 Bob Mackey of 1UP.com wrote that Virtue 's Last Reward did not have to work hard to make the player care about the characters . Martin Robinson of Eurogamer appreciated that the cast was believable and taht each character was powered by real emotion . Boosinger commented that the characters were not well written , and that there was little reason to care about them until their backstories were revealed . Lucas M. Thomas of IGN stated that the English voice acting was " among the best performances I 've ever heard in any game , period " . Kemps commended the voice acting for being a pleasure to listen to even after playing the game for thirty hours . Mike Manson of Nintendo Life similarly praised the Japanese voice acting . 
