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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.
Unfortunately, it seems Wario got the short end of the stick. Wario's voice in the new WarioWare trailer is very noticeably different.
Oh yeah, you're right. I'm sure it will get better with time, or we'll just get used to it.
Roger Craig Smith's initial voice for Sonic in Promos was awful, but it was serviceable by the time the first game came out.
I don't think Roger Craig Smith is bad, and I think it works well for the modern Boost era. Being said, Ryan Drummond will always be my Sonic.
Sonic has the benefit of having a lot of good voice actors throughout the years, so when a new one comes along they can fit in just fine. Notice how people just accepted Deven mack very easily because they're like "oh he's sort of like Roger Craig Smith and Jason Griffith".
I miss the Mario Kart 64 Wario. Never was a fan of the deeper voice in later games.
Same goes for Toad. Bring back the MK64 Toad. I'm tired of the two-packs-a-day Toad we have now.
Sounds pretty damn close to my ears
You should probably pull your phone away from your ears then
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.
I'm pretty picky about voices of iconic characters, but the new guy doing Mario and Luigi is solid. He sounds just like them to me, so no problem.
In what other instances are you picky about the voices of iconic characters?
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.
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