Rayman 2 did it the best.
Overrated voice actors
Say what you will about them being overused, but Nolan North and Troy Baker are most certainly not bad VAs by any measure.
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Your argument would be stronger if you didn't back it with a one-note example.
inb4 Wakamoto. Try to understand that companies hire on Wakamoto to do one voice, every damn time, much to my continued disappointment. Catch his early work, before he essentially became a hammy satire of himself/his Dracula role. His range is insane.
As a taster idea of "range," the following two characters are voiced by the same seiyuu.
For another taste, again—all the same seiyuu.
Hell, Takayama Izumi has some definite scale and strength, since she's been a part of several vocal promotional groups, including DoCo (for Ranma 1/2) and Two-Mix (famed for Gundam Wing's voiced tracks).
I only play ascii games programmed in ancient sanskrit by a monk
Voice actors are superfluous and they bring in even more Hollywood celebrity shit to game dev. Many as are insufferable sjws too like the Hollywood actors they want to be.