Shantotto in Dissidia ENG: A Link to FFXI?

[urat]

Wrapped the japanese version of dissidia a few months ago, was very impressed.

Was actually surprised with how much of the "japanese" version was english. I had 0 problem at all figuring out what was going on.

By far shantotto was my favoruite char, closely followed by cloud (who retains the ability to one shot anyone at the end of the game if you manage to connect, his acc sucks horribly)

If you watch carefully, you'll notice shantotto macro swaps her ele staves for all her spells, and idles in fire staff cause shes badass like that.

By the end of the game you'll have unlocked tier 2 AM for her, which is beyond badass to watch.

She was also the only character I managed to take down the final super boss with, and it took me over 2 months of constats retries to finally win, and even then it was sheer fluke.

Dissida is a very involved game with hours and hours of game time, and IMO has by far the greatest pvp game engine ever created, bypassing even that of the naruto sidescrolling fighter games in user friendlyness.

If your a ff fan, get this damn game. You wont regret it :3

[Revitozu]

The english voice acting isn't BAD really, but I pictured her with a slightly more mouse-like voice.

...maybe just because she's a Taru. '-'

But as far as the mention of the Cavernous Maws- I'm sure it's just something they put in to get more people interested in FFXI, for whatever reason.

[orson]

For reference, her Japanese voice. YouTube - Badass Shantotto strategy (And Zidane's Edward Elric from FMA :>)

Way better than the english. LOL @ Desu and OHOHOHOHOHOHOHO

[Mistress Stowastiq]

I only saw the one vid of her against Galbranth, slaughtering him and it made me want the game bad. The music for that fight was incredible in the Shantotto player mode.

[Silenka]

Sigh @ NA VAs.
I dont understand why it's so hard to include both, or sell 2 versions alla DVD size formats~

This. I don't, and have never understood, why NA VAs are so terrible. Call me a weeaboo if you wish, I've RARELY seen any good english dubbing. It's definitely out there, such as Disney's Miyazaki dubs (high budget though) and randomly assorted animes/games (I would cite FMA and FF12 as the ones I can remember easiest). Honestly, SE did everything right with FF12's dub, so I don't understand why Dissidia's looks so bad.

Megumi's voice is perfect for Shantotto imo. She does the ohohoho~ so well, but then, she's had a lot of practice (Lina Inverse, Tiramisu...). I've always been a Megumi fangirl XD

[Cesaria]

I'm totally disllusioned - Shantotto doesn't sound like THAT!!!!! She just doesn't alright!

[The Stig]

Megumi's voice is perfect for Shantotto imo. She does the ohohoho~ so well, but then, she's had a lot of practice (Lina Inverse, Tiramisu...). I've always been a Megumi fangirl XD

Same. Don't forget female Ranma!! Another series where she picked up the majority of violent bitching! XD

[byte]

They actually did a pretty good job doing her voice imo. She sounds like a pretentious twat, which is what she is!

Totally agreed. I found the voice quite fitting.

[Shalafi]

The VA is bad and the voice itself doesn't sound right for her, although the more I listened the more it grew on me; but the lines were poorly read.

I think we all have been reading her lines in FFXI and have made our own impression of what she would sound like.

[millionsknives]

Do you get scored at the end of each battle or something? If so the following is ok but if its just static text...

"A decent job, even with all the fuss. I hereby score you, a solid B minus"

What wasn't that B plus to rhyme?!

[Carraway]

Do you get scored at the end of each battle or something? If so the following is ok but if its just static text...

"A decent job, even with all the fuss. I hereby score you, a solid B minus"

What wasn't that B plus to rhyme?!

Half rhyme - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Octavious]

I love Shantotto in Dissidia, she comes off as prententious as always. In the JP Version when you play it, she sounds a bit too cute I don't know. I unlocked her yesterday and I love when you get to spam the entire Ancient Magic Wheel.

edit: also, the Voice Acting grew on me. I just think it was wierd since we don't hear her in FFXI, so I didn't write it off asap.

[Jabberwocky]

She sounds was too little kid-ish. I always imagined her with more of a Wicked Witch of the West voice. =/

[Cymmina]

I've RARELY seen any good english dubbing. It's definitely out there, such as Disney's Miyazaki dubs

Because Billy Bob Thorton is the first thing that comes to mind when you think Japanese Monk (Princess Mononoke)? Disney likes picking big name actors over genuinely good voice actors.

[[Vax]]

I really love the voice they chose for her. She sounds like a woman who thinks she's of much higher class and skill than everyone around her. It's perfect Shantotto~! (And true haha)

[Rionel]

To answer the NA Voice Actor mediocrity question people seem to be throwing around...

The NA Voice Actor of Kuja, JD Cullum, has a youtube page apparently. A lot of FF fans asked about how it was to voice act for Kuja... some of the responses were pretty surprising.

Basically, they just gave him a vague idea of how Kuja should have sounded like ("Be feminine and breathy with your voice") and... that was it apparently. No directing, no background checking to see what the character is like. Nothing. He apparently said it was actually quite difficult to voice Kuja since he knew so little of the actual character itself.

Hell, he even admitted he hasn't even played the damn game.

His comments:

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I will say this about the job, and then I'll leave the discussion, but perhaps it might provide you some insight into how these things work. I was being directed by a director who spoke to me via a translator, and she was trying to get me to literally imitate the Japanese actor who played the part. Now, it's one thing to try to imitate George W. Bush or anyone else in my native language, but it's absurd to try to imitate an unseen actor in a completely foreign language. Also, you may notice...

cont'd) ... that I extend my speech patterns in bizarre and unaccountable ways. That is because I am trying to match the time of the Japanese phrases. Well, Japanese is perhaps quite not as economical as English, at least for certain phrases. Sometimes I had to slow down and extend my voice to an absurd and unnatural degree to fit with the animation.

Finally, I was given no information about the character I was playing and I still don't really know, but I do know I was encouraged to sound breathy and feminine. Not my preferred approach but my job was to try to deliver what the director wanted. If you want a better sample of my v.o. work, you can hear me as the Frosted Mini Wheat...

I confess I'm not familiar with the rest of the project. They simply provide me with the lines for my character and then I record each one individually, while watching video playback. The whole thing took about 20 hours of work.

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And... that's it!

[Izzy]

20 hours of work?

brb changing careers

[GeneJackit]

OMG! I LOVE how the frosted mini wheat sounds!!! THATS SO AWESOME!

[LordshadowRagnarok]

Do you get scored at the end of each battle or something? If so the following is ok but if its just static text...

"A decent job, even with all the fuss. I hereby score you, a solid B minus"

What wasn't that B plus to rhyme?!

Simple, Shantoto isn't going to increase someone's grade unjustly JUST to rhyme, no matter how much she wants to.

[Volkai]

20 hours of work?

brb changing careers

This.

Seriously, need more people who grew up gamers doing the voices for video games.