Final Fantasy 16 will use the British accent to engage with its European media aesthetics

Although we do not know the launch date (we know that we will be in Veriana in 2023, no ms), we still have a lot of information from Final Fantasy XVI, the first major entry in the Square Enix saga. In this case the series takes place in a universe of European medieval aesthetics, what tend to be consequences in some aspects of the game as the voices in English; the producer of the project, Naoki Yoshidastated in an interview with Dengeki Online that the characters tendrn British accent, not Americanto engage in this aesthetic.

“In this case, as the capture of motion as the interpretation of voz has been realized with European actors“, comedy explaining Yoshida in the interview.” Eso s, as women diseamos the game somos japoneses, primero scribimos el guion en japons, despus lo tradujimos a ingls y despus hicimos la facial capture in ingls“, continues.

As evitarn ‘que los jugadores americanos se enfaden’

In the long run of this process, those responsible for Final Fantasy XVI han querido mantenerse lejos del ingls norteamericano in order not to spoil the intrusion into its medieval aesthetics: “Although sea ingls, hemos sido muy cuidadosos con no incluir american accentos”, asegura el producer antes de explicar la razn detrs de esta idea: “Tomamos esta decisin para evitar que los jugadores se enfaden: ‘Want a European medieval fantasy, why do you have American accents?’“, continues diciendo entre risas.

Adems of this detail about the accents, Naoki Yoshida has also mentioned about the media aesthetics related to Europe and cmo is applied in this game: “Have a screen where the media fantasy is equal in Europe, popularized by El Seor de los Anillos. Currently ningn juego represents a medieval fantasy world to this scale with graphics of PS5, as we decide to focus on this aesthetic and merge with our fantasy “.