But how did you like the voice acting so far? You can be totally honest
Well, as long as it's like you say and it doesn't take any time away from you producing content first and foremost....
Because if I were a gambling man, I'd wager a poll would more than likely end up with the results something like -
First Place - Story/Sex Content
Second Place - Well Made Animations
Third Place - Voice Acting
Now i'm NOT saying "No voice acting ever/get rid of it!", just saying if ever in the future you have to prioritize something, thats how I, and I believe many would vote.
Now as far as the voice acting itself....
in order of "Best" to "Not as Best", I would rank them -
Miracle
Sasha
Paris
Now I saw before someone calling Miracle's voice a "loli" voice. I disagree. It doesnt come across as a childs voice, rather, possible someone with Puberphonia or perhaps what is sometimes referred to as "Little Girl Voice" in the psychology field. Meaning a childlike voice that may develop in females who have suffered a traumatic experience in their youth.
Now, let me say, none of the voices were so bad that I had to run to the game folder and nuke all the sound files i could find. However, they did come across as a little stilted. Miracle's VA being the least to Paris's being the most of the three. Again, I wouldnt label any of them as outright bad, just that there were a number of times where the lines just felt "hollow", or awkward, just failed to land from time to time. And again, im not saying every line from every VA was like this, just that my higher ranked ones were less noticeable than my lower ranked ones.
And since you are not having the VA's record MC names or labels, you CANNOT leave a space in the middle of a line! Any immersion you have built prior is instantly wiped out by an abrupt pause in the middle of a line read. Since you can't use MC's name or relationship, at least place some kind of Pronouns as a replacement so there isnt any kind of mood killing pause. Granted, I believe there were a few lines you would be able to get away with it, but more often than not, it didnt work at all.
Having the voice actors acknowledge the incest is a very good way to get my patreon paged banned, considering they don't allow incest. =]
Maybe like eleventy billion other games on this site do and have a "Totally Not Related To You Or Your Game Person" list a patch on Lewdpatcher?
you have to understand that patreon bans incest so I couldn't possibly make the voice actors say anything related to that, or risk getting my page banned.
I think the bigger problem would be (with patches be a normal thing nowadays) having to tell the player what they can and cant have their MC called. Because it would be problematic and definitely NOT cost effective to have your voice actors record the same line a million times trying to take into account every possible word a player might want their MC called! lol
I don't think this is necessarily true. I have seen this work in other games. You just have to be careful. For example, when it is written
"Stop telling DADDY what to do", the voice can say ""Stop telling him what to do", a simple "Kiss me, DADDY" "Kiss me, you". It does take analyzing line by line to see what sounds more natural and specially it requires some forward looking when writing dialogues.
Moreover, in the extreme you can go the full Bioware option. There is a name, but everybody calls you by a nickname "Shepard", "Hawke". Main problem with that is the setting of this novel, where you want your "tenants" to call you "daddy".
Overall, I think that for a first time it was fine. It can definitely be improved,
In my opinion though, I would focus first on finishing the story and later look into voice acting, for several reasons. First, I doubt the feature itself is such a selling point. I would be very surprised if one's opinion of the VN is that changed by it. More likely, you have already bought the product or not, and the voice will not swift your opinion more that a few millimetres. Second, with the novel being in development, there is a big danger of a big part of content changing. And even more dangerous, there is always the possibility that the voice actors will not be available in the future, for whatever reasons. By waiting that everything that needs to be voiced is already written you can just ask them to do it all in a row. It is way more likely that they will manage to do that that they will manage to do it sporadically over several months if not years.
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