Teenage Groot: How quickly Baby Groots grow up... After regenerating at the end of the first movie, everyone's
favorite talking tree has hit puberty, becoming an angst - y teenager who spends his time playing «mindless» video games and arguing with Peter Quill (Chris Pratt) about cleaning his room.
We had a wonderful evening listening to Christmas music,
talking about our
favorite ornaments, taking a walk down memory lane over past years decorating our
tree together, as well as our
favorite Christmas memories.
- the scene at the beginning of a ceremony caused Shimamura a bit of trouble - the lines of the ritual did not properly reflect Zelda's personality, her motivations, her powerlessness, and awkwardness - Shimamura
talked about it with Naoki Mori (who was in charge of Cinematic Design, including screenplay, and cutscenes)- the whole thing was rewritten several times, until they arrived at the final result - there's quite a lot of scenes she really likes in the game - her
favorite line is the «Yes» Princess Zelda gives as an answer to the Deku
Tree in a particular scene - in that scene, Zelda thinks about what she should do, but she can not see it at all - she refuses to give up, and wants to give hope to Link - Shimamura tried to convey all of those feelings through the single «Yes» she spoke - recording felt completely different than for animation, the dubbing of (foreign) movies, or other games - there was no fixed routine of how to approach it, as all different things were being tried out - lines were redone even after other lines were implemented in the game, as the team found better ways to say things - Shimamura finally managed to beat the game the other day, but she wants to keep practicing her shield surfing - Shimamura explains that she really gave it her whole when voicing Princess Zelda, to give her emotions - she hopes that players will remember their memories of Princess Zelda
They said one of their
favorite parts of Christmas was putting the
tree together and then the lights and then
talking about all the ornaments and where they came from as they put them on the
tree.