i think the accelerometer works as well as the infrared used too tbh... i'd need to see it in action but i bet it could fake it.
― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Thursday, 4 January 2018 02:40 (six years ago) link
there’s a story?
― ||||||||, Thursday, 4 January 2018 17:29 (six years ago) link
good guy mario has to rescue a superstar from a dinosaur rapist
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 January 2018 23:52 (six years ago) link
got to 500... might be nearing the end of my play through now
― ||||||||, Tuesday, 9 January 2018 22:43 (six years ago) link
on my 2nd playthrough. just finished the lesser-loved Luncheon Kingdom. i forgot you play as a lava bubble jumping up against the flow of a giant bird's purple vomit waterfall. <3 this game.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:16 (six years ago) link
also i do like the combo of Greek ruins with giant neon low-poly fruits and veggies. it's kind of like a weird mutant version of classical decadence.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:18 (six years ago) link
i actually was quite the fan of lunch kingdom
― Nhex, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 03:43 (six years ago) link
yeah I thought that was the best non vertical level
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 14:58 (six years ago) link
testament to how good this game is that the usually sucky worlds (ice and water) absolutely own
― ||||||||, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 17:41 (six years ago) link
weird, I think ice levels are normally good and this one is the weakest! where are the Mario 64 style slides?
― ciderpress, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 18:01 (six years ago) link
i beat the final final world. the last gauntlet is quite tough! you have to make it through a bunch of sections all in one life. still have a handful of moons to get in the Mushroom Kingdom and i'm still missing purple coins/souvenirs/stickers in from half the others.
that "Jump Up, Super Star" song has become my number one earworm of 2018. the song just keeps popping into my head. anyone notice the fast 8-bit Woody The Woodypecker jingle in there? wonder what the deal is with that...
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 January 2018 01:30 (six years ago) link
lunch kingdom suuuuucked. I did love the caterpillar land, tho.
― rb (soda), Friday, 12 January 2018 01:52 (six years ago) link
i beat the final final world. the last gauntlet is quite tough! you have to make it through a bunch of sections all in one life.far out you are formidable. that is a shitbag of a level. i got that multimoon through the cheat instead, because fuck returning to goombas every time you die.
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 12 January 2018 02:08 (six years ago) link
i feel like if i have the temerity to ever try the moon challenges again i might just have to pick up a Peach amiibo, cuz i am not hardcore
― Nhex, Friday, 12 January 2018 05:41 (six years ago) link
i got that multimoon through the cheat instead
yeah i read about that on Kotaku. is that based on the same concept as the Talkatoo glitch? im going to have to do it, it sounds kind of fun. you turn into a frog and traverse the abyss?
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 January 2018 06:06 (six years ago) link
yep
― rove mcmanus island (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 12 January 2018 06:17 (six years ago) link
it’s so easy to pull off it’s sort of ridiculous
love the Battle in Bubblaine boss rematch in the Mushroom Kingdom. they really switch up an already awesome boss fight. now there is no ground and no water beneath you, only clouds, and it is constantly raining, so you have infinite water jetpack. it's pretty cool.
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 12 January 2018 06:53 (six years ago) link
http://conceptartworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Nintendo-Super-Mario-Odyssey-Concept-Art-03-680x389.jpg
http://conceptartworld.com/news/super-mario-odyssey-concept-art/https://nintendoeverything.com/super-mario-odyssey-bonneton-concept-art/
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 2 July 2018 13:15 (five years ago) link
if we don't get a dlc kingdom or 2 for this soon I will take it as proof they are making a second game
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 15:13 (five years ago) link
Sequel needs playable Peach, she has Tiara so giving her the capture ability is already justified.
― devops mom (silby), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
i wish someone would add SMB2/peach-style movement to a game character. the low-level hover. it's one of the most satisfying ways to navigate around a videogame, imo
― Karl Malone, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
but SMO's triple jump is so sick. apparently it's so versatile you can beat the game without any captures
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:05 (five years ago) link
the Yoshi games are hover platformers though I know it's not quite the same hover
― ciderpress, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
Yoshi seems to have inherited that moveset.
playing Princess on level 4-1 of Super Mario Bros. 2 is forever burned into my brain. sliding across the ice and under buzzards w that hover skill.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 22:42 (five years ago) link
i played some of this drunk late last night and it was so wonderful. New Donk City is a huge joy to get around. you can roll your way across town, drive the moped, bounce on taxis/people/window overhangs, turn yourself into electricity and scale buildings that way, triple-jump leap from building to building like Spiderman, etc.
all completely seamless and in a level that uses somewhat holographic or fractal level design. the area as a whole is designed for the "main" game story mission, side areas are plentiful, often including off-shoots of their own. these mini levels are holistically integrated into the environment. it is cool replaying the game after finding all the moons and side areas and realizing how much stuff is accessible right at the start, how all the pipes have a secret 2nd moon in them that usually has a fun acrobatic challenge to it.
it does feel like the natural evolution of the open worlds of say Super Mario Bros. 3, where you had the one-room Toad levels that were just a treasure chest w an item in it or whatever.
btw holy shit this game looks incredible. it really feels like an HD cartoon world. i know technically GTA still trounces it but i don't care, the art design is, as always w Nintendo, wonderful. it really looks like a 3D CGI cartoon at parts. the camera is quite helpful when needed and otherwise generally stays out of the way and lets the avatar loom large in his adventures on the screen. needless to say im beyond excited to see what they do next.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 16:41 (five years ago) link
i've been replaying too. as much as this game felt derivative the first time through, it gets more enjoyable every time just being in the levels. i'll probably play this through more times than sm64.
― karl wallogina (Autumn Almanac), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 20:59 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHmL2pv7gQA
so cool the robots were a direct reference to Silent Running. also i loved this answer to the realistic humans controversy and the question "Is Mario a human?"
In an interview with Vice, the game's director Kenta Motorkura confirmed that Mario is human saying "Mario is human (...) in the world, there are many different types of people, you know."
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 July 2018 20:34 (five years ago) link
downloading
ready to begin odyssey
― Karl Malone, Friday, 24 August 2018 02:00 (five years ago) link
34 minutes remaining
maybe i'll do a let's play
― Karl Malone, Friday, 24 August 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
good luck!!
― Evan, Friday, 24 August 2018 02:02 (five years ago) link
oh wait, that would require a capture card. i just assumed it was built into the switch (like on PS4)
guess i'll have to play this game the ooooool' fashioned way
― Karl Malone, Friday, 24 August 2018 02:05 (five years ago) link
i will probably need a fair amount of luck! to this day i have confidence in my old school 2D super mario bros. 1 - SMW skills, but i am generally pretty terrible at 3D action games. it's lame but i have never been able to use an analog stick as precisely as i could with a d-pad
― Karl Malone, Friday, 24 August 2018 02:07 (five years ago) link
maybe i can help you the way you helped me with zelda <3
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 August 2018 02:16 (five years ago) link
Karl plz buy a capture card so you can stream Mario :3
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 24 August 2018 02:20 (five years ago) link
should i play with the detached joy cons, as it's suggesting?
― Karl Malone, Friday, 24 August 2018 02:34 (five years ago) link
i found a frog to eternally tongue fuck me within 20 seconds of starting
― Karl Malone, Friday, 24 August 2018 02:40 (five years ago) link
Congrats on beating the game so quick!
― Evan, Friday, 24 August 2018 02:55 (five years ago) link
Yeah that’s the final boss
― faculty w1fe (silby), Friday, 24 August 2018 02:57 (five years ago) link
You can just leave it there and make a sandwich
should i play with the detached joy cons, as it's suggesting?it’s easier for a move which you will discover soon
― Everything to do with chocolate (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 24 August 2018 03:28 (five years ago) link
on my way to new donk city, interrupted by a little battle with bowser in cloud kingdom.
you gotta love the mario sense of humor. in the corner of the map it says
Cloud KingdomMystery Above Our Heads
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 25 August 2018 04:51 (five years ago) link
the average temp here is 73F
The Treehouse team at NoA are wizards.
― faculty w1fe (silby), Saturday, 25 August 2018 05:15 (five years ago) link
i'm a few hours into this now and it's predictably fun though certainly not a reinvention of mario like what they did with zelda
Same here. Just got to the Underwater Kingdom and whilst it's been fun, I've been slightly underwhelmed after all the stellar reviews it got.
It also seems much easier (so far) than I remember previous Mario games being. None of the boss battles to date have been particularly taxing and most have been done on the first attempt.
― groovypanda, Friday, 4 January 2019 10:46 (five years ago) link
hey i just started this too. i was going to wait to start it until i was ready to take a break from zelda, but i was home with my older daughter yesterday and she wanted me to check it out so i did. not very far in at all but i love it
― na (NA), Friday, 4 January 2019 15:27 (five years ago) link
same here as with groovypanda, as someone who made a last-minute snap decision to get mario over zelda i'm kinda mad at myself? ah well i'll get to zelda someday anyway. beat odyssey in not that many hours. i guess i could go back and get all of the moons from the fun levels but even that feels like a chore.
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Friday, 4 January 2019 16:21 (five years ago) link
The game gets a bit harder after you “beat the game.”You also get access to harder refights of the bosses. Mario 64 pretty much nailed how 3D Mario should jump and move on the first try so it makes sense to me that this game, 5 or 6 3D Marios later, feels a lot like that one. The transformations are where the new wrinkles are and some of them are a whole lot of fun.
― I have measured out my life in coffee shop loyalty cards (silby), Friday, 4 January 2019 16:22 (five years ago) link
ah ok, i will have to dip back in.
one thing that bugged me was since i was playing handheld, the game kept prodding me to play nunchuk mode (climb faster! throw further! all with a flick of your wrist!) and i didn't want to and i was mad that i didn't get ot do all of those things
is it still called nunchuk mode if they're not attached? tonfa mode?
― teen heartthrob Pacey Winger (Will M.), Friday, 4 January 2019 16:27 (five years ago) link
I have nothing but bored memories of this game
I feel like an idiot for playing it out instead of quitting and finishing SMG2 or Sunshine instead
― flamboyant goon tie included, Friday, 4 January 2019 16:42 (five years ago) link