Atomic Heart creators explain why they replaced the voice actress with popular streamer Alina Rin

As it turned out, discussions around the Trapped in Limbo DLC for Atomic Heart are mostly focused on the voice acting and the actress replacement rather than the content

The Trapped in Limbo (or “Prisoner of Limbo”) DLC for Atomic Heart was released recently. The expansion itself did not attract much attention, but the voice acting became a subject of heated debate.

The issue is that Mundfish decided to replace the voice actress with popular streamer Alina Rin. Not all users were satisfied with the quality of her work. Then came a report that one of the moderators had joined the disputes over the voice acting, and was subsequently fired.

The team at Championat decided to reach out to Mundfish so that the developers themselves could clarify their decision. They provided the following comment:

“By creative design, the voice of Ekaterina Nechaeva in the ‘Trapped in Limbo’ DLC was supposed to differ significantly from the voice in the ‘real’ world of the game, which is why a different voice actress was chosen…

We tried several voice acting options for Blesna for the DLC, including Kristina Sherman, but ultimately settled on Alina Rin and on making Blesna’s voice in the world of Limbo truly strikingly different”.

Alina Rin herself is not just “some popular streamer”. Responding to online criticism, she emphasized that she “studied acting in courses at VGIK and did a lot of voice acting prior to [the Trapped in Limbo DLC for Atomic Heart]”.

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