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Well its not so much that American voice acting is bad as much as that the series has not had fantastic luck with it and VIIR aside has at best sounded like a typical 2000s anime dub. I do think I will agree though that generally American-dubbed Japanese games dont sound as good as other instances of American voice acting because they rely on a pretty small talent pool and it can get repetitive. There are exceptions and Three Houses is among them.

As for Xenoblade 2 it was mostly Americans living in the UK or British-Americans like Pyra/Mythras actress. Also Rex is great he just has like four duff lines though unfortunately these all got lumped together right at the start of the game. The problem is the game was rushed to release in the Switchs first calendar year so the voice acting in both English and Japanese suffered for the first few chapters.

Xiahou_Shake posted...

Yeah I'll definitely add my, erm, voice to the pushback on American VA work being bad. Things haven't been "bad" in a blanket sense since we moved past the PS1 era (which even then had insane stuff like MGS1) and they're actually generally really fucking good now for both games and anime.

Id say it was more recent than that, about midway through the 360/Wii/PS3 generation was when game VA got reliably good, although there were a lot of good examples before then.