{"id":19494,"date":"2018-05-04T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-05-04T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/charles_martinet_the_voice_of_mario_will_be_a_playable_character_in_runner3"},"modified":"2018-05-04T10:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-05-04T10:00:00","slug":"charles-martinet-the-voice-of-mario-will-be-a-playable-character-in-runner3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/05\/04\/charles-martinet-the-voice-of-mario-will-be-a-playable-character-in-runner3\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Martinet, The Voice Of Mario, Will Be A Playable Character In Runner3"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"media_block\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/charles_martinet_the_voice_of_mario_will_be_a_playable_character_in_runner3\/large.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/charles_martinet_the_voice_of_mario_will_be_a_playable_character_in_runner3\/small.jpg\" class=\"media_thumbnail\"><\/a><\/div>\n<aside class=\"object object-youtube\">\n<div class=\"youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"resize\" width=\"900\" height=\"507\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5ES2KNejcbI?rel=0&amp;hd=1&amp;showinfo=0&amp;modestbranding=0&amp;autohide=1\" type=\"text\/html\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\">[embedded content]<\/iframe> <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>You&#8217;ve almost definitely played as Mario, and you&#8217;ve probably (poorly) imitated his voice on multiple occasions throughout your life, but now you can actually play as the man behind Mario&#8217;s voice in what must be one of the weirdest, but most wonderful, cameos to ever exist.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/runner3\">Runner3<\/a><\/strong> is scheduled to launch on 22nd May, bringing the series&#8217; classic auto-running, platforming goodness to the Switch for the first time, and this newly-announced inclusion isn&#8217;t actually as surprising as you might initially think. In previous instalments from the series, Martinet starred as the narrator, lending his voice to a project with slightly fewer &#8216;mamma mias&#8221;.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"object object-tweet\" readability=\"2.5325203252\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" align=\"center\" readability=\"7.23577235772\">\n<p><span lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">No longer content to watch from the sidelines, The Narrator has decided to take matters into his own hands&#8211; er, feet! Pre-order <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Runner3?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Runner3<\/a> now at <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/y0fQ00wakT\">https:\/\/t.co\/y0fQ00wakT<\/a>! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/jxspDrkXg7\">pic.twitter.com\/jxspDrkXg7<\/a><\/span>\u2014 Choice Provisions (@TotallyChoice) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TotallyChoice\/status\/992147539632652288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 3, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Charles isn&#8217;t the only cool addition the game&#8217;s roster, though; the likes of <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/switch-eshop\/shovel_knight_treasure_trove\">Shovel Knight<\/a><\/strong>,\u00a0Dave from <strong><a class=\"external\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wiiu-eshop\/woah_dave\">Woah Dave!<\/a><\/strong>, and Eddie Riggs from <strong>Br\u00fctal Legend<\/strong> are all shown off at the end of the trailer above, too.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"picture strip\">\n<div class=\"img\"><a href=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/charles_martinet_the_voice_of_mario_will_be_a_playable_character_in_runner3\/attachment\/1\/original.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/images.nintendolife.com\/news\/2018\/05\/charles_martinet_the_voice_of_mario_will_be_a_playable_character_in_runner3\/attachment\/1\/900x.jpg\" alt=\"runner3.jpg\"\/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>Are you a fan of the Runner games? Will you be strutting your stuff as the wonderfully lovely Charles Martinet? Let us know down below.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[embedded content] You&#8217;ve almost definitely played as Mario, and you&#8217;ve probably (poorly) imitated his voice on multiple occasions throughout your life, but now you can actually play as the man behind Mario&#8217;s voice in what must be one of the weirdest, but most wonderful, cameos to ever exist. Runner3 is scheduled to launch on 22nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nintendo-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19494\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}