Please Shut Up (Companion Mute Mod)

Description:

Tired of companions telling you things you already know? Tired of the game treating you like a child if you don't instantly solve every puzzle? This mod removes over 3300+ pointless/patronising voice lines from the game.

Background:

As part of Sony/SMS's efforts to make the game as accessible to as wide an audience as possible, they decide to record thousands of voice lines where the NPC companions effectively narrate the game so that (theoretically) the player will always know what to do and are less likely to get stuck. This can range from some useful hints, such as Mimir warning you of enemies attacking from behind the camera, to the most useless observations on the planet, such as Mimir telling you you're on fire/bifrosted or the companions constantly reminding you to shield strike. Worse still, companions will often give away the answers to puzzles before you've had the opportunity to figure them and patronisingly congratulate you upon completion.

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SMS did add an option in the recent patch which allegedly reduces the chances of some of this dialogue occurring, however from my observations this has done little to resolve the problem. Unfortunately a lot of this handholdy dialogue comes across as incredibly annoying, so I've created this mod in an effort to completely remove most of this dialogue bloat and let players think for themselves. Please bare in mind this mod is a work in progress, it takes a long time to identify these voice lines so more dialogue will be filtered out in future patches. So far I've removed 3300+ voice lines from the game but there's still more to come. For this current version I've mainly focused on the combat dialogue as they are very prominent in the game and easy to identify. Unfortunately the puzzle related dialogue is often intertwined with story/cutscene dialogue so identifying them is a lot more challenging and will be my focus in future versions if this mod proves popular enough.

Dialogue removed:

This isn't all of them but here are some of my favourite (or I guess least favourite) examples dialogue that I have removed:

Combat Only:

[](General) Removed shield strike suggestions from companions during combat e.g. “Use a shield strike, brother!”

[](General) Removed companion voice lines whichalert the player to conditions such as being set on fire, frozen or bifrosted e.g. “You’re on fire, Kratos. It will pass”, “You got Bifrösted! Is "Bifrösted" a word?” or “Careful brother, you're covered in Bifröst!”

[](General) Removed suggestions/chastising from companions when failing to block e.g. “What good’s a shield if you’re not gonna use it?”, “Ain't your shield working!?”, “Father, why aren't you blocking?” or “I've seen you parry worse.”

[](General) Removed companion call