You’ve Heard Him Everywhere: Noshir Dalal Is Jubei in Ghost of Yotei and the Voice Behind Gaming’s Biggest Icons
Hear Jubei in Ghost of Yotei and feel déjà vu? That’s Noshir Dalal, the veteran voice behind some of the decade’s biggest games, cutting in with another standout performance.
Ever fire up Ghost of Yotei, hear Jubei speak, and immediately think: 'Hold on, I know that voice'? You do. It is Noshir Dalal, and if you have touched basically any big video game in the last decade, you have heard him before.
Why Jubei sounds so familiar
Dalal is not new to Sucker Punch's samurai sandbox. Back in 2020, he popped up in Ghost of Tsushima. Fans on Reddit even point to him voicing a ronin you rescue early on — shoutout to user WetYetii for flagging that deep cut. So yes, if Jubei hits your ear like deja vu, it is because Dalal has been here before.
The run that made him everywhere
The big turn that put him on a lot of players' mental rolodexes was Charles Smith in Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018). On paper, Charles could have been 'tough guy #3.' Dalal gave him a quiet, steady center that made the character one of Rockstar's most beloved in that entire Western saga.
Then came Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (2019), where he voiced the One-Armed Wolf. If you fought your way through FromSoft's gauntlet, you remember that performance — reserved, intense, and grounded in a way that matched the game's brutal focus. That role cemented him as the guy studios call when they need emotional weight and physicality in a voice and performance capture combo.
Where you have heard him lately
At this point, Dalal is basically a franchise mainstay. A quick sampler:
- Horizon Forbidden West: Kotallo (voice and performance capture) — Guerrilla even gave him a birthday shoutout on August 15, 2024
- Star Wars Jedi: Survivor: Bode Akuna
- Marvel's Spider-Man 2: Mysterio
- Mortal Kombat 1: Rain
- League of Legends: Yone
- Call of Duty: Modern Warfare III
- Halo Infinite
- Starfield
- Cyberpunk 2077: Phantom Liberty
- Gears Tactics
The industry wrinkle he is watching
Dalal has been blunt about the current threat line for voice actors: AI voice replication. In a 2024 talk at the University of Tennessee, he laid out how studios can train systems on his delivery and mannerisms well enough to synthesize new lines — which, obviously, could undercut the need to hire him at all. His stance is pretty simple: the thing you cannot fake is the lived experience an actor brings into a character. Algorithms can mimic patterns; they cannot invent a life.
Bottom line
So no, you are not imagining it — Jubei in Sucker Punch's latest sounds familiar because Noshir Dalal has been quietly (and not-so-quietly) everywhere, from samurai epics to superheroes to Westerns. What do you think of his turn in Ghost of Yotei? Does Jubei land for you, or are you still hearing Charles, Sekiro, or Kotallo bleeding through?