Super Mario Odyssey

Bullet Bill controls had me for a minute there

This game is good, I feel like I'm breezing through it though! But there'll be lots to go back to even after I beat Bowser, if I want to.

there's a vast amount of stuff that isn't even available until you do 'beat the game'

the world liberals want

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hell yeah

mario really fills out that wedding dress huh

'predictably fun' feels otm

one of the things that makes 64 the best imo is its physics, how its possible to move super fast and violently through it, which is why its a speedruners fav

― lag∞n, Friday, October 27, 2017 6:25 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

cider otm, but the hat flicking and "capture" is so enjoyable and quite new? (i did not play sunshine)

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, October 27, 2017 6:27 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

whenever you possess something the sudden downgrade in precision of control, the different mode in which these entities exist in the world and different depth of fidelity, is jarring. not necessarily un-fun. but i feel like there's two games at odds with one another, one in which the appeal is that you have this avatar of subtle control and weight and another in which the appeal is MOOO HAAA HAA IM A FUCKEN TYRANNOSAUR

and i think these actively work against each other, at least for me, i am not taken by the novelty of having to switch forms when it means that switching forms is a sudden shift of gears to jankiness. i mean, it's not like it's a bad game. it's like, at least 50% better than shiny entertainment's messiah

definitely twice as good as omikron: the nomad soul

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capture controls don't bug me too much. the captured seem to have a single desirable ability. the shades guy felt like a joke about this. capturing makes the a mario-kirby hybrid in the end, which is cool. hey wtf are these bunnies, though?

i found a few of the captures fun esp the woodpeckers in the bowser level but agree that most of them are a big downgrade from just being mario

but you are still mario. you are just possessing each of these creatures and using its one ability to do something mario cannot do on his own.

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Mario picked up a new habit after his trip to New Donk City

Trading Grateful Dead tapes?

i have 369 moons after 2 days. my switch profile page refuses to tell me how many hours i've played, maybe it's trying to protect me

me i been froggin

guys i'm currently exploring bowser's 'inner walls'

I bought swinch a cpl weeks ago

coming off of zelda, this game is... ok

like overall it's pretty good, but a) they put a bunch of unfun, typical platformer shit in here, and b) it's v goofy and clearly designed for very little kids and I'm like 30 playing this shit

zelda otoh was one of the best games I've ever played

this is better than mario 64. i don't understand how anyone could play this and then pine for mario 64.

― you are juror number 144 and we will excuse you (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, October 27, 2017 12:44 PM (three days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yikes no

it's v goofy and clearly designed for very little kids and I'm like 30 playing this shit

yeah yr right this would be so much better if mario was a bald space marine slogging through a world painted entirely in shades of brown

it's v goofy and clearly designed for very little kids and I'm like 30 playing this shit

yeah yr right this would be so much better if mario was a bald space marine slogging through a world painted entirely in shades of brown

Of course it's better than Mario 64.

Mario has never controlled better. No third person character has ever controlled better.

What does "unfun, typical platformer shit" mean? xp

It's not a revolution like BOTW, but it expands the ways in which a 3D Mario can operate, without losing the platforming part. Most 3d 'platformers' originating in the 32 bit era are not about platforming but about mucking about looking for shit. This is still about platforming, but allows for a looser structure, more exploration and more freeform platforming than before. Despite the more open nature of the worlds the game has never felt tighter or better paced.

yeah yr right this would be so much better if mario was a bald space marine slogging through a world painted entirely in shades of brown

― proton, neutron, electron and crouton (bizarro gazzara), Monday, October 30, 2017 2:27 AM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yup this is the only other thing it could be and I'm mad that it's not!

What does "unfun, typical platformer shit" mean? xp

― abcfsk, Monday, October 30, 2017 2:27 AM (ten minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

there's a lot of 'navigate this one square wide stretch without making a single misstep or you die' on the level I'm on (sweets level)

That's what I come to Mario for. Hard platforming. It's what I want more of basically.

sorry ilxorz I made a typo when I mildly criticized this video game, meant to say 'this game is good but it would be better if capitalism was abolished'

that i can get behind

I beat Bowser yesterday. The last three worlds are collectively so fucking delightful.

got my Mario switch yesterday, had a few fun hours with it before bedtime. i haven't bought a Mario game new since SNES Super Mario All Stars so this is pretty crazy lol. absolutely gorgeous game!

really loving the trippiness of Mario's discorporate adventures. throwing the hat on the frog was really intense, seeing Mario being sucked through the bardos, his ego twisted into the cosmos on the way to renewed consciousness. then later seeing telephone wire electricity Mario... woah...

Mario's seen some things

he's basically Agent Cooper.

lol was just trying to post: mario over twisted copper pair is a twin peaks influence

T-Rex was awesome, i loved the smashy gameplay, and the naturalistic graphics were impressive. it was a little disconcerting to see the realistic dinosaur, given that we have (beloved) dinosaurs already in Mario and Yoshi looks nothing like a realistic T-Rex. its kind of eerie when you see it in a Mario game. i do love how this game plays with the Uncanny Valley type stuff. i saw a realistic human and car out in the desert. it was really funny to come across. i can't wait to see what they do with New Donk City.

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uh sorry if this is gonna kill your bandwidth

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non-exist-ent!

I beat Bowser yesterday. The last three worlds are collectively so fucking delightful

Otm, just got to the end credits and the last few worlds were amazing, so many interesting curve balls one after another. One of the areas had a track that sounded like Sun Ra in places! Now to see what the post game stuff is like ...

this game is almost as good as sonic 3 and knuckles

yeah I still can't get over how pretty the Bowser's castle level is in this, that was a fantastic stylistic choice

Continuing to fuck around looking for moons, buying outfits, and jumping forever on NPCs is delightful enough to keep me from going back to my Stardew Valley farm just yet. It's good.

It's good.

agree, solid B-/C+

i got 550 moons and feel accomplished enough to put it aside. might go back someday and get the rest but i've got other games to play

i'd go b+ personally. still have not beaten though.

i'd give it a 4 out of 5 which sounds a lot nicer than "B-/C+" but i guess is the same thing

Yup, sounds about right, B+/A-, I'd say.
I'm happy with it - though of course, just about any game would seem a bit underwhelming after Breath of the Wild - not every game HAS to be a thrilling 100-hour journey. I'm even fine with the platforming being fairly easy, after suffering through most of Sunshine back in the day. Some of the post-game challenges are pushing me, though, and I'll likely give up before completing most of the second tier Freerunning courses, for example.

its more linear than i expected but i am loving this game. right now im at New Donk City and have been consistently surprised by so many things. it feels like a culmination of Mario games and control schemes, all perfected in glorious HD, with a post-Mario Maker sense of the playful. the transforming stuff is cool and imo rare enough to where it never feels like a gimmick.

currently in New Donk City and really loving it. i got to the 2D part and was saying "Wow" outloud to myself. always hoped they would do something cool w that area and hell yes this was awesome. i love the nostalgic 2D bits in the game. the way it's kind of like Mario Maker is etched into the sides of buildings and ruins. the past world rendered as hieroglyphics in the new landscape.

i am getting LOLz also from the Sonic references. there was one level in the forest where you could make Mario run and collect giant rings. then a large curve later shows up, upside-down, in a triumphant and nostalgic sequence, and honestly it's a funny moment that kind of takes the pomposity out of it. that's what this game's all about really. just playing around. and it plays great.

the festival song blew my mind

feel this should have been called Super Mario Hats! or Super Hats with Mario!

do you know where the last 2 are, or are you scavenging all the levels looking for them?

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:09 PM (sixteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

its 2nd jump rope and and volleyball moons where you have to get 100, i havent put a ton of effort into it but theyre too hard and also dumb idk

my first instinct was to demand that you prove how all 90 of those are real, while i stand by my super mario bro lagoon

2020 has destroyed me

― Karl Malone, Wednesday, December 9, 2020 1:15 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

thank you friend we must stand by each other in these challenging times

btw if you cant find a moon pay the lil hint toad and if all else fails theres always youtube

lagoon is a fake nongamer

rude

so...a real gamer then?

rude

possibly the gamer-est

whenever my son is excited about getting a moon, i'll remind him that real gamer lag∞n has all but two of the moons.

and if he asks about the two not-gotten moons, i'll explain that, well, these moons are really hard. it will be an important lesson.

teach your children to aim for excellence but not under any circumstances perfection, its the lag00n way

I started playing this as a fun respite from Bloodborne, but after multiple attempts against that Sand Kingdom head boss, the joke's clearly on me.

Is that the stone head guy with the floating hands? Think it's fairly straightforward once you work out what you have to do

It is and yeah, once I figured out the patterns I put him away, but the layers of attacks resulted in some trial and error that was skewed towards the latter and partly what reminded me of Bloodborne (the other part: unlocking shortcuts and checkpoints).

I can’t get past the fire level under the moon. It’s killing me!

where do you die

Everywhere

ah, well

holy crap was that 2d bit under the well in the mushroom kingdom hard. took me a fucking hour!

In Super Mario Odyssey, Topper hides inside his hat after being hit (left). If Snapshot Mode is entered during this animation and the camera is moved inside the hat, we can see that his model is deformed severely while he is hiding (right). pic.twitter.com/myJvpUIeZW

— Supper Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog) March 30, 2021

it only just clicked for me that it's "donk" as in "donkey kong"

oh my god

Donk refers to being tongue-fucked by a frog, and that’s what Donkey Kong was named after

frasier looking at new donk city pic.twitter.com/Tuhav3GeL8

— frasier looking at video games (@frasier_looking) September 7, 2021

i found a frog to eternally tongue fuck me within 20 seconds of starting

― Karl Malone, Thursday, August 23, 2018 9:40 PM (three years ago)

three years pass...

In Super Mario Sunshine, if Yoshi falls down while touching a wall and Mario rides on him while still next to the wall, their movement speeds will desync. Mario will bounce very quickly while Yoshi will move very slowly. pic.twitter.com/4JY9V9KgqI

— Supper Mario Broth (@MarioBrothBlog) December 5, 2021