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While No Set Release Date Yet, Voice Recording for Tales of Xillia’s English Dub Completed!

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While No Set Release Date Yet, Voice Recording for Tales of Xillia's English Dub Completed! 1

Ted Tsung, the North American Producer for Tales of Xillia’s English release by Namco Bandai has recently taken to the Official Playstation Blog to announced that after eight hours of voice recording over an eight week span they have completed the voice recording session for Tales of Xillia. What does this mean? Another step closer to the 2013 international release.

The following is an excerpt from the post:

After it’s all said and done, I believe people will be satisfied with the voices we chose for each character. When localizing games like those in the Tales of franchise, there’s always added pressure since the Japanese version typically comes out first.

I’m very much aware that it can be very jarring to someone hearing the English voices when they’re used to hearing the Japanese voices. However, I think our English cast matches the original intention of their character’s persona. For example, we went with a much deeper voice for Milla. We needed her to maintain a very powerful and authoritative demeanor, so we didn’t find it appropriate maintaining the same pitch as her Japanese voice. Similarly, we pitched down Jude a little bit as well. He maintains the same adolescent qualities as the Japanese version, but we figured the North American audience would prefer a lower, stronger voice.

As long-winded as the recording was, it was a gratifying one, and I really owe it to all the people I worked with. Everyone has done an outstanding job, and I hope the fans enjoy it.

Unfortunately as of yet we do not know what voice actors have been cast for each character.

To check out my review of Tales of Xillia’s Japanese release, check out my article HERE. Similarily, over the next couple of weeks I will be writing up a review for the sequel ‘Tales of Xillia 2 which recently launched in Japan.

Sam
Sam
Founder of The Otaku's Study. I have been exploring this labyrinth of fandom these last fifteen years, and still nowhere close to the exit yet. Probably searching for a long time to come.

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