Closing Fantasy 14 followers are involved Jonathan Bailey, this 12 months’s Individuals’s Sexiest Man Alive, might have been recast in Sq. Enix’s MMORPG – or at the least has recorded underneath unfavourable situations.
Bailey has voiced fan-favourite cat boy G’raha Tia for the reason that Stormblood enlargement, launched in 2017. However this was earlier than he starred within the likes of Bridgerton, Depraved, and Jurassic World Rebirth, from which his fame has risen significantly.
This week, the 7.4 replace was launched for Closing Fantasy 14, bringing an extension to the story and a brand new music from Rage In opposition to The Machine’s Tom Morello. But followers have observed G’raha Tia’s voice sounds somewhat off.
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One reddit thread posits both the character is not voiced by Bailey, or he is been recording away from the studio – seemingly between different main initiatives he is labored on.
“It additionally looks like they’re minimising his talking – he had a complete of two traces within the first two quests, and at one level simply emoted a thumbs up,” the submit reads. “He felt conspicuously silent for G’raha, somebody who’s manner too sentimental to barely say something at a goodbye.”
The poster later added they suppose it’s nonetheless Bailey, however a mixture of hoarse throat and a subpar microphone “provides some gruffness to his voice”.
Followers have additionally been sharing comparability movies on social media, to spotlight the variations within the voice work.
So I did a fast little comparability between 7.0 and seven.4 G’raha Tia, evidently he HAS NOT been recast, I simply suppose he is recording his traces from his cellphone or a subpar mic setup, the EQ is sorta far more treble-y, when his voice is often bassy with the studio mics they use. pic.twitter.com/AYYZYadgWU— Josefumi 🎙️ (@JosefumiVO) December 16, 2025
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I actually hope the traces I heard within the earlier cutscenes for MSQ was simply Jonathan Bailey with that swollen tongue he talked about on this interview 🥺Nevertheless, the scene specifically in Tulliyolal in the direction of the start sounds so totally different from the performing that it threw me off.— ☆オードリーAudrey☆ (@aitaikimochi) December 16, 2025
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In an interview with BAFTA final 12 months, Bailey recognised Closing Fantasy 14 alongside his different voice work, and the way essential the character is to the fanbase.
“I am conscious of how essential this character is to so many individuals,” he mentioned. “I used to be so decided to not step away from this character, that after I was doing Firm [in the West End in 2018] I needed to report this within the day for a few week doing eight reveals an evening and my tongue infected. So I believe, any die-hard followers on the market, there’s just a few hours of taking part in the place I sound a bit lispy, that is due to that. So I apologise.”
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As such, followers hope he’s nonetheless engaged on the sport, regardless of the obvious adjustments in high quality.
That mentioned, a consultant for Bailey instructed Kotaku he “will not be commenting or taking part in any interviews concerning Closing Fantasy 14” presently. Sq. Enix has not responded to Eurogamer’s request for remark.
What is obvious is the dimensions of the function of G’raha Tia has definitely lowered for the reason that highs of Shadowbringers, although whether or not that is because of Bailey or just storytelling is unknown. Certainly, one criticism of newest enlargement Dawntrail is that a number of well-liked characters do not obtain sufficient display screen time.
“With reference to the Scions taking part in a extra lively function solely in a while within the story, reality be instructed that is one thing I deliberately needed to check out,” director and producer Naoki Yoshida instructed me final 12 months.
“I do perceive there are individuals who all the time need the Scions to be on the centre of the story, however on the identical time there are people who find themselves additionally requesting one thing new as a substitute. So it was a aware effort on my half to experiment and see how the steadiness would play out.”
It stays to be seen, then, whether or not G’raha Tia or different well-liked characters may very well be written out of the sport in future. Little question we’ll get solutions on the Fan Fest occasions subsequent 12 months.
