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THE QTOID PILLOWFORT COMMUNITY (it's like Cohost)
www.pillowfort.social/community/Qtoid

The pieces are starting to come together now. This guy barely has any credits to his name. He's a character in Genshin Impact (who isn't?) and he's done some YouTube animations and commercials, but that's about it. Cleary they wanted much younger people to be voicing the characters now.

Yesterday, a datamine of the demo was making the rounds. It didn't spoil the whole game, thankfully, but it did have an uncredited list of cast members. Afghani was there (he's also the talking flowers) as well as Mick Wingert, who people were speculating was Mario. The only returning actors are Kenny James who voices Bowser, Caety Sagoian who voices Bowser Jr, and Samantha Kelly who usually voices Toad and Peach. However, Peach sounded completely different to me in that video Nintendo posted the other day, so I'm assuming she's recast too. Perhaps saddest of all, Deanna Mustard is nowhere to be seen. A moment of silence as we pay respect to the voice of Daisy for 17 years. Finally playable in a platformer and her iconic voice is gone. It also seems like they're finally done recycling old voice clips of Kazumi Totaka as Yoshi, which is also kind of sad.

Also in the cast are Dawn M. Bennett, Christine Marie Cabanos, Caitlyn Elizabeth, Giselle Fernandez, and the aforementioned Mick Wingert. Place your bets as to who is Peach and who is Daisy.


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in reply to @Fuzunga's post:

I mean Tears of the Kingdom has a tiny tiny amount of story and writting and cutscenes and yet that game still have fuck all voice /barely any total voice acting and fuck all voice acting especialy for the side quests lol. We still have characters that just have one voiced word or grunt like we are still in the 90's lol.

It's also possible that his voice will be used in promos and trade shows like Martinet's was when he became Mario, not to mention being able to go to fan conventions as "the voice of Mario".

That last is big too. I went to a convention where Martinet was, shortly after they revealed he wasn't the voice, and the line to seem him was 2 hours at least.

Yeah, I don't get it. It can't possibly be money. There's no way it was worth the time and effort to get a new guy in the door and go through the PR cycle just to skimp Martinet out of a couple digits per project. It's MARIO. It breaks record sales regularly. Why would you ever downsize on something like that? Unless there's something else factoring in. I get the feeling it's not a great reason. They're still employing Martinet. He'll still "do mario" at events. So it can't something like bad press about stereotype concerns or Martinet's health. I kinda expect it's some weirdo corporate japanese reason.