Mario's New Voice Actor Reflects On 2023, Thanks Fans For Their Support

While there are definitely some flaws on his takes on the characters(Wario especially), I have no doubt that Kevin can only improve from here on out. With enough time and effort, he might end up giving us takes on Mario & Luigi that still feel in line with Charles' voices.

Who knows, maybe Kevin will become the Steve Whitmire to Charles' Jim Henson. There's nowhere to go but up, I say.

I can imagine that the Mario Bros. are the role of a lifetime - kudos to Kevin for his good work and the good work I'm sure he'll do!

I haven't really heard much of it, since basically any time a Mario game offers me the option to play as someone other than Mario I take it and so I spent the whole thing playing as Daisy (speaking of, her new actor deserves a nod, they did a great job capturing the voice), but what I've heard of his performance sounded good. Probably helps I just kind of see recasting as a thing that happens sometimes anyway and don't have any real emotional attachment to Martinet.

His Wario I'll grant definitely sounded different but I never really got all the outrage over it. Sounded just fine taken on its own merit.

I think he did a pretty awesome job voicing Mario in Super Mario Wonder. He seems like a pretty decent guy too.

I think with the grunts and wahoos he sounds pretty good. I still think it sounds really off when he says actual words though. But he's the voice until Nintendo replaces him someday. He's not bad and Wonder was still a fantastic game. I'm sure I'll get more used to it as time goes on. But Martinet will always be the OG and will always have my heart.

Kevin did a good job on Mario and Luigi, though he still needs improvement in some areas. I’m sure he get there with enough time and work.

I haven’t played WarioWare: Move It! so I can’t really judge on his Wario voice yet but it sounded kinda alright from the bits I heard.

I'm glad joining the Nintendo family has been such a positive experience for him so far. Hopefully there's more lifetimes of dreams ahead of him to look forward to, too.

The voices in Mario Wonder are great but it's just the odd Wahoo or Let's a Go, wish they had full voice acting. Though I know I'd still just end up skipping what the Poplins say 🤣

I don’t play Mario games to listen to the voices, so it meant little to me playing Wonder, just pure platforming perfection. I’m on the final test on Special World after getting all Wonder Seeds (although I’ve heard recently there is yet another, final, FINAL, test… geez, that one will be HARD).

Curious to know whether the new guy was told to emulate Charles Martinet's voice similar to what happened with Mickey Mouse or if he is doing his own take on the characters

Wowie Zowie! I quite liked the voices in Mario Wonder (though I did play as Blue Toad the whole time…) so I guess that means Mr. Afganhi did I pretty good job!

Some voices were fine, Mario felt off in some areas. He did sound better than Pratt, but seemed odd that he was given this job with his Mario sounding this way.

I’m actually not sure about Mario and Luigi atm. I feel like the jury’s still out.
However, I’ve played a fair amount of the new Wario ware and really like the new take on Warios voice!

Glad he's happy, it's true!

Yeah he's done a good job so far. I'd like to see him improve on the Wario's voice a little more, I'm sure that'll happen too, but otherwise it's been good.

I feel like it’s going to come down to getting used to the new voices, because Mario and Luigi might just sound slightly different, and I think that’s okay, instead of trying to push Afghani into being a soundalike.

The Wario voice just sounds like Wario is going through the flu, so they may need to do something about that, however.

Personally, I would of liked it if they split off Mario/Luigi's voice from Wario's. Not saying his Wario voice is bad, but it doesn't seem to fit as well compared to how nearly seamless the transition from Charles to Kevin for the Mario Bros were.

He did a fine Mario, not as well as Martinet, but he can carry him and Luigi well enough.

Wario, however, dude either needs practice, or Wario needs a different VA for his gutteral, raspy voice

The Wario voice still needs some work, but his Mario and Luigi are solid. It'll be interesting to see his take on Waluigi when the time comes.

Still gonna miss Charles's voices.

Kevin's already an awesome voice actor and I hope in due time he'll grow into the roles even more!

he good as Mario/Luigi, but he need more pratice as Wario

I actually really enjoyed the new voice of Mario. It made playing Super Mario Wonder feel even more fresh!

Just needs to work on his Wario and he will be aight.

yeah he seems chill, I'd smoke a bowl with him

I am a Huge Mario Fan and I am excited to see where Nintendo takes him next. But I am a little iffy about his new voice along with Luigi and Wario and I know that when someone new comes along to voice our Favorite Characters they will sound completely different and new to ourselves. But Kevin Afghani actually did a pretty decent job as Mario & Luigi almost sounded good as Charles and all I ask from him is that he just practices those two voices and he grows into the roles of both Mario & Luigi. Now for his take on Wario, His Voice sounded good at some parts of his Wario Voice But he sounded to me a bit too raspy and like he needs to do a bit more practice with Wario Voice. Lastly for Daisy’s New Voice I think that Giselle did an okay job But In my opinion she sounds a bit too squeaky and a bit too high and not how Deanna Mustard made her sound a bit tomboyish But overall still girly, But in my opinion I think that Nintendo should bring back Deanna Mustard instead But I think time will tell whether or not these voices will grow with us or not.