Listening to Patricia Summersett's real voice gives me major whiplash purely because she sounds so much better naturally than with her Zelda voice. If she actually used her real voice instead of that fake high class British voice she uses, I'm willing to bet it would have elevated Wild Zelda as a character.
But since these games have shitty and downright abysmal English voice acting, we can't have nice things. Hence we're stuck with a Zelda who has a voice that's incredibly irritating. If they can't give their English voice actors any sense of direction, don't bring voice acting back at all.
Oof yeah. I’ll admit, I was being dramatic about my post about voice acting, cuz I do think if the voice acting is good, then it’ll be great. Botw voice acting didn’t bother me THAT much, cuz aside from Zelda and the ancient sages in totk (and admittedly Mipha, save for her voice in aoc), the voice acting was ok. Not phenomenal but not a total dumpster fire. I think it just needed some direction cuz the voice actors were just reading off a script and so some sounded very monotone. Like Rauru and Mineru are examples of that. But it COULD be good if they put just a little bit more effort into the voice acting. Probably not the voice actor’s fault.
So I agree with your last sentence. if they do have voice acting, I want good direction and more emotion. And if someone does an accent, it has to be GOOD. And my gosh I do not want forced high-pitched voices that will make me go insane.
