9 Recent Hilarious Voice Acting Fails In Video Games

6: Could Have Used A Second Take - Hidden Dragon Legend

Now, I don’t love coming for indie games in the voice acting department. They traditionally don’t have the budget, team sizes, and ability to call in big localization companies when needed to perfect performances in the way giant studios can.

But here we are. I’m doing it anyway. Let’s talk about Oasis Games’ 2017 2.5D action platformer Hidden Dragon Legend.

Hidden Dragon Legend is perfectly serviceable. Well, it’s pretty much fine. It’s definitely and indisputably a video game. What is not fine is its voice acting.

Save for one or two good performances that sit in a super stark contrast to the rest, almost every line is delivered like the English audio VO director just had a mad hangover that day and every first attempt was totally fine so long as it meant the session would be wrapped up faster.

The delivery is peppered with some really, uh, unique choices on which words in a sentence should be emphasised, and the accent of the protagonist is absolutely indiscernible.

The audio quality is also all over the place, but, look, if you can find it funny and in keeping with a classic campy action-packed B-movie, you might be able to look past its faults and play the game underneath. Except the game underneath isn’t that great.

So if you’re gonna be forgiving of wildly inconsistent and bizarre voice acting maybe try doing that for a different game like…