Atleast half of the VA's in Ys 1 & 2, were in Transformers & GI Joe, not to mention Debi Derryberry was in Tenchi Muyo! And IIRC, most of the games with bad voice acting, were recorded in Japan, with actors that aren't used to speaking english, so they don't understand how things are pronounced........like if I was told to do a script in Japanese, I'd have no clue where to put emphasis! Though, Ys 3 was done locally, you can tell by the names in the credits.