Baldur's Gate 3 is filled to the edge with iconic characters, with award -winning performances from Neil Newbon, Samantha Bear and Jennifer English, and they got more than help from the game's excellent writing. There are dozens of memorable quotes from Baldur's Gate 3, and you can claim that Shadowheart has the best line of all.
We all know that Shadowheart is “God's favorite princess”, which was a dialogue given to her as part of the game's Prologue chapter that was added after launch. It was originally started as a meme that actor Jennifer English had found on Twitter, who then continued to express the line himself. It was so popular with both fans and Larian that the developers managed to work with it in the game itself.
Baldur's Gate 3 Shadowheart -actors didn't want to record one of her most iconic lines
But it was recently revealed that English actually did not want to record that line in the first place. In a new video of fall injuries (thank you game radar), English says that she saw the line on Twitter, but did not actually want to do it because she is “avoidant” (big the same). Thankfully, Baldur's Gate 3 Performance Director – and Jennifer English's girlfriend – Aliona Baranova were on hand to do what needs to be done.
“Aliona found a meme that someone had made of that quote next to Shadowheart,” says English, “and it was really early. And Aliona goes,” Babe, you have to record it. “And I didn't want to avoid.
That pus eventually convinced English to record the line and acknowledged she “did [her] Own time “. It is a good job she did too, because it is undoubtedly one of the best dialogues in the entire game, which drives Shadowheart up to the high heights of the fan favorite even further than she already was, and cementing of her status as one of the best characters in the game. Thanks, Aliona Baranova, to be the Bull 3fan, to be.
Baldur's Gate 3
5.0/5
- Published
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August 3, 2023
- ESRB
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M for mature: blood and gore, partial nudity, sexual content, strong language, violence
- Engine
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Divinity 4.0
