Silent Hill f’s lead actor was apprehensive her first stream of the sport would ‘finish with an apology press convention,’ however she ended up loving it and bought thousands and thousands of viewers

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 particular person from Silent Hill f performs the sport.”

Whereas she was nervous that issues would go flawed as she thought of herself neither a gamer nor a streamer, her expectations had been subverted. As she informed Recreation*Spark (translated by Automaton Media), she “significantly 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 need to shout ‘ARIGATO!'”

The streams started in October earlier this 12 months and have continued by 11 episodes up to now, with the newest stream going up two days in the past. Every one has a whole bunch of 1000’s of views, with the debut stream sitting at 5 million views at time of writing. Whereas I am unable to communicate Japanese and subsequently 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.”

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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 informed Recreation*Spark (based on Google Translate) that it is “too scary,” “insanely scary,” and “actually stunning.” Positive feels like Silent Hill.