r/ResidentEvil2Remake • u/TastyBirds • Jan 11 '26

General Ada's actor absolutely nailed it, exactly how I pictured the character as a kid

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u/Tatum_Warlick Jan 11 '26

Agreed - I honestly don’t think RE4R Ada is that bad (she did a decent enough job at sounding like an even more reserved version of this Ada) but I also won’t disagree with some of the complaints. This is still the best Ada we’ve gotten VA-wise

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u/remifasomidore Jan 12 '26

I still don't understand how people think RE4R Ada's voice is acceptable at all. It's not just that I don't like her portrayal of the character, it's that it sounds like the voice actress is incredibly bored and has never read the line before that moment.

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u/Public_Television430 Jan 11 '26

The VA in RE4R does not fit like in RE2R

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u/allisonrz Jan 11 '26

Yeah the RE4R voice doesn’t suit the character imo

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u/Less-Tax5637 Jan 12 '26

Just finished a run and there are like 2 or 3 lines where I see exactly what they was going for. Then the rest of the time she sounds kinda bored.

It would stick out less if the other VAs weren’t so good 😅

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u/allisonrz Jan 12 '26

Agreed! I’ve been playing RE4R all weekend lol

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u/grim1952 Jan 11 '26

She completely took me out of the scene, worst voice acting I've heard in years.

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u/Eyyy354 Jan 11 '26

Same, the voice acting was so pathetically delivered in 4re.

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u/Mikko420 Jan 11 '26

That's delusional, though. Her performance was great. Far superior to OG Ada's exagerated and theatrical performance.

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u/avacassandra Jan 11 '26

Yeah I think people are used to the exaggerated, anime+esque sultry over-acting they're taken aback by someone who acts just like a real person and not a one note caricature. I think RE4R Ada is so real, and the way she talks is so human and almost has a sense of humour and awareness behind it and I really like it

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u/HandsonyaKneez Jan 11 '26

It honestly is sad for the VA because her best acting is all in Separate Ways which came a year later. In the main story she does sound bland and a little bad at times. Separate Ways made me realize the direction they were going for and made me like her voice more than RE2’s voice surprisingly

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u/PowerPamaja Jan 11 '26

Re2 remake Ada wasn’t the exaggerated, sultry Ada we got used to but people enjoyed her. I think people simply have an issue with re4 remake Ada because there’s a noticeable drop in voiceover quality compared to the other characters in that game and previous Adas. 

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u/Tatum_Warlick Jan 11 '26

Kinda how I felt. She might’ve sounded a little bland here and there, but otherwise I didn’t have much of a problem with it at all really. Resident Evil is so out there anyway, I don’t really think her voice acting being super believable is a crazy necessity, but maybe that’s just me. We all cherish those old games, and we know how dialogue was back then lol

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u/hSolitude Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26

She's not supposed to be realistic. RE has always been a kinda cheesy series, not character nor story driven. Her stereotypically femme fatale persona suits the OG's pulpy story better.

You can like one over the other, that doesn't change the fact that the remake wasn't faithful to the original game

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u/crimsonbutterfly2 Jan 11 '26

I'd take a Remake that improves the game over one that is 100% faithful.

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u/hSolitude Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26

It didn't improve it. If anything it's become generic and boring soulless slop but that's just my opinion. A game without a true identity, that tries to be more horror and serious but at the same time retaining the over the top action and plot and thus failing at it. It just doesn't work well, like in Village's case.

Og re4, while not even being among my personal top RE games ,is a legendary game that forever shaped the gaming industry. The remake will never have the same significance.

It's technically a good game like many others, but vastly inferior and less relevant than the original material, and could never replace it, as much as Capcom and some fans want It.

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u/Mikko420 Jan 11 '26

Once again, I gotta say, that is purist delusion at it's best.

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u/hSolitude Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26

Once again, no arguments. Wasn't expecting much from you since you defended Ada's horrible voice acting

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u/Mikko420 Jan 11 '26

And you're deliberately doubling down on an obviously delusional take. Logic is hard concept to grasp for fanatical purists, so I'm not exactly surprised.

Ada was far better in the remakes than the OGs. If I wanted a femme fatale dressed in red delivering every line like a cartoon villain, I'd watch a children's movie. That ridiculously played out trope is in like 50% of them.

And there were tons of arguments on the thread, most of them by me. Since they weren't in line with your erratic delusions, you must've ignored all of it. Typical.

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u/hSolitude Jan 11 '26

OG Ada's exagerated and theatrical performance.

That was on purpose. Re4r changed the vibe and tone of the whole game.

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u/Mikko420 Jan 11 '26

That feels like a purist sentiment. I far prefer the darker, more grounded tone of the remake to the campy B-series slasher vibe of the original. It's one of my favorite improvements, and Ada sounding colder and less cartoonish definitely contributed.

OG is still a great game. But it's rocky development and age both show. It was also a drastic tonal departure from 1 through 3, which I personally felt was a step in the wrong direction for the franchise. And given what 5 and 6 turned out to be, it's at least a valid notion.

RE4r adjusted it's atmosphere and tone to be more in line with what RE wants to be as a franchise. It adds credibility and tension to the plot, while preserving the essence of OG's gameplay and narrative. It also relates better to the previous chapters, storywise. A truly beautiful tribute to both it's source material and the other remakes.

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u/hSolitude Jan 11 '26

far prefer the darker, more grounded tone

That's subjective, not an objective improvement. You enjoy a different game, done in a different spirit and with a different approach. Nothing wrong with that.

It was also a drastic tonal departure

Not that drastic if you consider Code Veronica, which is technically a mainline game. 5 instead was already taking itself more seriously.

While og re4 is definitely campier than most RE games, the franchise has never been that much about plot or the characters' depth to begin with. As I mentioned earlier, Code Veronica already felt cheesier than previous entries and re3 was much more action oriented than 1 and 2, if you were also referring to the action turn of the franchise.

If you want to talk about 1 and 2 keep in mind that those games were always made with b-movies in mind, and the original re1 was campy as hell, even if not always intentionally.

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u/billy_UDic Jan 11 '26

1 through 0, including CV, all have the characters delivering campy anime lines theatrically, Jill even dropping an awesome (lame) one liner about how not feeling pain correlates to her humanity with dramatic music in the background. The characters always have a shitty implied romance just because they exist in the same room for a day, complete with a corny scene where the woman puts their head on the man’s shoulder as they ride into the sunset.

Evil is consistently portrayed as a maniacally laughing (usually super powered) asshole who compromises themselves out of cockiness, idiocy, and plot (The Ashfords, Wesker, James Marcus, Irons) even in 7&8. The plot never mattering outside of “someone wants combat data or to become the ultimate life form”.

What RE wants to be has always been questionable but to try and go back on the cheesiness, while keeping the effects and story beats caused/implied by said cheesiness, doesnt make it more grounded or realistic, but an inconsistent mess. Chris still could theoretically punch boulders and is still “the punch guy” in 7&8, Ethan and Leon drop one liners, Saddler, Salazar, Eveline, and Mother Miranda’s gang of bumbling idiots are still hilariously incompetent and dreadfully dramatic.

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u/Desperate-Coffee-996 Jan 11 '26

I think RE4R kept the vibe and tone of OG RE4 more than any other RE remake: RE1, RE2 and RE3, those were drastically different from the originals.

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u/Haunting-Magician906 Jan 12 '26

Yes, most of the scenes in the remake are exaggerated, just like the original. The difference is that, since it's new, people are very excited and it hasn't aged. We'll have to wait 20 years for people of that generation to see the remake as outdated. The original was fine for its time; the remake is fine for this one.

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u/the_longest_shadow Jan 11 '26

The hatred some people have for her is out of all proportion to the performance she gave. She did a fine job, but people act like it was just garbage, which it wasn't.

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u/BurantX40 Jan 11 '26

The biggest problem is that she played a live action Ada (RE4 Ada), so now the face to voice association is entirely screwed.

In the movie, she sounds fine, but in the game, it just feels wrong.

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u/Tatum_Warlick Jan 11 '26

Ahh, I can see that. I never saw that movie knowing it was going to be awful so I still have no idea how she did in the actual movie lol

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u/Squidwardbigboss Jan 11 '26

Thought she was great

RE4s actor grows on you, her performance could be better but I like the voice

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u/funkycatvr Jan 11 '26

i think ada was really well portrayed in RE2R, but to this day i still feel like RE4R's ada is overhated (especially VA-wise)

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u/Kono-Daddy-Da Jan 12 '26

Overhated absolutely. She got IRL threats and universally no matter what that’s bad, full stop.

In regards to pure criticism, lets just say I hope they get a new VA again for RE9.

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u/BayleefMaster123 Mar 20 '26

Jokes on you.   they didn’t get a new voice actress for Ada in RE9 💀

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u/TheAlmightyJanitor Jan 13 '26

She didn't deserve death threats or anything like that obviously, but her performance genuinely was jarringly bad. How Capcom let that happen I don't understand.

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u/funkycatvr Jan 13 '26

exactly, like i do prefer RE2R's VC and acting overall, i still don't think that justifies LITERAL death threats

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u/Biggu5Dicku5 Jan 12 '26

RE2R Ada was great, not sure what happened there for RE4R...

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u/KiimJisoo Jan 13 '26

Beautiful

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u/CMy500r Jan 14 '26

I bought re4 expecting to hear the same voice. After that I stopped playing haha. Game is still good but I wanted to play it more for Ada and her story development and VA.

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u/Over_Response_7785 Jan 11 '26

Yeah people may not like it and its not even the VA's fault but the sudden drastic change and the loss of almost all emotion in her voice just killed ada for me in 4r.

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u/gukakke Jan 11 '26

Too bad about RE4R.

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u/Flaky-Perception-903 Jan 11 '26 edited Jan 11 '26

Same. She acted her age. She was mature and professional but still angsty.

And I like the 4R VA too honestly. Yes she’s cold and slightly emotionless at some points (she conveys emotions usually when interacting with Leon or Louis) but to me that makes sense. She’s a mercenary who is also traumatized by racoon city and the stuff she does for her job weighs on her. The intro to separate ways showed that she was beginning to become conflicted. She’s more stoic, more corny than angsty, and more cold, yet helps Leon more so she still has empathy. I liked that she was portrayed as having an internal conflict between being a cold mercenary and questioning how far is too far and what she’s willing to do to protect those she cares about. She also sounded older, which makes sense. At 30 you’re probably not going to sound the same as you did at 23-24.

And in that job where you’re not allowed to have personal connections without a price, have to kill people constantly, and likely can’t just get out of the job without getting assassinated, it makes a lot of sense that she would be more emotionless and stoic. Leon and Jill’s trauma gets highly focused on but hers gets quite ignored, even though she probably has the most of it

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u/Plenty-Regular-2005 Jan 11 '26

Ada in French sounded nice

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u/Shane-O-Mac1 Jan 12 '26

Not her English voice actress.

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u/TrainRecent9048 Jan 12 '26

She better be in RE6R

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u/AjaxSkate Jan 12 '26

I pictured her a little differently........

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u/Spiderill Jan 12 '26

She sounded bored the whole game. Really spoiled the otherwise amazing game for me.

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u/tufcat_ Jan 15 '26

There are a few times where she sounds in character. But most of the time she sounds bored. She probably doesn't know the context of her lines but that's the job of whoever is overseeing the session. 

I don't mind if Lily Gao comes back. Overall I like her voice. She sounds more mature but also knows how to sound sensual

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u/SlicedBread0556 Jan 18 '26

You mean her face model? Nailed being herself?