The PS2 era of gaming featured some great games but some pretty terrible voice acting that fans love to hate.
During the PS2 era of gaming, developers began to put a lot of effort into not just into the enjoyment of wider forms of gameplay, but also into making the story feel as alive and intriguing as TV shows or movies. While games on the PS2 didn’t always succeed in this, one of the generally weaker points was the voice acting.
Trying to get players invested in a story or world was difficult with less-than-ideal voice acting. A weak script or too many NPCs in an RPG world that were poorly voiced could lead games down rabbit holes. The games usually suffered for it, but sometimes the voice acting was so bad that it was amusing, and became part of the game’s charm. 6 Rygar: The Legendary Adventure
There is something off-putting but kind of hilarious about a bad voice actor whose every line is reverbed with an effect that makes her sound slightly more like the disembodied God she is meant to be portraying. That is part of the opening to Rygar: The Legendary Adventure, a PS2 action game set in a fantasy Roman/Greek inspired world where Titans attack and steal Princess Harmonia.
Simplistic in style, Rygar’sHero was pretty poorly voice-acted throughout in an overly simplified “heroic” voice. Meanwhile, the Princess herself was quite an egregious bit of voice acting, and the Goddess who saves Rygar sets the tone in the opening for some of the weakest voice acting of the lot. 5 Shining Force EXA
A late release for the PS2, Shining Force EXA is just one in a series of RPGs about battles between angelic and demonic armies. Shining Force EXA repeated many of the mechanics in and out of battle from Shining Force NEO, the previous entry in the series.
