Gaming fanbase doesn't send death threat challenge (impossible)
edit: on the "ah?" at 0:26, I hear a little more annoyed "what the hell?" tone in there. I'd imagine it'd have been a more inquisitive "hmm?" under martinet, similar to 0:08. I like that he's giving mario a bigger range within the extreme limitations nintendo probably put on him, and aiming for relatively a tiny less whimsy and a tiny more grounded compared to martinet's body of work
He's a pretty decent drop-in replacement. I thought for sure I'd notice a difference from the promo video at the end of the article. Even though there is a minor difference, it's so negligible you could easily just pretend Charles had a cold in the booth.
It's a lot better than the Sonic Voice Actor fiasco Sega has had.
Sonic is basically what got me invested in voice actor swaps lol. I literally can't stand some of the voice actor swaps in that series because they just sound so drastically different and wrong.
Voice issues happen a lot with anime too when it gets dubbed. Rarely will the dub be better, but there's some iconic dubs like the pokemon cast, or haruhi. With the yuki-chan spin-off series of haruhi, I was really concerned they'd get different VAs and it'd be ruined as a result, but fortunately they had brought back the entire original cast.
Yeah thats pretty competent. I'll admit i was hoping for a new take on Mario, but theres no way fans would be happy with anything other than a Charles Martinet soundalike.
His Martinet impression for short soundbites is pretty good, but I wonder if he can maintain that for a longer format, as in https://yewtu.be/watch?v=sI1Mu4Ee_c8
I'm honestly not a fan. But I'll probably get used to it fast enough.
What I am surprised about is that they didn't get tons of voices and lines to just reuse for the next 100 years and opted for a new voice actor all together.