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shows up a couple months late with a re-edited soundtrack for the updated roster hewwo. In the time it took to record and edit this, I went from ar53 to ar55 lol.
A couple notes:
Mond characters were voiced by the en VAs, liyue characters were voiced by the cn VAs, and inazuma characters were voiced by the jp VAs because it ensures the characters' names are all pronounced more or less the way they're intended
Characters are presented in release order/the order shown in the character archive. This is partly to make updating The Groove™ easier should we want to make an updated version six months from now
The third reason the soundtrack was reedited from scratch is because the original meme didn't have all the characters say their names on the beat. Yes, this has resulted in some characters flashing by very quickly (razor-xiangling-beidou lol), and three characters have had their voicelines sped up or slowed down by ~2.5% in order to fit better with the beat
"Tartaglia" was chosen of "Childe" because a) while I know that "childe" is a legitimate archaic english term I fully believed it was pronounced "chill-day" in the weeks before I played the game myself, b) the way the code names are translated into other languages is kind of a mess, and c) it says "Tartaglia" on his character screen
Klee's name was taken from her character quest rather than her voicelines to preserve eardrums
As of version 2.1, rosaria has never said her own name in-game, so her name was taken from albedo quest and spoken by barbara. In exchange, when barbara's voice did not fit The Groove™, we decided tit for tat and used rosaria's voiceline about barbara.
"Raiden Shogun" was spoken by yae because while raiden says "shogun" in her own voicelines, she never says "raiden." if The Groove™ were to be updated after yae release, her name would likely be spoken by raiden in exchange.
Aloy was not included despite being released on PlayStation for 2.1 because none of us have bothered to crosslink
kazuha was almost allowed to have "と申す" after his name because the rhythm and intonation of the jp va made "(kaedehara) kazuha" sound extremely incomplete without it. Since "と申す" roughly means, from what I can tell, "[you] can call me", I considered leaving it in (similar to how venti and lisa were allowed extra words to fit with The Groove™), and most of the playerbase are weebs anyway; we can have some extra japanese As A Treat. However, he was already taking Forever to say his name (and had to have parts of his audio cut around and retimed to fit with The Groove™), so the feeling of incompleteness that comes with only hearing "kaedehara kazuha" was covered up by having it immediately followed by "Kamisato Ayaka"
Showing everyone's start dates was to justify 小白雪花 and naaaaaat's lack of characters lol
Character levels were shown for the inherent humor of having a c6 character that is Clearly not being used (i.e. at lv 1 or 20-ascended for the free roll).
"timmie" was said by aether and lumine in unison because they have a voiceline about him, surprisingly.
This video was made possible with the power of google sheets, photoshop, premiere pro, and discord screen share :^)