Super Smash Bros.

Mario's Italian-American emerging...

“I’m walkin here!”

They'll hire Chris Pratt for the new lines if he's not too busy voicing every other famous cartoon character in the world at the moment.

Edited by lbssb on Apr 5th 2024 at 2:37:11 PM

Everyone will have Banjo-Kazooie type speech, except for Banjo and Kazooie who will speak in perfect Victorian English.

Honestly, it is really weird to think about the voice roster of all of the Smash games and what get recast and what not. Like Fox has a new voice in almost every single Smash game, meanwhile Captain Falcon got one set of voice lines done for 64 and then got no new lines until Ryo Horikawa needed to slurp some ramen for the Min-Min trailer.

It bothers me that English Lyn didn't get new voice lines to match her new voice actress, but that is besides the point.

The character that desperately needs new voice lines in the future is Bowser, it always felt so wrong that he just sounds like some generic monster without any personality.

To be fair, Bowser doesn't have any audial dialogue that mimics human speech. However, he should receive new voicelines regardless.

Both Bowser's Inside Story and Odyssey do have voice clips where Bowser audibly says "Mario"...

He says a bit in Bowser's Inside Story.

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The refresh may happen.

Bowser also was fully voiced in Super Mario Sunshine, even if the execution left a bit to be desired.

I feel like all of the Donkey Kong characters should have more canon-accurate voices too.

It is disappointing how they were planning a Diddy and Dixie tag team character in Brawl, dropped it, but never revisited the idea of making Dixie playable on her own later on.

I feel like Dixie is one of the two most conspicuously absent Nintendo characters in Smash, alongside classic Ganon. I have high hopes for the both of them.

And yes, Bowser, Donkey Kong and King K. Rool would benefit immensely from having actual voice clips instead of generic animal noises. That K. Rool's KO sound isn't the Kremling Death Honk is one of the game's unspoken sins.

Diddy is possibly my favorite video game character of all time, but somehow, I don't think he really needs voice clips. His modern voice sounds like monkey screeches anyway. Maybe if they pulled his N64-era Kevin Bayliss voice?

(No, what Diddy needs is his boombox dance from DKC2 as a victory animation.)

I’d say the same for Mario and Luigi. Considering how chaotic Mario Party and Mario Kart are, I think it wouldn’t be out of the ordinary for the Mario bros to yell out the same wahoos in Smash like they do there.

To be fair to Star Fox, whenever a new Smash game comes out it just happens a new Star Fox game came out so they might as well update them. Ultimate was an outlier but even then apparently complaints of the bad voice acting of Fox in 4 made them redo his lines (and ended up redoing Falco's too).

Maybe Snake isn’t the best at being a chiropractor.

One other, very small thing about Donkey Kong's depiction in Smash I'd change if I could: his idle stance should be the bipedal one from Jungle Beat. It's much more dynamic and makes his tie more visible.

Would DK be better with his coconut gun that fires in spurts?

I think Funky would be a good echo for him.

Maybe? The Coconut Shooter could make a good item, too. Something similar to the Cracker Launcher from Brawl (remember that?).

I'd revamp DK's entire moveset so he actually feels like DK instead of a generic heavy fighter archetype. If I could change one thing and one thing only, I'd probably replace his Spinning Kong recovery with a Barrel Cannon, but he really needs to be rebuilt from the ground up.

I was thinking along the lines of "his up-B has him shot out from a barrel and his side-B is him tossing a barrel that rolls on the ground".

My thoughts exactly! I'd also make his Final Smash the moon punch from Donkey Kong Country Returns.

Speaking of, Mario's super boring Final Smash should be replaced with the T-Rex Capture. And Peach should probably get something from Showtime (Mighty Peach?).

Edited by ThriceCharming on Apr 9th 2024 at 8:50:40 AM

Peach's Final Smash should have always been Psych Bomb from the start. Simple, direct and a move she has done.

But what does it do?

Well, it's a bunch of bombs. They fall down and go boom. Actually, it's very similar to that thing that happens in Smash when a sudden death is taking too long.

But if they didn't call Mario's crappy Final Smash Ultra Flame (or I guess Ultra Fireball now), there's no way they'd reference Psych Bomb.

...I feel like that'd be less useful than the final smash she already has.

I mean, at least it wouldn't give her opponents a chance to heal. I agree that it wouldn't be very good, though.

What's Peach, Mallow and Geno's Trio Attack in the RPGmake? Maybe she could do that. Unless of course the stars finally align and Geno makes playable.