I love that they use a character who's famously Russian and one who's famous for his Catholicism, and both being extremely white, as an example of "diversity" when both of those would get a series massive criticism if it happened now. Storm is literally the only one who meets "diversity" quotas in the modern age, and she is the least liked of them.
It also buries the fact that Wolverine's popularity is nearly the sole reason anyone cared about that lineup, he became a hit beyond anyone's wildest expectations and has carried the franchise ever since.
Also Nintendo making the movie use the worst Zelda as its base is almost insulting. I do not know who her VA is offhand, but she should be blacklisted simply for how bad her performance was and how much it tanks a game that pushes her in your face constantly compared to prior games.
Why Nintendo hired a Canadian trying to affect a British accent is beyond me. It's not like actual Bong VAs are beyond them; Nintendo had to get acquainted with them after publishing Xenoblade and Bayonetta.
And its not like the rest of the voice acting is that good, every character seems fucked and there is weird pausing and odd phrasing on everything. Clearly the entire studio was awful. But she in particular stands out because you can see what everyone else was going for, and then fell short. She on the other hand is so bad there is no universe where it would work, but they brought her back for the sequel in which she plays two characters and is in nearly every cutscene. And she didn't improve in the slightest.
Xenoblade
Xenoblade 2 deserves more praise than it gets for the sheer level of quality applied to its English dub. Rex having a couple really bad cutscenes overshadows a 200+ hour game of otherwise shockingly good choices regarding in-game regionally specific accents and world building in that nature.
Its genuinely impress how much effort went into something that could have just been a throwaway waifu RPG. And likely would have been if not for the bunny girl controversy marketing it for them.
And its not like the rest of the voice acting is that good, every character seems fucked and there is weird pausing and odd phrasing on everything. Clearly the entire studio was awful.
You just reminded me of Yunobo getting his "goro" verbal tic back in Tears of the Kingdom after it was omitted in Breath of the Wild. That was painful to listen to in English, and I'm usually an honorifics autist when it comes to translation.
Regardless, I set the voices in Japanese in both games, since JP Zelda is a QT3.14.
Nintendo 1st Party is usually one of the few games you can just leave in English because the dubs are usually either high quality or irrelevant because of how little real dialogue it has (Mario). The fact that they not only added full VA to a Zelda game, but one that bad and then doubled down on it still shocks me.
Even worse is that they seem to have done it to Metroid Prime 4, a game already struggling to sell people on a motorcycle open world.
And yeah, the verbal tic thing just never sounds right when they dub it. From desu to de gozaru it just grinds everything in English to a halt, even if its necessary for the characterization.
I love that they use a character who's famously Russian and one who's famous for his Catholicism, and both being extremely white, as an example of "diversity" when both of those would get a series massive criticism if it happened now. Storm is literally the only one who meets "diversity" quotas in the modern age, and she is the least liked of them.
It also buries the fact that Wolverine's popularity is nearly the sole reason anyone cared about that lineup, he became a hit beyond anyone's wildest expectations and has carried the franchise ever since.
Also Nintendo making the movie use the worst Zelda as its base is almost insulting. I do not know who her VA is offhand, but she should be blacklisted simply for how bad her performance was and how much it tanks a game that pushes her in your face constantly compared to prior games.
Why Nintendo hired a Canadian trying to affect a British accent is beyond me. It's not like actual Bong VAs are beyond them; Nintendo had to get acquainted with them after publishing Xenoblade and Bayonetta.
And its not like the rest of the voice acting is that good, every character seems fucked and there is weird pausing and odd phrasing on everything. Clearly the entire studio was awful. But she in particular stands out because you can see what everyone else was going for, and then fell short. She on the other hand is so bad there is no universe where it would work, but they brought her back for the sequel in which she plays two characters and is in nearly every cutscene. And she didn't improve in the slightest.
Xenoblade 2 deserves more praise than it gets for the sheer level of quality applied to its English dub. Rex having a couple really bad cutscenes overshadows a 200+ hour game of otherwise shockingly good choices regarding in-game regionally specific accents and world building in that nature.
Its genuinely impress how much effort went into something that could have just been a throwaway waifu RPG. And likely would have been if not for the bunny girl controversy marketing it for them.
You just reminded me of Yunobo getting his "goro" verbal tic back in Tears of the Kingdom after it was omitted in Breath of the Wild. That was painful to listen to in English, and I'm usually an honorifics autist when it comes to translation.
Regardless, I set the voices in Japanese in both games, since JP Zelda is a QT3.14.
Nintendo 1st Party is usually one of the few games you can just leave in English because the dubs are usually either high quality or irrelevant because of how little real dialogue it has (Mario). The fact that they not only added full VA to a Zelda game, but one that bad and then doubled down on it still shocks me.
Even worse is that they seem to have done it to Metroid Prime 4, a game already struggling to sell people on a motorcycle open world.
And yeah, the verbal tic thing just never sounds right when they dub it. From desu to de gozaru it just grinds everything in English to a halt, even if its necessary for the characterization.