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Official Confirmation Of Vas; Yup...
Topic Started: Feb 7 2006, 10:55 PM (1,197 Views)
Clerith-son
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Remy
Feb 8 2006, 04:59 AM
Mena sounds A HELL OF A LOT better than Mandy Moore. Aeris isn't supposed to sound like a CHILD. So I am happy. A person's voice has nothing to do with how "sweet" they are. Aeris's voice needed an edge to it. Feminine yet knowledgeable and mature.

I agree with the point she shoudn't sound as a CHILD, but please, neither as a BARBIE for crying out loud. And if we're talking about sounding as CHILD, well Maaya Sakamoto's voice wasn't THAT mature.

*runs away like hell, in order to avoid getting killed by Maaya's fans*
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Ally McBeal
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jesse mccartney sounds horrible!!!!! :mad:
i also didn't like mena's voice >: O
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Would anyone mind posting some more voice samples from the new VA's? I'm not familiar with some of the new KH VAs, like Mena Suvari, Brittany Snow, and Rachael Leigh Cook? It's kinda hard to pass judgement on Aeris's new VA when all I can judge is Miss Suvari saying, "You guys, we don't even know him." :/

As for the other new VA's...
I may hate Jesse McCartney, but I do think he could do a decent job as Roxas. He still has that teen boy voice that seems to suit Roxas, considering his(Roxas's) age in KH2. I'll hold my breath and see what Jesse McCartney will bring to his performance. *twiddles thumbs*
Zach Braff is love. (Scrubs fan) So no real complaints here. I mean, he's only going to be a summon after all.

Sephiroth has a bigger role in KH2 and more speaking parts. I'd prefer if they got a stronger actor for him. One with more experience with portraying villians like Sephiroth. I don't like Lance Bass and I would hate for him to VA for Sephiroth again. <_< It's not because he was once in a talentless boyband, it's because I think he's a mediocre actor, who I believe would fail to pull off Sephiroth's cocky and evil character. My friend forced me to watch that horrible movie Lance stared in. >:6 And his acting was just bleh! *shivers* *cries* I wanted to watch a horror movie, but nooooooo....
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PinkRibbon
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Feb 8 2006, 10:13 PM
Would anyone mind posting some more voice samples from the new VA's? I'm not familiar with some of the new KH VAs, like Mena Suvari, Brittany Snow, and Rachael Leigh Cook? It's kinda hard to pass judgement on Aeris's new VA when all I can judge is Miss Suvari saying, "You guys, we don't even know him." :/

They were provided at the very beginning all along, lol :P--the first post.

Love your sig and av, btw!
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I know, but I was trying to look for more. It's hard for me to try and picture Mena Suvari's voice for Aeris with just one audio clip. :sweat: Sorry, if I'm being such a bother.
I've tried looking for audio clips on google, yahoo, and aol, but all they do is give me Mena Suvari porn. X_x;;

I tried again and thankfully found some video and audio clips of the VAs on thier official sites.

Mena Suvari(I just realized that Mena Suvari also played Joanne in Beauty Shop! 0_x;; )
Rachael Leigh Cook
Brittany Snow
Jesse McCartney
Zach Braff
Christopher Lee (I KNEW that name sounded familiar! It's Count Dooku!!! lol :fangirl: )

And look what I found from the Mena Suvari Site:
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Mena to lend her voice too 'Disney's Kingdom Hearts II'

Zach Braff, James Woods, Haley Joel Osment and Mena Suvari will lend their voices to the video game "Disney's Kingdom Hearts II," which hits U.S. stores on March 30.

The game franchise blends well-known characters from classic Walt Disney Co. films with original characters from Japanese game maker Square Enix. In this sequel, for example, Braff again will star as Chicken Little, Woods brings Hades to life, and Ming Na will play a virtual Mulan,The original "Kingdom Hearts" game, which shipped in 2002, has sold more than 5 million units worldwide. Osment will reprise his role as Sora, the lead character in the role-playing game, who journeys through Disney film worlds accompanied by Goofy and Donald Duck. He will be joined by David Gallagher as Riku and Hayden Panettiere as Kairi. Christopher Lee, Brittany Snow and singer Jesse McCartney also play featured characters.

Suvari will portray Aerith, a popular character from Square Enix's best-selling "Final Fantasy VII" game. Other big-screen talent joining her include Steve Burton and Rachael Leigh Cook.

In a first for the franchise, the new game will add characters from such live-action movies as "Tron" and "Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl." A trailer at last year's E3 video game convention showed the likeness of Johnny Depp's Captain Jack Sparrow within the "Kingdom Hearts II" game world, for instance.

"Kingdom Hearts II" also features the worlds of "Hercules," "Beauty and the Beast," "The Lion King," "Aladdin" and "The Nightmare Before Christmas."

In addition to the original game, a Game Boy Advance spinoff called "Kingdom Hearts: Chain of Memories" sold 2.5 million copies worldwide to date. "Kingdom Hearts II" shipped December 22 in Japan (minus the Hollywood voice talent) and has sold more than 1.1 million units. Square Enix expects the worldwide total of this game to sell 10 million units by the end of its run.

Source from: The Washington Post


And thank you for the compliment, PinkRibbon. :huggle:
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PinkRibbon
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Feb 9 2006, 01:01 AM
I know, but I was trying to look for more. It's hard for me to try and picture Mena Suvari's voice for Aeris with just one audio clip. :sweat: Sorry, if I'm being such a bother.
I've tried looking for audio clips on google, yahoo, and aol, but all they do is give me Mena Suvari porn. X_x;;

I tried again and thankfully found some video and audio clips of the VAs on thier official sites.


Ah, sorry. But yeah, totally understandable--it's not being a bother at all! We'll officially be able to judge when we hear their voices of NA trailers (hopefully).

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And thank you for the compliment, PinkRibbon. :huggle:

Your sig/av set deserves it :D--therefore, you deserve it, since you made it, right?

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From 1Up.com's article about the voice cast (along with pictures of both character/actor), which you can read/see here:
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Square Enix have revealed the voice talent lineup for Kingdom Hearts II, and it's even more impressive (in terms of celebrity quotient) than the original game. We've put together a handy chart of whose voices to look forward to hearing in the game. Take a good look at the list, as some of the voices you see here will also appear in a highly-anticipated Square Enix release coming soon...

[Insert Pic of Christopher Lee] [Insert pic of DiZ]
Christopher Lee has played the nefarious Saruman in the "Lord of the Rings" trilogy as well as Dr. Wonka in "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory."


About Cloud, Aerith and Tifa:
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[Insert pic of Steve Burton] [Insert Pic of Cloud in KH1]
Heartthrob Steve Burton ("General Hospital," "Taken") returns as Cloud, the hero of much-beloved Final Fantasy VII.

[Insert pic of Rachael Leigh Cook] [Insert Pic of Tifa in FFVII]
The feisty Rachael Leigh Cook, whom we last saw surrounded by her pussycats in "Josie and the Pussicats" will voice Tifa, Cloud's sometime girlfriend.

[Insert pic of Mena Suvari] [Insert pic of Aerith in KH1]
Always lovely and beguiling, Mena Suvari will voice the graceful Aerith. Mena is best known for her role in "American Beauty".


I do not like 1Up.com's description of Tifa as Cloud's "sometime girlfriend." Then again, to be fair, we did get the lovebird quote from EGM :cleris:
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I love Mena! :D Can't wait to hear her in action!
<_< "Sometime girlfriend"? Yeah, sure. Tifa's his girlfriend because he never looked for her and when they finally meet, he runs away :lmao: Must be a Cloti.
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"The planet... it failed me!" (When he loses)

that line made me squeel when i heard it. :P

i think lance could pull off Sephiroth quite well. We just have to wait and see afterall.

i haven't noticed before, but Steve Burton looks pretty hot. well, sorta. he kinda looks like Cloud in the picture provided in the 1up article...somewhat...

i love Mena Suvari's voice. it's as perfect as Mandy Moore, if not better than Mandy Moore's voice. Her voice can be really soft if she makes it that way. Watch the Last Call interview w/ Carson Daily on the Menasuvarifan.com site and you'll see what i mean.

oh yeah, and she has pretty greenish eyes...uh...yeah :)
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:giggle: You shouldn't jugde people like that, you never know. This tough bikey came to my school last week. I was absolutely terrified, but he ended up being one of the nicest people I've ever met. :D
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Sorry Oddishness, but I think that is just so dumb. "I don't like her cause she LOOKS like a slut." Albeit, you say you were in a bad mood, so I'll let it go.

I didn't really think Mandy Moore's voice was the best match for Aeris's. She held the same tone almost the entire time, and it sounded too low and not ethereal enough.

I've heard Mena Suvari's voice, and she's got a much higher, cuter quality in her voice that suits Aeris better. So I'm glad they made the switch. Mandy did all right, but Mena's better voice-wise. I don't like the voice sample they used (it sounds like it's from Sugar & Spice). She has the ability to sound much cuter and sweeter (in American Pie for example; I hate that film, but her character was supposed to be sweet).
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the aftermath of jenova
Feb 9 2006, 05:52 AM
i love Mena Suvari's voice. it's as perfect as Mandy Moore, if not better than Mandy Moore's voice. Her voice can be really soft if she makes it that way. Watch the Last Call interview w/ Carson Daily on the Menasuvarifan.com site and you'll see what i mean.

Shiver me timbers, you're right!

I downloaded the interview and Suvari sounds perfectly... well, normal in that. xD Quite down-to-earth and all that. Wasn't sure what I was expecting, but she's not nearly as bad as I was preparing myself for.

Oddishness
 
UGH NO. Square, changing VAs is something that seriously irks me. It just does.

I agree. Mostly because it jars me when the voice changes too much. I have a similar adjustment problem when visual styles change too much too (case in point, Xenosaga and Xenosaga II).

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Well, one thing to remember is that voice actors typically have the ability to change their voice "type" to suit the characters. I've heard a perfectly angsty character's seiyuu pull off a ridiculously helium-high voice, and you wouldn't know it was the same person unless someone told you (Sasuke and Ishida's seiyuu, for those who watch Naruto and/or Bleach).

So even if Suvari sounds "wrong" based on the voice clips, she may surprise everyone with a perfectly good voice for Aerith.
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Feb 10 2006, 08:39 AM
I don't like this Mena something chick. She looks like the slutty girls who go to my school. THERE I SAID IT SHE LOOKS LIKE A SLUT.

I just wanted Rumor Has It (strange strange movie), and Mena was in it.
She didn't look like a slut at all, she looked like a sweet, innocent, happy-go-lucky little sister. In a crying scene, Mena was able to make her voice really really soft, and I just thought then, Perfect. :aeris:
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I like Mena. However I think it's quite hard to think that she's doing Aeris' voice. But then again let's just see how it turns out...
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Hi, I'm new here, and quite personally, I don't know if I'm so sure about the whole Mena Suvari thing. I'm so used to imagining Mandy Moore as Aerith, it'd be kind of hard to even get an idea of what she'd sound like. I hate it when they go and change the voice actors like that! But seriously, can anyone give me an example of what she sounds like? I can't get access to any of the voice samples, and I'm not looking it up on the web because I came across some pretty raunchy stuff. Could anyone possibly describe Mena Suvari's voice for me? :)
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Maaya Sakamoto and Takahiro Sakurai will always be THE Aerith and Cloud to me. I could care less whether it be Mena or Mandy as Aerith in dubbed KH2. ^_^

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I do not like 1Up.com's description of Tifa as Cloud's "sometime girlfriend."


That quote actually makes me giggle. Tifa is Cloud's "sometime girlfriend"? WTH does that mean?

She's only Cloud's girlfriend when he feels like it? She's only Cloud's girlfriend as long as Aerith doesn't come around? Doesn't sound to me like Tifa is Cloud's number one. :giggle:

Anyway, "lovebirds Cloud and Aerith" sure beats "sometime girlfriend"(whatever that means).
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