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WTFriday: The Soothing Sounds of Yoshi

Posted by Bob Mackey

Giving Mario's dinosaur pal Yoshi a human-like voice is quite possibly one of the worst ideas in the history of video games. Okay, okay; what Yoshi sounds like now isn't quite as brain-melting as the voice he had in the *shudder* Super Mario World cartoon, but almost everyone will agree that Yoshi's old, synthesized cry (one that's impossible to transform into onomatopoeia) is preferable to his newish status of sounding like a constipated toddler who shouts his own name like a Pokemon wannabe. Unfortunately, some people actually seem to enjoy the infant babblings of Mario's once dignified friend; specifically, people like YouTube user DJchedda727, who somehow thought it would be an awesome idea to transform the entire vocabulary of Yoshi into the illest of beats. The result is strangely catchy--but keep in mind that if you play the Yoshi Mix while driving, you may get shot at. By cops.

Video after the cut.



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Roto13 said:

God I hate that voice. It was introduced in Yoshi's Story, where it actually made some sense because all of the Yoshis in Yoshi's Story were babies. I don't know why they decided to transfer it to every subsequent version of adult Yoshi. Probably to punish everyone for hating Yoshi's Story.

January 9, 2009 6:33 PM

Demaar said:

Reminds me of that video of Kirby's Smash Bros cries to the tune of the gourmet race from Kirby Super Star. That was some hilarious stuff. This, not so much.

January 11, 2009 7:01 AM

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