Working Designs' worst voice-overs

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Fact: Working Designs does a great job on their dubbing

Which character voice-overs don't you like among their classics?

Personally, i don't like Jessica's voice from Lunar 1 (needs the voice of a tough woman, like Ryoko's from Tenchi Muyo), and i also find Shyna's voice from Silhoutte Mirage to be ear-grating... "Reflector!" Arg! Where's the option for japanese vo?!
 
Silhouette Mirage, I believe, will remain the undisputed heavyweight champion.

I know a bunch of people didn't like Fuu in Rayearth, but the people who complained about Rayearth were almost uniformly so mentally damaged that I'm not sure how much credit to give their opinions (never played the game myself).

DFS.
 
TheDuce22 said:
Why did Ghalleon always sound like a flaming homosexual. The voiceover didnt fit him at all.
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Agreed, except for the "Magic Emperor Ghaleon" stuff. In the intro movie where he and Alex meet for the first time I thought he was trying to seduce yon Dragonmaster...
 
WarPig said:
Silhouette Mirage, I believe, will remain the undisputed heavyweight champion.

I know a bunch of people didn't like Fuu in Rayearth, but the people who complained about Rayearth were almost uniformly so mentally damaged that I'm not sure how much credit to give their opinions (never played the game myself).

DFS.
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Okay, please tell me what DFS stands for. I've seen that acronym used as an insult and can only assume you don't use it that way.
 
GhaleonEB said:
Okay, please tell me what DFS stands for. I've seen that acronym used as an insult and can only assume you don't use it that way.
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Stands for "I have Bad Taste in Video Games". :)
 
The End said:
basically anything having to do with Silpheed for the PS2.
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Working Designs did not do the dubbing on Silpheed for the PS2. They left it like the original Japanese. (The game was in English in Japan.) The only thing they did was to take out the slowdown and maybe made it harder.
 
Working Designs did not do the dubbing on Silpheed for the PS2. They left it like the original Japanese. (The game was in English in Japan.) The only thing they did was to take out the slowdown and maybe made it harder.
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Essentially true, but I think we *may* have replaced the narrator as too crappy (little foggy on the memory there). Everything else was the English from the Japanese version. Some fanboys crap on Silpheed being a "bad" Treasure game (I'm looking at you GameGone) while praising Stretch Panic as a great Treasure game, which is ridiculous. Silpheed wasn't the best shooter ever, but it was faithful to the original, and a good-looking 1st gen title. Stretch panic was *horrible*, absolutely terrible by any measure except perhaps as a tech demo.
 
Max and Wein have terrrrible line delivery. Leo in Lunar 2 was heroically ARGH! >_< I wanted to rip my eardrums out and offer it to the bad guys so they'd be appease because of Leo.
 
vireland said:
That is the funniest thing I've read all day. :lol Lemina was pretty annoying in the Japanese version, too.
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Lemina gets the Oscar. I pretty much played Lunar 2 only when no one was around - the thought someone could hear her MEGA MEGA cryes almost froze me in embarassment.

Shyna's voice was allright imo. Painful on the hears, but fit with the character.

"Excuse me!" Wein sounded quite homo in the first part of G2.

Can't remember anything else that sounded too bad...
 
Why did Ghalleon always sound like a flaming homosexual. The voiceover didnt fit him at all.
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I thought John Truit's voice work for Ghalleon was one of the highlights of the Lunar games. What did you expect him to sound like, Mr. T? His character may have been a legendary hero/villain but his personality was reclusive, scholarly and introverted. I thought John nailed that; Ghalleon is not some stereotypical cartoon villain.
 
I thought Lemina's voice in Lunar 2 was great, so maybe the problem was with the scripting.

Atlus and Mastiff hav an option for japanese voices in their games, which makes me wonder why WD hasn't yet, given their popularity to give only the best to gamers.

True, Shyna's voice was suitable, but i bet any japanese woman could that in English without sounding screechy.
 
KilledByBill said:
I thought John Truit's voice work for Ghalleon was one of the highlights of the Lunar games. What did you expect him to sound like, Mr. T? His character may have been a legendary hero/villain but his personality was reclusive, scholarly and introverted. I thought John nailed that; Ghalleon is not some stereotypical cartoon villain.
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Yeah, he's a stereotypical anime villain
 
KilledByBill said:
I thought John Truit's voice work for Ghalleon was one of the highlights of the Lunar games. What did you expect him to sound like, Mr. T? His character may have been a legendary hero/villain but his personality was reclusive, scholarly and introverted. I thought John nailed that; Ghalleon is not some stereotypical cartoon villain.
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Ghaleon was perfect - the voice acting remains some of the best character to voice matches to date.
 
"Excuse me!" Wein sounded quite homo in the first part of G2.
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That was the absolute hardest part of casting Growlanser male parts (ahem). Bishounen overload. You can't give them a manly man voice when they are built and dressed as they are. Imperial Knight Reeves has purple earrings for god's sake! I was sure he was a chick when I played the Japanese GL1! Wein was cast after reading maybe 30 or 40 people for the part. When he spoke, he was the only one that "fit" with the visual.
 
vireland said:
That was the absolute hardest part of casting Growlanser male parts (ahem). Bishounen overload. You can't give them a manly man voice when they are built and dressed as they are. Imperial Knight Reeves has purple earrings for god's sake! I was sure he was a chick when I played the Japanese GL1! Wein was cast after reading maybe 30 or 40 people for the part. When he spoke, he was the only one that "fit" with the visual.
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Hmmm...well, perhaps I can be a little more specific...
I'm not sure about the other posters here on GAF, but I disliked Wein's 'delivery' not the actual voice itself. I'm sure if he put more emotion in there it would've been fine...

I also didn't like Max's voice either, but at least the female voices were fantastic.

I just started Growlanser 3 and I have to say there aren't any problems so far...
Hugh's voice suits him, Slayn's is acceptable...I only have issue with Monika's but hopefully things will improve

Ugh...maybe I'm just spoiled from Lunar...
 
the lunar voices aren't so good that they should be "spoiling" anyone.

personally i think wein is good casting. the character is painfully earnest, which makes him slightly annoying.
 
ferricide said:
the lunar voices aren't so good that they should be "spoiling" anyone.

personally i think wein is good casting. the character is painfully earnest, which makes him slightly annoying.
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Well Lunar's voices were better than Growlansers IMO, and at the time of Lunar's release there were enough games with crappy voices in them

painfully earnest? naive? castrated? whatever, it comes down to the same thing: annoying
 
Hmmm...well, perhaps I can be a little more specific...
I'm not sure about the other posters here on GAF, but I disliked Wein's 'delivery' not the actual voice itself. I'm sure if he put more emotion in there it would've been fine...
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That would have to fall to me, then. He was directed to deliver it in a quiet, earnest manner, and in the beginning sound more unsure and timid than at the end of the game. I gradually unwound the restrictions until we got to the end. Doing it with any of the other actors or in a more self-assured manner from the start just sounded wrong. Ditto Max. As a pacifist, he was very level-headed and had a quiet, calm manner - all business.
 
vireland said:
That would have to fall to me, then. He was directed to deliver it in a quiet, earnest manner, and in the beginning sound more unsure and timid than at the end of the game. I gradually unwound the restrictions until we got to the end. Doing it with any of the other actors or in a more self-assured manner from the start just sounded wrong. Ditto Max. As a pacifist, he was very level-headed and had a quiet, calm manner - all business.
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I have to admit that Max would've been hard to voice no matter what, still it just seemed he took on the same tone throughout the entire game, even in the end when he's about to enter the tower. I can see what you were going for, but I can't help imagining him more as a character with quiet determination whose obsession with peace brought more bitterness from him in the end.

As for Wein, well, I'm bitching because you guys at Working Designs don't usually fall flat on the VA. It could have been character development, because it seems that Wein never grows or changes. He didn't seem overly hurt or betrayed when he lost his best friend or when he gets rejected for a date.

I probably wouldn't have had an issue with the VA, but since Wein is the main character, you hear more from him than anybody else. But I don't like to criticize without pointing out the good points of the VA in the game. I loved the narrator! He had a great storytelling voice. And I also like Slayn's VA so far, despite the fact he looks thin and metrosexual just like Wein :P
 
vireland said:
He was directed to deliver it in a quiet, earnest manner, and in the beginning sound more unsure and timid than at the end of the game.
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Truly, is only after finishing G2 and immediately starting over, that Wein's voice hit me like a... pillow.
Anyway I'm feeling bad with all this nitpicking, when in the end I liked the work :p
 
Shouta said:
Leo in Lunar 2 was heroically ARGH! >_< I wanted to rip my eardrums out and offer it to the bad guys so they'd be appease because of Leo.
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Perhaps, but you can't not love Leo's battle cries:

"Taste my refreshment!"
"Sample my goods!"
"You need a spanking!"

:lol :lol :lol
 
Prince of Space said:
Perhaps, but you can't not love Leo's battle cries:

"Taste my refreshment!"
"Sample my goods!"
"You need a spanking!"

:lol :lol :lol
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lmao, I had forgotten that. But one thing bugged me about that, though;
the fact that was the lines his alter ego spouted, yet he said them as his normal self later, even afterwards in the Epilogue when he was journeying across Lunar.
I never understood that.
 
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