The cutscenes offered
no actual voice acting, instead letting a narrator talk over what was happening, and there were many times where it felt like what I said had no real impact at all.
As a result, Yoshi's Wooly World seems like it will be reasonably accessible for the visually impaired, and since Nintendo has never used much in the way of
actual voice acting, players with hearing disabilities can expect this title to be barrier free as well.
The game is fully voiced as well; all lines of dialog have
actual voice acting attached to them.
The writing is excellent and the welcome addition of
actual voice acting is really well done as previous Lego games used facial expressions and sighs (or grunts) to display emotion and move the story.
And Bowser, oh man, I'm glad they've got him back doing his dinosaur noises for speech, but they did give
him actual voice acting for Sunshine.
Not exact matches
So this is the first Lego game to release with
actual spoken
voice acting and as a big fan of these games I was skeptical at first as to whether speaking would work or not.
But Thomas misses the sensation of
actual flying, and while he respects his commanding officer, Colonel Jack Johns (Bruce Greenwood), most days, he takes orders over speakerphone from a shadowy government official (
voiced, inevitably, by Peter Coyote) from CIA HQ in Langley, and committing
acts that could easily be perceived as war crimes.
The
voice acting is sparse and isn't an
actual real - world language, but it's pleasant and evocative all the same.
It features
actual scenes from that anime, complete with
voice acting and soundtrack.
The dialogue is all text based which I found pretty jarring considering we've got
voice acting in pretty much all other games... the only somewhat reasonable excuse I could think of was that with the expanded roster in this edition (the largest roster so far) perhaps they didn't want to have the odd experience of some characters
voiced while others weren't (or at least not by the
actual star... and given some are no longer with us it would be a bit hard).
Aside from the
actual process, BioWare threw out a couple of interesting facts about the
voice acting project: The game has approximately 40 + novels worth of content, by the time it's finished they will have worked with hundreds of actors and they work very hard to keep pronunciations of words like «Solo» consistent across all actors.
The
voice acting is well done as well even if the
actual lines can sound cheesey.
But to be fair to Traveller's Tale's, this was a year of new things for their LEGO games, with LEGO Batman 2 introducing an open - world to explore, an
actual storyline of its very own and, for the first time ever,
voice -
acting!
The interesting aspect is Dragon Quest Rivals actually features
voice acting, so Square Enix had to assign
actual voices to the characters.
The
voice acting is also very impressive, with the exception being Max himself portrayed by Bren Foster, whose performance can be a little hit or miss, although it is very nice to see an
actual Australian taking on the role and thereby delivering a proper Australian accent, unlike Tom Hardy who just didn't bother.
Writer and director Stacy Davidson showed off this clip for the Star Wars Uncut project last week, but it turns out he's developing an
actual SCUMM adventure game featuring Han Solo, though it won't have
voice acting or the same tongue - in - cheek tone in the video above.
Whilst the
voice acting was decent enough, there was no
actual lip - movements from the characters.
The worst part about the Book of Unwritten Tales 2 isn't anything related to gameplay, graphics,
voice acting, or anything else related to the
actual game.
The
actual questing is kinda like skyrim, its fully
voiced acted but you have a quest marker pointing the way.
Another nice bonus is the standout
voice acting performed by the show's
actual voice talent which really helps bring the cast to life.
The story was atrocious, and the
voice acting for Samus was the single most * emo * thing I've ever heard, but the gameplay itself was fun and I enjoyed the
actual game.
Doesn't show
actual gameplay footage this time, but it looks fantastic and shows the story aspect of the game perfectly complete with some
voice acting and epic music.
Besides sitting through dialogue sections backed by screen art and fully
voice -
acted cutscenes, the
actual battles themselves offer the most riveting parts of the entire mode.