I made full videos for Link and Red that cover every instance of them talking. Link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNRdetmGtNfDqok.html Red: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/a6xhm9OJz5nKXYU.html

Originally Kirby destroyed you with words. *Now he just destroys you flat out.*

This is before Kirby opted to roast his enemies exclusively via his actions.

Kirby has absolutely NO CHILL whatsoever. Also love that you used Hotel Mario as an example. Best Mario game ever made, no doubt about it.

I love how when Red spoke in Masters, Blue and Leaf turned like "BRO DID YOU JUST SPEAK?!"

Link canonically talks without ypu hearing it and they have unique personalities you see in the yes/no options sometimes and I love how spirit tracks link has choices like "wrongo" among others, he has such a clear personality if you pay attention to what you choose in text

Little Mac: *begs Doc Louis for help with defeating King Hippo* Doc Louis: "Can I offer you the Nintendo Fun Club in these trying times?"

Could you imagine if Kirby's Avalanche's personality was kept for future games? Imagine the insults he'd give to the likes of Hyness, Star Dream, or even Queen Sectonia. Way past cool, that's for sure.

Actually a deep cut of Mario talking was something Charles martinet did for Mario Galaxy. When I pre-ordered it from GameStop back in 07 I got a call from GameStop and it was Mario who had this long elevator pitch about how he has to save princess peach from Bowser and she makes his heart go "bah-da-bing" and some other stuff. It was dope!

Wispy Woods: "Please don't tread on my roots, it would not be a wise decision." Kirby: (proceeds to step on Wispy Woods' roots even though he asked nicely) "I feel like some apple pie!" Seriously, this has to be the most savage Kirby has ever been.

1:41 Of course, who could forget this iconic instance of Mario talking?

Why am I not surprised that Kirby’s first time talking was spent roasting people

Silent protagonists typically do speak, just rarely verbally/in the dialogue box. Take Crono from Chrono Trigger, for instance. The developers wanted you to feel you were playing the game from his perspective, so he never speaks in the dialogue box. He still does technically speak, but through selectable dialogue responses or by telling an NPC something outside of the dialogue box.

Kirby already gets mad when someone steals his cake AND he is literally a God slayer Imagine if this kid talked on a daily basis with THIS information

It’s like how Mario stayed genuinely quiet until the tv shows and hotel Mario. Though modern paper Mario has him DEAD silent

Someone: (Is dying) Doc: “Join the Nintendo Club.”

Nintendo's developers have said that they don't want to spoil the player's imagination of how the heroes speak. In 1997, the old Star Fox crew spoke quite a bit in Star Fox 64 with some of our favourite one liners "Do a Barrel roll!" still memorable to this very day. Metroid Prime 3 also had recorded speech.

For those who didnt understand Link one from Twillight Princess, this armored skeleton IS LINK from a past timeline. If you don't know, ALL the Links in TLoZ series are different Links, never the same Link we played in one game, the name "Link" is just to refer to the profecy hero, the one using the green clothes as the past link told, the same happens to Zelda and Ganondorf, they are reincarnations

I love how Mario is nice saying stuff like "you're the best!" and all when luigi is golfing but then tells luigi move and just starts being rude

Everyone thinks Mic Kirby is singing but it's actually just him roasting the enemies to death.

2:11 Doc's just casually telling Mac to join "The Nintendo Fun Club", while he's screaming for help.🤣😨

I’m sure this is known but in BotW’s Japanese versions all of the quest logs are like journal entries from Link, which I find super interesting and wish we had gotten in the English version

I never thought I’d hear Kirby say “Pathetic”

1:09 Mario really trying to make you choke💀

When you realized that Kirby can roast the hell out of you

Kirbys an absolute savage when he talks

Fun fact: Mario also talked in Luigi’s Mansion 1, when Luigi sees him for the first time in his painting, he will scream « Get me out of hereee! » but he wouldn’t be aware that his twin is watching him and King Boo. However, later, Mario saw his brother coming saving him before the final fight. E.Gadd thinks that he was surprised, but glad to see his younger brother going to his rescue.

Imagine being a boxer, asking your trainer for help, and they only response you get is, "Join the Nintendo Fun Club today!"

It’s always great when Mario speaks full sentences in games

Damn, Kirby was a savage back then bruh *Now he is just a God Killer for fun*

“Kirby is pure!” Kirby in Kirby's Avalanche:

Red talking in Masters is legendary and I love it

I want a game full of Kirby just roasting everyone. Who needs combate when you have _words_

I think it has been easy to forget that the egg Yoshi emerges from from Super Mario World onward is actually a CURSE and not just something the species can normally do, despite using it to their utilities and advantages.

I'd never expected kirby to say "pathetic" before But here we are

1:46 Oh of course how could they NOT include this. xD still gotta love the memes it created. ALSO i think that was perhaps Evil kirby some reason back then when they made him talk. It's probably for the best now that he doesn't...even though the kiss is also gone so... Kirby is growing up too fast or too little, i really dunno at this point

“Mario’s gonna do something very illegal” - Mario

Damn Kirby was a fucking savage-

Wispy Woods: “Don’t tread on my roots. It wouldn’t be wise.” Kirby: I don’t remember asking you a DAGGONE THING

It would’ve been funny if Red’s lines in Pokémon Masters were fully voiced!

Yeah Kirby in Kirby's Avalanche was savage.

I was just playing avalanche this morning and was amazed at how much of a savage Kirby was in it

The reason why kirby has stopped talking is because it's terrifying when he does

Does Mario really count a silent character the number of sounds, Italian speaking in the games and the shows, plus in nearly every Mario game he would say Yahoo! Or some veration of that!

I think the CD-i Nintendo games are the reasons why Mario and Link aren’t allowed to speak full sentences.

Its always great when characters you thought couldn't talk say full sentences! For example Flint or Mario.

I don't think Mario should count as a Silent Voice Protagonist since he did speak more than just Mario Golf, Mario Party, and Hotel Mario. Also, Donkey Kong shouldn't count here as well, Donkey Kong does speak in the Donkey Kong Country games as well.

"Mario!!! It that really you???" -Yoshi, 1996

(0:53) Oh yeah! Roast Kracko like a piece of bacon, Kirby!

Kirby roasting everyone is something i really was in need, the Hotel Mario is nostalgic too.

Little Mac: I'm not looking too good Doc. The blood leaking from my head is making it difficult to see anything, 3 of my ribs are broken, I can't stand on my right foot, that last blow dislocated my left arm and my opponent is going to use a handgun in the next round. Got any advice? Doc Louis: Join the Nintendo Fun Club today! Little Mac: What? Doc Louis: Oh right ... join Club Nintendo today! Little Mac: It's the year 2022 and I'm about to die unless you give me some credible advice! Doc Louis: ... Want to know what my favorite flavor chocolate? Stereotypical Fighter #426: I normally don't speak fluent English, but I just wanted to inform you that if the answer is chocolate, then I'm upgrading my handgun into a shotgun. Doc Louis: Then it's a good thing this fighting is being staged in Texas.

Red Speaking is like a phenomonon that occurs once in like every couple of years-- but in MastersEX they make it a bit more common lol Also Kirby is like the king of slaying gods, but apperently the king of roasting others too

3:41 I think Link is thinking, not talking

The best Zelda game ever 4:48

The way Kirby smiling face never changes for the first few just makes the roasting feel that more vicious 😂. Also gee can't they remake donkey Kong 64 I loved that game

In the "Pokémon Adventures" manga, Red actually talks a lot, and blue is the quiet one, that then slowly and subtly changes throughout the series. Not exactly canon but I thought I'd share.

"Help! Doc!" "Join the nintendo fun club today mac"

How did King Hippo go from talking to speaking in grunts in PunchOut Wii?

"Doc, this guy is litterally cheating,please i might actually die fighting this man please I'm in so much pain" *"join the Nintendo fun club today"*

Link actully speaks everytime your made to Choose a Dialouge-Option.

Something about kirby verbally roasting someone while hes smiling like nothing is wrong terrifies me

Hahaha holy shit you actually counted CD-I 10/10

You had the audacity to use the cdi cutscenes, thank you.

6:30, wth happened to blue’s legs?! Boi has them thunder thighs

Kirby not only had a powerful copy ability... but also powerful anime roar and roasting words

There's also one more from Link in Zelda Phantom Hourglass, when you reach the fire island you have to shout in your mic to rescue someone that was kidnapped

As a huge pokemon fan, Red's lines are my favorite. "I accept your challenge" Blue and Leaf: AYO DID HE JUST TALK?!

OH MY GOD. KIRBY!!! It's just a tree man, chill

Also, in addition to mentioning Breath of the Wild, I heard that in BotW, only in the Japanese version of the game, is the descriptions for each of the memories, is Link's own words about them, instead of the non-existing character narrator-like entity being the one who wrote them, akin to reading texts on menus that is tied to no character's words at all.

Damn, Kirby was a total savage

thing with Mario is that he is in so many games, we can't ask Charles Martinet to do every voiceline ever. Other than that Mario is canonically very much able to tak.

1:02 mario first: "You can do it!" mario later: "i hope you miss"

I love how in Pokémon Masters, the fact that Red is a silent protagonist is actually canon, and the first time he talks they be like "WTF? He talked!"

7:16 I just love this screen so much 💚❤️

Fun fact: In the Spin-off "Mario sports mix", When the characters are being presentated at the start of the battle, Yoshi will say "Oh yeah!"

I know he usually has written lines in several games, but Bowser was actually properly voice acted in Sunshine. It was kind of weird, honestly.

Nintendo hasn't seemed to figure out whether the Kongs and Yoshis are suppose to be speech-capable or not. Examples abound of both. Golden Sun did something similar to Mother 3 - Isaac is a silent protagonist in the first game, but speaks normally in the second when he's no longer the 'main character', while Felix takes over the silent protagonist role (although there are a couple instances of him speaking in Lost Age).

0:21 Does this look like the face of mercy to you?

Mac: "Help, Doc" Doc: "Would you be interested in our subscription service?" Mac: internally bleeding

the implication that Red approaches every new person he meets with "Hi! do you like Pokémon?" is actually very wholesome

6:36 ok so Red talking is cool and all but like… What in god’s name is wrong with Blue’s pants

You forgot Mario saying "Thank you so much for playing my game!" at the end of Super Mario 64 (and maybe a few others I think?)

Every Kirby burn was for me like "DAAAAAAYUUUUUUUM"

"Help, Doc!" "Join the Nintendo fun club today, Mac"

Red has such a way with words!

Holy cow when did Kirby become such a mad lad.

1:01 I want to see all the lines for all the characters. Where do I find a video on that?

1:41 the best Mario game ever

kirby cant stop throwing shade

It's amazing this all characters, greetings from Guaranda, Ecuador. 🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨🇪🇨

Wispy: Please no step on root Kirbo: How bout I do anyway?

In the Game and Watch Gallery games, Mario presents the various mini games with a long speech, alongside Mr. Game & Watch.

What about Samus Aran? In Fusion, she broke that silent when she spoke to Adam before Other M came

Little Mac asking doc to help with his injuries: Doc: That sucks, but what about joining the Nintendo fan club today?

You can mainly find Kirby talking on the pause screens of the GBA and DS Kirby games, but instances of him actually speaking English just amount to Avalanche, Smash 64, Tilt N’ Tumble, Drama CDs, and some other games where Makiko Ohmoto is credited as Kirby’s VA.

Kirby once said: “I feel like apple pie”

Red actually spoke again during the heroes event of august-september 2022 in Pokemon Masters Ex 😁

7:16 Fun fact: that sound effect was Yoshi's only characterized voice in the SNES and N64 era (including spin-offs like Mario Kart and Mario Party), up until Yoshi's Story, where Nintendo veteran Kazumi Totaka gave Yoshi his iconic noises we know and love today.😉🦖

for mario in mario golf, i realised something : blue bubbles are compliments red bubbles are taunts or insults which mean, even if you can't read and have the sound to 0, you can still know if the others player are against or for you (yes, it's possible to not be able to read even old, one of my mom's friend can't read or write, and he's around 45 years old)

[5:00] what the hell