Nintendo announced its lineup of titles for the rest of 2023 during the latest Nintendo Direct, in which a new 2D Mario game called Super Mario Bros. Wo♐nder was revealed. It looks like a pretty fun time, and even ♎in🥃cludes Princess Daisy's mainline title debut, but there's one nagging feeling that some Mario fans can't help but shake - the fact that Mario sounds a littl✨e bit different from his recent outings.
Immediately after the trailer for Super Mario Bros. Wonder aired, some very worried Mario fans immediately took to Twitter to voice their concern over Mario's slightly different voice (thanks ). The main worry is that Nintendo may have unceremoniously recaꦐst beloved longtime series voice actor Charles Martinet, as certain words and phrases spoken by Mario in the trailer sound a little different 🅘to Martinet's more recent performances.
One of the most concerning moments is when Mario transforms into an elephant and says "Wowie, zowie!" towards the end of the trailer, with his accent sounding a lot deeper than usual. Another moment is from the Japanese Nintendo Direct trailer in which Mario shouts "Wonderful!" when grabbing the Wonder Flower to make the ♛world all wibbly wobbly. Even simple phrases like Mario's usual exclamations while jumping caught some fans ofꦗf-guard.
A lot of people are arguing that Nintendo could have simply recorded some new voice lines for Mario with Martinet, and this is just the voice we're getting now that he's a bit older. However, those that are worried are pointing to the voice actor's cameo in the𝓡 Mario movie as proof that he shouldn't sound as different as he does here. On top of that, Charles Martinet hasn't interacted with any of the new Mario trailers that dropped today on social media, which you'd think he would considering a whole lot of Mario just💜 got announced at once.
While this new voice is weirdly different to our regular Mario, it's difficult to imagine Nintendo unceremoniously casting aside the voice actor that has brought to life the company's most popular character for decades. It very likely is just some 🌸n🦄ew recordings of Martinet that sound a little different because Nintendo has been consistently using old voice lines for years now. Mario isn't exactly a man of many words, so old voice lines could easily be used for a very long time before new ones need to be recorded. Fingers crossed this is the case anyway.