Given the overall lack of quality and wooden sound of the voice acting of humans too (eg Minfilia), I'd disagree. There's a difference between purposeful monotone and just plain sounding monotonous; the Elcor in the Mass Effect series are a good example of this. A character sounding wooden and a VA's delivery sounding wooden are different things. Gideon Emery is a highly prolific voice actor, I've seen him do much better. Urianger is by far his most forced-sounding role in my book. It just doesn't seem like he was trying.
FWIW though, I liked Kan-E-Senna's voice the best out of the three leaders. In Japanese she sounded serene and mostly spoke in monotone, too. The majority of the localized voice acting in this game, though, is indefensible. Much of it sounds like it came straight out of a 90s console game (Papalymo, anyone?) when nobody cared about voice acting in video games.
I'd attribute it to SE not caring, really. In Japan the VA cast has a much bigger impact on a game than in other countries, so I doubt they paid much mind to their budget for localized voice acting.
FWIW though, I liked Kan-E-Senna's voice the best out of the three leaders. In Japanese she sounded serene and mostly spoke in monotone, too. The majority of the localized voice acting in this game, though, is indefensible. Much of it sounds like it came straight out of a 90s console game (Papalymo, anyone?) when nobody cared about voice acting in video games.
I'd attribute it to SE not caring, really. In Japan the VA cast has a much bigger impact on a game than in other countries, so I doubt they paid much mind to their budget for localized voice acting.
