#and p2 skirting the law with its user analytics reporting isn't exactly confidence inspiring wrt. business practices

[rathologic]

me and my friend were discussing this, and i’m curious to hear your opinion- do you think the original VAs will be reprising their roles for the Bachelor route? because it’s been a few years, and i wonder if they’re all still up to it.

and like, a lot of lines can be reused, but they gotta voice act stuff for Daniil-specific lines and for the plays, right?

Great question... my first thought was that "intended for Bachelor" spoken dialogue lines had already been recorded, such as dankovsky's "I never even told her how I felt" (I think it's unused? although not flagged as such on the wiki...). Optimistically my money's on getting 75% of the original VAs to return if they do record new lines, but the de-emphasis of the Bound as characters (and generally how many costs are being cut by re-using assets) makes this less likely in my mind.

I think the nonlinear time framing makes it less likely that we'll even have pantomimes in a similar structure (although... a different structure with the same Theatre concept would be great, like a recap of how your actions in a given gameplay segment affected the timeline proceeding from there. Situations where going to the plays is helpful each time to understand what's happening. However, the game's not open-world so physically going to the Theatre wouldn't work...)! I'm very much hoping that the broad plot will diverge from all of the events late haruspex route contained, so at least in narration anything like its pantomimes would need new VO, but using only Talon and Beak's actors would be a very effective band-aid - emphasizing some level of detachment from the people's experience, and the sense that the bachelor sees himself in a grandiose tragic narrative. though again, generic/new characters taking up more of the spotlight would help!