• Stepos Venzny@beehaw.org
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    I’m ready for a new era in Mario voice acting of an Italian voice actor putting on a cartoonish American accent.

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    Mario seems like the perfect character to replace the voice actor with an AI. He barely says anything, and often it’s what he already said before.

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      That’s an insult to Charles’ talent. The man is a professional voice actor and his sense can’t be replaced by AI. Replicated maybe, but not replaced.

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        I think the thing AI can’t do is inspired delivery of lines. Mario doesn’t say much, but the way it is said is very important. I think it would be easier to replace most characters in Final Fantasy games with AI than it would Mario.

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    I guess this means that all the speculations about Mario’s voice in Wonder not being Martinet were probably true.

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      i just went and rewatched the reveal trailer. it is absolutely not him in that trailer, but i really had not noticed until i listened for it. it’s…weird. i’m not ready to move on from Martinet.

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    He’s now going to be a Nintendo Ambassador or something. I wonder if this is just to change the voice of Mario while also effectively retiring him from voice acting so they don’t have Mario voicing Bayonetta in the next game or something.

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        I’m hoping for a middle-age mario to show up, voiced by vinny vinesauce.

        “eeeuuuhhh wahoo ey? Hope the princess made lotsa gabbagool because ah’m pooped!”

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        Yeah, I know it was a lame joke. Charles Martinet is still voicing Mario in Super Mario Wonder. The reason he sounds different is because he’s simply getting older.

        Edit: Apparently I was wrong, I saw the imdb credits and they list Charles Martinet as the voice actor, however Nintendo just announced that he wasn’t involved in it. Damn.

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      Oh no according to tiktok (so you know it’s true), he was saying itsumi, which is apparently Japanese for “Super”.