A tweet regarding a new update to Pokémon Masters has taken Twitter by storm this morning as fans of the series hear the voice of Sword and Shield protagonist Gloria for the first time.
The character, who serves as the base female option players can choose from at the beginning of Pokémon Sword and Shield's adventure, is being added to Pokémon Masters on 29th November. You can hear her new voice in the tweet below, but be warned – it's painfully British.
Ahead of Sword and Shield's launch back in November 2019, the character was assumed to be Scottish thanks to the Galar region's UK-inspired design. Memes soon filled the internet, with fan-made videos, comic strips and the like showing the character with a heavy Scottish accent.
It's a shame, then, that her official voice hasn't quite matched up with expectations, but fans are still enjoying the whole thing nonetheless.
Are you a fan? Show us your best British impression in the comments below.
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Sounds very posh indeed, in before all the usual moaning and groaning, in every single Pokemon sword and shield comment section.
Better than a lot of British accents in videogames (glances at Tracer, BoTW Zelda).
I mean, she should probably have a Scottish or Geordie/Cumbrian accent rather than Received Pronunciation based on her location in Galar, but oh well!
And yeah, while its a very English accent, it at least sounds like an English voice actor. You can normally tell when it's an American VA doing a "British accent" and this doesn't sound like that thank god.
prepares to be immediately proved wrong when an American actress is announced to have done the voice!
How British, exactly?
British as in ENGLISH or British as in some weird English/Welsh/Scottish/Irish mutant chimera freak thing?
Please, please, please, please be the latter.
Honestly it would have been really funny if the Pokémon company gave her a Scottish accent as she is unofficially Scottish to the internet.
It's a very nice touch.
While Galar is based in the UK, the Pokemon world equivalent may not be constrained by that.
Glad they didn't give her an american accent and went with the excuse above
Doesn't Pokémon Masters feature Calem and Serena from the Kalos region?
So, do they have French accents?
"it's painfully British"
Grow up. Are we going to have it pointed out every time a character sounds "painfully" American? No, thought not.
@Munchlax Tracer is pretty accurate imo, She sounds like my cousin lol
@VexingInsanity The thing that bothers me about Tracer is that her voice actress is actually English, but they still made her do the fake cockney anyway.
Why is it painfully British? Do you mean English? I actually think it sounds pretty good - better than in Xenoblade Chronicles 2, which I just couldn’t quite swallow. (Nice to hear a Welsh accent, but did Nia have to be so lugubrious?) Anyone who has grown up watching kids’ TV in the UK is very familiar with the painful standard of stagey child actors - this is a good step up.
Not as bad as you made it sound, then again for some reason I imagined a Scouse (Liverpudlian) accent for some reason. Then again not been following the whole Scottish Fan-canon thing despite the hat.
Better than painfully america trash at least
Eh, I still prefer Elsie Lovelock's Scottish Pokémon Trainer voice.
Anyone hear the original Broadway production of Matilda (check it out on Spotify)? She sounds very similar. I like it!
From the headline I was expecting a sort of faux English / Tracer style accent, but I'm actually pleasantly surprised. It's that sort of Tracey Beaker / Peppa Pig accent that I've never actually heard from a real person, but I kinda like it.
It sounds almost too young for the character model, but otherwise it's well done.
When playing the game I definitely imagined Gloria as having a more northern accent, maybe Scottish? But I may have been brainwashed by memes.
Finally, I was so disappointed with the dub cast of Twilight Wings, an otherwise great series.
@RupeeClock one of the gym leaders, Viola I think, verges on stereotype. She says "fantastique" all the time. So I guess they pick and choose
Not gonna lie, she sounds hot
Didn't think they'd ever top Misty, but Gloria is fantastic.
sounds like mustache girl
@Silly_G Well, certainly not Irish as Ireland is not in Britain 😉
Anyway, the accent is fine. I don't know why it is considered "Painfully" British, it's just an English accent. Poor article.
RIP Scottish Gloria.
@MJL,
Can't be Scottish, no one would understand what they were saying.
@AJDarkstar agree
@RainbowGazelle ya know those at nintendolife are themselves bri'ish love.
petting Zamazenta It's ok, pup... I always be there for you. You'll always be my shield!
Sadness aside, it's nice to hear the british accent for a british character XD
still a game i am unable to get
Ah yes, pokemon: incompatible version
I'd just like to point out a free mobile phone game got voice acting before a $60 ($90 with dlc) console game.
Someone had to say it.
Glad she’s got an English accent and not a Scottish one, it’s been officially confirmed that the main game’s Galar is based on England and that the Crown Tundra is Scotland’s equivalent.
Was so glad to hear this! Disappointing that the Twilight Wings anime gave them all American accents when they are supposed to be British.
Most Japanese games are localized in the UK rather then the US for ... reasons? I've never much understood why it's such an industry wide trend.
That's why we get a lot of British accents in games, or in cases like the original Xenoblades, why "cheers" is the single most repeated word in the whole game.
It’s a shame that a video game character having a non-American based accent is actually deemed newsworthy. We clearly need more variety in video game dialects!
@Munchlax wait Tracer is British? and fire Patricia Sumerset and hire a British or scottish voice actress istead.
Thats what I'm BLOODY talking about mate.
@Bizaster
Maybe we'll get voice acting in Gen 9 or 10. Changes come slowly when Pokemon sells millions no matter the quality.
Anyways, sounds good.
@Silly_G I was hoping she was going to sound scottish but no, just seems to be posh.
@dalekman9999 Your point being?
Very Bri’ish indeed!
Oh. My. God.
I really hate Americans and their stupid, ridiculous comments on us British people and our accents. You make fun of us and you ridicule us just because of the way we talk. And also, you wouldn't call an American accent 'painfully American' would you? So, why do you feel the need to call an English accent 'painfully British'? Personally, I think Gloria's accent sounds completely normal, and that you stupid people are making a joke out of it for no reason.
I'm sorry that was such a rant, but seriously, if you think that a British accent is 'funny' and something to be made fun of, then you are just so wrong.
@Cakefish Sadly unless its a generic American accent, a lot of accents in media are pretty bad representations of the real thing. Being from the American South, I know this all to well. Shudders
@Giancarlothomaz Yeah Zelda did sound like hot garbage in BOTW tbh. IDK why royalty always have to British especially when they cannot even hire an actual actor from the UK most of the time.
Lmao the Britains getting mad in the comments because we think their accents are funny
"twosday anit"
@Zimon ...you do realise most characters in Pokémon Masters get about five lines of dialogue, right? That would cost almost nothing compared to voicing the entire game.
I'm not saying that makes it okay that SwSh doesn't have it, but it's really not a fair comparison.
@MarkMahzes I understand where you're coming from but my counter arguement is 1) it isn't a free mobile game. It's a fully priced game. If Fire Emblem and Xenoblade 1 and 2 can be voiced then so can Pokemon.
2) Even if they didn't want to voice every character in the game they could have at least voiced the cutscenes. Zelda did it.
I know I'm just whining at this point. My point is Sword and Shield is a HUGE let down. At least for me. And I really wanted to like it.
@Zimon yeah the games are a big disappointment to me as well, I'm done with the franchise personally, I have plenty of the older games I can always go back to if I wanted.
@NaidaEevee Honestly people are so racist when it comes to Brits
She sounds like a normal person
Also, when we eventually get Piers + Obstagoon, I will SUE if Yungblud isn't voicing Piers
@StarBot, seriously it isn't funny
@Cakefish I agree. I mean, would you get a news report saying 'Oh my GOD?!? THIS PERSON HAS AN AMERICAN ACCENT?' No, you wouldn't.
Btw I'm sorry everyone that I've been ranting so much, but I just needed to get it out of my system.
Me : gets mildly offended* I am scotish and english!!! This sounds like my maths teacher lol
@NadiaEevee i so agree,Like im also danish,does anyone ever go "Painfully amarican" this is really offensive to me.
That’s horrific ... and I’m English
AQUAMARINE!!!
Anyone?
@Munchlax I know tracers was unrealistic but I thought zelda's was alright am I a stupid american
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