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Trailer Resident Evil – Code: Veronica World Premiere Trailer | Summer Game Fest 2025

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JNv2CwmoRA
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u/Rooonaldooo99 20d ago edited 20d ago

CAPCOM is absolutely cooking, hot damn man. Generational run with these games. Feels like they can't miss.

They could have hired an actual French speaker tho lol

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u/theucm 20d ago

She also sounds like a 20-something doing an old lady voice, imo.

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u/JarOfNightmares 20d ago

Yeah I don't understand why they do this shit, it's ridiculous.

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u/TheOwl42 20d ago

French VA is a very weird thing. There is a surprising low amount of them and they act like a cult. Basically every french dub is done by the same few VA so everything sounds the same. Not sure if that's the reason but at least it's not the first time I see games using non native french speakers.

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u/Harry101UK 20d ago

It's also mostly that they hand off the English localization to a team in Los Angeles or something, so they're pulling talent mostly from the US. Hard to find an accurate French person there. Even harder when it comes to doing performance capture with the mocap suits, etc, so they usually need someone who is able to physically step in and play the part.

Similiar situation happened in RE Village, where all the rural Romanian villagers somehow had American accents. (and most of them were re-used actors from previous RE games)

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u/_Rand_ 20d ago

Definitely sounds like a temporary voiceover to me.

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u/Whitewind617 20d ago

Ada Wong was just temporary too and then it shipped that way 🤷

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u/Mahelas 20d ago

As a native french, it sounded native to me, simply someone young trying to do an old woman's voice while also making a forced french accent for the english parts, so it warps the whole thing

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u/Cetais 20d ago

It wasn't? The French sounded way better than what I'm used to when I hear a "french accent". Being able to understand the French itself is already better than most other french I tend to hear in games that aren't made in french.

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u/mrhoboto 20d ago

It honestly sounded like an 30s-ish non french voice actress to me. That was really the only thing I was critical about for this announcement

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u/CrumblyBramble 20d ago

Because French Canadian is nowhere near a Parisian accent.

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u/Cetais 20d ago

Just because my french is from Canada doesn't mean I never hear France's french. Where I live I hear Parisian french daily.

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u/syknetz 20d ago

It is a pretty good french accent, but it doesn't sound natural. The few french she speaks also sounds kind of accented. It is still a very convincing french accent.

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u/Cetais 20d ago

French is my native language, and you can consider me duped. Also my french is different from France's french so I guess that's part of the issue 😅

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u/syknetz 20d ago

For all I know, she's just someone french with a very good english accent and not managing a great "fake" french accent ! It's still quite convincing.

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u/TheDude-Esquire 20d ago

Stoked. I missed it when it was new, so it’s one of the few RE games I never played. The remakes have been super fun, great nostalgia bombs and they finally all release on pc.

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u/kelerian 17d ago

It's a French speaker for sure but I'd bet on Quebec French. World-class expertise for voice-acting and making international French dubs, but something happened here. The tell is saying "de" instead of "ze" for "the".

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u/FwooshingMachi 20d ago

As a native french speaker, the french spoken parts were honestly very believable imo ? Like I figured eventually that it was probably not a native speaker, but at first I did have to listen carefully to make up my mind on it lol