The fan community investigates what could have happened to Mario’s classic voice.
In the absence of one, yesterday during the Nintendo Direct, the Japanese company announced two games from our favorite plumber. One was the remake of Super Mario RPG, the Nintendo 64 classic, and the other was Super Mario Wonder, the Mario’s return to the classic 2D. Well, some users point out that Mario’s voice sounds weird in this latest game in the series, and the question has been raised as to whether they could have changed Mario’s classic voice.
Mario’s voice has always been that of Charles Martinet, and so far his withdrawal has not been announced. So it has not been confirmed or denied that Martinet is the voice of Mario in the new games in the series, although there seems to have been some other change.
What’s wrong with Mario’s voice?
Fortunately or unfortunately, Mario’s voice, Martinet’s, is so iconic that we only needed to see the Super Mario movie trailer once to identify him in one of the scenes in which the plumber gets to work. make yours with Donkey Kong. That is why the advances of the new Mario juices missed the most fans of the series by not sounding like Martinet. At least not the usual. Detail that the fan community has noticed both in that Super Mario Wonder announced yesterday and the new WarioWarea character who can also be voiced in a traditional way.
listen to how he sounds in the Japanese direct: pic.twitter.com/eMFxpJUmzi
— ✨kypello✨ (@kypelloStuff) June 21, 2023
Anyone else notice that wasn’t Charles Martinet voicing Wario in the WarioWare trailer? #NintendoDirect #wario pic.twitter.com/4n4Rh6i9QT
—S-Tie (@esstee_jay) June 21, 2023
The community is currently considering two possibilities on the table, that Nintendo has replaced Martinet through the back door without saying anything, which is unlikely, or that he just the actor gets older and his voice no longer sounds like it did years ago. “Nintendo has been recycling more or less the same clips Charles Martinet for years,” DrAwesome_x tweeted (via Kotaku). “It’s beyond funny that, because we’re all so used to the same shit, when it finally records new linespeople seriously think he’s a whole new guy.” There are also those who lean more towards the second option. “I don’t think they will replace Charles Martinet here,” ilikprimus tweeted. “Love him, but maybe, just maybe, he’s getting old and that’s why Mario sounds a bit bad“.
In either case, both Mario Wonder and the new WarioWare, will arrive in stores soon for Nintendo Switch. Stay tuned to our Nintendo Direct roundup for all the details on these and other games announced yesterday.