Metroid Dread discussion

[Metallox]

mZuzek said:

Metallox said:

I just finished a three hour session, and so far my impressions are pretty good, the game is really pretty and the controls are responsive enough. What truly astounded me the most is that this game has a Latin American Spanish dub, not voices from Spain, but Latin American ones. Breath of the Wild was the very first Nintendo game with an LA dub, Dread is just the second one or the third one if you count the announcer in Smash Ultimate.

The company went all out for this one, it showed just in the first few seconds. 

I'm assuming only Adam spoke in spanish, right? From what I've seen, it looks like Adam's voice is actually done by AI, like say the Mii voices in those 3DS mini-games or Animal Crossing (something I can't unhear anymore). It's a really cool solution, because not only does it allow for all languages to be voiced without increasing the file size (I was wondering how the game was only 4GB with so many voice lines), but also in that it actually sounds robotic in a way that's basically impossible for anyone to look at and say "hey, that's not what Adam should sound like!"

Wouldn't have imagined it, but yeah, AI recording is indeed a thing. Still, it's good to hear it. The text that appears in holograms and that kind of stuff is also in Spanish, which is nothing to write home about in this day and age, but since it comes from a Nintendo game, it does feel kind of special. 

I'm also playing this game completely blind, I pretty much only watched the debut trailer, and I'm glad I did, everything feels fresh.