Rumour: Mario's New Voice Actor May Have Been Discovered

My money was on a custom AI trained on Chris Pratt's lines from the movie. I was sure PrattGPT was going to be credited for the voiceover in SMB Wonder.

Wahoo! Let's a-go!

That's all I have to say on the subject.

If true it would be pretty amusing that someone who has spent a decade copying Jack Black's voice (for Po) is voicing Bowser's nemesis.

Not an actor I've crossed paths with much but he was good in Arcane.

So you guys are saying that The Dragon Warrior, also voices a fat italian from Brooklyn?

@Woderwick Time for someone to get clips of Chris Pratt saying “Wowee Zowy!” And “Wondaful!” And mod them into the full release. Gotta get that Chris Pratt Voice Pack

Here is a highlight reel video of Wingert's work in animation.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pyPUYZpe60

On-topic of him being Mario's new voice, cool I guess.

@Coolmusic WOW he is a pretty versatile voice actor

I think I’m more disappointed in the fact that Daisy’s voice actor wasn’t found. 😭

Kazumi Totaka was also missing from the list, so it looks like Yoshi may have a new voice. Personally surprised Daisy appears to have been recast, as she sounds much more like Deanna Mustard in Wonder than Peach sounds like Samantha Kelly's voice for her. Maybe there's a slim chance Nintendo sought a new Peach voice but kept Kelly for the Toads, if they didn't just change Kelly's Peach voice direction? Guess we'll have to wait and see for more details, as I imagine the cast members will confirm more on social media after Wonder releases

it seens only Samantha Kelly(voice of Peach, Toad e Toadette)Kenny James(voice of Bowser) is kept, the rest of Mario characters has been recast, when the game was anounced, i trough only Mario/Luigi would be recast, but now Yoshi/Daisy also got recast

@Coolmusic Nice one. Well whether he's Mario or not, he's a good voice actor for sure ‐ does a great job with that princess' voice.

And how does one datamine a retail demo kiosk?

Not sure if I can ask this here but how in the world do you dump a kiosk? Is it just like a regular cart?

I never really knew people could go insane for just voice actors.

@TheBigK "Oh hello there Target employee, I'm just checking the uhhh" throws Mario plushy at them and runs out

Tbh I like the new voice, it sounds pretty good imo and I'm looking forward to hearing more.
So does the new voice-actor play Mario AND Luigi or just Mario and Luigi is someone else? (Luigi sounded pretty good too)

Mario could be mute for all I care, just give me Wonder.

Just sharing my 2-cents here, Mario games are fun because the gameplay is always so tight and great. Unless the "voice acting" is completely out of line, it doesn't matter to me who is saying "it's-a-me" and "wahoo". Calling that voice acting is even a bit far-fetched imo.
Charles Martinet seems like a really nice guy, so his personality fits with the whole character/game world, but I wouldn't mind if the new guy is completely unknown and I also don't need to know anything about him.
Just hope everybody that cares will be happy with who Nintendo picked.

Could we PLEASE get a demo on the Eshop?

@TheBigK @luckyseven To my understanding, the kiosk is just a Switch like any other. The Switch either has a cartridge in it, or the demo is digital software. Digital download available through special channels would be the most efficient for Nintendo. (No need to send employees to individual stores.) Inevitably, someone who has access to the hardware dumped the cartridge. Alternatively, if it's digital through specific channels, someone has discovered how to access those channels with a (probably) modified Switch, an emulator on PC, or just the PC itself. In that digital download case, the Switch is made to mimic a kiosk Switch, and that gives it access to the retail demos.

Well... Talking Flowers and Zant from The Legend of Zelda series will share the same seiyû – Junji Kitajima. Okay... I like to hear "new" seiyûs, anyway. I haven't heard Junji Kitajima before.
@JohnnyMind

@Yalloo «Calling that voice acting is even a bit far-fetched imo.»
Yeah, I can and I do understand it. For example, I don't understand why CAPCOM bothered to pay seiyûs for voicing characters in Vampire(Darkstalkers) games, Street Fighter games (before IV). Characters in CAPCOM's fighting games hate talking, lol. SNK did a better job with voicing characters in their games, imo. In the past, at least. The Last Blade 2, for example. Characters can speak in full sentences – Shinnosuke Kagami, Hyô Amano, Keiichirô Washizuka... Can you imagine something like this in Street Fighter III?

Some of the Mario voice lines I've heard sound as good as Martinet--if not even more lively and full of joyful energy. But other lines don't even come close. And I'm just gonna say it: Wario sounds absolutely awful. I can do a way better Wario impression than that, lol. At the end of the day, I'm just happy to see the Mario franchise being creatively ambitious and weird again. Losing the familiar voice acting talent is a small concession. Personally, as long as the gameplay is fun, I don't really care about the voice acting that much.

@Vyacheslav333 thanks for the call out I haven't been playing SF for many many years so I couldn't say. But let's say in BotW they don't talk that much but that's already enough to call that voice acting. There's actual sentences, and you can feel a personality through the voice. Just not Link though. When it comes to sounds that basically anybody almost effortlessly could "voice" ... but maybe I'm wrong and when I will play SMB Wonder it will really shock me and I will miss the original " voice actor "

When I played the demo Peach and Daisy sounded very off from what they usually do. Kind of higher pitched?

Dottore as Mario? Oh no

I just hope its gonna be ok

Also eshop demo is probably not gonna happen, the store probably bought the right to be the only one to have it

It’s cool to know (or think we know) the new VA. But I’m still in the camp of wanting to know the (real) story behind why Charles M. is now a Mario Ambassador and no longer the voice of Mario.

I remember when Mario in games didn't even have a voice!
No grunts, no nothing!

Captain Lou Albano and Bob Hoskins will always be MY Mario(s)

It appears he isn't voicing Mario!
https://www.ign.com/articles/mario-wonder-mick-wingert-nintendo

"Mick Wingert's official, on the record response was that while he can neither confirm nor deny his involvement in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, "he can confirm that he is NOT voicing Mario." "

Plot twist: He's Luigi😝

Don't see Kazumi Totaka on the list, so Yoshi definitely has a new voice, which I suspected... I really would have liked if Charles Martinet voiced Toadsworth in the game... I expect he'll still be credited as a voice director, consultant, or something along those lines...

Why did Matinet need to go in the first place?

@alexw

He was getting older and wanted to retire from active voice acting.

He’s still with Nintendo as the official Mario franchise ambassador.

I don’t get why people care about this so much. Mario barely talks, it’s gonna be fine with whoever they get to say “wahoo!” And “let’s-a-go!”

@Waluigi451 People don't like Major change. And honestly it's hard to blame them when at any time a bad period can come for a franchise.

@OrtadragoonX Has he actually said that? For a man that is going to travel the globe and greet thousands of fans and do his voices for fan service, I can’t see how is giving up voice acting in any capacity and age is just a number, he is still fantastic at doing voices

@alexw It’s not known why he isn’t voicing Mario anymore, Charles had always maintained he would love to voice Mario until the day he died, my guess is that there has been some changes at Nintendo and that they wanted someone less known to voice Mario, Nintendo have offered him a lesser role as an ambassador which means he will still be busy traveling at special events and meeting fans.

So not Wingert. Now the waiting continues.

@OrtadragoonX He literally said, “I want to voice Mario until I drop dead.’’

And he had no idea what a Mario ambassador even was when someone asked him.

@Woderwick I really hope you're joking because Nintendo wouldn't do something like that. Think before you comment, please. I know that's hard for someone like you, but do the best you can.

@Exerion76 Hearing the very characters you're playing as having fun on their adventure adds to the charm, though.

@LuznoLindo

Wow. A passive-aggressive bell end. You must be fun at parties.

@AlanaHagues: Now its officially confirmed: its Kevin Afghani.
https://twitter.com/KevinAfghani/status/1712900880218181648

@JohnnyMind Oh. Understood.