Rocksteady hit hard with the trilogy Batman: Arkhamfeaturing the Black Knight in the asylum and then in the town of Gotham. Action and adventure games that have left their mark on gamers and fans of DC especially thanks to the quality of the dubbing. We found indeed Kevin Conroy to embody Batmanhe who had already lent his voice to the Black Knight in the 1992 animated series.
Kevin Conroy sadly passed away last year, but now an old official interview has surfaced. In the show Popcorn & Shield of Warner Bros. Entertainment, the dubbing actor reflected on his experience and the difficulty of dubbing a video game character :
You do four hours a day alone, in a cubicle, in a vacuum, creating the character, keeping the voice of the character alive, then creating the situation for each line…and then they want it three times. You know, “Make her mad at us!” Oh, save that anger and do it to us with a little irony! Oh, we love anger and we love irony, now sweeten it with a little love. »
The moment you walk out of there, you’re tearing your hair out, you’re like, “What do they want me to say? So you do that for four hours, then you have an hour for lunch, and then you do four more hours! And it lasts a week, just you.
And then you get a few weeks off while they write more stuff, and then they bring you back. Arkham Knight, the third in the trilogy, took two years to set up and it was 37,000 lines of dialogue!
You would have understood it, Kevin Conroy didn’t really appreciate his experience behind a microphone to give his voice to Batman, a less exciting process than for a cartoon. And yet, he will incarnate one last time the Black Knight In Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice Leaguestill developed by Rocksteady, the voices having been recorded before his disappearance. A game expected on May 26, until then, you can find Batman: Arkham Knight To €6.80 on Amazon.
| Clint008 Writer – Tester |
