{"id":123980,"date":"2022-04-17T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-17T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-130279"},"modified":"2022-04-17T06:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-04-17T06:00:00","slug":"random-krystals-og-voice-actor-reprises-role-for-half-life-2-mod","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2022\/04\/17\/random-krystals-og-voice-actor-reprises-role-for-half-life-2-mod\/","title":{"rendered":"Random: Krystal&#8217;s OG Voice Actor Reprises Role For Half-Life 2 Mod"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b31eb2ada1bc7\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/b31eb2ada1bc7\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<figure class=\"picture strip\"><a title=\"Half-Life 2 Mod Krystal\" href=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e31ea275e2708\/half-life-2-mod-krystal.large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazy\" src=\"image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciIHZpZXdCb3g9IjAgMCA5MDAgNTA2Ij48L3N2Zz4=\" width=\"900\" height=\"506\" data-original=\"https:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/e31ea275e2708\/half-life-2-mod-krystal.900x.jpg\" alt=\"Half-Life 2 Mod Krystal\"><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption\"><em>Image: <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Gmodfan89\/featured\">Gagnetar via YouTube<\/a><\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A modder known as <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/Gmodfan89\/featured\">Gagnetar<\/a> previously released a <strong>Half-Life 2<\/strong> mod that replaced Alyx Vance with Krystal from the <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/snes\/star_fox\">Star Fox<\/a><\/strong> series. Now, in an update, the same individual has taken this mod to the next level &#8211; by getting the original VA of Krystal, Estelle Ellis, to re-record Alyx&#8217;s dialogue in the voice of Krystal.<\/p>\n<p>As you might recall, Krystal&#8217;s original debut was in <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/star_fox_adventures\">Star Fox Adventures<\/a><\/strong> on the GameCube in 2002. So, how did this Half-Life 2 mod come about? Apparently, the creator had been talking &#8220;on and off&#8221; about it with the VA for years now:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;ve been talking with her off and on for years now, decided to just get her a decent microphone and we worked from there.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>As can be seen in the video below, the mod features full facial animations and tail physics for Krystal. She&#8217;ll even feature on televisions where Alyx would normally appear.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<figure class=\"youtube\" data-videoid=\"cc2I1UehLa8\">[embedded content]<figcaption class=\"youtube-sub\">Subscribe to <a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/subscription_center?add_user=nintendolife\">Nintendo Life<\/a> on <span class=\"g-ytsubscribe\" data-channel=\"nintendolife\" data-layout=\"default\" data-count=\"default\"><a class=\"external\" rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/nintendolife\">YouTube<\/a><\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/aside>\n<p>All of the footage above is still work-in-progress, and the mod is scheduled to release on Star Fox Adventures&#8217; 20th Anniversary, which will take place in September this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Image: Gagnetar via YouTube A modder known as Gagnetar previously released a Half-Life 2 mod that replaced Alyx Vance with Krystal from the Star Fox series. Now, in an update, the same individual has taken this mod to the next level &#8211; by getting the original VA of Krystal, Estelle Ellis, to re-record Alyx&#8217;s dialogue [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-123980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=123980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}