Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has shed more light on Charles Martinet's new role as a Mario Ambassador.
29.08.2023 - 19:19 / gamepur.com / Mario
Super Mario Wonder is the newest 2D Mario title that will grace our screens this October, and it looks like it’s going to be a fresh take on the series with new powers and settings to explore, as well as some other quirks.
To help build excitement, Nintendo has announced a new Nintendo Direct solely focussed on the new title and will provide a deep dive into what players can expect from the upcoming game.
In this guide, we’ll detail how and where you can watch the Super Mario Wonder Direct and what you can expect from the upcoming live stream.
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Table of ContentsThe Super Mario Wonder Direct will air this Thursday, August 31, at 7 AM PT / 3 PM BST. The stream will be short, lasting roughly 15 minutes, and available to watch via Nintendo’s official YouTube and Twitch channels.
Like all Directs, it will be available to watch afterward as a VOD on YouTube if you are unable to watch the stream.
This direct will fully focus on details about the newest 2D Mario title coming to Nintendo Switch on October 20 this year. So far, we have seen several playable characters, including Mario, Luigi, Peach, Daisy, Toad, and Yoshi, and several new features to the series. These include new power-ups, such as turning Mario and his friends into elephants, and the new Wonder Flowers, which distort and change the world in wacky ways with loads of unique quirks like warp pipes coming to life. You can see some of the other new additions in the trailer from the Nintendo Direct from back in June.
This will also likely be the first Mario title without Charles Martinet voicing the character after the recent announcement he will be stepping back from the role. Nintendo has said a “special video message” with Mario creator Shigeru Miyamoto and Charles Martinet will be released soon. Maybe this direct will include this video and shed some light on the character’s future and Charles’s new role at Nintendo as “Mario Ambassador.”
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Nintendo's Shigeru Miyamoto has shed more light on Charles Martinet's new role as a Mario Ambassador.
Check out this hefty chunk of gameplay from the first section of Mario Wonder.
We may have heard Mario and Luigi’s new voices in Super Mario Bros. Wonder, but Nintendo will not be confirming who is voicing them until the game’s release, according to Nintendo president Doug Bowser.
We won't find out who the new voice of Mario is until the credits of Super Mario Bros. Wonder roll.
Mario Ambassador Charles Martinet is still unsure what his new role actually entails.
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Super Mario Bros. Wonder’s talkative flowers can be silenced, but you won’t be able to entirely escape their hints and comments, Nintendo has confirmed.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder includes chatty flowers which share jokes and useful hints as you pass by — though Nintendo has now confirmed you can put them on mute if you'd prefer.
Super Mario Bros. Wonder will seemingly allow players to mute the strange new Talking Flowers characters, which is good news for those of us who don't want to think about what Goombas taste like.
Many people have Super Mario Bros Wonder on their minds, given that the title just had a significant Nintendo Direct that broke down the various elements of gameplay, plot, and the new kingdom players will be in. As if on cue, the floodgates opened after that, and the team talked about everything to do with the game, including the parts of its development process. For example, the team wasn’t rushed to develop something special early on, as the producer wanted them to make something special. But a question about what Mario’s creator had to say about the game has popped up.
Thank the Gods of Silence; you can mute those talking flowers in Super Mario Bros. Wonder. That damned “onward and upward” that one spews at Mario is locked in a very painful spot in my mind. It’s like having a grain of sand between the folds of brain, slowly aggravating everything around it in small but significant ways.
Side-scrolling 2D Super Mario games have mostly followed the same formula for three decades now — to immense success. At first blush, Nintendo’s Super Mario Bros. Wonder — the first side-scrolling Super Mario game in 11 years — retains most of the iconic Mario touches we all know and love. However, it includes enough unique twists to make for what could be one of the freshest Super Mario titles in some time.