
I personally the prefer Japanese cast. Putting aside the thick accents, the English dub voices just sound too old for the characters to me.
true, and the mouth sinking's kinda weird and seems to work better for english some scenes and japanese in others.
I thought Pyra was a teenager at first but her voice says other wise same with Rex in my opinion
I think my biggest complaint about the Japanese version is the girls sound a little too stereotyically moe to me.
the moe is the hole reason i chose the japanese voices though :3
Brooks Austin
Meh, not really.
Some DO sound that way (like Poppi) , but Nia for example is a kid just like Rex and it makes sense that she has a child’s voice.
Why is Japanese Tora a 4 year old girl?
I could go either or honestly. I need to hear a comparison on how the screaming is...
Ahh good lord the lip flap. Bit of a toss up between both, think I might go for english.
this is definitely a bit more of a mix bag than most casses with english dubbing and subtitles.
I did not expect the dragon dude to be better voiced in english. it makes him sound much more weary yet wise.
still the lip flapping. they are not well matched.
Nia's voice is too kawaii ^^
Its all about subs vs dubs nowadays, but I like to play my games with the voices muted. It gives it that true gaming experience that I think the entire family can enjoy.
So either the lip-sync is off or the subtitles/translations are off... I'll probably just stick to the english voice acting since the subtitles are the english versions anyway...
Oh man, I have never played a single Xenoblade Chronicles game, but the English voice acting for this is quality. If I ever get homesick, I'd pick this up. These accents will take me straight back to Blighty in no time.
the biggest problem is the voices in either language is that it makes the the characters seem like they have comeplete different personalities best example is Nia in each language she comes across as a different person altogether only real drawback to the Japanese language is that theres no subs on the random banter during battles and when your walking around
How can anyone like the English dub? Especially Rex. I actually hate hearing British dialect in Videogames. Not like in real life or Movies. But i have a problem for video games for some reason. The most recent being Lorelai from Borderlands 3.
I did not expect gramps to sound like that in the japanese dub
i find the english chairman to be fantastic, really love that character so far. also i like the english gramps, much better fits my thought for an old sage type. rex is passable on both sides. i hear people do not like the english nia, but i very much like her voice, it may not fit the character design exactly, but i like her voice regardless
I didn’t expect the cat girl to have that voice! It’s a nice contrast though 😂
sort of a spoiler but there's a rare blade where she looks like an adult, but her voice(Japanese) sounds like a little child. It's so fucking weird.
@@supernaruto12 *"sort of"* a spoiler? bruh
Im usually fine with English dubs but this was just so cringy...after about 10 hours i switched to Japanese once i found out you could download the voice pack for free.
That said both are pretty annoying lol.
I'm shocked how much more I like the english cast. The japanese one is a little too tropey imo. That said both sides have some that are better than the other.
"What the bloody hell is this?" I love the English!
Definitely prefer the English version although that lip sync is going to bother me immensely
Adam Hale Same.
That's basically 1 thing that Sub always holds over the Dub; the lip sync was set up for Japanese primarily, and every single lip sync has to be modified to suit English. It's quite apparent when the lip sync is off at times, too...
Adam Hale their performances are good and those accents really got me, the japanese voices are kinda generic not that their bad (they're better acted than the english ones) but their just what i expected
JRPG English dubs usually sound better with British voice actors in my opinion.
Why? Are you British? I can't understand a word those foreigners say; I thought they invented the language, why can't they speak it properly?
Shut the hell up
Dang I think I like em both equally.
English Nia is 30 years older than the original.
ikr
I don't see the problem, both sound GREAT, why are people trying to make it sound one HAS TO be awful? The mouth flaps don't completely sync with either one but matches pretty close. The English dub has a divers cast of American, British, Irish, Scottish, and Australian accents, while the Japanese is, well, japanese. Both very good and very well done.
xxNinTwinDoxx just because it's diverse, doesn't mean some aren't shite.
Welsh, not Scottish
YaBoyDawesey that too, didn't hear a fucking grain of salt of scottish, nor Australian for that matter.
Courier 9712 No Australian? Guess I miss heard.
Because it’s always sub vs dub in games or shows that have a sub and a dub and I hate that people can’t understand that each is good in its own right like you said
The English voice acting is pretty good. The animation just brings down the entire performance because it’s not what’s on screen. I’m assuming the voice actors did it without looking at any cutscene
Dat Boi nintendo make something good,but they ruined at the same time i tired of that
English VA is pretty good, but the Japanese is very good.
Usually, pro VA will try their best to sync up when dubbing by tempo of speech, word choices and such but this had 0 effort of such as voices and animation just play completely seperately. That being said, the voices itself are pretty good which leads me to believe that it had poor directing and is not the fault of VA.
I love Bana's voice for both, but his voice in the English version, man it's like Captain Hook became an awesome trader! :D
This makes me happy. :)
Japanese always over english. Just sounds so much more epic
Japanese: Okeeey
English: Righto!
gotta love it
As an avid watcher of anime I'm so familiar with like every single jp voice actor, I'm going with eng to hear some new voices...
Yamazake Whitesky
Who voices Jin in jp?
@Dull Fiction Takahiro Sakurai, aka Cloud Strife and Haseo.
This is honestly reason I prefer going with Eng dubs usually, especially since the eng voices are pretty decent to good in this game.
Seriously Japan hire more voice actors.
The Japanese version is just *so much better*...
While the Japanese voices are pretty okay, most of the voices sound like the hundreds of anime characters I’ve heard. Especially Pyra. Hella generic. The British cast has some weak links, but the voices are pretty distinct
i dont really care about whether the voice acting is unique or distinct or whatsoever as long as the voice acting matches the personality of the characters its already enough. you are going to hear them talking throughout the game so having a voice actor that matches their personalities is something that needs to be bear in mind. at least for me. which is why i rarely watch anime or play jrpgs in eng dub cuz most of them had unsuitable voice acting. but that doesnt mean that i hate all eng dubs in jrpgs. persona 5,tales of berseria hnd nier automata had some of the best eng voice acting in the genre
Sorry BoltMaster, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland are still a part of Britain.
id say they do actually equal this. id prefer unique bad voices to generic good voices. makes the game stand out more from others in its genre.
in Japanese the female voices have a very soft tone almost all, for someone who has not seen anime could not recognize the difference.
generally they give them more personality, as in the English version, it's not a complaint
English is far better in my opinion. This coming from a guy who normaly watches Anime in japanese :D
..... The voice acting is fucking incredible if you ask me. The dialogue is fantastic.
I REALLY dont see how people think the english voice acting is good
Same. Unbelievable. Nia sounds like an old woman wth
People have been drinking the kool-aid. XC1/Xenosaga were perfectly fine in English, but this game distracted the hell out of me with the accents and stilted performances.
I wish English dubs in general would have more variety like this in terms of different voices and accents. It makes a nice change from hearing the same types of voices we’re used to.
Am I crazy? Am I the only one who hates this shit voice direction in the dub?
Pyra and Mythra are terrible, plain and simple. And Rex is also extremely bad. They don’t emote at the right times, and their calm demeanor makes the translation issues very noticeable. Especially when the dub is trying to match the lip flaps of the talking characters. I get you can’t get it 100% right, but at least try to not make the voice acting so distracting? That just makes the bad voice acting queues all the more noticeable.
Also, I don’t mind accents, but the hard British accents feel way too out of place. Are we in Great Britain? Does this take place in Europe? I thought this was a fantasy world setting, so why do some characters have these thick British accents and others do not? Do they come from a country with those accents?
The lip syncing is a problem but aside from that, I much prefer the English VO cast. Especially Zeke, Tora and Nia. Tora and Nia’s Japanese voices are unbearable.
Marco Tewlow Tora sounds like a girl
john williams it's the same japanese voice actor from copper (one piece) and morgana from persona 5
But i agree,on the english voice he's sound way more adorable
Marco Tewlow actully i prefer Nia japanese voice actor,she's supposed to be a lolli and a funny character,her sexy english voice didn't match her
Personally I think some of the jokes and expressions are harder to pull off in the Japanese version and also for story related reasons I prefer the dub for Nia.
Marco Tewlow Tora and nias English voices are unbearable
XC goes from taking itself seriously to a sequel that's like the anime comedy spin-off
Hiro Shimono voice~~~. XDD
I know that voice wherever it is.
Zenitu
THINK YOU CAN TAKE ME? DON'T FORGET ME!
the english voice acting isn't too bad.
patrick watkins but the translation/script is terrible.
Well, Rex, Pyra, Mythra and Nia are pretty bad, so...
MikoM Well It’s not worth playing it in english when your gonna hear their voices alot
A lot of complaning comes from “i heart all that voices in anime, too generic” sooo, now thats a bad thing? “Messi is bad bc i see him all time in football awards” You can prefer the english dub of couse (i prefer the english dub some times in this game) but saying that is just stupid.
Oh god...I almost forgot how bad the English voice pack was.
Take Rex for example. In the game he's 15 year old teen, but his English voice makes him sound like he's a man in his 30s. Most of the voices just don't match their characters at all, Rex's and Nia's Ensligh voices being the most out of place.
Not only that but most of the English voice acting is somewhat emotionless. Here's an comparison what I mean by that: English voice 1:52 vs Japanese voice 2:39
I spent more than 100 hours on the game and trust me, the Japanese audio is the way to go. It's so much better than this poor English dub. You're missing a part of the characters emotions by playing the game in English. A truly great English dub for a J-RPG game is the one in FFXII for example. I'm a non-native English speaker so I can really judge. Also, the game must be played in dock mode, on TV it looks absolutely fine, even gorgeous at times. It's one of the very few Switch games that weren't made to be played in handheld mode. It's also one of the best J-RPG games of the last decade, it's a "must play" if you like the genre.
Whoot da bluddy ell iz thess?
Rex-Can't stand either voice
Pyra-Prefer English, she sounds older
Nia-Welch Nia is Only Nia
Tora-Japanese is much less annoying
Poppi-Both are great
Zeke-Both are good
Azurda-English, Japanese is rediculous
>welch
ahh yes i see queen victoria is posting here today
English lip sync kinda sucks...
I can't enjoy the game in Japanese either because I can tell that subtitles of the dub don't match the original Japanese.
"Sub vs Dub argument is kinda like racism." - The Cartoon Cipher 2017
The only reason I prefer the Japanese is because I don’t like the Scottish girls voice because I feel it doesn’t fit her
A hoobdred towsand?!
Zeke reminds me of groose in terms of character
I'm not a fan of Rex's voice acting. From the 1 hour livestream Derrick did, his screaming doesn't have nearly enough emotion in it.
On the other hand, I like Pyra's English voice acting MUCH more than her generic high-pitched Japanese voice.
Your Boy Guzma that seems to be one thing that Rex's VA fails at, the yelling. The Japanese VA is just generic, watch a bunch of anime and you will pick up on those voices immediately.
DarkSonic180 in this case yes. I can pin these voices as the character's voices, unlike with the Japanese VA which is shared a muddles with a thousand other characters.
I do agree Rex could use some work, but I do like a lot of the rest of the cast. Zeke's cutscene may be badly synched, but his voice actor is REALLY funny. I loved his delivery of "The ZEKENATOR!" That had me hysterical. I think he stole the show.
DarkSonic180 what's the point of good voice acting in which the characters have no voice that is their own? It all get's lost in the generic sea. Besides the dub did have good voice acting, just that it was out of synch and Rex's yells could use some work.
Lots of people sound the same, regardless of race. There are several actors that I think sound like over actors. If they can perform then their vocal similarity is a non-issue but you can keep pretending that it's a Japanese dub problem.
Who the fuk loves the terrible dub (i know they put work to this but come on really)
Man the lips don’t match in both dubs
I like more the Japanese one
I honestly thought Zeke was talking about his Sword when he said"Three of us" But Turters is so much better (and cuter!!)