Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion voice actor says Square Enix repeatedly told him to stop being too sexy: "We need you to tone it down"
Mar. 19, 2024The voice actor for Genesis was told he sounded too seductive
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Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunionvoice actor Shaun Conde, who played Genesis Rhapsodos in the English dub, was seemingly too sexy forSquare Enixand repeatedly told stop sounding so seductive.
In a recent interview accompanying gameplay from Crisis Core: Final Fantasy 7 Reunion focusing on Genesis (timestampedhere), Conde said: “A fun note, little bonus, is with both characters I did with [voice director Kirk Thornton],” referring to his portrayal of Shiba in NEO: The World Ends With You, “I got the note several times, ‘it’s sounding too sexual. It sounds like you’re seducing. We need you to tone it down a bit.'”
“‘People of Shibuya, I’ve got some red hot news,” Conde says in a quite sexy voice indeed. “But especially [Genesis] because it’s playful and he is a little flirty. Just a little flirty.”
What I’m hearing here is that, along with Neil Newbon -who similarly was told to tone down his horniness when voicing Astarion from Baldur’s Gate 3- the duo could collectively break the internet in a single scene together. I don’t know who needs to make this happen –Square Enix, Larian, or some VA studio – but it needs to happen regardless.
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