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"I Was Pretty Unsurprised": Baldur's Gate 3 Actor On Being The Most Romanced Character In The Game

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168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Baldur's Gate 3 is a game about gathering up a party and romancing your favourite out of all of them. There's𝄹 something about the Dead Three and a Netherbrain, but who's really paying attention to that part? Your party consists of a diverse group of people and the devs made sure that there's at least one that's your type.

Left: a character in Baldur's Gate 3 preparing to fight. Right: two characters kissing.

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While many of us pursued the muscle mommy or the bearded nerd, a vast ma🌠jority went after the party's resident goth, Shadowheart. Her character is the most fleshed out and has the best side mission as well, so I can see the appeal, even though 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:I'm forever loyal to Karlach. However, it seems Shadowheart actor Jennifer English isn't surprised at how many pla🌜yers chose to romance her cha🤡racter.

Jennifer English Knew All Along

In an interview with Fall Damage, English reve𝄹aled, "when I learned that Shadowheart was the most-romanced character, I was pretty unsurprised, if I'm honest." That's some confidence, given the glamourous bunch of misfits she was up against. However, she said that there were two reasons wh🎐y she was so sure of herself.

The first was Baldur's Gate 3 writer Jo😼hn Corcoran's writing. He was behind Shadowheart's romance arc, and when English read his work, she knew that audiences were absolutely going to love it. It's true, we see the character going throug♋h emotional highs and lows, and questioning herself at every turn. Who doesn't find such vulnerability attractive?

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The second, and rather unknown, reason English mentioned was watching a certain person blushing at her dialogue delivery in the recording studio. Aliona Baranova, who was a performance director for Baldur's Gate 3 is also English's real-life partner. "I had a 'blushometer' in the room," she said. Baranova could not keep a st🍷raight face when English was delivering some especially steamy dia🎃logues, and that's how she knew she nailed them.

With that kind of backing and support, it's no wonder English wasn't surprised that a whopping 51 percent of players chose to Romance Shadowheart when Baldur's gate 3 first🍌 came out. Of course, the numbers may have changed after all the repeated playthroughs, ♈but she was everyone's original darling.