Tokyo would probably be one of the creepiest cities if it were abandoned and covered with fog.
Silent Hill
Where have we heard Metal Gear Solid V’s iDroid voice before? When we last rode the Shinkansen!
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Evie Nyan
Sep 9, 2015
The release of Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain has been met with as much excitement and frenzy as you might expect from the latest instalment of a legendary video game franchise. But while most players are preoccupied with riding D. Horse around, frolicking in cardboard boxes and puzzling over the intricate story, it’s a certain voiceover that’s had us scratching our heads. Where on earth have we heard iDroid‘s soothing tones before? Oh, that’s right – on the Shinkansen!
Voice actor and vocalist Donna Burke is a veteran of the video game industry, lending her vocal cords to multiple games including MGSV and Silent Hill, and she ALSO provided the English-language spoken announcement that’s broadcast on the bullet train to help foreign visitors navigate their way around Japan!
- Australia, Global, Internet, Japan
- (donna burke • iDroid • Konami • Metal Gear Solid V • shinkansen • Silent Hill • video games • voice actor)
Hideo Kojima’s Silent Hills might just be the horror game we’ve been waiting for【Videos】
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Philip Kendall
Aug 18, 2014
Those who owned an original grey PlayStation back in the day will no doubt be familiar with Silent Hill, the survival horror series that went on to spawn a host of sequels as well as a questionable feature film of the same name. The series has had its ups and downs over the years, and many feel that it has lost much of what made it so great to begin with, but it looks like the newest instalment is set to bring back what gamers loved about the originals: the kind of tense, tortuous, genuinely horrible horror that makes you consider keeping the lights on at bedtime.
Don’t believe us? Check out these reaction videos from makers Konami.
- Global
- (Hideo Kojima • P.T. • scary • Silent Hill • video • video games)
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