I play a foreign-developed live service game in which one of the native-language voice actors has been under investigation for the better part of a year and has been unable to work. The dev has, with the VA’s consent, had AI covering him the entire time so that his character wouldn’t go unvoiced.

It’s scary how you forget it’s AI sometimes. I think the only complaint I’ve heard is the fact that sometimes his tone is wrong, because 80% or so of the content is side story with a nice, sweet tone while the main story content is serious, so sometimes the voice in the main story sounds side story sweet.

Which is to say: it really sucks, but the time of bootleg VAs is upon us. The AI is just too good already.

(Someone will ask: the game is Tears of Themis, and the VA being covered is the prolific Jiang Guangtao.)