When playing a game such as Kingdom Hearts, or indeed any game at all, it is important for players to connect with the characters that they both play as and interact with. Voice actors are in a position to strengthen these relationships through playing their role well and giving players that sense of familiarity whenever they come across their specific character.

Fans of Kingdom Hearts care a great deal about the voice actors that bring to life their favourite characters and so it is expected that they care enough to try and find out who is voicing who. The voice of Terra was always a mystery to fans until Jason Dohring confirmed that he would be voicing the new character in Birth by Sleep. Dohring spoke about his role in the game during a radio interview on blogtalkradio.com.

Interviewer: The most obvious question ever - what are you working on right now, and is there anything that we should be looking for soon that you're going to be in?

Jason Dohring: Okay, right on, so it's pilot season right now and I've been going out - I think I went out every day last week, and I had a couple of them that are moving forward so I should have - I'm hoping to have one in the next three weeks or whatever? I hope so, and I'll definitely let you guys know of... and I'm doing a... there's a... uh... video game for Disney that I've been working on for like the last three and a half weeks?

And yeah, it's, like, really cool, because I have scenes with Cinderella and Snow White and, uh, Chip and Dale, because it's like a Disney... it's like a dark Disney video game? And it's sold 500,000 copies already in Japan a month ago.

Yeah, it's really a big thing, so... but, yeah, it's cool, because I get to play a hero, and I'm really learning stuff about acting just from doing voiceover, which is incredible, like, wow, man, I'm really understanding what it's going to be like with a type of role like that. Just what his morality's like, and standing up for anybody, and having one drive, and it's just to do good and make things go right and, you know, I'm really enjoying it.

From what we've heard from the many trailers of the game, Dohring has done a pretty good job with voicing Terra. The only downside is that he is relatively new to voice acting and has only acted before in a few minor films and TV appearances. Whatever the case, let us hope that his performance shines through so that we may enjoy Terra's character as much as so many before him.

Thanks to GU member RedRose for the news and KHInsider for this great find.