Pokemon Needs to Take After Breath of the Wild's Voice Acting Soon

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Though Pokemon has evolved over the years from its earliest days with Pokemon Red and Blue to its upcoming Pokemon Scarlet and Violet, one change it has yet to make — even for Scarlet and Violet — is to finally include voice acting. What likely began as limitations of technology seems to have fallen victim to the traditions of design, and despite Pokemon having every opportunity to change, the series has yet to take the jump. But one series that did make its leap of faith when it introduced voice acting for the first time was The Legend of Zelda.

Zelda made headlines when it announced it would be including voice acting in Breath of the Wild, a first for the series' long lineage spanning three decades at the time it was released. In fact, thanks to the success of the game, and with voice acting returning for its sequel Tears of the Kingdom, it's very likely that the series will continue voice acting for future entries. To an outside observer then, voice acting not only helped the series modernize, but helped it thrive. Therefore, it seems clear that Pokemon needs to break its silence and finally catch up with other flagship Nintendo series like Zelda.

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Though the games don't have voice acting overall, the anime series that runs in tandem with the games has gradually built an impressive repertoire of characters and their associated voices. Arguably, some of Pokemon's roles such as its lead Ash Ketchum or the likes of Brock, Professor Oak, and any other recurring characters are more recognizable because of their voice actors. For example, Veronica Taylor is such a vital mainstay of the English version of the anime that her voice is being lent to other projects such as