KHCoM Sora's voice.

[A mystery 346]

Yesterday me and my little cousin finished Kingdom Hearts! I think she really enjoyed it and has gained some mad gaming skills. So naturally today she wanted to play Re-Chain of Memories. It was interesting to me that one of the first things she noticed when we began playing was that Sora's voice was different. She asked " Why is Sora's voice different?" . The only thing that I could think to tell her at the time was that Sora was a little older so his voice had changed. She just said "oh" and gave me that look that says I don't get it, but I will go along with it. :huh: It is interesting to see how young minds work.

[Rob 5,571]

Ah....puberty. What a wonderful thing to experience. *sniff*

[RoxaSoraXIII 40]

Well...

 

> Kingdom Hearts: 2002

> Kingdom Hearts Re:Chain of Memories: 2007

 

As you can see... The "time gap" between these two games is huge so... It's obvious that Sora's voice actor voice would change a lot

[Moni_22 335]

Since KH 1 was released in 2002 and KH Re:CoM in 2008 it's normal .

[Namikaze 654]

When i first played kh1 i thought sora was voice acted as a girl. Then when i heard him in kh2 i thought the actor was different only to find they were the same

Edited June 9, 2012 by mnamikaze101

[Sora96 17,256]

The voice actor Haley Joel Osment aged like six years. He's voice deepened.

[MateusinhoEX 52]

I'm teaching my 3 year old nephew to play KH2. And it learned to use the shorcut menu very quickly, but still dies

[Elijah Gravenhorst 480]

Since Re: Chain of Memories came out after KH2 this is to be expected. I also thought that like all the characters had new voice actors so I spent many a minute looking thru the credits to see if it was true... "Sigh" oh Ansem your new voice is so much better.

[AnsemTheWise 1,114]

I hoped that Haley would at least try to sound younger for ReCoM, but alas... no. Sora's voice is total discontinuity.

[NightfallXIII 68]

It's called puberty.

[TheOriginalBob 110]

It's funny how people seem to think Sora's voice has changed again in KH:DDD. It's still Haley Joel Osment. I'm pretty sure puberty doesn't strike twice.

[Firaga 5,947]

I remember the first time I played Re:COM and was thinkin' "WHAT???" :huh: when I heard HJO's post-puberty voice.

And...I think...It'd be cool, if they needed one...Sqeenix could find another voice actor for Sora for his KH1/COM voice. This is just hypothetical of course.

I think it would only be needed for when a KH1/COM remake comes along....along with an updated engine, new animation....and a bunch of other stuff that's not gonna happen. :angry: Oh well! I'll settle for an HD import.

[CardCaptorDeadpool 386]

I hoped that Haley would at least try to sound younger for ReCoM, but alas... no. Sora's voice is total discontinuity.

 

Well in fairness Haley did do his best to sound younger than when he did Sora's Kingdom Hearts II, plus I think they might've used a voice effect to make him sound younger. At least David was 17 in the first place for Riku and his voice hasn't changed as much!

[AnsemTheWise 1,114]

Well in fairness Haley did do his best to sound younger than when he did Sora's Kingdom Hearts II, plus I think they might've used a voice effect to make him sound younger. At least David was 17 in the first place for Riku and his voice hasn't changed as much!

 

True. Riku's ReCoM voice didn't bother me as much.

 

Dammit, Haley. Why couldn't you wait longer for puberty?

[wayfinder823 477]

Well, you could hear the voice change process starting in KH1 a little bit. Some scenes, his voice was deeper than others. I guess at the conclusion of KH1 and the beginning of Re:Com (which probably a span of... 4 days TOPS) he completely conquered puberty change. Sora's cool like that.

[Rob 5,571]

True. Riku's ReCoM voice didn't bother me as much.

 

Dammit, Haley. Why couldn't you wait longer for puberty?

 

In Soviet Russia, puberty waits for no one(I heard Haley went there for vacation and came back a man).

[NamineRose 28]

I think that it works better now since Sora has aged in the games. At least they aren't replacing him, that would be horrible.

[Ryusuke 16]

It still works. Sora is still a teenager. Osment still sounds like a tennager. But...I don't really like how he's trying to sound younger in KH3D. It's hurting his emotional range. =(

Edited June 13, 2012 by Ryusuke

[Sorual 607]

I said puberty to!

great minds think alike

[Mystics Apprentice 2,397]

It's funny how people seem to think Sora's voice has changed again in KH:DDD. It's still Haley Joel Osment. I'm pretty sure puberty doesn't strike twice.

 

I know, really! His voice does sound a little different in Dream Drop Distance, but not enough to say it's changed again. I actually thought he sounded a little like Vanitas, but perhaps that's because I just completed BbS when I played it.

[xoblivionx13 1,133]

Ah KH.....the place where puberty hits you like a freight train

 

I played KH2 first and a tiny bit of Re:CoM and thought it was completely normal....then played KH1 a couple months later and went O.O eh? Then I realized it was a rather large gap between games. So it was kinda reverse for me But still weird at first.

[XIIISwords 1,059]

I thought that Sora was voiced by a girl in KH1 and then they switched his VA to a guy in KH2. I only recently found out that it was the same person.

[wayfinder823 477]

I felt that Sora sounded like a boy the whole time....

[VisitJoan 2,713]

I didn't hear a change at all in DDD.

[AntonioKHT 449]

Yep, Haley's big boy, and so is Sora (as consequence). His voice changed a lot, but in CoM it kinda makes sense, since you can say Sora is getting older, and his voice is changing. Good thing when it turns out okay, but then KH3D comes to f*ck voice acting. But it wasn't that bad anyway.