9 Recent Hilarious Voice Acting Fails In Video Games

4: Princess Beach - Death Stranding

I’ve said this in WhatCulture videos a few times but I genuinely love Death Stranding. I think it’s a fantastic game with great performances from legitimate A-listers and it’s seriously underrated. But there is one moment in the game that will haunt my nightmares until the day I die.

Princess. Bloody. Beach.

This is a video about voice acting fails, and this is a voice acting fail in part, but I’m coming for the writer on this one. Sorry, Kojima.

Here we are having realised the walking simulator is actually really touching and the tricky walking mechanic bits are actually meaningful and fulfilling. Even the batshit crazy story has significantly hooked you in. Everything is falling into place.

And then Death Stranding is like, "Here’s what we’ll do: we’ll have this extremely emotional narrative moment between Reedus’ Sam and his sister Amelie and we’ll have her look at Sam deadly serious and say they can run down the beach to get back home, and I quote, 'Just like Mario and Princess Beach.'" Even better, what follows is almost a full minute of slow-mo running down the beach. That’s not a voice acting fail, I just need you to know that.

I seriously remember playing this game as soon as it came out and telling my friends this happened and they straight up didn’t believe me. You just can’t make this stuff up.