I haven't played the feminine voice acting version yet but the masculine voice actors are so good it made me blush! I am OBSESSED <3
Also I love Blythe, I could play hours of his route! Can't wait for the full version!
I especially loved Phonobabble, like excuse me sir? Your delivery is too good to be legal lol. I was losing my mind over the little stutters and drawn on words, they added so much personality and normally I really don't enjoy voiced VNs so I was even more blown away
But seriously the whole game is amazing, you are so talented! I can't wait to learn more about the world you made ^-^
Haha, yeah, I feel exactly the same way xD He did warn me before he started recording that he planned to do that, which was a huuuuge help to have the head's up because it meant I could go through his lines at the same time as having the game WIP open and make changes to the text as I listened to and picked out takes :3
It took a lot of time to try and match most of the text to his delivery, but it was more than worth it :3 Actually trying to strike a decent balance on how accurately to match the text was pretty difficult because I wanted to include as many of the stutters and different utterances as possible, but at the same time, the text still has to fit in the text box, and I didn't want to have to chop up his audio too much into smaller lines just to fit the text because then you lose a bit of the flow and stuff like breaths, which I personally like to try and keep intact where possible! So yeah, the text doesn't 100% match up, but I feel like it doesn't necessarily have to and that I was able to reach a decent degree of compromise.
I personally love it when VAs do stuff like that and I always put notes in my scripts telling people that they're welcome to tweak stuff and adlib if they want to.
It's interesting that you don't normally enjoy voiced Vns though :o I'm pretty much the opposite cos I will prioritise playing stuff that's voiced over stuff that isn't x3 I'm such a huge fan of voice acting. Of course, there are instances where bad casting maybe means that a project would have been better off not voiced, but in most of the stuff I've played, the acting has been brilliant :3 It's one of the big motivating factors for me when making games. If I know voice acting isn't an option, I lose interest in writing quite quickly >.< For me, hearing Vas breathe life into my characters with their voices is beyond exciting, haha.
Thank you so much for all your kind words <3
I actually noticed the slight variation in text to his delivery and thought you did a great job! Writing out inflection can be so hard without breaking the flow but you absolutely killed it.
I love voice acting too but I have such a specific tone in my head when I read that it gives me the weirdest cognitive dissonance when I hear lines said a different way. Or maybe I'm just too picky :p I appreciate all the work that goes into voiced characters though and I can imagine how fun it is when the actors make a character their own! To hear your writing come to life sounds amazing! <3