{"id":191134,"date":"2025-06-17T07:51:11","date_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:51:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191134\/"},"modified":"2025-06-17T07:51:11","modified_gmt":"2025-06-17T07:51:11","slug":"marios-voice-actor-says-its-unbelievable-to-hear-his-voice-in-mario-kart-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/191134\/","title":{"rendered":"Mario’s Voice Actor Says It’s “Unbelievable” To Hear His Voice In Mario Kart World"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mario<\/a>Image: Nintendo Life \/ Nintendo<\/p>\n

In case you somehow missed it, Mario got a new voice actor alongside the release of Super Mario Bros. Wonder<\/a> in 2023 and he’s a huge fan of Mario.<\/p>\n

Kevin Afghani has now returned to the role once again in the new Switch 2 launch title Mario Kart World<\/a>, and he’s taken to social media<\/a> to mention how it’s been a “truly unbelievable experience” as the Mario Kart series was an “absolute pillar” of his childhood:<\/p>\n

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“Hearing myself in Mario Kart is truly an unbelievable experience. Mario Kart was an absolute pillar of my childhood. I cannot believe how lucky of a person I am to be able to be a part of games that mean so much to me.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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He also hopes fans are having an “incredible time” with the new entry in the long-running kart racing series.<\/p>\n

Afghani shared a similar comment when Super Mario Party Jamboree<\/a> was released on the Switch last October, but has kept a relatively low profile since taking on the role. Kevin voices multiple other characters in the Mario universe including Luigi, Wario and Waluigi.<\/p>\n

In some other Mario Kart news, the voice of Princess Peach has been replaced after an 18 year run.<\/p>\n

What do you think of Kevin’s Mario voice work in the new Mario Kart? How about the rest of the cast? Tell us in the comments.<\/p>\n

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\"Liam<\/p>\n

Liam is a news writer and reviewer across Hookshot Media. He’s been writing about games for more than 15 years and is a lifelong fan of many iconic video game characters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Image: Nintendo Life \/ Nintendo In case you somehow missed it, Mario got a new voice actor alongside…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":191135,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[2487,270,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-191134","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-mario-kart-world","9":"tag-nintendo-switch-2","10":"tag-technology","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114697619855240525","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191134\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/191135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}