Board Thread:Fan Projects/@comment-1942179-20121207052926/@comment-5142578-20131122213749

Smash The Echidna wrote: Oi!

I know it's been months since I've made any updates, but I want to ask you guys something. You see, it's about Smash. I'd gone and pretty much finished his character, battle-wise. However, he still uses Knuckles' voice clips. The reasoning behind that is because I had originally planned to voice him myself. Why didn't I? My mic's quality is very poor. In comparison to all the other high quality voice clips used in the game, my voice would clash far too much. So I never changed it.

Since it doesn't look like I'll be getting a high quality mic anytime soon, I'm thinking of changing his voice away from Knuckles. (Despite how much his deep voice fits his character.) There is another character voice I can use instead. The closest fitting one aside from myself, (in my opinion at least,) would be Yuri Lowell's voice from Tales of Vesperia. I just want your input on this, since Yuri's known to be one of the most popular characters in the franchise. Having his voice on my main character feels a bit...how to put it...boastful? Arrogant? Something among those lines. So what do you think? Mind you, this is only a placeholder (for God knows how long) until I can record his clips myself.

That's only half of what I wanted to ask. I noticed a few people had some problems with Smash not having his outfit in the game. My reasoning behind this was to make things feel more classic Sonic style; Males generally don't wear clothes. My characters just do so to feel more casual. Of course, now that pretty much every other male character in the game has an outfit, Smash does seem like the odd one out. His main outfit was going to be an unlockable costume. Do you guys think that he should instead start off with it like every other clothed character?

I'll listen to the voice clip you linked earlier to see if Yuri would be a good choice (for the time being). As for wether or not to have Smash wear his outfit at the start of the game, it can go either way without subtracting any quality from the game. The only thing about choosing to have him wear the outfit in the beginning is that it can't be unlocked later on(and personally, I find unlocking things fun).