Final Fantasy VII Remake’s Voice Talent Didn’t Have Time To Prepare Their Lines
The English cast of Final Fantasy VII Remake did a phenomenal job voicing characters that people have heard in their heads for decades.
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The English cast of Final Fantasy VII Remake did a phenomenal job voicing characters that people have heard in their heads for decades, which is especially impressive when you consider that they received their lines shortly before recording them.
Final Fantasy VII was released for the original PlayStation and it was already packed onto three discs, so it would have been unfeasible to include voiced dialogue for the main characters. It was rare for a game to have full voice acting during this era and only titles like Metal Gear Solid even attempted it. The first fully-voiced Final Fantasy game was Final Fantasy X on the PlayStation 2. The cast of Final Fantasy VII would be voiced in projects like Kingdom Hearts and the Advent Children sequel movie, but Square Enix decided to go with a new cast of actors for Final Fantasy VII Remake.
The English voice cast for Final Fantasy VII Remake recently took part in a Reddit AMA and they discussed their work on the game. It turns out that they would often record lines without any time to prepare and had to rely on context and questions that were given to them by the director. Britt Baron (the voice of Tifa Lockhart) described the process in a post during the AMA.
I recorded a lot of my lines out of order, sometimes to picture, sometimes not. We are usually given context of where we are and who we are talking to but what is challenging is that we don’t have a script a head of time so you are reading lines and making choices on the fly! Luckily you can do a line a bunch of times to make sure you get it justttt right. Also we were dubbing Japanese so all of our lines have to fit in the exact right time, down to the millisecond. It really was a fun challenge, felt like rubbing your stomach while tapping your head. Creative and technical!
This process isn’t unusual when dubbing anime, especially for popular series that have an English dub that is recorded and released as soon as possible. Sarah Natochenny recently discussed her process for recording the voice of Ash Ketchum in the Pokémon anime, and there are a lot of similarities to how the Final Fantasy VII Remake cast performed their dub. There are often a lot of last-minute changes and suggestions made by the voice cast in order to make sure the dialogue matches the mouth flaps. It’s also common for voice actors to work separately from one another when recording dialogue for a cartoon or video game.
Regardless of the difficulties in needing to perform cold reads for lines, the cast of Final Fantasy VII Remake did a fantastic job with their material and we can’t wait to hear more from them in future entries in the series.
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