It is exhausting to be new at one thing, and it is a lot tougher when 5 million units of eyes are peering over your shoulder prepared to evaluate your each transfer. Regardless, Konatsu Kato—the voice actor and movement seize performer who performed Silent Hill f protagonist Hinako Shimizu—tried the sport for the primary time reside on YouTube on a channel unceremoniously dubbed “The individual from Silent Hill f performs the sport.”
Whereas she was nervous that issues would go improper as she thought-about herself neither a gamer nor a streamer, her expectations have been subverted. As she instructed Recreation*Spark (translated by Automaton Media), she “critically thought it could finish with an apology press convention,” however added that “so many individuals accepted me positively—I really feel saved by the world. I wish to shout ‘ARIGATO!'”
The streams started in October earlier this 12 months and have continued by way of 11 episodes up to now, with probably the most latest stream going up two days in the past. Each has tons of of hundreds of views, with the debut stream sitting at 5 million views at time of writing. Whereas I can not communicate Japanese and due to this fact cannot relay you any stream highlights, the channel description principally sums up the plot of Silent Hill f for you: “I’ve an iron pipe.”
That Automaton article additionally recounts an in-joke that developed after a number of streams, the place Kato calls her viewers “affirmative bots”—first as a joke, then as a time period of endearment. As for what she considered the sport itself, she instructed Recreation*Spark (in response to Google Translate) that it is “too scary,” “insanely scary,” and “actually lovely.” Certain seems like Silent Hill.
