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Yeah, this is honestly the defining line for what I consider 'my kind of Zelda fan' and 'their first Zelda game was BOTW fans'. It's actually insufferable to me that people DEMAND voice acting in Zelda games now. Like, sure, the BOTW Japanese dub is pretty good but not enough for me to go "waow I need to hear Zelda be voice acted in EVERY GAME MOVING FORWARD". And I'm sure after the movie comes out, this expectation will be baked into all Zelda games moving forward
It's the same thing with people who want new Pokemon games to be voice acted. Like, sure, would it 'add' something to the games if NPCs/characters that aren't the protagonist are voiced? I guess. Would it make any game better? Fuck no.
I actually look down on people who are like "I don't like reading a bunch of text I'd rather it was voice acted" for any game, but especially Zelda & Pokemon lol.
I'd have absolutely no problem with pokemon not being voice acted if they didn't keep doing awkward cutscenes where the characters' mouths are visibly moving and there are subtitles instead of a text box yet there's no actual voice