The Tidus Laugh is not the VA's or English VA Director's Fault

[Nandemoyasan]

I just stumbled on this video on The YouTubes.

Voice Actor Reviews Bad Voice Acting

It would seem that this scene is exactly the same in the JP version.

Wow. So, after all these years where I thought it was a localization issue, it turns out that it's just a really really stupidly written and animated scene.

Thoughts?

 

[ultima espio]

James Arnold Taylor actually discussed this on his Youtube channel a few years ago. That's exactly how it was written in his script:

 

[Castiel Strife]

I never understood what the big deal was. It’s allowed for quite a few funny memes, and the game is so good anyways that this didn’t hurt it at all in my opinion.

 

[ForceStealer]

The Japanese version of the scene has been on youtube for years.

 

[Ite]

Out of context it’s a funny sound, sure, but the scene makes perfect sense. He’s being silly to cheer her (and himself) up after some traumatizing news. Don’t know why people think it’s a mistake.

 

[Clement Rage]

You have to basically ignore all the context of the scene to call this bad voice acting. It's just a baseless meme.

 

[Ite]

Ironic because the dub has so many actual problems, but this ain’t one of them.

 

[Scribe]

Man I hated this scene.

 

[Kuja9001]

Growing up I never cared since even then I could understand the context at 9 yrs old and today I still don't care.