Nintendo of America hired voice actors for Archaic Sealed Heat

It’s no secret that Nintendo of America had plans to localize ASH: Archaic Sealed Heat, Mistwalker’s first DS title. It was widely reported that a listing for the title was found on the ESRB. In fact, you can still find the rating here.

Siliconera has discovered that Nintendo even hired voice actors for the project. Eric Newsome, the voice actor for Meta Knight in Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Bowser in Super Paper Mario, would have voiced ASH’s Bamygarant. Khanh Doan stepped into the role of lead character Maritie.

It’s still unknown as to why Nintendo of America ultimately decided against bringing Archaic Sealed Heat to North America. The company’s localization efforts did appear to be fairly far along.

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