That's not my strained Axel voice, that's my gruff Quinton Flynn voice. My strained Axel voice sounds much different.
I was attempting to emulate the gruffness that Flynn puts into his Axel voice, but I suppose I went to far with it as I usually do (after all, my favorite impersonation is Christian Bale's Batman voice XD.) I'll try either using less gruffness, or just imitating Flynn's regular voice, as Flynn's talking voice has the same tone as Axel's. I'll also try talking louder. The louder I talk, the better I can impersonate Flynn's Axel.
And on the subject of emotion, I wasn't trying to make a big deal out of emotion for this scene, as this is simply casual banter. I don't see how it could have used "a lot more" of emotion. However, if you feel it is needed, I'll insert more emotion in this and other scenes.
If anyone else has any tips or commentary on my Axel voice/performance it would be greatly appreciated. This is the first serious dub I've voiced for, seeing how I've only voiced for abridged series prior to this.
I just tried the code and it workd fine, well, Seph still tried to kill me it just doesn't work. It seems similar to the way the Riku boss can attack and damage heartless.