Alpaca Spits On Wuk Lamat - All Languages - Final Fantasy XIV: Dawntrail

[@SullenFrog]

Tobli in other languages: Bring out the specimen. Tobli in French: Bring me *THE BEAST* .

[@yuukitenjouin5790]

Bacķ to acting school for EN. Voice acting is communication, of a story and an idea, and just by comparing the screams it's clear to me they didn't get the message across. Wuk Lamat's an energetic, over the top kind of person, and I don't get that from EN.

[@CombativeMedic]

The Japanese voice actress carried this character. For all I could say about Lamat, I think her JP VA did her best with what she was given.

[@HyouVizer]

JP lamat sounds generic as hell 99% teen anime girl voices done to death.

[@CombativeMedic]

​@@HyouVizerI'll sooner take what you consider "generic" over that grating monotone of EN.

[@calcilisx]

​@@HyouVizer You know its bad when generic sounds so much better than whatever EN does

[@iantaakalla8180]

Furthermore, Wuk Lamat wasn’t even appealing to Japanese people either. She is just a 2000s battle shounen protagonist stereotype as a female character.

[@RicardoSantos-oz3uj]

The Alpaca got to do what most players wanted to do.

[@mr.voidout4739]

Her French voice is sexy.

[@nicotoa28]

Love how Tobli's voice goes extra lower when he calls for the Alpaca, like it's a huge monster.

[@Setulge]

I have to say Tobli in English and Japanese captured the exact same energy. French Tobli sounds extra devious. The german one tho... It felt very different, very 'cut to the chase' and definitelly different from what the text says ^^;

[@zanagi]

Interesting. they still sound perfectly mischievous though. Impressive

[@Setulge]

@@zanagi Oh all of them are mischievous but the german is like "i will use much less words to get my whole point across"

[@Raansu]

The English VA is so bad...

[@Kreinvol]

Every time i hear Wuk Lamar voice in EN it reminds me to Mr bottles the mole from Banjo Kazooi 😂

[@RobBaldridge]

Why does the English version sound completely out of place? The VA's voice sounds so flat and uninteresting, as if they're reading a script for the first time. I don't even speak the other languages, but you can easily hear how much more emotion and effort they put into their lines. Very disappointing.

[@DinJerr]

Japanese one sounds like a girl, even more immersion breaking.

[@idleeidolon]

@@DinJerr at least the one that sounds like a girl can act. better than sounding like a wooden cat.

[@RobBaldridge]

@@DinJerr Isn't the character supposed to be a girl? The English VA sounds like a dude trying to do a girl's voice. It's very bizarre and kinda creepy.

[@totalrko]

@@DinJerr Oh yeah, like the gender she is? Wow, what a shocker.

[@ArchangeVie]

@@DinJerrwuk Lamat is a girl tho ? She’s literally alisaie, alphinaud and Ryne’s age or like 1 or 2 years older she’s a teenager

[@Sakkyoku830]

The EN VA for Wuk really dropped the ball in this role. It's really quite bad.

[@Teckyyy]

It isn't that bad, it is just when they need to exaggerate the voice it is pretty bad.

[@blueray222]

@@Teckyyy "It isn't that bad...until it is."

[@n10zguy]

i had no problem with it. But some people hate things for stupid reasons. 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@blueray222]

@@n10zguy Pray tell what those stupid reasons are. God forbid someone has a genuine problem with something that can't be dismissed with "they hate it because they just like to hate things"

[@dizzyliv94]

see I like her voice quite a lot, I honestly don't get all the people harping on it however I SWEAR the audio quality around it feels almost like she was recorded in a tangibly different space kinda reminds me of some of the ARR voices where I was just like "can I... hear the recording booth space right now?" lmao

[@PamonhasDePiracicaba]

DEI = Didn’t earn it

[@MorningSunGamer]

Lol English VA is so trash. JP, German and French are pretty good (way better than EN). Shouldn't have even bothered with EN if this was the type of stuff they could come up with.

[@2Shiba]

Yep. This is the exact cutscene where I switched from EN VA to JP VA. Quite a feat actually, since I've been sticking onto EN VA since ShB so I was much more familiar and overall accepting towards EN VAs. I really should say, I've never once regretted my choice ever since. Too bad I don't get to hear the rest of remaining casts' EN VA, but honestly getting free from EN Wuk overweights all else benefits.

[@MorningSunGamer]

Edit coming back after hearing a small bit of EN VA during a somewhat emotional moment: It's still bad. Like I question if the EN va's were shown the scenes cause they had 0 EMOTION. Really hard not to spoil, but let's just say emotional impact in JP hits hard while the EN felt like they were not in a serious situation. I felt 0 emotion for EN version.

[@Kiereco]

The URGGGH English voice is deeper than me holy crap...

[@yasuchika]

I don't think it's her voice but the audio recording for the english voice feels so out of place. Like it's someone narrating the scene instead of being in it.

[@AvelineMelena]

The french dub really does a great job as usual

[@BoozertheArtist]

Embarrassing time for square enix fans

[@n10zguy]

why? i’m a fan and i’m not embarrassed. Is there a reason you are? 🤔

[@dizzyliv94]

maybe just be normal about things bud nobody needs whatever your cringe ass blabbing lmao

[@LBPreviews]

@@n10zguy low quality voice acting is why. If you're French, you won't notice.

[@Crouza]

​@@LBPreviews go back to your alt right hug box.

[@SILVERONIN]

The alpaca was warning us about this trash character yuck lamat

[@smoqueed44]

Llama'troon

[@LBPreviews]

The cat's voice sounds amateur. Why?

[@pancakepop680]

Male.

[@Romangelo]

English dubbers mostly record their voices alone, while they can't even see the scenes playing, so they don't know the context and that makes them sounded out of place. Japanese VAs record things in group and they watch the scenes while voicing. The American dubbing industry will always be amateurish and garbage for decades to come. They're just bad, unorganized, and being overpaid for the quality of works they're doing.

[@lagopusvulpuz1571]

That's because in Western animation the voice actor will make recordings before the animation to animate the lip sync of the characters. Japanese rarely lip sync the characters and the character mouths are animated like goldfish breathing.

[@maxjpz]

This was recorded in the UK from what I know tho.

[@wakkaseta8351]

Depends on the dub and the actors. Crispin Freeman's story about when he dubbed Howl's Moving castle back in the day shows how it should be done.

[@DGrimReeper]

And yet everyone else in english did great.

[@1lapmagic]

The problem is Japanese people hiring Japanese VA QC for English VA. This person should've never made it past their first audition.

[@kurokan13]

英語のリスニングの成績悪かった俺でもわかるくらいのE言語ラマチの棒読みっぷりよ・・・ラマチのキャラ自体賛否両論寄りなのに加えて棒読みとか英語圏かわいそ

[@aaronh678]

Looooooool

[@IRedpunk]

probably best scene is this whole sorry expansion

[@mrbigglezworth42]

Why'd they take a job away from a woman to give to a man to play a female character?

[@dizzyliv94]

1. I love Wuk Lamat in every language and I'm always so fascinated by different VA's interpretations of a character 2. I can't lie something about Tobli's first lines in German absolutely took me out

[@juniorkouhai4952]

Hire the worst VA in the whole story so far and so much of the DLC involves babysitting that specific character Bravo Yoshi, worst DLC in ff14

[@restlesstoaster]

God I cannot stand Wuk Lamat. She’s so annoying.

[@FlashTrickstar]

Incorrect. You're the annoying one.

[@SILVERONIN]

@@FlashTrickstar no she's annoying, cope!

[@managers6667]

More like woke lemut.

[@attilarischt2851]

This is not the first time I see her being referred as Woke, and to this day I am very, very confused. Why is she woke?

[@aaronh678]

Lameat*

[@zeemgeem]

​@@attilarischt2851transphobia

[@VioletMaeve]

I don't see any issue with Wuk Lamat's English Voice Actress. Remember if the person behind the booth thought this wasn't good enough, they wouldn't use it. Wuk is suppose to be a soft hearted, overflowing with kindness type of lady. I hate the fact people who do hate her voice always go to "its a guy behind the voice" as the reason. Sounds really transphobic as this game is gay as hell. She isn't suppose to be a sexy amazon warrior, she's an adult with child like wonder.

[@aaronh678]

Stop projecting transphobia on people, the voice doesn't fit many of her scenes. Nothing to do with the person being trans, more to do with SE employee who handled the direction for the VAs. Muppet.

[@jacobssiegfried]

I feel like the english va has a very soft and very innocent sounding voice which actually fits perfect for her. She radiates a bit of innocent calm that i'm a big fan of. Even though her voice and actions don't allways match, i'm allways glued to the screen when she speaks

[@HyouVizer]

Tobli - JP annoying as hell, while ENG sounds like he's gonna steal your wife. Lamat - JP generic sounding anime schoolgirl voice done to death, while ENG poor emotional direction most of the time. French version sounds the best to me