“The performance strives to faithfully preserve the character of JC,” the creators say. “Every single line was performed directly after listening to the original Male JC’s read. While not blatantly copying every single line, the original performance was used as the primary anchor point for the line reads. Variations were only made after careful consideration.” Along with JC Denton’s spoken script fully redone by voice actor Karen Rohan, the mod edits many NPC lines to refer to her correctly, recasts some NPCs, adds a few characters whose function is primarily to acknowledge that JC is a lady (weird?), and changes some small scenarios like someone mistaking JC for Paul and a woman in a club flirting with JC. Some of those special new lady lines in the trailer seem a bit out of place and unnecessary to me. And so what if Mercedes hits on a female JC? Weird. JC is such a blank anyway. But yeah, JC herself sounds a decent stoic cyborg. I started a new playthrough to check her out in game and I’ll continue this way. It’s not the way I’d play the game for the first time but, you know, this is far from my first time playing Deus Ex. You can download The Lay D Denton Project from ModDB. Installation instructions are over here. The Lay D gang plan to release the mod’s audio files so other modders can put her into their creations too, if they want. I enjoyed the team’s explanation of the different ways they’ve cut and chopped words and sentences to correct for a female JC, some clever techniques: Deus Ex turned 20 last year. We told an oral history through many people who worked on it, and talked with Warren Spector, the game’s director. And yeah, it’s still great.
