Why Pokémon NEEDS Voice Acting

I really hope they add voice acting in the next Pokémon game Join the discord if you haven't! discord.gg/mYwSux2gZe

Pokémon seems to be the one series that refuses to evolve for some reason.

If pokemon had voice acting in the games, it would be sooooo good

Don't get me wrong I like creating my own voice for characters that don't have them but I'd like actual voice acting more tbh

The biggest part where not having voice acting REALLY stook out to me was in Area Zero... when you're all walking through and they're all talking over your gameplay, I missed multiple lines of dialogue because they were talking while I was busy doing other stuff, and then on top of that It would cut off lines if I came across a Pokemon or something and I'd have no choice but to miss the dialogue. That part especially just felt so weird not having voice acting, it felt like they intended it to have voices there but they just didn't.

Not only did they have that awkward scene with Piers, but they doubled down on it with MC Ryme and her rap in SV.

At the very least Pokemon could just do emote noises like "Great!" and "Awwww...". That would honestly sound so good despite not being linked to the actual dialogue.

I find it hilarious that they don’t want voice acting for the players own perspective of the characters, while the anime literally creates that for you at the same time- edit: i think i started ww3 in the comments

3:50 Actually the inklings do have a name for their language and it is the same name as their species "Inkling" which makes people wonder why octolings speak the same language even though they are an entirely different species.

I honestly do not care if they only hire JP VA's something is better than nothing. It's Crazy that B2W2 to this day still has more voice acting than every single mainline game combined.

The Volo cutscene needed it, so did it myself. 100% agreed.

It's so weird to me Pokemon has had full voice acting in their spinoffs before their mainline games. Pokemon New Snap and Masters EX are the only games with full voice acting, or- semi-full voice acting. HELL! Pokemon New Snap already had the fully voice acted cutscenes idea, with limited voice lines during gameplay. THEY ALREADY DID IT WITH NEW SNAP!

I wish that characters had voice acting cause I’m just curious to her what some characters would sound like. For example nemona

Imagine if the end of Scarlet and Violet had voice acting. That ending sequence was already emotional without it but had it been voice acted it would have been perfect... Perfectly heart wrenching but still perfect lol.

There's also a really simple way of having voice acting in the game while also letting people come up with their own concept of the characters. Pull an X and Y and give us a toggle to turn the Voices off, yknow, like most voice acted games have? Hell they had a whole sound slider for specifically voices.

I agree with you 100%! That’s what I’ve been saying forever! I would love to hear characters speak in the games. Nemona most of all!

Yo-Kai Watch is a monster collector JRPG with a good number of games on the 3DS. Yo-Kai Watch 3 has 752 monsters in one game. EVERY monster in the game has voice acting of saying their name and some short lines like you would expect to hear from the Pokemon anime. It has audio for Japanese, English, Spanish and German. No excuses.

When you meet Piers for the first time in sword and shield, it felt so awkward due to the lack of a voice. Like how is that a gym leader from three generations ago in a Ds game had a voice but not this one? and mind you they are both rockstars I’m referring to Roxie if you’re wondering

Pokémon having voice acting in Spin-Offs. Pokémon having voice acting in MOBILE GAMES. Pokémon having voice acting in regular games: lol nope.

Up to gen 7, i brushed off comments about "pokemon needs voice acting" as i thought it was a silly conplaint. Then with swsh i thought okay some scenes could benefit from voice acting but it doesnt need it. Then we got scarvio and MAN those cut scenes NEEDED voice acting. I understand not voicing text boxes, but you shouldnt have full movie scenes with subtitles we should have some voices