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- Apr 16, 2019
I finally played through the MSQ myself. I did it with JP voices. Here are my thoughts.
I will continue to main Monk. I know it's become a meme job at this point but I have too much of a sentimental attachment to monk to main another job. I just love the martial arts aesthetic too much. So I will be going through DT as Monk. But I will be picking up both Viper and Picto when it comes out and dropping Ninja to my alt.
- Wuk Lamat is very cute. Her JP voice fits perfectly with her spunky attitude. You can tell that she's young, hot blooded and friendly. She gives off a bit of tsundere too and her JP voice actress sells the stutters to give off the impression that she's full of bluster to hide her inexperience. This will be a journey for her as much as it'll be for us.
- Was a bit jarring to hear the tonal shifts for the voices given that I played on EN voices for some 10+ years. But I got used to it pretty quick. My one real complaint about JP over EN voices is that JP voices sound pretty generic across the board. They are great at being animated and expressing emotions, but stuff like unique accents from different cultures get lost because JP VAs can't really fake an accent. At least not enough for non japanese to tell. For them it might be a difference in dialect rather than accent.
- I listened to Wuk's En voice too to make comparison. I agree with @Gravemind that it isn't maybe as bad as everyone is making it out to be but I feel like it's a Yong Yea type of situation where the voice just doesn't fit the character more than the VA just being outright awful. As much as I dislike the troon himself, he would probably be much better voicing a different kind of character. Wuk is very loud and bombastic and requires a voice more natural sounding than someone trying to force it out. If the troon goes too hard, he'll end up sounding more like a boy and I feel like him doing a constant battle of trying not to oversell it leads him to a situation where he sabotages himself in order to fit with his vision of how the character should sound like. You want a character to sound natural so when you have a situation where people can sense that you're obviously playing pretend, not everyone will be able to suspend belief enough to let it slide.
- During the duty, we got a taste of a new possible AOE skill for WAR. It looked really similar to the move Ravana uses where he cleaves the huge pizza in front of him except it's a circle AOE. Good, maybe more circle AOEs will piss of Lynx Fagelli some more so he can make more videos malding about it like a petulant child.
- When Wuk mentioned she had a brother that attended the Studium, I immediately called that it was the miqo from the key art. Obvious, but it was gratifying anyway to have it confirmed.
- Erenville is being set up to be Wuk's foil. The very obvious japanese trope of having a boy and girl as childhood friends. The girl is bubbly, friendly and optimistic while her male counterpart is supposed to be cynical, low energy and a buzzkill. Moenbryda and Urianger 2.0. Now whether or not that dynamic is going to capture me a second time has yet to be seen but they've laid some small hints that their friendship is strained. At least on his side.
- Looks like Urianger, Thancred and possibly Estinien are going to be the champions of another claim to the throne. My money is on the princess girl at the top of the key art.
- I'm predicting that all the claims to the throne are just adopted children of the current ruler. Maybe they'll throw a curve ball and one of the claims will be a biological kid.
- Interested in seeing the birthplace of blue magic as well as other cultural aspects. A lof of modernized things and animals like the corgis and chihuahuas supposedly came from the "New World" so I'd like to know more.
- Apparently they have cerulium there in large quantities, yet Garleans never attempted to annex the continent for themselves to take their resources. According to Wuk, Turallyions knew about Garleans and their propensity to invade other lands and felt relief knowing they wouldn't be a target any time soon when the empire collapsed. I'd like to know more in detail how they managed to stay off the radar for so long. Hopefully there's a better explanation other than them just being really out of the way.
- Lastly, so far I like how female hrothgar are in game. I was afraid the facial movements and expressions would be weird, but they were fine. I've heard some complaints from people that female hrothgar don't look beastial enough or that their muzzles aren't long enough, yet 9 times out of 10 when I ask which face they like more, they pick the face that looks the most uncally valley, cats the live action musical looking one out of them all. So you want them to have longer muzzles, but you like the most human looking one of the bunch? You're retarded. Their faces look fine. All of them.
I will continue to main Monk. I know it's become a meme job at this point but I have too much of a sentimental attachment to monk to main another job. I just love the martial arts aesthetic too much. So I will be going through DT as Monk. But I will be picking up both Viper and Picto when it comes out and dropping Ninja to my alt.
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