this post was submitted on 13 Oct 2023
105 points (96.5% liked)

Nintendo

18465 readers
33 users here now

A community for everything Nintendo. Games, news, discussions, stories etc.

Rules:

  1. No NSFW content.
  2. No hate speech or personal attacks.
  3. No ads / spamming / self-promotion / low effort posts / memes etc.
  4. No linking to, or sharing information about, hacks, ROMs or any illegal content. And no piracy talk. (Linking to emulators, or general mention / discussion of emulation topics is fine.)
  5. No console wars or PC elitism.
  6. Be a decent human (or a bot, we don't discriminate against bots... except in Point 7).
  7. All bots must have mod permission prior to implementation and must follow instance-wide rules. For lemmy.world bot rules click here

Upcoming First Party Games (NA):

Game | Date


|


Mario & Luigi: Brothership | Nov 7 Donkey Kong Country Returns HD | Jan 16, 2025 Xenoblade Chronicles X: Definitive Edition | Mar 20, 2025 Metroid Prime 4 | 2025

Other Gaming Communities


founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
 

Kevin Afghani announced he’s taken over the plunger from Mario’s voice actor for over 25 years, Charles Martinet.

all 18 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

He's a pretty decent drop-in replacement. I thought for sure I'd notice a difference from the promo video at the end of the article. Even though there is a minor difference, it's so negligible you could easily just pretend Charles had a cold in the booth.

It's a lot better than the Sonic Voice Actor fiasco Sega has had.

[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Unfortunately, it seems Wario got the short end of the stick. Wario's voice in the new WarioWare trailer is very noticeably different.

[–] Psythik@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I miss the Mario Kart 64 Wario. Never was a fan of the deeper voice in later games.

Same goes for Toad. Bring back the MK64 Toad. I'm tired of the two-packs-a-day Toad we have now.

[–] RiderExMachina@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh yeah, you're right. I'm sure it will get better with time, or we'll just get used to it.

Roger Craig Smith's initial voice for Sonic in Promos was awful, but it was serviceable by the time the first game came out.

[–] funnystuff97@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I don't think Roger Craig Smith is bad, and I think it works well for the modern Boost era. Being said, Ryan Drummond will always be my Sonic.

[–] cmbabul@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sounds pretty damn close to my ears

[–] dandroid@dandroid.app 13 points 1 year ago

You should probably pull your phone away from your ears then

[–] HipsterTenZero@dormi.zone 9 points 1 year ago

Yeah thats pretty competent. I'll admit i was hoping for a new take on Mario, but theres no way fans would be happy with anything other than a Charles Martinet soundalike.

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm pretty picky about voices of iconic characters, but the new guy doing Mario and Luigi is solid. He sounds just like them to me, so no problem.

[–] sparky678348@lemm.ee -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

In what other instances are you picky about the voices of iconic characters?

[–] Otome-chan@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

Sonic is basically what got me invested in voice actor swaps lol. I literally can't stand some of the voice actor swaps in that series because they just sound so drastically different and wrong.

Voice issues happen a lot with anime too when it gets dubbed. Rarely will the dub be better, but there's some iconic dubs like the pokemon cast, or haruhi. With the yuki-chan spin-off series of haruhi, I was really concerned they'd get different VAs and it'd be ruined as a result, but fortunately they had brought back the entire original cast.

[–] Gabu@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

His Martinet impression for short soundbites is pretty good, but I wonder if he can maintain that for a longer format, as in https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sI1Mu4Ee_c8

[–] Crystal_Shards64@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

I'm honestly not a fan. But I'll probably get used to it fast enough.

What I am surprised about is that they didn't get tons of voices and lines to just reuse for the next 100 years and opted for a new voice actor all together.