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Xenoblade Chronicles X Features 'Outstanding' Voice Cast
« on: January 23, 2015, 07:05:31 AM »

Some of the best in the business are lending their talent to the game's Japanese voice work.

http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news/39494/xenoblade-chronicles-x-features-outstanding-voice-cast

Xenoblade Chronicles X will boast a cast of "outstanding" Japanese voice actors, producer Shingo Kawabata revealed on Twitter.

“As we present our characters, we’re also revealing the people that have lent us their voices," he explained. "We’ve managed to acquire an outstanding cast, so you can look forward to hearing their work. As there was such a large amount of text, recording [the voices] took a lot of work, but the entire cast was exceptionally professional. The end result, of course, is perfection.â€

A total of five voice actors have been revealed thus far. They include:

  • Elma – Houko Kuwashima
  • Lynlee – Mariya Ise
  • Tatsu – Daisuke Sakaguchi
  • Irina – Nao Takamori
  • Van Damme – Tessho Genda

Of course, those in North America and Europe will have an entirely different cast of voice actors for the localized versions. Here's to hoping "outstanding" talent is involved in the dub as well.


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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Features 'Outstanding' Voice Cast
« Reply #1 on: January 23, 2015, 03:15:44 PM »
But only Fair to Ok Canadian Voice Actors for English.
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« Reply #2 on: January 23, 2015, 03:17:17 PM »
I'm reeely feeeling it, eh?
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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Features 'Outstanding' Voice Cast
« Reply #3 on: January 23, 2015, 04:44:52 PM »
But only Fair to Ok Canadian Voice Actors for English.

It could be worse: modern Square-Enix could've dubbed it. *glares at the FF 15 English trailers*

But yeah, I hope the team in Europe who dubbed Xenoblade are the ones dubbing X as well, because goofy catch phrases aside it was a pretty decent dub.
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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Features 'Outstanding' Voice Cast
« Reply #4 on: January 23, 2015, 06:51:19 PM »
I wonder if the NA version will still use the European voices again. I think that actually helped make the dialogue more entertaining, but I'm not sure what the consensus would be on that.

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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Features 'Outstanding' Voice Cast
« Reply #5 on: January 23, 2015, 10:35:42 PM »
I liked the dialogue too. It would also cut back on their costs if they split the bill on English voice actors, making the overhead lower could ensure more games come to Western shores on both sides of the Atlantic.
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« Reply #6 on: January 23, 2015, 10:55:58 PM »
Looking up encyclopedia entries on the cast announced thus far show a lot of seasoned professionals and one light player (probably does a lot of stage work or something). Houko Kuwashima and Mariya Ise have done stellar work in The Story of Saiunkoku and Flowers of Evil, respectively. Daisuke Sakaguchi ain't no slouch either.

While I would love another UK dub, I have a feeling that we'll get an LA dub given how much more effort is put in promoting this game to North American audiences. The question is if we'll be seeing a regular cast or an anime cast.

Oh, as for a Canadian dub, they have fallen by the wayside. At least I don't see nearly as much Canadian dub efforts as in the 2000s.

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« Reply #7 on: January 24, 2015, 12:44:55 AM »
So we won't see members of the original English cast return?
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« Reply #8 on: January 24, 2015, 03:44:07 AM »
So we won't see members of the original English cast return?

Well, you never know. Nintendo has the money to pay for a diverse cast if they want. They will just have to deal with using two ADR studios rather than one.

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« Reply #9 on: January 24, 2015, 09:21:32 AM »
Honestly, since they are putting more into this game I would think they just totally split the dub work to who does it best and than go from there so,

NCL: Japanese and any other Asian language they do.
NOA: English and maybe Spanish and French to lighten the load on NOE.
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« Reply #10 on: January 24, 2015, 01:13:19 PM »
Nothing but British accents in New Los Angeles...
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« Reply #11 on: January 24, 2015, 03:52:09 PM »
NOE will probably not dub into languages other than English. Also as mentioned the setting is a US colony ship so the VAs should be American.

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« Reply #12 on: January 24, 2015, 04:47:00 PM »
Also as mentioned the setting is a US colony ship so the VAs should be American.
Then why are they speaking Japanese? ;)

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« Reply #13 on: January 24, 2015, 05:11:31 PM »
Also as mentioned the setting is a US colony ship so the VAs should be American.
Then why are they speaking Japanese? ;)
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« Reply #14 on: January 24, 2015, 08:20:05 PM »
As Phoenix Wright proved, it is very easy to mistake America for Japan at times.
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« Reply #15 on: January 24, 2015, 08:29:38 PM »
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« Reply #16 on: January 24, 2015, 08:32:56 PM »
They need to get the same voice cast as Nintendo had for its greatest foray into voice acting, Star Fox 64.
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« Reply #17 on: January 25, 2015, 03:57:20 AM »
NOE will probably not dub into languages other than English. Also as mentioned the setting is a US colony ship so the VAs should be American.

If we're going with the logic that New Los Angeles should be populated based on its name, then half the dub cast should be hispanic.  It's a game. I really don't care.
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« Reply #18 on: January 25, 2015, 03:44:35 PM »
 Creole or deep south it is.
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« Reply #19 on: January 25, 2015, 04:15:07 PM »
They need to get the same voice cast as Nintendo had for its greatest foray into voice acting, Star Fox 64.
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« Reply #20 on: January 25, 2015, 09:19:45 PM »
This story amuses me becuase I like to imagine it in the inverse: Xenoblade X Voice Actors 'Industry's Worst' - Nintendo
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« Reply #21 on: January 25, 2015, 09:29:16 PM »
They need to get the same voice cast as Nintendo had for its greatest foray into voice acting, Star Fox 64.
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Re: Xenoblade Chronicles X Features 'Outstanding' Voice Cast
« Reply #23 on: January 28, 2015, 02:23:09 AM »
Please just give us the option to turn off battle voices and I'll be happy.
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« Reply #24 on: January 28, 2015, 05:08:28 AM »
Please just give us the option to turn off battle voices and I'll be happy.
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