Voice acting improved

September 12, 2007, 5:50 PM

I believe the voce acting has greatly improved since FFX. X was great for its time and the voice over was not bad for Final Fantasy's first attmept. ut do you think since X, its improved?

12 has some good voice acting and good timing, better IMO then X. FFX had some off moments with the voice acting and it wasnt 100% in sync with the character. But Ive noticed that 12 has got it spot on.

Your thoughts?

September 12, 2007, 5:58 PM

My god yes. The voice acting in FFX was good in most places, but it was the first FF game to include VA so it was naturally a little shaky in places, XII managed to fix all those problems, and they nailed VA. the voices were so much clearer, better, and better synced.

10/10 for VA

September 12, 2007, 8:48 PM

FFXII had awesome voice-acting, except for Bhujerbans and the word "marquis". The Bhujerbans bugged me because you could easily tell that they were Americans badly imitating an Indic accent (and it always came and went, with Marquis Endor). And of course the fact that "marquis" should be pronounced /mahr-kee/ rather than /mahr-kwis/.

Otherwise, I found the accents to be a surprisingly good touch. Also, the lip synchs were much better, due to the fact that a lot of the time, speakers wouldn't be shown up close while they spoke, or the back of their heads would be shown as they faced whomever they were speaking to. Unlike in FFX, you couldn't see a mouth moving if the Japanese dialogue ran longer than the English, and you didn't have to bear with more Shatner-ing like Yuna did.

September 12, 2007, 9:35 PM

I don't like the imperials voices, it just doesn't suit them

The main characters voices are good and all but the judges sound the best through their helmets

September 12, 2007, 10:20 PM

Just remembered something - what the hell was the casting department thinking when they hired the English VA for Vaan?! In fact, what the hell was Square thinking when they desgned him, whereas both Reks and Rasler are clearly more superior designs?! The only reason I cared about Vaan was because he was Reks' little brother.

September 12, 2007, 11:10 PM

The voice acting was awesome in this game. Overall, I thought it was infinitely many times better than the ones in X (I'm not a fan of X's VA)
The only problem I see with the whole thing is Vaan. His voice actor seems to give the impression that Vaan only displays like...one kind of emotion or something. xD
His tone is basically the same when he's screaming as when he's sad or just plain conversational.

Overall - 10/10
Vaan - 1/10

September 12, 2007, 11:19 PM

I think the voice acting is really great in my opinion, but i do agree about Vaan's voice. It's rather annoying.

September 13, 2007, 3:36 AM

The only problem I had with it was that early on, there were some sound problems, kinda fuzzy at parts. But, it didn't last long. I liked FFX's voice acting fine, apart from Hedy Buress's grotesque Yuna. However, FFXII's was a considerable step up, what with using more stage actors rather than your typical voice actors. The addition of former MADtv alum Phil Lamarr was nice as well, and he did very well considering the more "old-worldish" speaking manner.

September 13, 2007, 3:53 AM

I thought the voice acting in this game was excellent for the most part. Ashe and Vaan were pretty bad though. Ashe's was extremely bland and lifeless. Vaan's was just plain irritating.

Overall though, it was a huge improvement over X. X's voice acting was just awful. I had to mute my tv just to get through the game.

September 13, 2007, 10:26 AM

I am now convinced that all common Imperial guards are from London - they just seem to have this...London like accent 8D

No offense to Londonians ( 8D ) of course

98% was fantastic. Some voices were terribly annoying ( Balthier, common Imperial guards...), while others ( Reddas, Vossler, Gabranth, Dr. Cid, Judges in general...) excelled all expectations.