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I won't pretend delivery is a huge factor here.

I think a lot of the most important dub VAs for the R games aren't very good, especially Cloud (they hired inexperienced VAs with small resumes for him, Tifa, Aerith, and Sephiroth specifically to make sure they sounded unique, and to me that really shows), and the KH voice acting is pretty hilariously awful in general.

Meanwhile XIV lines are being delivered by literal professional theater actors.

So yeah, would I have as high an appreciation for the ShB and EW scripts if they were the same quality voice direction as Rebirth? Probably not. I do think we're working with a much stronger baseline here in general though, voice acting aside it's a much, much higher bar they've set.