The Captain Falcon voice recordings players can hear in Smash Ultimate are the very same ones that were used for the first Smash game more than 20 years ago.
Earlier this week, ARMS’ Min Min was revealed to be the newest fighter coming to Super Smash Bros. Ultimate. Smash director Masahiro Sakurai presented the reveal, giving demonstrations of Min Min’s move set as well as showing off what else will be coming to Smash Ultimate soon, including a Vault Boy Mii Fighter.
However, our favorite part of the whole presentation was the trailer Nintendo used to reveal Min Min to the world. It featured Captain Falcon and Kirby sat at a noodle bar eating ramen together. The thought that Captain Falcon and Kirby eat out together during their downtime was enough to make our day, along with the fact that the Captain was given more attention by Smash’s creators in one trailer than Nintendo has given him for ten years.
Sakurai revealed later on during the presentation that they actually brought Captain Falcon’s original voice actor back into the fold to help with the trailer. Ryo Horikawa, who also voices Dragonball Z’s Vegeta in Japan, was responsible for the original Captain Falcon voice recordings on the very first Super Smash Bros. game in 1999.
In fact, as was revealed by Sakurai this week, “Falcon Punch” and all of Captain Falcon’s other voice clips in Smash Ultimate are the same ones to have been used in every game. Unlike other characters, whose clips have been re-recorded for new games, Horikawa’s original recordings for the Nintendo 64 have been reused in every chapter of Smash ever since. The recordings he did for the Min Min trailer are the first he has done for the franchise in over 20 years.
Sakurai even answered a question Smash fans were bound to have before they even asked. Ever since Brawl, Captain Falcon has yelled “Come on Blue Falcon!” when performing his Final Smash. Turns out, even though Final Smashes weren’t introduced until the Nintendo Wii chapter of the game, the phrase was recorded just in case. Apparently Final Smashes were considered for the very first game but ultimately scrapped.
