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The only time it might impact my purchase is if it's a JRPG without dual audio. Western games seem a bit different, but it seems like there's such a small community of voice actors in the West that do Japanese games. Some people might like hearing Johnny Yong Bosch or Steve Blum in everything, but it just makes me cringe. It just ruins the immersion for me to hear the same voice over and over again.

Tales of Xillia was mentioned in the OP, that's a recent example where lack of lack of Japanese audio really disappointed me. Milla and the little girl (can't remember her name-haven't played it in a while) just sounded really awkward to me. There were some decent voices, but overall my opinion on the English voice cast hasn't been very positive.

In an effort to keep me from sounding like a grumpy old man, I will say that I don't hate all JRPG dubs. I generally find Atlus games to have decent to good voiceovers. I liked Fire Emblem: Awakening's English cast, even if Chrom's original seiyu is better (anime fans might recognize him as Gintoki or Joseph Joestar, and I believe he'll be in Persona 5 too). Overall though, I just find that one awkward voice is all it takes to ruin the immersion for me, so having that happen in a heavy story-based game tends to color my opinion of the game as a whole.



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