Okies, so there's been a lot of discussion about whether the Japanese or English VAs was better. But out of all the controversial English VAs who did you think pulled it off the best? Who actually managed to portray their character half-decently?

As a reminder, here's the English cast list (main characters)-

Cloud- Steve Burton
Tifa- Rachel Leigh Cook
Aerith- Mena Suvari
Kadaj- Steve Saley
Yazoo- Dave Wittenburg
Loz- Fred Tatasciore
Sephiroth- George Newburn
Vincent- Steve Blum
Yuffie- Christy Carlson Romano
Cid- Chris Edgerly
Barret- Beau Billingslea
Cait Sith- Greg Ellis
Reeve- Jamieson Price
Red XIII- Liam O'Brien
Reno- Quinton Flynn
Rude- Crispin Freeman
Rufus Shinra- Wally Wingert
Zack- Rick Gomez

Feel free to namecheck any that I've missed off here eg- Denzil, Tseng etc.

i think all the voices were fine in AC, though i have not seen it in japanese but i wouldnt understand it anyway. i think the voices were pulled off great, i didnt have any expectations of what their voices should be like as VII didnt have any voices in but the voices were great and really did relate well to the characters. the only one which did surprise me was Cait Sith i dont think anyone could have expected that one i thought he would have sounded more robot like or more like reeve as he was controlled by reeve.

overall i dont think any of the voices in AC were bad they were all good

I didn't find any that particularly annoyed me either. But My favourite has to be Steve Blum for the job he did on Vincent, he really nailed it.

I really do agree with you Miss Valentine, I think steve blum did great at Vincents voice and it really was amazing it was a voice that was just what you would expect from his charatcer. vincents voice was probably a hard one to do but he really did do it well

Steven Blum is my choice if only becasue he is my favorite career voice actor of all time. He did awesome with Vincent, but he does great with everyone he plays...

Spike (Cowboy Bebop), Char Aznable (Gundam movie trilogy), Mugen (Samurai Champloo), Makoto Shishio (Rurouni Kenshin), Ken (Street Fighter Alpha), and countless other characters in countless other anime titles and video games... he's even leading the voice cast in the new X-Men TV series as Wolverine (a character he's played in the video game adaptations for a long while)... he's just absolutely perfect in most everything he does.



So yeah... Steve Blum was definately the best AC voice actor... but there were others that were okay... however some of them had offset emotional strains on their voices that didn't exactly fit the situations, and what not, and that detracted from the quality of the overall English dub performace... but... egh... what can you do? It happens often nowadays... but at least its not as bad as some of the horrid 80's voice work... ACK!

Hehehehe all hail Steve Blum!!

And yeah I was impressed with Steve Burton, I don't think people who dissed his version of Cloud were being fair. He pulled it off well, just the right amount of moodiness. I look forward to seeing what he's done with the young Cloud in CC (it does sound like him on the vid, is it him?)

I also really like Kadaj, I thought that was brilliant. He sounded completely wacko, and if SE are going to plague us with anymore stupid spinoffs, then Kadaj should get a game of his own

Steve Blum is winning this hands down!!! ^^

But I have to draw attention to Quentin Flynn for his upstanding job as Reno. He really made it memorable, he nailed it! And I'm a pretty big Reno fan anyway so that just upped his appeal