Amir wrote: Bailu village sounds like it'll be pretty small and Suzuki is on record as saying Shenmue III expands inward not outward, so I think there'll be a lot less than 300 NPCs total, with most of them in Choubu, and the majority of the dialogue being between Ryo and Shenhua. I don't think full voice acting is out of the question.
So weird how the Japanese voice actor for Ren disappeared off the face of the Earth, though, he was so good.
Ren was easily my favorite japanese voice (with Ryo and Shenhua from Sh II). If the team achieves to sign him, that would be fantastic.
Yeah, whatever the number of NPCs Yu tells us, a lot of antagonists NPCs won't need particular dub anyway. Besides, Yu made this statement when we were still way below the 6 million $ at the time. But the Yu's silence on the topic is very suspicious. I guess it's one of the David's questions that Yu refused to ask.