Honestly, and speaking as someone who isn't a native English speaker and understands a bit of Japanese - language doesn't have a whole lot to do with it. You may be more critical of things like pronunciation, pausing, word/syllable accents and such for words in a language you can understand (e.g. you can't tell if someone is mispronouncing anything in another language, or if they're stressing the right word when asking a question, or stressing the right syllable in a word etc).
Tone, pitch, emotion have more to do with it. You could have a sentence in utter gibberish and have it delivered in varying degrees of emotion that are universally understood.
That said, here's a list of the Japanese VAs: @dualshockers.com
Note how prolific most of these names are, and how long they've been acting.
Compare to the English version VAs listed here: @final fantasy wikia
A quick search for these names reveals you can't even find info on most of them.
Obviously, experience does not necessarily imply quality. There are plenty of amateur VAs who are more skilled than some professionals.
But experience does imply price, and it's pretty obvious that with this many inexperienced VAs, they were after something cheaper rather than be overly concerned with quality. If they were concerned with quality, they'd have screened better for talent. I mean, some amateur stuff is pretty damn awesome.
...pretty damn awesome. |D
Tone, pitch, emotion have more to do with it. You could have a sentence in utter gibberish and have it delivered in varying degrees of emotion that are universally understood.
That said, here's a list of the Japanese VAs: @dualshockers.com
Note how prolific most of these names are, and how long they've been acting.
Compare to the English version VAs listed here: @final fantasy wikia
A quick search for these names reveals you can't even find info on most of them.
Obviously, experience does not necessarily imply quality. There are plenty of amateur VAs who are more skilled than some professionals.
But experience does imply price, and it's pretty obvious that with this many inexperienced VAs, they were after something cheaper rather than be overly concerned with quality. If they were concerned with quality, they'd have screened better for talent. I mean, some amateur stuff is pretty damn awesome.
...pretty damn awesome. |D
