The Fairy Tale Revamped does contain voice acting, how the recordings are most of all old and done by people I am no longer in touch with, also the reason why Dyrt and Star Story don't have voice acting, as it was hard, next to impossible to round up enough voice actors.

In The Fairy Tale I voiced several characters myself. Dandor, Hando Stillor, The Fairy Elder, Harry and Krandar. Other people did the other voices. Now what I didn't note in the credits is that I provided the voice for the main villain, but this is due to spoiler reasons as his identity (all I can reveal is that it's a male) is only revealed near the end of the game (although hints leading to him are already given earlier, of course). And boy, did I have fun voicing the main villain. I actually scared the crap out of the other voice actors and some even reminded me that they still wanted to sleep that night.

Now playing the villain is very extremely cool, and I can recommend it to all with enough talent to do so. For starters, if you are the villain, the best music in a production is mostly dedicated to you, and that alone is worth it. Next you may say anything that you'd normally don't want to say, but now you can do so, the more terrible, the more evil, the better. And, although you cannot see that in voice acting, but you can see it on stage or in movies, you can do anything you'd normally not be allowed to do, and scare the crap out of the audience as extra bonus. Really playing the villain is just the best job an actor can get in my humble opinion. Especially since I experienced in story writing that villains who are set up well, can be more important than the main heroes could ever be. And even though you only get to find out who the main villain is near the end of the game in The Fairy Tale, once you get to know him, and especially when you get to know what drives him onto the path of evil, you'd understand why I take pride in this particular villain, and I always hate it that I cannot talk about him in the open as that would always spoil the story. I even wrote a book about how he got onto the path of evil, although that book is in the Dutch language and I'm looking for somebody who can help me to get the English translation well in order so it would really feel like it's written by a native English speaker. This book will even shine more light on his character.

Now playing the bad guy appears easy, but the truth is... it's not. In fact, it's harder than playing the good guy. There are very important reasons for that. "Evil" does not exist, that word is merely a word we use to distinguish ourselves, to point the blame of our own mistakes onto somebody else, so we can give ourselves the beautiful illusion we are so "good" ourselves. Well nobody on this fucking earth is a saint, and nobody ever has been, and nobody ever will be.

The same holds true for evil. Nobody has ever been evil through and through, and nobody ever will be. No matter how many bad things you have on your name, somewhere deep inside of you is always a shiver of "good", or at least what we consider as "good".

Everybody walking "the path of evil" has a story, a reason why the bad guy decided to walk the path of evil, and the worst part is that many evil persons do not even know themselves they are actually walking the path of evil and do consider themselves actually saints.

Claude Frollo from "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" is a very typical example of a villain who considers himself a saint. Who strongly believes to be better than everybody else and that all of his actions are justified "in the name of God". However somewhere deep down he knows, although he tries to waver it all the time, he knows he's being a bad man, most evidence by the final lines of his theme song "Hellfire". "God have mercy on her. God have mercy on me, but she'll be mine or she will burn." Why would he beg God to have mercy on him if he never did anything wrong? There would be nothing to forgive or to be merciful about if he never did anything wrong.

If it comes to the question if Frollo is evil, what I can say is this. Frollo's discriminating views on "Gypsies" was the general consensus of the time, no matter how discriminating and revolting those views are considered today, and no matter how much they are based on lack of proper facts. You must always judge a person based on the time in which they lived and the culture upheld at the time, before you really judge such things we find despicable(even when it's for good reasons) in modern times. Frollo did fall in love with Esmeralda a "Gypsy" and this brought him into conflicts about what he always believed about Gypsies and his true natural feelings, eventually he makes things hard on himself in trying to turn her into some kind of "lust demon" in order to get his "own soul" clean, but in doing so he also cannot forget her, with as a result his feelings turn into an absolute sexual obsession, turning him in desperation to "cleanse" himself by destroying her in the process bringing loads of misery and pain over Paris.

Now the evil guy in The Fairy Tale share a few traits with Frollo. Believing himself to be good, only to be turned to "The Dark Side" in the process, however this guy did not fall over a woman he could never get, or a woman he could not have peace with himself with due to discrimination issues, but yet he believed to be a saint but was anything but that. Those kinds of villains are hard to shape. You must as a writer be able to bring reason to things that cannot be reasoned about, and you must also be able to justify things you cannot justify in your heart, and yet when you write out such a villain or when you portray such a villain that is what you must do, and you gotta make that credible. Make people understand why the villain thinks the path he has chosen is the right one. Make people believe that it's credible he's completely blinded for the bad consequences of his own actions. Even more of a challenge, make people believe that they'd do the same things if they were in the villain's shoes when being raised under the same circumstances, as well personally as cultural, and facing the same issues the villain has faced. If you can do that, you've made a very good villain. If you can do that, you are a great actor. This is not easy. It's fun, but not easy. And writing about such a villain is even harder, as you really need to make everything fit.

The Fairy Tale is the very first story I wrote about the world of Phantasar. The Secrets Dyrt was the second story, but was modified many times before the game would come to be, and to put it even further, the two prequel novels were completed sooner than the actual game, but did also help me to give shape to the villain of Dyrt. It was the villain of The Fairy Tale that made me realize I had it into myself to be an author, actually.

Sometimes villains are merely needed in a story in order to cause a bad situation. Lord of the Rings is a very notable example of that. Sauron, the main antagonist of the story hardly plays a role in the story physically, he's only mentioned many times and it's most of all his ring the story focuses upon. This allowed Tolkien to take the story to another perspective and to focus most of all in how the heroes are influenced by the evil power of that ring. This made LOTR not the best story plot-wise (not to mention the books are boring due to elaborating too much about irrelevant things), but still as the heroes need all of their strength in order to overcome the ring, you can give the heroes some extra personality. Lord Voldemort from Harry Potter is a villain who initially looks like they only need a villain in order to have an evil guy in the story, but as you get further into the series and how slowly Harry discovers more and more and more about Lord Voldemort, and thus as the story is most of all told from Harry's point of view, the reader also more and more aware about the person who bears that name, the name nobody dares to speak, you come to the conclusion that Lord Voldemort is nothing but a desperate idiot beyond stupidity who should have gotten himself proper mental therapy when he was still a kid. Yet, everybody knows him as the greatest dark wizard of all time, and yet everybody feared him so much they didn't dare to speak his name. How come? This shows how Rowling was a very extremely gifted writer to make a villain like that credible even in an incredible world. The quality of the Harry Potter novels (not the movies, they suck) lies in how well the "evil" side has been worked out, and not only Lord Voldemort. But some other villains as well, not to mention (and this is completely omitted in the movies) how the wizard Harry held in extremely high regard, had almost turned to the dark side himself if it were not very a very extremely tragic wake-up call that was most impeccably timed. This also shows that Rowling understood too well, how nobody is purely good and nobody is purely evil.

And that is also the kind of writer I want to be, and the evil guy in this game shows that. Now I need to note, the original synopsis of this game predates the release Harry Potter, and as I worked out the original version of The Fairy Tale (the version on Game Jolt is called "REVAMPED" for a reason), I only came to touch the first Harry Potter story when I was preparing the original game for the final stage, Rowling would later become one of my big examples in story writing most notably because how she shaped Lord Voldemort, but also in how she was able to turn a very despicable asshole (James Potter) into a very great honorable man, but whose honorable traits would also be his undoing.

Over the course of time, I've become more and more looking most of all for that what makes a good villain work. Why is the villain the villain? Writing about a good villain is hard, but is fun, and if your villain turns out to be one nasty piece of work, but one that really nails the point of what "evil" actually is, it works very satisfying.

It's not that stories that have a villain simply because of needing a villain to create a bad situation, as the way the "good guys" come up with the situation caused by the villains is sometimes more important (Bill Sykes from Disney's Oliver & Co. is a notable example of that) are bad. (Not to mention that Bill Sykes nails it as a villain, perhaps also due to brilliant voice acting). But for me, the true challenge lies in villains who clearly show the world that there's more but "good" and "evil".

"We are good and they are evil", is actually an evil statement in my point of view, and this is also the deeper meaning behind "Only a Sith deals in absolutes" by Obi-Wan Kenobi. However, when we look to Anakin Skywalker, we can also see that failing to understand that there's no good and evil, is one of the things that drove him to the Dark Side getting himself "consumed" by Darth Vader, to speak in Yoda's words.

So peeps, I love portraying villains, I like writing about villains, but remember, the villain can make or break your story depending on your talent as a writer or as an actor, so don't underestimate the challenge of playing or creating a villain for your story.