When Lego Horizon Adventures launches on PS5, Change, and PC this vacation season, a well-recognized character will probably be portrayed by a brand new voice. Sylens, a mysterious determine for many of Horizon Zero Daybreak’s story, will re-appear in Lego Horizon Adventures, which pulls from the 2017 recreation however doesn’t inform the identical precise story. Lance Reddick, the late, nice actor who died in 2023 beforehand portrayed Sylens in each Horizon video games.
For this subsequent installment of the collection, the position has been recast, Guerrilla instructed GameSpot in a latest interview, although the actor assigned to the position isn’t one thing the studio would but share. “Sylens does make an look [in Lego Horizon Adventures],” Guerrilla narrative director James Windeler mentioned.
As for Reddick, Windeler mentioned everybody on the studio recollects the actor with the utmost appreciation. “He was wonderful. And he’s extraordinarily necessary to Guerrilla and to the fanbase. [His death] was a blow, and we’re fortunate that his legacy lives on within the video games […] He’s extraordinarily beloved.”
Elsewhere within the recreation, a number of of its most distinguished voices return, together with the ever present Ashly Burch because the protagonist Aloy and JB Blanc, who narrates the sport as Aloy’s mentor, Rost.
Lego Horizon Adventures is coming on the finish of 2024. For a deeper dive into what to anticipate, learn our hands-on preview, which reveals Lego Horizon Adventures is not your typical Lego recreation.