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I think he transistions back and forth between the KH2 voice and KH3 voice in this game

listen to sora at the start of this video

listen to sora at the start of this video

he sounds almost exactly the same as he did in KH2

Yeah, definitely can see some kh2 shades seep through

23 seconds in

The title scene shows us the clock tower and the half of the town we can't visit

What the firetruck

And I mentioned it before, but Epcar pulled off his best Ansem performance in this one imo. I think he was closest here to how the character should sound whilst also not trying to copy Zane like he kinda was in the early days

Also yeah Sora sounds great there

So idk what people bang on about when they say he can't pull off that voice anymore

Heh I just spent 15 minutes on the KH reddit sorting by controversial

I recommend it

Smh, people downvoting a post for just saying "KH3's ending made me sad"

The Kairi post was very funny though

Not allowed to have feelings

"My first surge of emotions in years"

"And now I feel nothing"

Pretty sure that was the implication when he gave it to him, symbolically

Sora has now the most powerful weapon in the kh universe besides the power of friendship

:linkusAYAYA:

How is it a prison when he helped Ven

It's more like a hospital than anything

What's that wall?

This is the tutorial stage, right? I don't think there were any walls there to run on

I never did the tutorial thing so idk

What tutorial thing

I am talking about when you fight water Darkseid

Yeah don't they give you a chance to do some tutorial stuff

Ohh right

I thought that was just to repeat that fight

mostly its kh2 sora with the final world walls n stuff which is neat u dont see that normally

I would of found it neat if they allowed us to switch between kh2 and kh3 outfit for the whole game

You know the jab at Sora not being able to count just makes it more and more apparent that Sora is a Shonen protagonist

So I went looking back on what I missed out on here and people were talking about the voice acting in the games. For KH3 I noticed nobody pointed out the thing that made some of the voice acting sound just a little off or poorly paced at times. It wasn't actually an issue of matching lip flaps or awkward dialogue with KH3 as this one was mostly well scripted in its English translation. Even Riku's "What?!" when Mickey says "But Aqua, she's like Sora." makes sense coming off of Dream Drop Distance and how Riku had to make the dive and use the power of waking to save Sora. Riku's "What?!" is in context an appropriate expression of concern that Aqua is in the same level of danger Sora was in and he is appropriately relieved when Mickey says "No no no no no, strong like Sora!" What throws off some of the voice acting in KH3 is the audio mixing for the voice acting.

Anime dubbing studios like Bangzoom are a testament to how bad audio mixing can ruin good voice acting. Casein point their dub of Card Captor Sakura is far more accurate to the source material, but if you want to spare your ears you're honestly better off with Nelvana's more kid friendly watered down Cardcaptors instead. If I am honest about the voice acting in Kingdom Hearts I think KH1 takes the cake for both the best and the worst voice acting. On the one hand you have some excellent performances by the original Alice, Billy Zane's now iconic speech as Ansem, and a lot of the voice work for Maleficent and her villains council. On the other end you have the absolutely atrocious voice acting by Hayden for Kairi in this game. At the time it didn't seem bad, but when I look back and especially listening to her in the 1.5 and 2.8 collections which reuse her audio in cleaned up form it becomes really apparent. Hayden was a much better Kairi in KH2. And I only wish it was just Hayden that was bad.

A lot of the rest of the cast outside of the villains, Riku, and Sora were just okay. Donald and Goofy have some scenes where they are absolutely wonderful and some where they're absolutely horrendous in this one. A lot of it was cleaned up for the collections, but ho-boy vanilla KH1 is rough. Of course much like FFX I need to acknowledge how new to including voice acting in their games Square was at the time. Having Disney's help certainly was a plus as KH1 turned out much better on the voice acting front than FFX. In KH2 while Mena's Aerith was quite flat that was literally the only problem I had with her. There were times where I was more underwhelmed by Namine's VA in KH2 than I was with Mena's Aerith.

Edited October 6, 20196 yr by FadedSparkle

I agree with that, it could feel stilted at times

Also, something interesting I noticed, there's been four topics on that Subreddit concerning FF in the past 24 hours. How strange

I wonder if it's just more people embracing the sadness or something

"Would you forgive KH3 for not having FF characters if we got a Sephiroth boss?"

Hmmmmm it's a toughie

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