Where is her accent from?

[Glassman789]

I just played the demo, and I'm curious about Little Misfortune's accent. I noticed that her name is "Ramirez Hernandez", which sounds like a hispanic name, but she definitely does not have a hispanic accent. To me, it sounds more eastern European, perhaps Russian or Ukrainian.

Just curious, where does her accent originate from?

[Scarf]

I was dead certain it was French (And that rather, she in general was French until seeing otherwise) but I could be pretty damn wrong on second inspection.

[DarkyDP]

18 september. HYPE

[Deformerad Dallarydsbo]

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

Originally posted by Crawling Chaos:

It is definetely not eastern European (I am from Eastern Europe and I am forced to listen to slavic accents almost every day, so I know what I am talking about). Main character is voiced by one of the game creators, Natalia, and Natalia is from Sweden. In all videos from Killmonday Games official youtube channel Natalia speaks with this accent, and so does Martin, another developer who is from Sweden too. So, very likely, it is swedish accent. Besides, as far as I understand, game takes place in Sweden, because some not very significant writings on the signs such as ,,Förbjudet för hundar" are written in Sweden.

while that may be true... just because the game is in Sweden, doesn't make the characters Swedish =p
Think of virtually any game that takes place in USA with a melting pot of people from different regions

Damn i'm Swedish and I never noticed it takes place in Sweden, welp just makes it more immersive for me I guess :) I also tought the accent was Italian, but yes now that I hear it again it's Swedish albeit not clearly so in my opinion, maybe due to the unnaturally high pitch of the voice itself

[Laramie]

Wow, what a rollercoaster to read!

[Glassman789]

Originally posted by 2nyn:

Wow, what a rollercoaster to read!

No kidding! Five months later and still no definitive answer. I guess the general consensus is that her accent is Swedish, since the voice actress is Swedish.

[Laramie]

Originally posted by Glassman789:

Originally posted by 2nyn:

Wow, what a rollercoaster to read!

No kidding! Five months later and still no definitive answer. I guess the general consensus is that her accent is Swedish, since the voice actress is Swedish.

Yes, I reckon it's Swedish because well, the voice actress is Swedish. It's kind of a dumb argument to say, "Just because they're Swedish, it doesn't mean the accent isn't Swedish,"... in this context at least. Why go the extra mile to read dialogue with a different voice? It's just easier to believe it's Swedish. I'm glad I'm not alone in thinking this! Thanks.

[Stigma]

I hear no trace of swedish in her accent. She doesn't sound like either Pippi or Emil..

[Hazuki-chan]

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

Originally posted by Crawling Chaos:

It is definetely not eastern European (I am from Eastern Europe and I am forced to listen to slavic accents almost every day, so I know what I am talking about). Main character is voiced by one of the game creators, Natalia, and Natalia is from Sweden. In all videos from Killmonday Games official youtube channel Natalia speaks with this accent, and so does Martin, another developer who is from Sweden too. So, very likely, it is swedish accent. Besides, as far as I understand, game takes place in Sweden, because some not very significant writings on the signs such as ,,Förbjudet för hundar" are written in Sweden.

while that may be true... just because the game is in Sweden, doesn't make the characters Swedish =p
Think of virtually any game that takes place in USA with a melting pot of people from different regions

To me, it sounds like a swedish accent, perhaps with traces of a russian accent mixed in. I don't know if Natalia ever lived in Russia or was born and named in sweden, admittedly, but perhaps she at least has or had a russian relative or two?
Either that, or I'm imagining the whole thing and it's just a plain old swedish accent.

Regardless, I feel she does a great job with the voice work. With some games, I listen to someone reading lines for a child character or a flashback of their younger self, and they sound like they're not even trying to sound the right age. Kids matter, so there.

[Tjock'o'Hårig]

Originally posted by Crawling Chaos:

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

while that may be true... just because the game is in Sweden, doesn't make the characters Swedish =p
Think of virtually any game that takes place in USA with a melting pot of people from different regions

Well, she is voiced by swedish person who speaks with swedish accent. Even if Misfortune is actually spanish (judging by her name and surname) her accent is still swedish.

The voice actor may be Swedish, but the accent is not. Though there are miniscule hints every now and then in every sentence, most of it is not.

The reason people are having trouble pinpointing it is because it's not a specific accent. It's a mix of several.

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

Originally posted by Crawling Chaos:

Well, she is voiced by swedish person who speaks with swedish accent. Even if Misfortune is actually spanish (judging by her name and surname) her accent is still swedish.

does she ever use any hard J's? People with swedish accents usually can't pronounce a "ja" sound, like NInja would become ninya

This is not true. I think you've been trolled. We only do that to mess with people or announce that we're Swedish.
Think of Pewdiepie. Do you think Swedish people all speak english like him? Do you think he speaks like that in a normal situation? It's his character.

Originally posted by Hazukichan:

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

while that may be true... just because the game is in Sweden, doesn't make the characters Swedish =p
Think of virtually any game that takes place in USA with a melting pot of people from different regions

To me, it sounds like a swedish accent, perhaps with traces of a russian accent mixed in. I don't know if Natalia ever lived in Russia or was born and named in sweden, admittedly, but perhaps she at least has or had a russian relative or two?
Either that, or I'm imagining the whole thing and it's just a plain old swedish accent.

Regardless, I feel she does a great job with the voice work. With some games, I listen to someone reading lines for a child character or a flashback of their younger self, and they sound like they're not even trying to sound the right age. Kids matter, so there.

I don't know if Natalia is the voice actress, but you can hear her real voice and accent in the the Q and A video. It's nothing like in the game. The game accent seems to be made up, a coctail of accents :)

[Hazuki-chan]

Originally posted by Tjock'o'Hårig:

Originally posted by TemmieNeko:

does she ever use any hard J's? People with swedish accents usually can't pronounce a "ja" sound, like NInja would become ninya

This is not true. I think you've been trolled. We only do that to mess with people or announce that we're Swedish.
Think of Pewdiepie. Do you think Swedish people all speak english like him? Do you think he speaks like that in a normal situation? It's his character.

They do, actually, yeah. It's not his character, Pewdiepie is just like that, same as the vast majority of Swedish people. They can generally speak English, but pronunciations pose challenges for them in places. They may think they don't do the "ya" thing, but most do. A hard J isn't commonly used in Swedish, so they tend not to know how to pronounce it. Also, since they say "W" as "V" for some reason, they generally can't make sense of V and W when speaking English (often they will inexplicably pronounce V in English as W, so we get "Willage", "Weteran", etc.), and with S and Z, both come out as S (as Swedes do not pronounce Z, they say it as S for some reason).

This is not intended as a diss, to clarify; just stating some facts about trends in pronunciation around here, as I happen to live in Sweden and languages are a major interest of mine. It probably varies regionally, but even TV hosts at international events and stuff tend to fall into the Swenglish pronunciation traps, so it is at least fairly widespread.

[Tjock'o'Hårig]

Originally posted by Hazukichan:

Originally posted by Tjock'o'Hårig:

This is not true. I think you've been trolled. We only do that to mess with people or announce that we're Swedish.
Think of Pewdiepie. Do you think Swedish people all speak english like him? Do you think he speaks like that in a normal situation? It's his character.

They do, actually, yeah. It's not his character, Pewdiepie is just like that, same as the vast majority of Swedish people. They can generally speak English, but pronunciations pose challenges for them in places. They may think they don't do the "ya" thing, but most do. A hard J isn't commonly used in Swedish, so they tend not to know how to pronounce it. Also, since they say "W" as "V" for some reason, they generally can't make sense of V and W when speaking English (often they will inexplicably pronounce V in English as W, so we get "Willage", "Weteran", etc.), and with S and Z, both come out as S (as Swedes do not pronounce Z, they say it as S for some reason).

This is not intended as a diss, to clarify; just stating some facts about trends in pronunciation around here, as I happen to live in Sweden and languages are a major interest of mine. It probably varies regionally, but even TV hosts at international events and stuff tend to fall into the Swenglish pronunciation traps, so it is at least fairly widespread.

I honestly didn't think you lived in Sweden, since you didn't seem to know what a Swedish accent sounded like.
Either way, I can honestly only trust my own ~30 years of life experience when it comes to this.
Aside from Pewdiepie, I've only ever met 1 other person who spoke like that. And it's because he doesn't give a damn and wasn't even trying. As for nervous newscasters making some pronunciation blunders, I can totally understand that.

The people I play games with are used to English and the people I work with have to speak English quite often. So I guess that's why I'm never around people who have these issues.

[annethral]

Originally posted by Glassman789:

Just curious, where does her accent originate from?

As far as I know, Natalia (the artist behind the game and the voice of Misfortune) is from Chile, so maybe the accent you are listening is a mix of spanish (her original language) + english + swedish (where she lives now) + the childish tone?

[Hazuki-chan]

Originally posted by v a k a r i a n n a:

Originally posted by Glassman789:

Just curious, where does her accent originate from?

As far as I know, Natalia (the artist behind the game and the voice of Misfortune) is from Chile, so maybe the accent you are listening is a mix of spanish (her original language) + english + swedish (where she lives now) + the childish tone?

That sounds quite plausible!

[Vợ của Madara]

From information I got around that Fran Bow is from "England"(from people) and Misfortune is from Swedish. (that what I got, my theory)

[Stigma]

It doesn't sound like swedish! Period.
Also, only scandinavians know how to pronounce the letter "r" correctly ;)