Mario Strikers: Battle League kicks off on the Nintendo Switch today and unsurprisingly players are already on the hunt for any evidence of future characters. A new video on the GameXplain YouTube channel suggests Shy Guy could be a future character in some way or form, based on a finding within the game's credits.
You see, the entire voice cast is seemingly revealed here, and tacked on at the very end is Nintendo Treehouse's senior director of localisation, Nate Bihldorff - also known as the voice of Shy Guy. Every other voice on the list - from Charles Martinet (the voice of Mario and more) to Kazumi Totaka (Yoshi) - all appear to have a playable character assigned to their name except for Nate.
While Shy Guy appear in the new entry as crowd members, according to the source they don't make any noticeable noises in the game. While it could mean something more is on the way, Nintendo Life video producer Felix Sanchez has noted how there are certain levels within the game where the Shy Guy can be heard - which may be why Nate is credited.
Keep in mind, this is just speculation on GameXplain's end. Of course, Nintendo has also promised post-launch content for the game and a datamine has hinted at 10 additional characters. If Shy Guy appeared as on-field characters in the new Mario Strikers, it wouldn't be the first time. Shy Guy previously featured in the 2007 Wii release Mario Strikers Charged as sidekicks.
Would you like to see them return, what about any other characters? Leave a comment down below.
[source youtu.be, via gonintendo.com]
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Hope so, Shy Guy is one of my favourite characters to use in the Mario Party games. The sounds they make are just adorable and they’re also kinda troll-y. Would love to see what Next Level Games animating a Shy Guy would do.
@citizenerased They were already in previous Mario Strikers games so you could look up those animations on YouTube if you want to get an idea.
I don't really care who but I hope they continue to add a lot more characters pretty quickly. The roster feels pretty tiny at the moment considering there aren't sidekick characters.
They need to patch in 4v4 on separate Switches. What's the point of having club members if you can't play with 3 other people online?!
Daisy and shy guy are a must though my personal favorite from past games is boo. He could literally become invisible for a while he's OP.
@Ragdoll72 Wait you can't do that??? I thought that was just a demo thing. That's real dumb if that's the case.
it may sound like a moan, but why does Nintenolife need to have it so clearly in the article title headings? can't they have the decency to use spoiler tags to prevent those that don't want spoilers from seeing it.
So frustrating!
Well he seems like a likely candidate, just like Daisy, Dry Bones Toadette. Hope there will also be some not-so-usual characters
Can anyone else confirm if you can play teams of 4 online with your friends? If it’s the same as the demo that’s bad
And Daisy? Anyone ?
Daisy? Daisy who?
Shy Guy is boring to me. Nintendo leaves out so many interesting characters from their Mario games these days. Bring back Toadsworth and Professor E Gadd
Ooo i would love shy guy. Also Daisy, Birdo, Toadette, Pauline, Diddy Kong, that American football/rugby looking enemy and piranha plant.
Would die if they added sprixies but ain't holding my breath
Shy Guy, Daisy, Diddy Kong and Boo should've been from the start, in my opinion. Just a matter of time they will add them.
Shy guy.. who could have guessed
How about Wart for a change? Or Mouser?
@Yosher nope it's not an option, I played last night and it's just like the demo. Only way to have 4 people on a team is two on each console teamed up
Wait, Yoshi has a voice actor?
@the_beaver With the implementation of gear, I'm not holding my breath for Boo. He doesn't exactly have a body to equip gear to. A helmet, sure, and gloves probably. Could even argue chest or 'pants', but other than that, it would be difficult.
Would love to be proven wrong though.
I'd rather see Toadette and other characters like Birdo plus like somebody else mentioned Toadsworth would be nice.
Remember when you played a game to unlock all the games content?? Now we just wait for all the updates before we purchase the game on sale complete.....
Of course I want Daisy to be in the game but I kinda want Goomba to be playable. That would be different.
Yes I want goomba!
@Yosher Ugh, I hadn't fully thought about the limitations the gear system places on the character roster. Mario has so many characters with different body types, number of limbs, etc. I guess I won't wait for Chain Chomp to be playable either.
If they already have the character credited, why won’t they put him in the game. A character like shy guy isn’t going to pull the masses back to the game after three months anyway. So just put him in at launch.
@swoose Yeah Chain Chomp would be even more challenging than Boo because of its lack of arms which Boo at least has, and Boo also has a tail which they could excuse for ''feet'' if they really wanted to. You never know though! If they really want it, they could probably find a way.
@Spoony_Tech I too remember when games had to cut content because they wouldn't make release date otherwise, and with no way of adding content in post-launch, were left unfinished. Unless of course you were Capcom and released balance patches as new games.
Please take the nostalgia glasses off. I'll level with you and say they probably should have prioritized stadiums and characters over the gear system, but thanks to post-launch DLC, we can have both, and for free.
Honestly, after hearing what the old games were like (I can barely remember them, I think I only rented the Wii game, lol), I feel like we should get more characters for like, goalies and maybe bring back sidekicks or something.
I dunno, I liked the sidekick idea...
Whatever happens, I want Dry Bones, or Boo/King Boo.
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