Diversity in accents is always appreciated, especially when it also makes sense in context with the story and setting. I really like that they haven’t just made everyone British for the sake of repeating Xenoblade ‘s dub, but that they’re thinking about the story and the setting of the game.
Explore the linguistic world of the game Xenoblade Chronicles , with Welsh, Scottish, and Australian accents galore! Dialect Dissection: The Diverse Dialects of Xenoblade Chronicles Most video games with voice acting go in one of two directions: using General American accents as a default, and using Received Pronunciation for fantasy settings or …
Xenoblade Chronicles 2 Ardainians speak with Scottish accents. This features tenser vowels before /r/ and a three-way distinction between TERM /?r/ , CHIRP /?r/ and NURSE /?r/ vowels that most other accents (and the usual broad IPA transcription) do not make; these distinct pronunciations are noted when they occur.
For Xenoblade Chronicles 2 on the Nintendo Switch, a GameFAQs message board topic titled Ugh the accents .
Xenoblade 2 combined the best of both worlds from the games prior.Well, it has Xenoblade X’s accents , but Xenoblade Chronicles the original was British English. It’s a different area than where Xenoblade 2 draws its accents from. In Xenoblade 2 , if you have cat ears you’re Welsh, and if.
Why does Xenoblade feature English/UK (and now Australian ?) accents so heavily? I actually love this as a feature of the Xenoblade series, it makes it different and unique and hearing something that isn’t Nolan North makes for a nice change (the world would be poorer too without Nia being Welsh), but I’m curious as to what influenced this choice.
r/ Xenoblade _ Chronicles This community is for fans of the Xenoblade JRPG game series ( Xenoblade Chronicles , Xenoblade Chronicles X and Xenoblade Chronicles 2 ). 59.2k, 12/7/2017 · I like it in games where accents actually make sense for the world they are in. Xenoblade seems to be doing a pretty good job so far. Characters have accents for identifiable reasons, ethnicity, home country, or specie. That said I’m not a huge fan of Rex’s delivery.
They even use distinctly Australian words like bonzer or crikey. The Indoline are another exception, speaking with an American accent. However, they specifically have a more Mid-Atlantic sound, which is an accent that mixes elements of American midwest with English Received Pronunciation, so they’re not quite as atypical as they could be.
12/7/2017 · This is true. But even then, saying European accents to describe Xenoblade just seems odd as they’re just British. The expectation with European accents , even by your own description, is that there’d be French, Italian, German etc. Anyways it doesn’t matter too much. I’m glad OP is enjoying the qwerky accents this island has.
