Quote Originally Posted by JKTrix View Post
In Heavy Rain, I actually really liked Shelby's performance, but I did not like the hooker's performance at all. Felt like she was clumsily stumbling through her lines. Jayden was entirely wooden. Both of them had weird intonations in their voices. Blake was fine. I understand that the setting is pretty bleak and realistic, so they may have just spoken 'normally', but it was just uninteresting to me.
You hit the nail on the head when you mentioned the native language of the developer being french later on, because the voice actors aren't American and are trying to hide their accents most of the time. The ones who are doing the worst job in the demo are the Hooker and Jayden which is a lot of the reason why I thought their performances sound a little off: their accents were constantly creeping through. That said, at it's worst Heavy Rain's voice acting didn't seem as bad as a lot of other titles out there in the last ten years. They got their lines out and despite some awkward delivery managed to mostly capture the right tone I think so I can live with it, especially when the dialogue itself feels really natural and well written.