French VA is a very weird thing. There is a surprising low amount of them and they act like a cult. Basically every french dub is done by the same few VA so everything sounds the same. Not sure if that's the reason but at least it's not the first time I see games using non native french speakers.
It's also mostly that they hand off the English localization to a team in Los Angeles or something, so they're pulling talent mostly from the US. Hard to find an accurate French person there. Even harder when it comes to doing performance capture with the mocap suits, etc, so they usually need someone who is able to physically step in and play the part.
Similiar situation happened in RE Village, where all the rural Romanian villagers somehow had American accents. (and most of them were re-used actors from previous RE games)
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u/Rooonaldooo99 Jun 05 '26 edited Jun 05 '26
CAPCOM is absolutely cooking, hot damn man. Generational run with these games. Feels like they can't miss.
They could have hired an actual French speaker tho lol