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You Can Now Play Zelda: Breath Of The Wild With Japanese Vocals

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In addition to the big DLC news, Nintendo also released a patch for Zelda: Breath of the Wild today that added something fans have been asking for since the last big trailer: the option for owners of the Western version of the game to play with a Japanese vocal track.

That’s now possible with a simple toggle in the game’s main menu, which lets you stop playing in your system’s language and play in Japanese (and also Spanish, and Italian, and German, etc).

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Note that this only applies to the game’s voice acting, not in-game text.

It’s a small touch, but since the voice acting in the Japanese version of the game sounds for loads of folks to be a better job than the English dub, it’s also a welcome one.

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For a quick and dirty comparison, here is the game’s big 2017 Switch presentation trailer in English:

And here it is in Japanese:

And here’s a compilation video showing the same intro sequence in all the languages you can now play in:

The patch is available now, so install it whenever you’re at your Switch.