Aonuma says Zelda: Breath of the Wild doesn’t have an option for dual audio

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SonytendoAmiibo said:

 

Perhaps the use of vocaloids, a made up language, like that used in Gravity Rush with subtitles would have been a better option. Then we would know what the spoken Hyrulian language sounds like. Nintendo has invented a written Hyrulian language, why not a spoken one too?

I actually prefer that, personally. One universal language for everyone. 

Just as long as it's not that auto-tuned voice that Fi had.

Hiku said:

Yeah, I agree. Aside from language preference, you'll much much more commonly find that Japanese voice actors have more range to their voice acting, and that comes from experience. In Japan voice acting is a serious carreer that people go to VA school for at a young age. Wheres in the west many voice actors simply stumbled upon it in an add and decided to audition, because why not. I have some English voice actors I hold in high regard, like Crispin Freeman (he prefers Japanese VA as well, ironically), but for me chances of being disappointed in the Eng cast overall is very high in dubs because I hold them to a standard comparable to Japanese VAs.

I should probably specify that I'm mostly talking about voice overs of Japanese material, since I actually don't mind most voice acting in Western media, like the Simpsons or Futurama. There's also Disney movies, where it's common for big actors (ex. Mel Gibson in Pocahontas or Kevin Spacey in Bug's Life) to appear as characters. Honestly, if voice actors like this appeared in dubbed anime and games more often, I probably wouldn't care so much about having dual audio as an option.

I am curious if it's an industry problem, or what the deal is. I remember reading something when the Tales of Symphonia spinoff released, and they replaced a voice acting cast popular in Western cartoons, like Scott Menville, with more common anime voice actors, supposedly due to a union issue. Whatever that means.