The voice actor behind Silent Hill f protagonist Hinako Shimizu has opened up about her experiences in engaged on the sport. In an interview with Famitsu (through Automaton Media), voice actor Konatsu Kato spoke about feeling her personal sanity slipping away from her as she portrayed Hinako by means of the occasions of Silent Hill f.
After describing her preliminary recording as going fairly “easily”, Kato famous that the function beginning being extra psychologically demanding because the story went on. Since she additionally needed to report a number of scenes numerous occasions with completely different tones and feelings, Kato additionally began asking extra questions.
“However as recording progressed, the story branches steadily elevated,” she mentioned (translation through DeepL) “Whereas recording numerous developments, I’d assume, “It is a comparable scene to earlier than, however the phrases and feelings are completely different… ‘Huh… the place am I? What’s Hinako doing proper now?’”
This additionally got here to a head when she needed to report strains the place Hinako was having a dialog with one other model of Hinako.
“Since I used to be taking part in Hinako, and the opposite actor was additionally taking part in Hinako, I’d get confused about who I used to be—each within the function and in actuality,” she defined. “There have been occasions again then when tears would simply come out though I wasn’t fascinated with something. The confusion grew in proportion to the “time spent dealing with one another,” so I bear in mind having days after I felt like I would lose my thoughts.”
Kato has additionally admitted within the interview that she hadn’t actually performed any Silent Hill video games earlier than, and that she isn’t typically “good with horror”, since she believes in ghosts. “First, I believed, ‘Why me…?’” she mentioned about when she was solid within the function of Hinako. “Then, ‘I’m going to be plunged right into a terrifying world…’ This would possibly sound detrimental after I say it, however please take it positively? …It weighed closely on me.”
The entire expertise finally led to Kato probably not remembering how a lot she was actually concerned with the story of Silent Hill f. The psychological toll of taking part in Hinako led Kato to suppress fairly a number of of her reminiscences of getting labored on the horror sport, together with her stating that “I can solely recall fragmented components, just like the voice recording periods. Even what I’ve talked about at the moment is one thing I’ve squeezed out of these reminiscence fragments.”
Silent Hill f has confirmed to be fairly profitable for writer Konami and developer Neobards Leisure. The constructive vital reception of the horror sport led to sequence producer Motoi Okamoto celebrating the sport’s reception, in addition to the involvement of author Ryukishi07 within the narrative of the title.
“I’m thrilled that [Silent Hill f] obtained a Metascore of 86, tying with the Silent Hill 2 remake,” wrote Okamoto on X (translated through Grok). “With Japan because the setting, Mr. Ryukishi07 dealing with the state of affairs, and a combat-focused sport design, I had a sense it’d divide opinions given all of the difficult components, however I’m actually grateful for such excessive reward.”
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