She definitely doesn't sound like a final boss anymore.
If any character has a reason to sound less intimidating or cool, it would be Hilda. She has canonically lost twice so far, the first to Hyde in the first big Hollow Night. After taking a month to recover her Vessel, her second attempt is foiled by Kuon himself after he regains his powers and announces the Final Night. The Final Night a month later is Hilda's 3rd attempt to become the strongest but it definitely will not go well for her. The downgrade in power is reflected on her less guitar-heavy theme and her new stage. Artist error or not, Hilda seems to own the exact dress but its colors reversed which sounds like a Hilda thing to do. Hilda is also not teetering on the brink of madness this time around either, although her ambition has not been made any weaker. Hilda also says more of her actual move names for her specials like the rest of the cast in 2.
Hatsumi Hakada isn't too prolific of a voice actress in comparison to the others but she's pulling triple duty for the series as Hilda, Kuu, and most recently Adelheid. Comparing her UNI2 lines to Adelheid especially shows how much range she's got, and also proves that it's definitely a direction thing to make Hilda sound more like a goon/the third stooge for Amnesia than the final boss she was before. If you didn't know anything about Hilda in 1 and heard her voice you'd correctly mistake her for some fearsome and charismatic boss of an evil organization. 2 better reflects that she's a dumb blonde but with powerful abilities.
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2 май 2024