Fire Emblem Heroes

@Soul-dragon Hopefully we’ll get to see more Funi VAs in this soon (I will admit that a part of me wants Jason Douglas as Knoll and Natalie Hoover as Venessa).

@Soul-dragon I’m more curious about who’s voicing Canas, if that IS him in the last bit of the trailer.

@Mr.M!c It most likely is and I'm curious about that as well. Linus is coming as well.

@Soul-dragon

I think it is due to him moving to LA some time ago.

@MHUltimate2013DW He moved to LA? When?

@Soul-dragon

I remember him tweeting about it on his twitter page.

@Soul-dragon

Also, oddly enough, if there were an animated adaptation, I would’ve cast Daran Norris as Legault.

@sonic401 An alias.

@Soul-dragon The one for bridal Sanaki?

On that note, I get Ninian, can understand Tharja—but what’s Sanaki doing in the bridal lineup?

@Mr.M!c IDK. There's a lot of controversy surrounding it and the fact that they put a 10 year old (yes it's her PoR design) in a bride outfit. I'm not to big on it myself personally, I would've much preferred someone like Sumia, Celica or Elincia instead of her mainly because of her age.

@Soul-dragon The best context I could come up with is that Sanaki’s a brideSMAID.

@Mr.M!c Really? Most people like to view her as a flower girl.

@Soul-dragon Good point.

@Soul-dragon what's even more fishy is that they made groom marth f2p, considering everyone was ranting for a marth alt.

@sonic401 In that case do you think they'll repeat Ayragate?

@Mr.M!c Actually she refers to herself as a bride in her quotes. There's no going around it now. :)

@Mr.M!c Ratana is just Ratana. That's her real name. She's fairly new to the business.

@Mr.M!c

Am I going nuts? These characters and VAs are all on the page.

@Nightmare Crusher
You’re right.

@NCZ You're damn right it does :(

But hey, at least Cindy Robinson's Hinoka is the best it's ever sounded. So there's that.

@NCZ You can say that again. Ouch.

@NCZ Stings kinda badly. Still a great dub in general but the Fates side of things is without a doubt the weakest spot of it.

@NCZ At least most of the replacements are solid.

@bunnymoon Barring Soleil, Peri, Hinoka and Niles...

@Soul-dragon I said "most of" not "all of"

@NCZ Not sure if I'd call it a loss. Fates is widely considered to be one of the weaker FE dubs.

Not doubting KZS's abilites as she's done some of my favorite games, but Fates wasn't one of her better ones.

@Sentinel07

I dunno man. We're not talking about Fates, we're talking about Heroes. Having almost all of the recasts in this game and Warriors, games that are supposed to be all about fanservice, lopsided towards one game in particular doesn't really reflect well. This isn't anything against Cup of Tea but there's a distinct touch and level of clout and pull in her casting process she's capable of that not a lot of people in the dubbing sphere can match. Like it or not, losing that *has* left a mark.

@Sentinel07 "Fates is widely considered to be one of the weaker FE dubs."

By who? As far as I'm concerned most people seem to enjoy it. But regardless what NCZ said is indeed true. Kris Zimmerman has always had a unique touch that she brought to every game she directed and I doubt say Patrick Setiz or Wendee Lee would've chosen the same. This is true of all VA directors yes, but losing a bit of a director's touch stings a bit.

For now at the end of the day I'm just grateful that we were able to get people like E.G Daily, Roger Rose and Paula Tiso in one Fire Emblem game. Granted I would've preferred more but that's really all we can do. And of course appreciate the VAs in the Fates cast who didn't get replaced and showed up as other characters (Julianne Alexander, Natalie Lander, Marcella Lenz Pope, Sarah Blandy and Walden James).

@NCZ THIS.

@Soul-dragon By YouTube commenters who judged the entire game's VO based off of one "certain" line.

@HylianBelmont Let me guess it's the 'We've got trouble?" I've never had an issue with that line personally, even before I became a VA nut. It was a bit awkward yes, but so is Felicia's character so it fit. Besides I'm glad we got Julianne Alexander's somewhat nerdy, bubbly and outgoing voice for her instead of say a stereotypically cutesy over the top one like we got for Lilina.

One thing people also complain about when it comes to Fates is Effie's voice. While I'm not to big on it myself, Treehouse deserves all of the blame for changing her personality completely. Besides Marisha's Oboro makes up for it IMO.

@Soul-dragon Yep. I never hated it myself since it was only one however.

I agree there as well. I do like the localisations of Awakening and Fates overall, but 8-4 and Treehouse did make some "odd" decisions here and there however. With Effie being one in particular, though it's an interesting example of her range at least.

@HylianBelmont Another drastic change some people complain/make fun of is Hisame’s love of pickles. I honestly loved that change TBH, it made the character stand out since in Japanese no one cared for him.

@Soul-dragon Well, people thought Danielle Judovits had Eden Riegel's roles back in the early Awakening days. Now it's come full circle.

@Soul-dragon While David Stanbra reprising would be most ideal, if I "had" to pick someone else it would be probably be Lex Lang.

@HylianBelmont Really? I was thinking Quinton Flynn myself but Stanbra reprising is indeed ideal, even though I am doubtful about it since he's no longer Siegbert.

I'm still wondering what the deal with that is BTW. I'm willing to beat recording for the children happened around the same time as Warriors so why was he replaced? Personal decision or was he never even Siegbert to begin with?

@Soul-dragon

The past tense of "cast" is "cast".

@Soul-dragon
Leif - Yuki Kaji/Kyle McCarley
Nanna - Aoi Yuuki/Faye Mata
Fin - Junichi Suwabe/Jarred Kjack or Josh Grelle

@Luigikun Really? This is what I want TBH
Leif- Anothny Del Rio or Robbie Daymond/Yusuke Kobayashi
Nanna- Michelle Ruff/Nana Mizuki
Finn- Changes a lot.
I honestly would like to stick to a one lord per voice actor policy when it comes to casting lords. Granted both Greg Chun and Yuri Lowenthal have broken that rule but all in all it doesn't matter. However I want someone odd for Leif myself. You know like an unexpected choice that you never thought IS would make? The casting choices for the Black Knight, Tailtiu, Ayra, Micaiah and Lyon have me hopeful for it TBH.

@Soul-dragon Jarred Kjack could be a notable choice for it.

@Luigikun I guess...however I do really like the Josh Grelle suggestion!

@Soul-dragon
Lief: Antony Del Rio
Nanna: Amanda Win Lee
Finn: Yuri Lowenthal

@Soul-dragon

IMO

Leif - Robbie Daymond / Ryohei Kimura
Nanna - Erika Harlacher / Sora Amamiya
Finn - Joe Zieja / Makoto Furukawa

@MHUltimate2013DW TBH Sora needs to be the next princess of Nifl for ah...reasons that totally don't involve Konosuba!

@Soul-dragon

Apparently, according to the datamine, our new OC,Laegjarn, is voiced by either someone new or an alias for an existing actor.

https://fireemblem.gamepress.gg/datamine/feh-datamine-022118-fallen-heroes

@MHUltimate2013DW Oh that's Melissa Fahn.

@Soul-dragon You sure?

@Soul-dragon Always nice to see Anankumi again I suppose, haha.

@Luigikun Listen to her quotes. https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/Laegjarn/Quotes
And now Melissa as Purple Heart. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ck-jhw5Ua9A
I'm positive it's her.

@Soul-dragon I think I get your point, but I hear a bit of Laura Post in it.

@MHUltimate2013DW I think I heard from a youtube comment on the voice quotes that it sounds like Tenten, who was voiced by Danielle Judovits, who also voiced FKana, Mitama, and Lilith

@sonic401 They were referring to the Japanese voice actress Yukari Tamura who also voices Tenten.

@sonic401 Nice job! Now can we get Alexis Tipton or Tia Ballad for Nyna? It would be perfect.

@Soul-dragon the 800mb update downloads that take hours to actually finish.

@Soul-dragon

Ryohei Kimura was my first JPN pick for Leif for JPN Leif, but Yusuke Kobayashi works as well. Though I agree with Robbie Daymond or Antony Del Rio being his ENG voice.

@Soul-dragon Oh and I forgot!
Jill- Lauren Landa/Yoshino Nanjo

@MHUltimate2013DW Who is he? I've never heard of him so I'd like to hear his work.

@MHUltimate2013DW Just looked him up. Yeah that would be perfect as well. We'll wait and see what happens.

@Soul-dragon

I got a couple more casting choices.

Arlen (NMofE) Taliesin Jaffe/Nobuyuki Hiyama
Astram (NMofE) Kevin Connolly/Akira Sasanuma
Wolf (NMofE) Vernon Dew/Soma Saito
Lex (GotHW) Lex Lang/Subaru Kimura
Jamke (GotHW) Josh Grelle/Showtaro Morikubo
Azelle (GotHW) Brian Beacock/Kensho Ono
Shannan (GotHW) Ben Pronsky/Junichi Suwabe
Altena (GotHW) Allegra Clark/Ayako Kawasumi
Sue (Binding Blade) Janice Kawaye/Rie Kugimiya
Rutger (Binding Blade) Sean Chiplock/Koki Uchiyama
Chad (Binding Blade) Antony Del Rio/Tetsuya Kakihara
Lugh (Binding Blade) Chris Patton/Sachi Kokuryu
Duessel (Sacred Stones) Darin De Paul/Kenjj Nomura
Knoll (Sacred Stones) Chris Hackney/ Kenichi Suzumura
Shinon (PoR) Doug Erholtz/Keiichi Kuwabara
Edward (PoR) Vic Mignogna/Romi Park
Haar (RD) Keith Silverstein/Takanori Hoshino
Julius (GotHW) Johnny Yong Bosch/Jun Fukuyama
Ishtar (GotHW) Kira Buckland/Yui Ishikawa
Salem (Thracia 776) Jalen K. Cassell/Hiroki Takahashi
Sara (Thracia 776) Xanthe Huynh/Rie Takahashi
Saias (Thracia 776) Cam Clarke/Koji Tsujitani
Erk (Blazing Blade) Steve Staley/Takahiro Mizushima
Nergal (Blazing Blade) Michael McConnohie/Norio Wakamoto
Zihark (PoR) Chris Niosi/Kenji Nojima
Volke (PoR) David Collins/Mitsuru Miyamoto
Sephiran (RD) Ben Lepley/Koji Yusa

@MHUltimate2013DW In that case allow me to bounce some off you.
Nyna (SD)- Alexis Tipton/Fuiko Orikasa
Gunivere (BB)- Abby Trott/Haruka Tomatsu
Rodger (SD)- Bryce Papenbrook or Todd Haberkorn/Ryota Oskaka
Karin (T776)- Christine Marie Cabanos/Sakaya Kanda
Julian (SD)- Vic Mignogna/Kappei Yamaguci
Elice (SD)- Amanda Winn Lee/Sumi Shimamoto
Mareeta (T776)- Morgan Berry/Asami Imai
Selfina (T776)- Laura Post/Minako Kotobuki
Edain (GOTHW)- Rachael Lillis/Aki Toyosaki
Xane (SD)- Ben Diskin/Shintaro Asanuma
Selena (SS)- Julie Ann Taylor/Sayaka Ohara
Limstella (BB)- Erin Fitzgerald/Rumi Ochiai
Evyel (T776)- Elizabeth Maxwell/Kotono Mitsushi
Norne (SD)- Jad Saxton/Ayahi Takagaku
Leanne (RD)- Angela Marie Volpe/Ayane Taketatsu
Reyson (RD)- Jason Wishnov/Kenn

@Soul-dragon FE8, not 6. I'm always excited for more Sacred Stones. Cup of Tea has been pretty good at bringing in a least one new voice actor per banner, so I'm looking forward to who they get for him.

@BlueHeracross Indeed. Here is a list of what banner brought what actor (beginning with Scared World).
Scared World- Melissa Fahn, Xander Mobus, Imari Williams
Dauntless Crimeans- Robert Clotworthy
World of Holy War- Erica Mendez, Heather Hogan, Brina Palencina
Farfetched Heroes- Todd Haberkorn, Kirk Thronton
Children of Fate- Michelle Ruff
World of Dawn- Veronica Taylor, Nicolas Roye, Richard Epcar
It's pretty wacky all things considered. All in all I cannot wait to hear Leon's voice. I also hope we get a Scared Stones banner just for the sake of hearing Marisa and L'Archeal with official voices.

@Soul-dragon

Looks like we got ourselves a newcomer, this time! Can't say I even considered Mark Whitten being part of the cast at any point! Cup of Tea just continues to surprise me with their casting choices!

@MasterBlaster Man, the studio really hires some nice faces from LA no less. :)

@Dawnlight That I disagree on. In all honestly Minella captures the energy well but she sounds to old for a cute teen girl like Mia. Listen to this and tell me you hear a seventeen year old girl. https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/media/feheroes.gamepedia.com/6/63/Mia_Character_Page6_%28EN%29.wav

@sonic401 Yeah I'm really enjoying the amount of former 4Kids VAs in this. At this moment it's only a matter of time until Jessica Calvello, Mike Pollock, Sean Schemmel and Rachael Lillis all get in.

@Soul-dragon Not sure about Sean Schemmel being in a Fire Emblem game, though crazier castings have happened before. The Fire Emblem game that Kris Zimmerman Salter did get Elizabeth Daily in it, so anything is possible

@Shaun Ince I guess but who knows honestly. With the amount of surprises this game keeps on throwing at us I'd say that anything is possible. Robert Clotworthy, Misty Lee, and Mick Wingert all made appearances so at this point I'm expecting anyone. However on a side note I'd like to take a moment to realize how diverse this cast is. Former 4kids VAs, Funi VAs, high profile VAs, up and coming VAs, it's really cool honestly.

@sonic401 I knew Veronica lived in LA now, and I was STILL shocked. It's an awesome surprise though. Hope we get to hear her in future Fire Emblem titles as well.

@Soul-dragon The only reason why I feel the chances of Sean Schemmel showing up in a Fire Emblem game are slim is that he doesn't have a huge presence in video games that aren't Dragonball. Compare that in comparison to several other actors where video games make up most of their resume

@Soul-dragon

What's next?

Adam Howden as Xane? LOL

@MHUltimate2013DW That's one thing I'm definitely not expecting since he's based in the UK and FE games are recorded in LA. They are only able to get some Funi VAs and that's about it. If it were to happen it would be . because of an Xenoblade X sequel which is unlikely to come until next year.

@NCZ

I think he is already 5 characters in this game already.

@MHUltimate2013DW

6.

@NCZ

Damn

@NCZ I wondered what happened to Kazutaka Ishii since he didn't actually reprised as Sothe since Junji Majima was already in the Tellius games as only voicing the Black Knight?

@NCZ I'm starting to think that IS likes him as much as Takehito Koyasu.

@Soul-dragon
If you ask me, Nintendo should try harder to look for sound-alikes if recasts are inevitable.

@MizukaS That I can agree on. Granted some characters like Lucina, Ike and Takumi have had seamless transitions but some like Soleil, Hinoka and Peri haven't been so lucky. All in all if I had to give Nintendo some advice it would be to not use the same voice actor for every character. I'd also tell them to let some people transfer the audio into Japanese without having to change the text as well. But for now as far as this game goes you really have to take the good (https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/feheroes_gamepedia_en/6/61/Deirdre_Character_Page7_%28EN%29.wav, https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/feheroes_gamepedia_en/5/5d/Nephenee_Character_Page5_%28EN%29.wav, https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/feheroes_gamepedia_en/b/b3/Joshua_Character_Page7_%28EN%29.wav) with the bad (https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/feheroes_gamepedia_en/0/0d/Karel_Character_Page4_%28EN%29.wav, https://feheroes.gamepedia.com/media/feheroes.gamepedia.com/6/63/Mia_Character_Page6_%28EN%29.wav, https://d1u5p3l4wpay3k.cloudfront.net/feheroes_gamepedia_en/5/5d/Peri_Character_Page7_%28EN%29.mp3) but I'd say it cancels out. That being said I'm both terrified and excited to see the official voices for the rest of my favorite FE characters who haven't gotten in.

@PsychBoy19

The characters I think of in my head right now.
JYB - Julius, Shin, Janaff
Erika Harlacher - Thea, Linoan
Monica Rial - Tethys, Juno
Xanthe Huynh - Myrrh, Micaiah
Natalie Hoover - Vanessa, Marcia
Carrie Keranen - Fiora, Midia, Vika
Laura Post - Altena, Melady, Amalda
Sean Chiplock - Rutger, Shannan, Astram
Erik Kimerer - Sothe, Asbel, Ogier

@PsychBoy19 I have a feeling that this will become the One Piece of Cup of Tea honestly. Meaning that every VA in the anime industry who lives in LA or is there quite often will probably show up at some point.

@MHUltimate2013DW Wow. Your fan castings are quite similar to mine. However I am currently wondering if Lani Minella is going to be Micaiah again. Granted, I really want to hear her with a new voice that fits a bit better since I wasn't a fan of her take at all, but since she returned as Mia it's very possible. If it does, then as much as I'll dislike it I wouldn't mind to much mainly because she's doing it to put food on the table for her family so I won't be to mad. We'll just have to wait and see.

@MHUltimate2013DW I'd personally like to point out that Monica Rial could be a good pick for Ishstar

@sonic401 That would work pretty well...granted my personal pick for Ishstar is Kira Buckland but she'd work as well. But I'm sure that Nintendo will do the character justice!

@MHUltimate2013DW Sean Chiplock could play any male character who's still missing from the cast. I've been impressed with his range recently, given how it goes from awkward boys (Mishima from Persona 5), to tsundere brats (Santa from 999), to deep bass villains (Blake from FE Echoes), to convincing old men (Halcyon from FE Echoes).

@SNaG I'm assuming that as well. I mean they were able to get him back for Xander for Warriors as well as the Spring DLC so something like that must have popped up. But yeah, Michelle Ruff and Todd Haberkorn are indeed good recasts (it's especially nice to see Michelle get another FE character after losing F!Robin). I just hope that they won't have to recast him as either Kaze, Shura or Xander. the cutscene Mingled Tears in Birthright truly proved how good he was for the character (Xander) so I hope that it won't happen since I've already lost the VAs for some of my other favorite characters from Awakening/Fates (Hinoka, Lucina, Peri and Soleil come to mind).

@SNaG That may be the case for Stanbra yeah.

I've actually heard Soleil and Siegbert's voices on the Heroes wiki however. I think Siegbert is decent, but Soleil's new voice? Not too big on, unfortunately.

@HylianBelmont I just took a listen as well and I honestly agree with you. Dang it! Why do 75% of my favorite characters from Fates/Awakening all have bad voices now (some of my other favorites were Peri, Henry, and Hinoka BTW)? I just hope that they don't ruin either Selkie, Mitama, Ophelia or Nina should they get in...

@Soul-dragon Nina has the same VA as Elise and Amerlia, so that should be no problem. Nor do I see one a problem with Mitama or Ophelia.

Slkie on the other hand....given that EG Daily didn't come back for Hinoka and Peri, you should probably prepare yourself for her to be recast.

@Sentinel07 Yeah, I'm expected that. I just really hope that they don't pull a Cindy Robinson with her, because it's been proven about twice now that putting her in EG Daily's roles isn't a good idea.

@PeachesDaisy They were probably all recorded in advance and as you said " No voice director would take your opinion on board, in fact they wouldn't waste their time reading it." That applies to the rest of the haters as well.

@Soul-dragon I guess so. Ah well, I was hoping to hear someone like Xanthe Huynh as Micaiah, but I guess it's gonna be Lani after all.

Yes I know, it also applies to all the supporters to. Voice directors won't listen to any fans, in agreement with decisions or against them.

@PeachesDaisy

They are probably going to recast Karel as well

@PeachesDaisy Same. It's a huge shame since I've already stated my issues with her performance, but I'll be OK. As long as I have Eirika and Lyn I'll be OK (there the only two female lords that I like whose voices stay were I want them to ha ha.) But yeah I'd admit that I'd rather have her as Mia and Micaiah then as Mist and Lyn so it cancels out.

@MHUltimate2013DW Definitely. Hinoka is also definitely getting a recast as well since a majority of the fanbase hated Cindy Robinson's take on her in Warriors. In fact, I think it's the voice that's gotten the most backlash and hate yet. Heck the entire Youtube comments section for her supports with Lucina (and I mean the entire section) was filled with people talking about how much they disliked her take.

@Soul-dragon

It would be funny if Marc Diraison happens to be Karel's recasted voice or the short-haired Binding Blade Karel. Since he and Bryce voiced Conrad at different ages.

@MHUltimate2013DW You mentioned that before. Yeah that would be funny to see ha ha. Maybe it'll happen.

@MHUltimate2013DW
If we're talking Karel, Ian Sinclair would be perfect

@Soul-dragon Wow.

@HylianBelmont Do you have an issue? Just because you adore a voice doesn't mean I can't hate it. Besides this is the last time I plan on mentioning Mia's voice here. There's no need to get defensive like you did two comments below because if you do then you won't deserve a big Toblerone. That being said, let's agree to disagree.

Remember to try and keep it civil, everyone. Not just toward other people but to VAs themselves.

@NCZ Gladly. I will admit that whenever I rant about a performance I do always go on the VAs page and praise them for a role of theres that I enjoyed. However it's better to think that the VA isn't going to see the comment, just because it let's you be a bit more honest about their performances and what you think about it. Because if someone is to improve then they need honest feedback not just a bunch of fake sweet stuff.

@Soul-dragon Honest feedback is different than tearing someone apart, though. Also, no part of "She was plain insufferable in both and if she returns then I'll snap either my phone or my computer in half." is constructive criticism. That's just an overreaction to a voice that you'll probably only hear a couple of times while playing.

@KazeNinja17 Sorry. I was just shocked that she reprised her role. And besides if she reprises Micaiah then I'll most likely have another fangirl meltdown which will honestly be hilarious. Who knows? Maybe I'll become an internet meme like those Rick and Morty fans...

@Soul-dragon I get that you don't like her Mia (and the rest of her past FE roles that she could possibly reprise) but I think you have to remember that she ins't the voice director, or the one in charge of casting...so technically the person in charge of casting is to blame as they asked for Lani to use that particular voice for Mia and ignored any negative criticism from fans.
Yes, there could have been people that could voice Mia better, however for you to blame Lani for a performance that she was directed on as if she was in control is unfair.
You also state that it just sounds like acting...well considering pretty much everyone sounds as flat as a pancake, ESPECIALLY when they say their skill quotes, having some acting is a nice touch.
Now yes, she could have turned the role down. But would you turn money down? No. Nobody would.
Try and show some respect to the woman instead of trying hate in her face.
And finally, who is going to listen to what you say? Someone who has little knowledge it seems of what goes on in recording booths. No voice director would take your opinion on board, in fact they wouldn't waste their time reading it.

@PeachesDaisy
The only thing that I managed to get from this is that public opinion does not matter and casting directors don't care what their consumers think. Obviously, that is not true. I'm not saying that companies should cater to every consumer's needs completely, but at the end of the day. At the end of the day, however, it is an undeniable fact that companies profit from consumers' purchases.

Anyway, dubbing companies DO put out surveys so that the public could express their opinion on what they have done well, and what could be done to improve even more.

eg. https://www.funimation.com/forum/topic/14712/what-makes-a-dub-great

@Nightmare Crusher

IS has strong meme game. If he had Poison Strike, it would be amazing.

@Nightmare Crusher Now all we need is for Flora to join the game with a Flame Shuriken.

@HylianBelmont Oh f*** this means she is most likely going to reprise Micaiah. I'm going to puke...

@Soul-dragon

Yeah, I agree with you. With all due respect to Lani, I didn't like her roles in FE much (or... At all); they sound very put-upon and unnatural IMO. Mia sounds unnatural enough to me, but if she reprises Micaiah I don't very much think I'd like that (though puke is a strong word).

@SNaG Sorry. I just really love Micaiah and Lani's irked me so much and the fact that she's most likely going to return to the role bothers me quite a lot. Someone like Erika Harlucher or Xanthe Hugyn or Christine Marie Cabanos would be perfect for the role however so I really do hope that they try and go for someone new. Here's to hoping that Nintendo takes a look at what a majority of the fanbase is saying about her Mia and takes it to heart (if you look at the comments of voice clips for the new characters you'll notice that a majority of the ones about Mia aren't positive.)

@SNaG Eh, it's hardly any worse than Lillina's voice.

@Soul-dragon Whatever. There should have been more role reprisals than Lani's if I'm being honest, but I'll definitely take it. You talk about all these "comments" hating on her Mia, but none of the comments on other vids that have spoken positively about her Micaiah?

Also yeah, "puke" is definitely a strong and insulting thing to say about a great actress.

@HylianBelmont

With all due respect and no offense, "great" is also an option. Agree to disagree. :)

@SNaG With all due respect what makes her such a perfect fit for Micaiah? As I mentioned earlier she sounds like a (no offense intended here) constipated ninety year old women who was always gasping for air when Micaiah was about (this is just an estimate) twenty-five to thirty-two years old. And her voice cracked so much I don't even have the words and it needed to be a bit more commanding with a sharp edge which she failed to bring. Also what makes her so great? She does a fantastic job with the koopalings and she has proven to be quite versatile, but her work for both Persona and Fire Emblem are plain atrocious and incredibly grating. Long story short, if Micaiah is voiced by her in Heroes then I'll be very upset so I really hope that she isn't. She doesn't have to be voiced by my top choice for the character (which I've already stated about fifty times on this site). Just please let it be anyone but her.

@SNaG All the comments calling her a garbage VA, or her voice for Mia "awful" etc. are opinions as well. But are you going to mention that? I bet you don't share the same enthusiasm for calling them out, do you?

@Soul-dragon "Ninety-year old woman" is once again, QUITE an exaggeration there.

@Soul-dragon Well, Micaiah is branded from the Heron race. I definitely heard in Radiant Dawn mentions that Branded Characters usually age slower than Beorc Characters. Besides that we definitely don't know how long Micaiah gotten separated from Begion Empire since we definitely saw the flashback scene of her and Sothe as a kid in the Path of Radiance timeline that Micaiah is still looks the same in the Radiant Dawn timeline.

@King Marth 64 But should her voice age as well? I don't think so. Nowi was about thousands of years old around the time of Awakening and she sounded like a child. There's no reason that Micaiah needs to sound so old and out of breath.

@HylianBelmont It still doesn't change the fact that she sounded to old and raspy. And you didn't answer my question about what made her so perfect. Granted I forgot to tag you, but I still need an answer.

@HylianBelmont When did anyone call her a bad VA? All that I said was that I didn't like her Mia and Micaiah and I did give her some praise for her voices for the Koopalings. Theres a difference.

@Soul-dragon But, her voice when I heard Micaiah sounded alot teenager than an old woman in Part 1. I think the Endgame Movie clip where Yune is in Micaiah's body does sound mature when I recall, but I might need to rewatch it later since I haven't played that game in years after I beaten Radiant Dawn.

@Soul-dragon Her quiet, whispery voice matches the character quite well really. It wasn't executed "flawlessly" mind you. But none of the voices in that game were however.

@King Marth 64 I disagree. She sounded nothing like teenager in the beginning (as a teenager myself I can confirm this). Let's agree to disagree.

@Why Hello There I completely disagree really. She does sound more age appropriate here to me, and her delivery is a lot better as well I'd say.

"I really hope something is done to change Mia's voice in FE" I don't see why they would honestly... if anything this is a good sign that she is coming back for Micaiah as well.

@Why Hello There
Yeah, I didn't really like most of Lani's Fire Emblem roles (Ithought Rolf was pretty good though), but I'm pretty happy to see her make it into the game regardless.

@Why Hello There I definitley agree that it wasn't a good choice. Both her Micaiah and her Mia were total misfires and Mia doesn't sound any better here. Granted I like her and all (how she voices Morton is beyond me) but it's not a good choice from a casting point of view. Now if you excuse me I'm going to go and pray that she doesn't return as Micaiah.

@Soul-dragon Personally I think Mick's voice as Inigo is better than his voice for Laslow, the latter has some weird faux deep quality that makes me think he's trying to, in part, imitate Liam. Inigo lacks that and it sounds natural, even if I prefer Liam.

@NCZ Has he been in any other Fire Emblem games? Or is this his first one?

@Shaun Ince This appears to be his first one.

@NCZ Yeah, both his English and Japanese voices couldn't be more perfect even if you tried. The same can be said with every character in this banner. Although the casting choice for Tailtu, was the most surprising. I never would've expected Heather Hogan of all people to show up in this game.

@Soul-dragon

Now we wait for next week to see who voices Ayra and Arvis.

@MHUltimate2013DW It's Brina Palencina and Xander Mobus. I honestly couldn't be more pleased.

@Soul-dragon

If Sigurd is part of this banner, then they also better bring his wife, best friend, and sister with him as well.

Arvis was also rumored to be a Grand Hero Battle.

@Soul-dragon Other Genealogy Gen 1 characters I like to see are Finn, Lex, Ayra, Tailtiu, and Briggid.

@doodlebugfour

Finn will more likely be in a Thracia 776 banner with Leif.

@PeachesDaisy Really? My top choices for a Halloween Banner would be Eirika, Alm, Julia and Hector (I'm already coming up with potential costumes and stats). However, I don't care just as long as we don't get anymore Awakening and Fates characters!

@Soul-dragon That's it...just blow off my idea like its nothing and give your idea...4 characters we already have...great! Your a genius! We don't want any Fates or Awakening characters...but give us a bunch of characters we don't have! YEAH!

But I digress. Considering there was a witch class in Fates I'd expect to see someone from Fates, or maybe Tharja (or maybe Rhjat?)

But I'd rather NOT see another Lucina, or another Camilla. But yeah, anyone you mentioned wouldn't bother me, wouldn't make me happy...

@PeachesDaisy I disagree on getting someone from Fates. Yes it is likely, but both Fates and Awakening have had all of the love and crossovers in the world and I think I speak for everyone when I say that I'm honestly sick of it. I'd really like to see a costume banner that mainly focuses on the older games instead of the new ones, as well as another Tokyo Mirage Sessions that focuses on the older games.
As for the characters I mentioned they would make a lot of people happy (even if it doesn't please you). Especially Hector. Everyone seems to love the Hectorcopter, heck someone even suggested putting him in Mario Kart! As for Alm, I know a lot of people enjoy him (he's one of the most asked about characters when it comes to Warriors) and who doesn't? He's extremely dorky and he feels a bit more human than the other lords. And Eirika? She definitely has her fans (I know because I'm one of them) and she needs a bit more attention (still mad she wasn't in the bride DLC. I mean really? She's the mascot for the class! I would've disliked the banner a lot less if she was in it instead of Cordelia or Charlotte). But I definitely agree on Camilla and Lucina.

@Soul-dragon Eh. If I'm being honest, I am a Fire Emblem veteran ™ and I totally understand why those two games (Awakening and Conquest) get the most love in that regard.

Though yeah, I wouldn't say Fates "in general" gets all the love because Hoshido always gets shafted in those event things (Hell, it's basically CQ Corrin who only makes an appearance in the story mode of Warriors as well)

Also... I'm not too big on Alm personally, but he would've been much better than Celica. Won't lie there.

@HylianBelmont Yeah, Hoshiado doesn't get that much love compared to Nohr. Kind of sad considering that I enjoy the Hoshiadian siblings a ton. And Alm is definitely better than Celica. I do like her, but she was extremely dumb in the third and final act. Heck, in a translated support conversation from Warriors Xander tells her off for being dumb. XANDER. That's a huge sign that you need to be smarter.

@Soul-dragon I mean Xander, overall, despite having some genuine character flaws (which also make him more enjoyable as a character to me) IS a fairly intelligent, wise older brother figure. So it's hardly surprising IMO.

(On a side note: the "Story!Xander and Support!Xander are two completely different characters" is a goofball mentality)

@HylianBelmont I'm sorry but the Halloween Banner we did get was pretty lazy, not just in it's character choices but in it's design. The whole thing just seemed like it was put together last minute and all of the characters we got made no since for a Halloween banner (expect for Henry). And even you have to admit that the amount of love Fates and Awakening are getting is ridiculous. I only liked the dancer banner because it added some units not in the game, but the Halloween banner added nothing new. I mean, they could've added say Nah or Dwyer but no they had to be lazy.

@PeachesDaisy
I don't see why you should get so defensive over contrary opinions. Just simply disagree (maybe state why you disagree), and don't get upset over it. It's not hard.

@Nightmare Crusher

While he's not released to players yet he has voice clips on the wiki since they were datamined. He sounds pretty good IMO.

@SNaG Just took a listen. Not bad at all.

@Nightmare Crusher Yeah, he's doing a fantastic job. It's kind of cool how many VAs got to play against type in this game. For example, I would've never thought of Amanda Celine Miller for Elincia, and honestly? After hearing some of her performance (when I summoned the character first try) and I think I'm warming up to it. Also Bryce Papenbrook was an odd choice for Raven (in the beginning), but I honestly ended up really liking his performance! Here's to hoping, we get more odd choices that work well!

@Soul-dragon Like Lucien Dodge voicing a guy with a snobbish British accent? :P

@SNaG TBH I kind of wish that Amanda Miller and Julie Anne Taylor had swapped roles. It would've been a bit more fitting, since Elincia needed something a bit more regal and Amanda sounded rough on the edges, which would've worked better on someone like Lucia.
Now then. Who will voice the Black Knight? He's uncredited on the wiki, meaning the identity of his VA is a mystery. I'm hoping for Chris Telifera honestly.

@Soul-dragon

I could be wrong, but since the new characters have not been updated into the game yet it cannot be datamined. The wiki lists Junji Majima since he was the voice in PoR (I believe) but the lack of an English voice right now on the wiki doesn't mean there isn't one uncredited a la Laura Bailey. We'll see tomorrow.

@SNaG Yeah let's hope for that. However, Imari Williams credit for Valder was datamined, so I see no reason his shouldn't. Oh well. We'll see what happens tomorrow.

@SNaG Wasn't Nephenee mentioned to have a fairly strong accent in Path of Radiance though?

@Soul-dragon

Ah, maybe I didn't make it clear. Imari was datamined after the game updated to include Valter (always can tell if characters have been added in by the Catalogue) so that's where he was datamined. Most likely, the PoR update will hit tonight and then the datamine will reflect who his VA is. Can't datamine non-existent data, after all.

@Soul-dragon

Well, Robert Clotworthy is the last name I'd expect. Interested in his take.

@Soul-dragon

Way too premature in both instances, especially Ike. Big difference between having an understudy when the main actor is unavailable, and permanently recasting someone because you want to go in a new direction.

@NCZ Was it confirmed that Chun is a temporary replacement for Adkins?

@Soul-dragon I wouldn't say permanently, but definitely for the time being. Also, Lyn suddenly went uncredited. Recast or personal decision?

@technickal

Still Wendee.

@Soul-dragon

I mean it's not confirmed to be permanent? Jumping the gun a bit here. A single game out of all the times Ike has appeared isn't enough to say anything is permanent when the simpler conclusion is Greg Chun was already available and it would have been too difficult/time-consuming/etc. to outsource to Bad Animals for just a few lines. If it happens again in a bigger appearance maybe there'd be something to it.

@NCZ Well...I found this. https://comedyngaming.com/news/interview-greg-chun-fire-emblems-new-ike It appears as if the previous VA wasn't mentioned even once and it's being treated like it's permanent. But then again, I guess it's not smart to jump to conclusions.

@Soul-dragon

If I'm reading it right my takeaway is he was offered Ephraim and Eldigan based on his audition and cast as Lukas and Ike directly. It doesn't sound like he knew there was a previous VA for Ike, but there are many instances of VAs voicing characters and not being informed they aren't the first to play that part. It's also not the whole story since Nintendo's side as to why they made this casting decision isn't there. When even as recently as Fates and Codename Steam Nintendo went to the trouble of outsourcing to Bad Animals to get Jason Adkins back, it's too early to look at one game with fewer lines than both of those and think anything is permanent.

@Soul-dragon

Recording voices for stuff like this is done several months in advance fwiw, so chances are Laura probably still wasn't available at the time of these events' recordings depending on when these were recorded. There's a good chance all of the Heroes' DLC events were recorded within the time frame that Laura was working on Uncharted: The Lost Legacy and a bunch of other large scale projects so it's possible that she still wasn't available at the time. Alexis is probably serving as more of a long-term substitute whenever they can't get ahold of Laura due to availability reasons. LB is generally pretty busy so which VA will play Lucina in hypothetical future appearances will probably depend on whether getting Laura is possible within the time period. She's been scheduled out of multiple other dubs before, so it's not like it's Nintendo's own decision here. They may try to get her back for a hypothetical future appearance if they can get her back. Plus based on Twitter and some of the stuff Laura has said before, she seems to really value her role as Lucina so she'd probably be willing to reprise the role if she could (she's also said many times that she has no problem with the prospect of returning for older roles as long as scheduling allows her to commit to it).

@Mr. Kite Also Kazu Inoue that voiced Camus on Archanea Saga.

@RykoMD
You mean that Japanese exclusive setallaview thing for the Super Nintendo?

@Mr. Kite

Yep, BS Fire Emblem. Pretty obscure. I think that's one of the few Satellaview games that still gets acknowledged. Inoue being brought back for this and Echoes and its maps being remade in New Mystery of the Emblem.

@Soul-dragon

Other Suggestions:

Edward (Radiant Dawn) - Vic Mignogna
Ares (Genealogy) - Orion Acaba
Boyd (Path of Radiance) - Edward Bosco
Ayra (Genealogy) - Carrie Keranen
Jamke (Genealogy) - Grant George
Quan (Genealogy) - Ben Pronsky
Sue (Binding Blade) - Janice Kawaye
Shinon (Path of Radiance) - Doug Erholtz
Ewan (Sacred Stones) - Lucien Dodge
Marisa (Sacred Stones) - Cristina Vee
Asbel (Thracia 776) - Erik Kimerer
Ilyana (Path of Radiance) - Faye Mata
Fee (Genealogy) - Marieve Herington
Ced (Thracia 776) - Chris Hackney
Sara (Thracia 776) - Christine M. Cabanos
Canas (Blazing Blade) - Ezra Weisz
Nanna (Thracia 776) - Michelle Ruff
Cormag (Sacred Stones) - Cam Clarke
Heath (Blazing Blade) - Marc Diraison
Geese (Binding Blade) - Taliesin Jaffe

@Soul-dragon Considering they gotten some Texan VAs like Monica Rial, Ian Sinclair, and even Sentai/ADV Alumi Chris Patton, I wonder if they can also get some other Texan VAs involved as well.

I can totally imagine Chris Sabat for example as either Dieck from Binding Blade or Gerik from Sacred Stones.

@doodlebugfour I could definitley see that. I doubt it would happen for something as small as Heroes, but then again these are just fan castings. I highly doubt any of them will happen, so guess I can dream a bit!

@Soul-dragon More dreamcasting ideas:

Lex (Genealogy) - Lex Lang (Pulling a Danza)
Gonzales (Binding Blade) - Chris Sabat channeling Kuwabara
Rutger (BB) - unlikely due to union, but Crispin Freeman
Erk (Blazing Sword) - Steve Staley
Rath (Blazing Sword) - Unlikely due to union, but Steve Blum, tho I bet they would just get Kaiji Tang again for Rath.
Louise (Blazing Sword) - Bridget Hoffman
Legault (BS) - DC Douglas
Dorcas (BS) - Brandon Potter
Geitz (BS) - Robert McCollum
Karla (BS) - Dorothy Fahn
Vaida (BS) - Laura Post
Renault (BS) - Kirk Thornton
Gilliam (Sacred Stones) - Also Unlikely Steve Blum
Garcia (SS) - Richard Epcar most likely, if only Bob was still with us
Ross (SS) - Bryce Papenbrook
Tethys (SS) - Either Colleen Clickenbeard, Stephanie Young, or Monica Rial doing her husky voice.
Natasha (SS) - Bridget Hoffman
Joshua (SS) - Patrick Seitz
Lute (SS) - Michelle Ruff
Artur (SS) - Johnny Yong Bosch
Colm (SS) - Doug Erholtz
Knoll (SS) - John Burgmier

@doodlebugfour Also forgot J Michael Tatum as also a possible candidate for Joshua. As well as Mary Elizabeth Mcglynn or maybe Clarine Harp for Vaida, along with SS's Myrrh to be dreamcasted with Sandy Fox.

@doodlebugfour Good ideas. I think I might suggest some more as well, just because several of the characters I've mentioned have gotten casted, (note, this is going to be quite diffrent from yours)
Lyon (SS)- Kyle Mccarley (for reasons involving Nier)
Lucia (POR)- Brina Palencina
Finn (GOTHW)- Sean Schummel
Lute (SS)- Faye Mata (but Michelle Ruff is a nice headcanon voice as well)
Mareeta (GOTHW)- Morgan Berry (not going to happen, but it would be super cool to see)
Sothe (RD)- Erik Krimer
Joshua (SS)- Derek Stephen Prince (Yes, I am well aware that is an odd one, but if Elincia can have a rough voice, who says that Joshua's voice cant be somewhat soft? But J Michael Tatum would be a good fit as well)
Lyre (RD)- Christine Marie Cabanos
Jake (several games)- Patrick Setiz
Ethlyn (GOTHW)- Dorothy Fahn
Venessa (SS)- Natalie Hoover
Ishtar (GOTHW)- Kira Buckland
Marisa (SS)- Alexis Tipton
Lewyn (GOTHW)- Chris Teliafera
Karla (BB)- Caitilin Glass
I wonder if I should create a forum for Fire Emblem dream casts. It could be interesting, but then again I only make fancastings so I can learn more about the older characters.

@Soul-dragon

I want Chris Niosi to voice someone in the series maybe Arion from Genealogy of the Holy War or Zihark from the Tellius Games.

@Soul-dragon That sounds like a nice Idea.

Also
Franz (SS) - Aaron Dismuke (Alphonse)
Forde (SS) - Vic Mignogna (Edward)
Kyle (SS) - Unlikely but Steve Blum channeling Spike Spiegal lol
Neimi (SS) - Stephanie Sheh channeling Usagi
Syrene (SS) - Megan Hollingshead
L'Arachel (SS) - Lauren Lauda channeling Leia Rolando as the champion of justice lol
Ranulf (Radiant Duology) - Max Mittleman
Patty (Genealogy Gen 2) - unlikely, but Hilary Haag
Reyson (Radiant) - Derek Stephan Prince
Tibarn (Radiant) - Jamieson Price
Pelleas (Radiant) - Orion Acaba since he looks like Jonathon from SMT4
Leanne (Radiant) - Stephanie Sheh channeling Orihime
Laura (Radiant) - Unlikely, but Laura Bailey channeling Luna from VLR (Otherwise Alexis Tipton it)
Meg (Radiant) - Sandy Fox or Rebecca Forstadt
Heather (Radiant) - Julie Ann Taylor or Michelle Ruff
Niime (Binding Blade) - Barbara Goodson
Hugh (BB) - Xander Mobus
Larum (BB) -Philece Sampler
Etzel (Archanea) - Derek Stephen Prince
Malice (Archanea) - Laura Post

@doodlebugfour Nice suggestions, however I have always imagined that Erica Lindbeck would voice L'Archeal by channeling Magilou. Anywise, I might as well just make the forum out of complete and utter boredom.

@Soul-dragon What about something like this?:

Jake (Archanean games) - Grant George
Elice (Archanea games) - Brina Palencia
Leif (Judgral games) - Josh Grelle or Sean Schemmel
Nanna (Judgral games) - Cristina Vee (similar to like how Cordelia & Severa + Leo & Forrest shares the same voice) or Christine Marie Cabanos
Finn (Judgral games) - David Stanbra
Mareeta (Thracia 776) - Marcella Lentz Pope

Antenna (Judgral games) - Karen Strassman
Arion (Judgral games) - Chris Cason
Julius (Judgral games) - Robbie Daymond (using his Chrollo Lucilfer voice from Hunter X Hunter)
Ishtar (Judgral games) - Erica Lindbeck
Manfroy (Judgral games) - Chris Sabat
Travant (Genealogy of the Holy War) - Patrick Seitz
Raydrik (Thracia 776) - Kyle Hebert
Kempf (Thracia 776) - Doug Erholtz
Marcus (Elibe games) - Chris Sabat
Wolt (The Binding Blade) - Sean Schemmel
Lugh (The Binding Blade) - Chris Patton
Chad (The Binding Blade) - Antony Del Rio
Bors (The Binding Blade) - Chris Hackney
Murdock (Elibe games) - Matthew Mercer, I do like to see if Matthew Mercer voice one of the villains.
Idunn (The Binding Blade) - Christine Marie Cabanos (since she did voiced one of the villains before)
Linus (The Blazing Blade) - David Stanbra
Nergal (The Blazing Blade) - Chris Sabat
Marisa (The Sacred Stones) - Erica Mendez
Ewan (The Sacred Stones) - Antony Del Rio
Boyd (Tellius games) - Edward Bosco
Rolf (Tellius games) - Christine Marie Cabanos
Jill (Tellius games) - Kira Buckland
Lucia (Tellius games) - Erica Mendez
Geoffrey (Tellius games) - Josh Grelle or Doug Erholtz
Ashnard (Path of Radiance) - Sean Schemmel or Patrick Seitz
Petrine (Path of Radiance) - Brina Palencia or Erica Lindbeck

@Soul-dragon

Tellius:
Danved/Devdan - Beau Billingsea
Ilyana - Cassandra Lee
Calill - Tara Jayne Sands
Largo - Jamieson Price

Genealogy:
Briggid - Misty Lee
Shannan - Unlikely, but Crispin Freeman
Larcei - Brina Palencia (Like Coredelia/Severa)
Tine - Heather Hogan (See Larcei)

Thracia 776:
Eyvel - Misty Lee
Dagdar - Kyle Hebert
Marty - Kaiji Tang
Safy - Eden Riegal
Shiva - Doug Erholtz
Mareeta - Erica Mendez
Salem - Keith Silverstein channeling Hisoka
Sara - Sandy Fox
Amalda - Unlikely, but Meredith McCoy for looking like a silver haired Android 18

@doodlebugfour @King Marth 64 It's done.http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/forums/showthread.php?p=133346#post133346

@Soul-dragon

Yeah, took a while but I'm glad more are showing up. I hope Joshua and Lady L'Arachel are next.

@NCZ Come to think of it, I would like to see both of them in the next banner (and plz let them be voiced by Patrick Setiz and Erica Lindbeck) but it does seem a bit unlikely that another Scared Stones banner would come out right after this one. That being said we need characters from Radient Dawn and Genaogly to appear next!

@Soul-dragon

Yeah, Sigurd and Leif are the only Lords who are still MIA; I was really surprised at how long they've gone without showing up. Tons of characters from POR and RD they could put in as well.

@NCZ Yet they choose to put in a bunch of brides and characters in swimsuits instead.

@Soul-dragon

Right? Tell ME about it.

@NCZ

What about Micaiah?

@MHUltimate2013DW

She's not technically a Lord, is she? She's only really the protagonist in RD for the beginning of the game.

But yeah, I was thinking if they wanted to add more people from RD, her and Sothe should be the obvious first picks.

@Soul-dragon I mean. Do what you gotta do right?

@NCZ Yeah it's really dumb. I get that their trying to appeal to the more...interesting side of the fanbase, but it is a bit annoying that we got three Lucinas and three Xanders before getting one Sigurd or Micaiah

@Shaun Ince

I hope Kris Zimmerman is the one doing FE Switch. Since Cup of Tea got to do this, Echoes, and presumably Warriors, I think the timing seems right for the pendulum to swing back to her side of the court.

@NCZ
I haven't seen her direct any games since Fates, so it'd be nice to see her back for Switch. If Nintendo hands the game over to Formosa we could also see James Mortellaro in the directors seat.

I'm just worried that the game could be affected by the strike if it's done at Formosa.

@BlueHeracross

If they go non-union again there shouldn't be an issue, I don't think. If they wanted to unionize it and go with Formosa that's where trouble would start to set in.

Jamie Mortellaro... Hmm. Part of it was probably also on the writing (since the voiced dialogue in general was a bit flat) and that they had most of the actors affect English-ish accents, but I felt like at the end of the day BOTW's English dub was passable for the most part. I was hopeful for it and it got the job done, it just didn't blow me away as much as some other things. Of course like I said, there's probably a variety of factors that led to that. But that's true, Formosa does have a few directors they could end up using if Zimmerman is working on something else. I wonder what she has up her sleeve, now that you mention it.

@NCZ I would love to see Zimmerman return (especially since I imagine FE Switch will feature extensive voice acting) but I'm a bit concerned that the mixed reaction to various aspects of Fates' localization might keep Nintendo from enlisting the team tied to that game. It'd be a shame if that ended up being the case. While a couple of localization choices irritated me (Jakob's "mean cup of joe" in his C support with Kana, Saizo ending a sentence in the Mitama paralogue with ",man!", and someone already brought up the unnecessary Saizo Beruka support change), the quality of the voice over was by and large really strong,. However, I'm still admittedly a bit cynical they'll go back to that studio.

@ScottMyers I mean, they did still have Treehouse do Heroes (Which is on-going) and I assume are the ones doing Warriors as well. But yeah I'd like to see her return for FE Switch as well.

Funny thing, this is kinda unrelated but I also remember finding Edgeworth ending one of his sentences with "man!" a bit odd as well back in the day haha.

@HylianBelmont That's fair. I just feel like since some of the complaints crept into the voice production as well, it might influence Nintendo's decision making on that matter. Although it's entirely possible that Nintendo will look at the bottom line (extremely well-received by critics, high sales-number, an overall positive reaction from players), and not let that influence their decision making. It's the uncertain nature of it that makes me cautious.

@ScottMyers Most people who didn't judge the game's VO on one or two lines of dialogue seemed to enjoy the game's voice work overall as well I believe. But we'll just have to wait and see what happens I suppose.

@Soul-dragon

I have a feeling all the Echoes characters were recorded around the same time as Echoes itself.

@NCZ

Hmm, so you think is this game in general recorded waaaay in advance? Cause Palla and Camus (who were in at launch) have different VAs in Echoes. I guess it makes sense if they recorded all the extra Echoes characters when they recorded Echoes though.

@SNaG

That's a funny subject. I actually think there were a few recording sessions for the game, and you can basically try and guesstimate when stuff would have been recorded just by examining patterns in DLC casting choices, and even looking at the two other FE games for this year.

First -

BASE GAME + BLAZING SHADOWS (Binding Blade characters Karel through Ninian):

This one is simple enough. The base game would have been recorded in mid-2016. Sometime around fall is when Sarah Blandy listed a Nintendo game on her resume, so a bit before makes sense logistically, considering the release schedule. Note also that FE Heroes was supposed to release before the end of last year, but got bumped back to make room for Super Mario Run (which Nintendo thought would be a better mainstream followup to Pokemon Go). So sometime around summer 2016, ending around September to record would make sense.

I believe that the Blazing Shadows characters were recorded at the same time. You'll note that the Echoes characters, and some of the other post-launch people like the various Genealogy/Thracia characters are all voiced by new VAs who weren't in the base game. However, the Binding Blade six are all voiced by people who already were in the base game, and for most of them rounds out their roles to a full 3.

Following up on that point, here are all the recording sessions that I believe would have happened post-launch.

ECHOES OF MYSTERY (New Mystery of the Emblem) + FAMILY BONDS and SIBLING BONDS (Sacred Stones, Genealogy/Thracia, Sanaki)

This one is clear-cut. Kira Buckland, Greg Chun, Christian La Monte, Edward Bosco, Cristina Vee, Cassandra Lee, Erin Fitzgerald, and Chris Smith exclusively voice characters from these packs. There is no overlap between this group of VAs and any other set (EXCEPT Greg Chun) or the base game. Clarisse and Legion might've been recorded around the same time.


The rest gets trickier, but they all clearly occurred after the base game.

Spring/Summer/Bride Festivals + WORLD OF RADIANCE + ECHOES CHARACTERS

This is where I think more overlap started taking place. This session I definitely think happened in the same timeframe as Warriors, and there *may* have been some overlap with Echoes itself (DEFINITELY its Heroes characters). Note that both the Heroes events and Warriors involve previous characters plus their VAs coming back. Between these events and Warriors, we have Matt Mercer, David Stanbra, Kyle Hebert come back, and Alexis Tipton take over as Lucina. Since the overall casting, and which VAs reprised roles for both games is similar, I think they might have been done around the same time. Also note that Brianna voicing Charlotte here gives her four characters, one more than she originally would have been cast in for the base game, so that plus Laura losing Lucina shows that this would have all been done after Heroes itself.

Finally we have the Radiant characters. I believe this must have been around the same time too. Note Misty Lee pops up there and in the Spring Festival. Also note the presence of Greg Chun and Kyle McCarley. This creates overlap with the additions of Alm and Lukas to Heroes and may suggest that Echoes (or at least its characters in Heroes) were done around the same time. Since Echoes' characters are cast identically between the game itself and Heroes, and the circumstantial link with the Radiant people, it seems like it could be possible, but I can't prove it. It would make sense if it was done around the same time as Warriors since that ties things up nicely, but I'm not 100% sure if that's where it fits. It's also entirely possible they just had the Echoes cast members handy because they were working on another Cup of Tea game around the same time. There's so much overlap between Cup of Tea game casts that it would make sense as well.

The one oddity between Echoes and Heroes is that Keith Silverstein is credited under a pseudonym in the former name and not the latter.

tl;dr For FE Heroes itself, there were at least three major sessions.

1. Base game + Blazing Shadows

2. Family Bonds + Sibling Bonds + Echoes of Mystery

3. Spring/Summer/Bride events + World of Radiance + (possibly) Echoes characters

You can try to work Warriors and Echoes themselves into this schedule but that's where it gets harder to figure out. We'll have to see once Warriors is out and has a cast list of its own. And of course, Heroes will keep getting new characters added which can shed further light on things.

Anyway, that's it laid out to the best of my ability. I'm just a layman observing the trends and patterns here and don't have any sort of inside knowledge so this is all just an estimate.

@NCZ

Dang, my mundane question generated such an excellent answer, thanks! Yeah, it's theory but it's definitely a good theory based on some solid evidence. Makes sense for a VA to record for multiple characters if possible too.

Actually, I remember Kira Buckland tweeting how her other character was out when the New Mystery expansion was released, which is weird wording unless she knew in advance, so that lines up with your theory about Echoes of Mystery and Family Bonds being released at the same time.

Sarah Williams seems to be a kind of outlier in this, but who knows, maybe she recorded Mist along with Nier? Just further speculation haha.

@SNaG Tara Jayne as (FE8) Selena would be pretty cool I'd say!

@SNaG Definitely! Keith would do an amazing job as Alvis, while I'm hoping Christine (or Xanthe (Huygn)) will be the voice of Micaiah (still don't know why she isn't in Heroes yet.)

@Soul-dragon

I can see Xanthe as Myrrh,
cause we desperately need a new green dragon unit.

@Soul-dragon

I haven't played any Genealogy, so I can't comment on that unfortunately, but I'm sure Keith would do good in whatever he was cast. I was thinking he would be a good Haar from FE9/10, personally.

@MHUltimate2013DW I can see that now that I think about it... And you're right about needing more green dragon units (and more Scared Stones characters in general)

@SNaG Alvis is basically the evil emperor who burned Sigurd (and started the whole meme) and married his own sister. I think Keith's Hawkmoth voice would be prefect for him, but he'd be a perfect Haar as well!

@RykoMD Possibly. Although I'd imagine it'll more than likely be Alexis Tipton again.

@HylianBelmont You were right. "Marth" was indeed played by Alexis Tipton.

@Soul-dragon

That's not entirely accurate. Warriors' roster will primarily focus on those games, that is true. But

A - That does not mean it will solely feature them
B - It does not rule out DLC down the road (e.g. Hyrule Warriors only drew from three games before its DLC)
C - They said the reason they don't want to use every main protagonist is because it would lead to too many sword users. You have this point conflated with the other here.

All that said I think it's a silly decision. I wasn't a fan of TMS limiting itself to SD and Awakening either. But you have some wires crossed here.

@Soul-dragon And may the Mother bless them for it tbh.

@Soul-dragon

Ugh.

@NCZ Are you not a big fan of the bride DLC either?

@HylianBelmont Eh. I didn't get my three waifus (Eirika, Julia and Wrys)

@Soul-dragon

Yeah, I'm not a fan of pandery stuff.

@Soul-dragon I can understand that, I didn't get my Bride M!Corrin either...

@NCZ

Literally a few days ago I was trying to explain to my friends how FE is a fun tactical RPG and not solely a dating sim. This event isn't helping my argument.

@HylianBelmont I have regular M!Corrin so I don't mind.

@SNaG We all do sometimes.

@SNaG I mean, I suppose it's become both over the years haha.

@Soul-dragon Yep, and he's most certainly a rather beautiful man!

@NCZ I saw someone on Twitter speculate that if they do something similar with Tiki (have a younger and older version of the same character) that Jason Adkins could potentially come back for that version of the Ike.

But to be honest... I don't know if they're really THAT different enough to justify that? Regardless, it's definitely weird not seeing him voice the character honestly:(

@HylianBelmont

Doubtful. Especially since Tiki's age difference is 1000 years and Ike is 3.

Greg Chun sounds good but it's a dang shame Jason couldn't reprise.

@SNaG Yeah admittedly I don't think the difference is enough to justify it either, but yeah Greg does a good enough job as well I think.

@SNaG And Nintendo's released the clip advertising them! Looks like people's early predictions of Alm and Lukas were correct! Kudos! From the little I know about Clair, Alexis Tipton seems like a solid choice. I personally wasn't fond of Connor's acting and voice in Tales of Beseria, but her voice and acting in this clip for Faye is solid. Looking forward to seeing more of the Gaiden/SOV characters as we get closer to release (I'm running with the assumption that the cast here will be the same actors who play them as Echoes, but I see little reason to doubt this and future updates featuring Echoes characters would have different actors).

@ScottMyers

All those cast members are solid. Personally I did like Amber in Berseria since Laphi grew a lot and her performance reflected that, but Faye is a very different character so I'm looking forward to her performance there.

Good thing I saved 20 orbs...

@ScottMyers @SNaG I'm really glad that Alexis Tipton is getting to voice another character myself. I haven't heard too much of her work (Aside from Kid Trunks and Easter!Lucina) but I loved both of those voices, and her Clair is lovely as well!

@HylianBelmont

I heard Alexis in a bunch of Funi dubs back in the day when I watched everything dubbed, she was always great. Glad she's getting a bunch of LA game work these days.

@HylianBelmont Except in the Southern Hemisphere. In which case, Winter is coming. ;p

@MilanTheVillain01 Oh...

Well just imagine Xander saying "Winter is here~!" in a cheery voice instead.

@HylianBelmont More like "Autumn is falling!~"
*insert fanservice filter here*

@Girlygeek43

The conflict was probably Uncharted: Lost Legacy. She's still working on it and it's a mocap + VO role.

@NCZ So does it mean Laura likely was still her for the normal Lucina, it's just that Alexis does her special voice clips for the Easter version?

@PsychBoy19

Exactly, as noted in the description above. it was still her in the base game albeit uncredited. They recorded the DLC stuff afterwards and she couldn't come back for that.

@NCZ At least she's still regular Lucina and another character.

@Nightmare Crusher I have to say that I feel the same way honestly. I think someone like David Stanbra would have worked a lot better tbh.

@Nightmare Crusher

Yeah, I like Bryce a lot but pushing him into too low or gruff a register makes the character sound like a young'n putting up airs IMO... Which isn't what Raven or Karel are.

@SNaG I actually think he's better as Raven in comparison. But even there you can still tell he's forcing the voice to come out a bit. Admittedly I agree with ScottMyers that Jason Griffith (or at least someone closer to his range) would've been a lot better IMHO.

@HylianBelmont

Jason Griffith would've been a great choice as Raven, yeah. He's become very good at doing the gruff voice without forcing it. His later Shadow the Hedgehog is proof of that.

@SNaG I actually still have a lot of New York VAs as my headcanon voices for the older Fire Emblem characters honestly. but yeah XD.

@HylianBelmont I haven't heard too much of his Karel, but I for one, love that Bryce is using his lower register more.

@MilanTheVillain01 I appreciate the fact he's getting to use his lower-resgister as well! I just think Karel wasn't the wrong character for it IMO

@Nightmare Crusher Personally, I'm just happy to see more casting directors try to take him away from his usual typecast.

@LeDom Yeah, me too. Bryce has range, it's just that no-one really takes advantage of it.

@Junniebgoode

Yeah, it's funny because by no means am I trying to knock Yuri here, but hearing Marth speak English just sounds weird to me. It'd be like if they dubbed Captain Falcon. Midorikawa is just enshrined in my brain as *the* Marth in the same way Martinet is to Mario, Ohmoto is to Kirby and Ness, Ohtani is to Pikachu, and so on.

@NCZ I've actually gotten used to Marth but Roy is still a bit odd for me personally haha

@HylianBelmont That's probably because Marth is really similar to the original (maybe a tad friendlier), whereas Roy is a lot deeper.

@NCZ Well, Falcon speaks English in all versions of those games IIRC, as does Ness. Pikachu doesnt really say anything in an actual language, & Mario does hacve Japanese voices on occasion. Whereas Marth has always spoken actual Japanese dialogue in all the English localized versions of the games.

@huzaifa_ahmed How does that contradict what I said. I'm clearly talking about the actors themselves.

@huzaifa_ahmed Probably a combination of that, and that Heroes is the first time he's had voiced dialogue in english haha.

@NCZ Mm, in the first case the sticking point is language, whereas the latter are all different scenarios whose main connection is their longevity & near-ubiquity in those roles, if that makes sense?

@HylianBelmont Oh yeah, dude, it's not bad or anything, it's something that grows on us over incarnations & time with the new stories told. Ray is definitely good, although one could argue he's been getting a *lot* of the main leads in recent dubs.

@Fulgore2005

I'd imagine it will be. Hyrule Warriors wasn't dubbed since they didn't want to break Zelda's then-tradition of not having full VO (beyond the narrator). FE Warriors doesn't have that restriction, plus every main game in the series has been dubbed.

@NCZ One never knows considering that the Warriors titles are a series handled by Koei (now known as Tecmo Koei because they partner with Tecmo) and those games always have a Japanese Voice over before they decide to do it overseas and many of the ''Dynasty'' games have been JP exclusives in the recent years. In the case of FE however, it should not be a problem though because the series is originally by Nintendo + the fact that there's a considerable consistency in the English cast , at least for the most ''recognized'' characters such as Chrom , Lucina etc.

@Swiftie Muggle

Right, the fact that it's Nintendo backing this plus a well-known IP means there's probably more budget to spare for that sort of thing, and potential returns to justify it. Unfortunately the self-published Warriors games and the anime licensed ones can't always have the same thing said about that, but the ones attached to well-known games (e.g. Dragon Quest) are a different story. Hyrule Warriors also sold very well so I'm sure at the end of the day FE specifically will be fine.

@Torak *insert the TV Trope, "Loads & Loads of Characters" here*

@King Marth 64 *Olwen and in Heroes yet

@King Marth 64

"they don't have Yarne and Emmeryn in Heroes."

Not *yet*...

@NCZ I already did correct myself and I do wish we have an edit button for the comments.

And also, it's surprise to see Edward Bosco as Klein since the only show that I watched that have his role was Hammerhead from One-Punch Man.

@MHUltimate2013DW also Kira Buckland and Cassandra Lee Morris finally make their debut in the series!

@Justin A. Maxwell

Probably. But Laura has always flip-flopped on whether or not she's credited on non-union things. With FE for example she was uncredited in Awakening, credited in SSB4 and Fates, and now back to uncredited here.

@NCZ I'm guessing it's a similar deal with Travis?
Uncredited in Awakening, yet credited here just fine.

@Webmike1 They'll be interesting to see honestly. Especially considering that some of the Fates siblings that had to be recasted have some pretty good replacements! (like Takumi and Camilla in particular) although I'll more than likely still vote for the originals myself. As they obviously had more to work with haha.

@Webmike1 I think most of the recasts are really good. Misty Lee and Mike Sinterniklaas do their roles extremely well.

However, there is a dud or two. Cindy Robinson as Peri is absolutely terrible.

@Sentinel07 After listening to both Hinoka and Peri's voice clips in Heroes. I agree that, in comparison to the others, they're probably the weakest out of the replacement voices sadly. But I don't think they're outright terrible at the same time though.

@HylianBelmont I actually like Cindy's Hinoka voice quite a bit. It feels fitting.

But Peri....she couldn't have made that voice more squeaky if she tried.

@Sentinel07 I mean. I suppose she's alright as Hinoka. But I definitely like her more as Aversa and Libra though.

@Sentinel07 issue is Elizabeth Daily has such an iconic voice i'd imagine it's hard for anyone to replicate it.

@Sentinel07 @HylianBelmont I haven't heard much of her Hinoka, but Cindy Robinson is sooo good as Peri! Squeaky I guess is one way of saying it, but it's such a hilarious take and so overly cutesy and funny sounding despite the dark **** Peri says so I just love how it sounds. Hell, I find myself using Peri just to hear the voice that's how much I like it.

@Stelman257 Fair enough. I'm glad her take on Peri does something for you. Although I definitely still prefer EG Daily though. And after hearing more of Peri's voice in Heroes she actually reminds me a lot of the JP voice... Which I can't get behind sadly.

@LeDom

It's on android too.

You can also get an android emulator for your PC like Nox and play it through there. I'm only putting this forward because the game is FTP anyway.

@NCZ Unfortunately, it's not compatible with the one I have. Perhaps I can try that emulator.

@NCZ Extra odd considering this series barely has any actual cutscenes to voice in and it's mostly just little repeated soundbites. That's kinda why I assumed they'd at least skimp on this game's VO but nope. They take this series very seriously.

@NCZ IKR? The 3DS FE games have some of my absolute favourite dubs for those reasons.

@NCZ it's weird to think some of the actors all over the place are now just joining, like Cherami Leigh. And then there's still plenty of regulars in the LA dubbing world from the last like 5 years who have yet to pop-up in the series despite the number of characters.
Makes me interested in the cast for Echoes.

@Unknownsage13 The only thing cooler than the current dubs (without spending for the "big cheese", so to speak) would be using Texas VAs. I love how Namco Bandai & Patrick Seitz did that for a few recent dubs. PCB is a wonderful studio, but they really gotta diversify if they want to truly be better than more boutique dubbing studios like Bang Zoom or Cup of Tea. New Generation Pictures would be a great studio to do dubs for future Fire Emblem games.

@huzaifa_ahmed agreed. There are a ton of experienced Texas VAs that for various reasons never travel to LA for projects. Would be great if we had more Borderlands/Battleborn situations where we used that talent pool.

Like looking at the cast of Akiba's Beat. It's crazy to think it took this long for Brittany Karbowski to be in a video game. And then tons of other experienced actors there that have only done Dragonball games.

@FUNiman @NCZ @HylianBelmont

Yeah, and it really shows. Despite the series having relatively small amounts of voice acting, with such little amounts of VO they manage to imbue A LOT of personality into the characters. The VAs all really bring the characters to life with just the soundbites and the few lines that are actually voiced, and the experience is just that much livelier. It's really awesome. Some of the VAs also really managed to make strong use of their range here too, and the talent pool is quite varied, which is also great.

The FE dubs are really great despite not being fully VAed for those reasons, and they're also really memorable as such too!

@VGAfanatic

One person is lucky enough to say this game is literally a wife collector.

https://twitter.com/matthewmercer/status/828047021265219585

@NCZ Ironically, one of his characters has already got a wife.

@Girlygeek43

Kind of awkward that one of his wife's characters is his mom though.

@SNaG

I know right!
Also, Jagen might be the key on who Subaki's VA is.

@Jessica

It's weird because Ike and Eirika are in the promo art but there aren't any characters from those games at the moment.

At the moment there's only people from Shadow Dragon/Secret of the Emblem, Binding Blade, Blazing Blade, Awakening, and Fates. Ike is from Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn which is unrepped right now. I guess characters from the other games will be patched in over time.

@NCZ Yup. The next banner update is on the 15th of February, which is where we'll see new characters added to the Gacha

@Sentinel07

Honestly I have a feeling those VAs mainly did Fates because it was Kris Zimmerman directing. Obviously I'm sure unions played a part in things as well but it's easy to do a solid for, or take an opportunity to work with a director you're familiar with, like, and work well with.

Not sure on Gideon Emery specifically but he's generally pretty busy not just with VO but live-action or motion capture stuff too. Wouldn't be surprised if there's something already out or upcoming that conflicted with it.

@Sentinel07

Now that I think of it, since none of Gideon Emery's characters are in the game, it also might have just been more cost/time-efficient to go with Ray Chase since he was already in the cast.

@SirJolteon "I would imagine Cam Clarke voices Hinata."

No, actually. Hinata is credited to Delem Donaldson. I haven't heard his voice to be certain, but there's a good chance Cam Clarke never played Hinata.

@SirJolteon i was also thinking that. Well maybe not the Switch one. But i'd imagine they have already done some recording for Echoes. And I could totally picture the VAs who are in Heroes in non-reprisal roles (Cherami Leigh, Wendee Lee, Michael Sinterniklaas, Mick Wingert, Misty Lee, Taliesin Jaffe, etc) coming back in Echoes.

@Unknownsage13 Same. I was so happy when I saw her on this page.

@Soul-dragon Ditto.

@Unknownsage13 Ditto.

@ScottMyers Having heard some of Ray Chase as Roy. I actually think he suits the role pretty well. It's lower than I what I expected, but he nails the character regardless IMO.

@HylianBelmont Huh, I'll have to take a listen when I can.

@ScottMyers I listened to his voices while downloading the data, he does sounded a lot like a perfect teenage prince hero for Roy's new English voice.

@HylianBelmont It's one of those castings which off the bat might not quite seem appropriate given what we're used to, but I imagine he'll do a pretty good job. That said...Ray has been a major character in a slew of dubs recently, & since Roy is a legacy character & a youthful-sounding one too, I figured someone like JYB (notice he hasn't been in a whole bunch of recent game dubs) would've been really good.

Although with that said, a good recent example of a pretty different voice still doing well with the character, would be Lex Lang as Goku.

@huzaifa_ahmed Exactly! His voice works pretty well despite not being quite as youthful-sounding as his JP VA.

@huzaifa_ahmed Yeah, I've notired thay Jyb hasn't been in a bunch of game dub in 2016. Do you know why? He was in a decent amount of anime in 2016. I did want him to voice genos in opm, and reprise his role in the God eater anime.

@DeathGod46 He's been touring with his band a lot recently. That's really his thing. Troy Baker also loves making music.

@huzaifa_ahmed I thought he didn't make much money from his band. I could be wrong. I assumed he was more focused with his VA.

@DeathGod46 Nope, I think his music makes more money. The ratio of agency:profits I think might be better. As a musician, you can decide more of your own stuff. & (I'm presuming here) that JYB's skill at this profession is more lucrative than his VO stuff. I like his work, but again, English dubs are pretty small projects because we don't really value or demand imports too much. Canada makes less stuff than US, so they generally need more entertainment imported - thus the rates being high enough to bring in a ton of cartoon actors.

@huzaifa_ahmed Oh okay. Well I hope we hear him in more anime this year. Hopefully he'll be in hunter x hunter, 7 deadly sins season 2, opm season etc....

@huzaifa_ahmed I remember JYB saying at a a con that he'd pick music over acting if forced to choose between the two.

I won't deny that I was hoping he'd pop up here, though.

@DeathGod46 Sure thing.

@ScottMyers MB, should have said "several more" characters

@Nightmare Crusher I feel the same way. Cuz several of the characters pre-Awakening i had ideas for how they should sound. And I'm curious about the casting decision they make. Like if the director had the same idea as me.

@SNaG his range is very close to Paul St Peter so it won't be too off putting. That being said, I am a tad disappointed. :(

@SNaG @Unknownsage13 No need to be disappointed, guys. Nothing has changed! Virion was Price all along...

http://www.behindthevoiceactors.com/characters/Fire-Emblem/Virion/

@lyricaldelpha Whaaaaaaaaaat? When was this confirmed?

Hearing Virion in-game is exactly like I remember him in Awakening, so I'm not doubting that, but still! I'm really glad I get to hear some of Jamieson's range. Love the guy, but I've heard basically one voice from him.

@SNaG

Yeah, I love Jamieson Price but it's true he doesn't always get a chance to show off his range a lot. But when he does, maaaaaaaan does he blindside you. It's insane how he was under our nose the whole time.

@NCZ Man is a lot like Michael McConnohie with that authoritative drawl (I heard someone on Youtube describe it that way; might've been someone from here, actually!). His voice is bigger/deeper-sounding, but both of these guys are known for "that one awesome older-guy voice" kinda like the Christopher Walken or Norio Wakamoto of dubbing :D

I have only played a small bit of FE: A (though I must say - the dub sounds very nice), but it's pretty cool to hear Jamieson's range.

@huzaifa_ahmed Both Price and McConnohie also have insane ranges if they get a chance to show it off: Price with Virion, McConnohie with Tracks and Cosmos in Transformers (and on the other extreme end, there's the Lich King). Of course, there's Richard Epcar - I sometimes get his deeper-toned voices mixed up with Price.

@King Marth 64 Agreed. I really enjoyed her as all three characters.

@King Marth 64 I think Cindy Robinson would work great for Selkie

@King Marth 64 she has such a distinct voice it's hard to picture someone being able to voice-match.

@TrueMyriad Considering he narrated the direct and is voicing Eliwood, it's a safe bet to say he's gonna do Marth again.

@CometX-ing Fair enough. Also, I really wished that EG Daily could have reprised her role as Hinoka(Coolest casting choice they made in fates in my opinion), but I'd like to see how Cindy Robinson does.

@TrueMyriad I'm pretty sure Yuri going to voice Marth again since he's the English canon voice actor for Marth while Spike Spencer only voiced Marth in the anime that the ADV dub is not owned by Nintendo and the game's localization wasn't exist back then.

@CometX-ing Yeah it is pretty sad that EG Daily couldn't come back honestly. But Cindy Robinson should be pretty good as well I suppose.

@HylianBelmont Cindy's deeper voice, known for voicing many "rough & tough" characters, should be a good replacement for EG Daily. That said, as @CometX-ing said, it'd be pretty cool to see Crispin in this if it were union. He's got a pretty great "princely" attitude/tone which would be great for Marth. Although I dont think Crispin & Johnny sound much alike...

@huzaifa_ahmed I just can't hear Crispin's voice coming out of Marth at all honesty. I believe Yuri Lowenthal will be voicing again, and if he voices him closer to how he did in Fates then I'll be happy.

Crispin Freeman would be absolutely perfect for someone like Sigurd from FE4 though. But that more than likely won't happen sadly.

@HylianBelmont My Internet is going in & out (Web Guard or something, apparently), so I'll make it quick. I think Crispin's youthful voices, like a more youthful, feather-y Red Arrow, sound sort of like Midorikawa's performances.

@NCZ We'll see Cormag and Nephenee in the next trailer


I hope

@SirJolteon I'm rather glad that she came back! Her voice for Elise was one of my favourites in Fates:)

...Matt Mercer's new voice for Ryoma is definitely going to take some getting used to though XD

@HylianBelmont Matt's trying to differentiate him from Chrom, I think. Which is too bad, because I honestly thought that Chrom and Ryoma already sounded fairly distinct (obviously by the same guy, but distinct).

@sanityismadness I suppose they probably thought "People are more than likely going to hearing Chrom and Ryoma's voices side by side this time, so we better have Matt do something else for his Ryoma" which is understandable I suppose.

@SirJolteon Nino sounds so cute. I think I'm going to die once I hear the PoR characters.

@sanityismadness

Yeah, it does sound like they're trying to take that approach. I guess that's the thing, when you have a VA playing multiple characters in a crossover it throws things off a bit. JYB and Yuri Lowenthal had to shake up their Persona roles when they met in the later spinoffs and anime (or for JYB, when Yu started having actual lines). I dunno, personally I think it's cool that they keep Matt around instead of recasting him entirely. That wouldn't really be right since it is his character. Keeping the original VA but getting them to shake things up a bit is probably the logical way to handle this type of situation.

I guess other VAs who've played multiple characters might also have something like that happen (e.g. Travis Willingham, who's now picked up Ogma in addition to Lon'qu - and potentially Garon or Brady).

@NCZ Agreed! I was actually happy they kept Yuri Lowenthal and JYB as those respective characters for similar reasons really.

I think Travis may have to raise the pitch of his Lon'qu voice a little bit. His "Be Silent!" actually sounded a fair bit higher than it did in Awakening. Although that may just have been my ears playing tricks on me IDK.

@SirJolteon BTW everyone here's the second trailer with charactes such as Sakura, Jakob and Hinoka along with others. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PUcqH81aXqY

@SaMehDatBoi

Bit late, friend.

@HylianBelmont

Speaking of Matt it's kind of a bummer the lack of kid characters means no Shigure. That's my favourite of his FE roles.

@NCZ I've been playing through Heirs of Fate. And I'm about to start the last map... And honestly? I think it's my favourite FE role of his now too. The man freaking nailed the singing IMO.

@HylianBelmont

Yeah, no kidding. I still remember being surprised (pleasantly) to find out that was him. I love when we get to see/hear sides of VAs we don't normally get too often. Very gentle and soothing singing, it was.
Speaking of which, his Ryoma really grew on me to the point I feel like I prefer it to his Chrom. I know it's more-or-less the same voice, but I liked the moments of intensity Ryoma got.

@NCZ I'd say I like his Chrom and Ryoma performances about equally... Except maybe I prefer his Ryoma slightly now, if only for more intense moments, and the final cutscene in Birthright.

@Soul-dragon You can hear her in the video that NCZ posted, and it does sound like Laura Bailey yeah. Takumi still sounds like Roger Rose too as well I think.

@HylianBelmont What video?

@AmericanBuizel Oh wait. I made a mistake in my previous comment it would seem. I myself was actually referring to this one! https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AWOcLSD_D1I

You can definitely tell that it's still Laura, and Takumi's "die already!" still sounds like Roger Rose.

@Unknownsage13 Do we know if Lani Minella is returning for Lyn?

@Scrappy-Fan92

I believe it's Wendee Lee.

@NCZ I'm pretty sure they might got Lani Minella to voice Lyn along with Rolf, Micahia, and Mia and the other casts from Tellius series since they did get Jason Adkins returned for Ike and got Laura for Male Kanna in Fates.

@King Marth 64

https://youtu.be/rnrLUnLLZzg?t=5s

@NCZ Ah kinda bummed they switched out Lani. Though I guess they wanted to go with someone younger sounding (in Japanese version she's 16).

Hmm... I can't tell if it's Wendee Lee or Mela Lee. I need to hear more.

@Unknownsage13 I'm just hoping they get her back for Micaiah though. Although I wouldn't be surprised if she got recast at the same time...

Yeah it sounds like it's going to be either one of those two playing Lyn I think. And personally I'd be rather happy with either of them as the character!

@Unknownsage13 oh to clarify I meant "FE" at the beginning of my post.

@SNaG Same tbh

@SNaG Super Mario Run had none so hopefully none for this game too? But this game looks like it could easily exploit characters for cash like FF All the Bravest did... let's hope that's not the case.

@FUNiman Mario Run basically has an up front price tag. This is free to play. There's gonna be microtransactions. The only question is how bad will they be.

@Nightmare Crusher Ah I must've missed the free thing (somehow). If they don't render the game practically unplayable like All the Bravest it should be ok.

@LeDom He was so genuinely disappointed at getting Olivia too Lmao

@LeDom @HylianBelmont Kinda wish he had mancrushed on one of his own characters. And then expressed disappointment after getting one of his wife's characters. Lol

@LeDom

Fun fact: The reason the narrator was hoping to get Lon'qu (and then also became excited when he got Navarre at the end) is because the Japanese version of the Direct was narrated by Takehito Koyasu.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqiLBCjqfXY

@NCZ Oh that's pretty funny as well actually!

@NCZ

The man voices quite a few Fire Emblem characters. I think I heard him in the trailer for Shadows of Valentia too.

@King Marth 64 And plus, I already do have an Android device, I feel sorry for the iOS players have to get it later.

@King Marth 64 I'm curious about the cast of Echoes in general. Hopefully we get an English trailer soon.

@Nightmare Crusher Animal Crossing might disagree with you there ;)

But yeah getting voice actors back for a mobile game is impressive.