Board Thread:Fan Projects/@comment-1942179-20121207052926/@comment-6125498-20131122000935

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?

Not sure what Yuri's voice sounds like. I'll look it up later. As for Smash's clothing, I don't think anyone is going to care. I guess if all your other characters will be wearing clothes, Smash should too, but if Sonic and the other official characters aren't going to wear clothes (are they?) then he'll fit in either way. I believe you mentioned that he was going to be unlocked rather late in the game, and that should be taken into account as well. You know, the only reason why I gave Phys a set of clothes was so that he could fit in with the other fanon characters here, but in my continuity he doesn't wear the outfit.