User blog comment:Demon Killer/Better Sonic Voices and Retcons needed/@comment-3544938-20110830023355/@comment-3445303-20110830233522

If there's something wrong with Rouge's current English VA, then... I find actually no problem with that. When Sega hired Karen Strassman to do Rouge, I theorized that they were attempting to make it sound almost as close as the character's seiyuu (Rumi Ochiai)... Half the time I was right, and then half the other maybe wrong. Still, in my opinion, I always figured Sega was gonna pull a "saving grace" for Rouge's 4Kids VA, seeing as how she sounded a lot older, or... They just didn't like the change. The latter reason needs some sort of reasoning, itself.

Overall, I can honestly say Karen Strassman has one of the best Rouge performances, behind Rumi, that is... And Lani Minella was good in the past, but she's a bit cringeworthy whenever she does Ivy for subsequent Soulcalibur titles after II. That's all I'll say.