This week, Fire Emblem: Three Houses made its debut on the Nintendo Switch. This is the first home console release for the series in over ten years and it delivers an absolutely wonderful strategy RPG experience. The voice acting in the game is equally as fantastic. Every single line of dialogue has been voiced and each character has a memorable identity because of it.
Recently, our American-based video producer Zion Grassl interviewed Joe Zieja, the voice of Claude Von Regan (the leader of the Golden Deer in Fire Emblem Three Houses). Zieja is a voice actor and author located in the LA region, who started out as an officer in the United States Air Force and eventually went on to pursue a career in voice acting.
In the above interview, you can find out how Joe landed the role as Claude, get some insight into the voice acting industry, find out his past history voicing characters such as Fox McCloud from the Star Fox series and much more.
View the full interview in the video above and tell us if you sided with The Golden Deer house in the new Fire Emblem game.
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Love his voice on Claude! Playing in Japanese the first playthrough though.
@RogerFederer Fire Emblem is Nintendo, so..
Been watching the videos about his role in the game on his youtube channel. It's really cute how excited he is about being a part of this game.
@Jango296 God no. This game is SO MUCH better than Fates. The writing is actually decent. Tons of new mechanics introduced via the Monastery (and some new ones in battles, including the introduction of batallions), including free roaming around a somewhat expansive environment, which I hope becomes a series norm. It doesn't reintroduce mechanics like universal matchmaking or kids that were stuffed into the Fates games because they wanted it to resemble Awakening. The presentation, while not quite on the same level as Nintendo's most expensive games, is still head and shoulders above anything that came before it (ground view and battle animations are particularly fun, as they look like something out of the Warriors spinoff). This is the game Fates should have been in a variety of ways, and, while I'm still early in it, this is looking like it might be the best entry in the series to date.
Also, both newer and long-time fans seem to be happy with it, which should tell you something.
@Jango296 - My initial impressions, from a casual FE fan (Advance Wars forever, always) is it takes a lot of Awakening and improves everything of the formula. Writing, mechanics, characters, all of it feels like a great step forward.
Good to hear this game improves on Fates, I was considering skipping it
Every time I hear someone compliment Fates' writting I'm like "WHAT?? Did you actually play the game? Do you remember that time when your army got ambushed because your butler decided to race another airhead in the middle of a blizzard in enemy territory?"
@Bobb @Jango296 Yeah, definitely don't skip this if you have any love for the series. It marries some of the best aspects of old and new FE design into a really compelling and organic whole.
One suggestion: play on hard/classic difficulty. The game is a bit TOO easy on normal difficulty, and built-in mechanics allow you to address tactical errors you might occasionally make in battle without having to reset the game to keep a character from dying, so classic mode is much more accessible now.
@ComposedJam I completed Birthright and Conquest, but the writing was stupid enough in Conquest that I couldn't even bring myself to play Revelation. Although I hear that third campaign was actually the worst one.
@Ralizah Thank you very much. Once I have the chance I will give Three Houses a try. I really love old style Fire Emblem, and I don't think Awakening was bad.
And yeah, Revelations was like hearing Corrin saying "everything is terrible but everything will be fine" all the time
does anyone care about voice actor interviews? they never have anything interesting to say. and usually they don't even care about the game they're recording for.
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