>>43534448Persona 3-5 use the same technique but with partner, boss, Joker, him, you, the kid, etc, and it's Terrible. The avoidance is blatant and tends to throw my immersion out the window, especially the times the text boxes have my character's name and they swap it out for something else in the voice acting, or just skip it altogether. P3 is the worst offender.
>>43534459This, though I find Piers's song and Rose's opening speech were both offenders; Rose and Leon's talk could've had it, too. The rest of the game having no VAs was fine and I'd like to keep it that way. If it's added in the same way Masters has it with their short phrases, I probably wouldn't mind.