Super Mario Odyssey

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.

https://i.imgur.com/qPkqkhH.jpg/

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

one of my favorite gaming moments ever

yeah the festival song was the best kind of fan service. loved it!

Festival was great but I loved the final escape more

just found the sphinx. woah. it was... totally not where i thought i would find it! <3

pirate goombas: cutest thing ever?

also the boss fight vs. the octopus, holy crap, this is actually difficult! very fun and challenging tho! for real a highlight.

tbh not that i demand decent boss fights in a Mario game but it is a nice change of pace from the Rabbids earlier. those felt like the piss easy mini bosses in SMB3. just one mechanic over and over. this on the other hand is crazy. i'm flying all up and down the Z axis. i'm narrowly avoiding missiles as i chasing this giant octopus across the beach. and i'm an octopus too! aaah!

just swimming around as a fish is wonderful. i am looking forward to coming back to find all the hidden moons after i win story mode.

I'm getting near to the end (I think), and it's been a pretty fun game, so far. I got so spoiled by Zelda though.

I've been able to beat all the bosses after a few tries, so far, which is just about the right difficulty level. The biggest issue for me is (as with all of the 3D Mario games since Mario 64) is just getting the controls/camera to work. It works about as well as can be expected, but I still find myself falling off the edge of stuff and missing moving platforms, etc. Not sure how they could make it any better, but it's still frustrating.

we should poll all the different Marios that you can be. there is some cool stuff you can turn into in here.

mario 64 mario forever

M64 is great. i prefer SMO bc there are none of the control or camera issues in the earlier game. anything with the snow/ice levels, anything with sledding, or flying, was a nightmare. i can see how someone could grow up with the game would not mind those bits or have figured it out long ago but for me it may still be a while before i beat it. of course it was one of the first 3d games ever so even with the issues it had it was a staggering pioneering achievement.

SMO is great because it is like the Imax version of M64. it uses a very similar control scheme and exploratory level design. the camera angles also feel very M64 inspired - even with a modern camera there is a primacy of cinematic vistas. SMO sort of acts as a sort of compendium of all the previous games: it has mechanics and artwork from Super Mario Bros., it has the vegetable carrying/throwing of Super Mario Bros. 2, it has the water spraying and ooze cleaning of Super Mario Sunshine, it has the Bee Life and experimental gravity mini-games of the Super Mario Galaxy titles.

ok at this Ruined Kingdom! damn good level design! wow! wtf we in Bloodborne now?

the last world had simple fire puzzles you lighting pyres with your flame in order to open locked doors and passageways just like Zelda.

nvmd it's like Shadow of the Colossus

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