{"id":16479,"date":"2025-12-03T19:46:51","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:46:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16479"},"modified":"2025-12-03T19:46:51","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T11:46:51","slug":"nintendo-has-replaced-samus-voice-actor-for-metroid-prime-4-so-its-no-longer-mass-effects-jennifer-hale-doing-the-grunts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=16479","title":{"rendered":"Nintendo Has Replaced Samus’ Voice Actor For Metroid Prime 4, So It’s No Longer Mass Effect’s Jennifer Hale Doing the Grunts"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Legendary voice actress Jennifer Hale has been replaced as the voice of Samus in Metroid Prime 4, the new game’s credits have revealed. <\/p>\n

Numerous actors have voiced Samus over the years, though Hale had been the artist behind most of the bounty hunter’s grunts and cries in Metroid Prime 1, 2 and 3 (with some additional work from a second artist, Vanessa Marshall). <\/p>\n

Many fans had assumed Hale would return as Samus in Nintendo’s long-awaited new Prime game, but Nintendo Life has now reported on Metroid Prime 4’s credits, which list that Erin Yvette has taken on the role of Samus. <\/p>\n

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If you’re playing Metroid Prime 4 and think Samus’ grunts sound familiar, Yvette previously voiced Snow White in The Wolf Among Us, Alex in Oxenfree, and can currently be heard as Blonde Blazer in Dispatch.<\/p>\n

The past few years have seen Nintendo replace many of its previous regular voice actors, including the veteran voice of Mario and Luigi, Charles Martinet. Princess Peach and Toad voice actress Samantha Kelly, meanwhile, discovered her 18-year tenure as the Super Mario characters was over on Nintendo Switch 2 launch day \u2014 when Mario Kart World released without her in it. Takashi Nagasako, who previously voiced Donkey Kong for 21 years, has also been replaced as of the Switch 2’s launch.<\/p>\n

IGN recently caught up with Hale and discussed her past work as Samus, and questioned whether she had recorded any new material for Metroid Prime 4 over the course of its lengthy development. <\/p>\n

“I don’t know,” Hale told IGN. “I have no recollection of recording it or signing a contract, so it could be no. When we work, this is the thing, everything’s under a code name, so they would’ve called it Sasquatch or Pineapple or Cookie Jar. And ‘okay, I’m going to do Cookie Jar.’ And then when you get to the session they’ll tell you, but it stays in your brain for so much shorter a time. It doesn’t stick as much.”<\/p>\n