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"It was-a him"
On the one hand, that's kind of sad and Mr. Martinet will be missed. (I mean, he's not dead or anything, but...)
On the other hand, dude has been doing this voice since 1991 (well before even 1996's Super Mario 64). I'd probably be ready to move on after doing silly voices like that for over thirty years, too. (Especially if I got unceremoniously replaced by fucking Chris Pratt in the big screen movie based on the character I'd been doing for so long up to that point.)
On the weird mutant third hand, I haven't personally played a Mario game myself since Super Mario Galaxy and my brief, aborted attempt at Galaxy 2. And then I sold all my consoles in 2014, which mostly made the whole thing a moot point. Well, outside of emulation anyway, I guess, but if I'm going to play games on emulators, it will be games that are more interesting to me than Mario games are now. That said, though, I have actually considered at least maybe finding and replaying the Game Boy Super Mario Land games (even if the third one was actually the first Wario Land game), since those were the first Mario games that I ever officially owned myself. But then, that's completely irrelevant to this post about Charles Martinet.
(EDIT) As for the new Mario game voice actor, I checked Google to see who it is, and... ...*crickets chirping* (/EDIT)
On the one hand, that's kind of sad and Mr. Martinet will be missed. (I mean, he's not dead or anything, but...)
On the other hand, dude has been doing this voice since 1991 (well before even 1996's Super Mario 64). I'd probably be ready to move on after doing silly voices like that for over thirty years, too. (Especially if I got unceremoniously replaced by fucking Chris Pratt in the big screen movie based on the character I'd been doing for so long up to that point.)
On the weird mutant third hand, I haven't personally played a Mario game myself since Super Mario Galaxy and my brief, aborted attempt at Galaxy 2. And then I sold all my consoles in 2014, which mostly made the whole thing a moot point. Well, outside of emulation anyway, I guess, but if I'm going to play games on emulators, it will be games that are more interesting to me than Mario games are now. That said, though, I have actually considered at least maybe finding and replaying the Game Boy Super Mario Land games (even if the third one was actually the first Wario Land game), since those were the first Mario games that I ever officially owned myself. But then, that's completely irrelevant to this post about Charles Martinet.
(EDIT) As for the new Mario game voice actor, I checked Google to see who it is, and... ...*crickets chirping* (/EDIT)
