Past Mario games were either a solo experience or Player Two took the form of Luigi, Princess, or Toad. The only true area Super Mario Odyssey fails is the co-op experience. It does add some new twists on an old favorite, but the innovative game mechanics and rich worlds more than make up for any shortcomings. The story follows the traditional Mario shtick, but I can't imagine anyone is picking up this game for an emotional journey. When it comes to negatives, there are a few areas that Super Mario Odyssey is lacking, but most of them are pretty nit-picky. Nintendo pulled out all the stops to make its classic platformer a brand new experience. It doesn't get old, even if you die a hundred times. While on the subject of music, the soundtrack is catchy and captures the spirit of traditional Mario games with a modern twist. The challenges hide secret moons, nostalgic nods, and fun extras, like a volleyball game or stunning musical number. The world themes come with more than just distinct designs from a metro city to a food-inspired landscape. Within each area, players can take the time to explore, complete mini-missions, access mini-games, and get lost.
Every world has a unique theme and level design that has an open-world feel, but a classic Mario touch. Each planet the famous plumber visits has already been terrorized by Bowser and needs a little help.
To catch up to Bowser, Mario has to visit different worlds and collect Moons to power his spaceship, the Odyssey. Like previous Mario games, the main goal of Super Mario Odyssey is to collect certain objects and save Princess Peach. Exploring the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond This game takes all the best parts of previous franchise entries and molds it into one beautiful platforming experience. Mario can still run, jump, and wall-kick his way around. Goombas can stack, Chain Chomps can crumble walls, and you can become a T-rex. When using Cappy to take control of other creatures, players gain different abilities. Rather than just a bunch of costumes that give players powers, this design breaks that mold.īut don't worry! Costumes are still a thing, and Mario will still have different powers things just work a little differently in Super Mario Odyssey. You can also use Mario's new hat to reach new heights, cause damage, or as a temporary platform if you time it right. Mario can throw his pal at all sorts of objects and enemies to take over their bodies. Cappy is more than just a wise-cracking side-kick - he is the game mechanic. The only exceptions are Player Down, Staff Roll and Game Over, which musics are not used in the hack.The storyline may be standard Mario fare, but the gameplay puts a new spin on things. All level music of SMB matches their SM64 counterparts, including Koopa's Road and Course Clear.They must traverse side-scrolling stages while avoiding hazards such as enemies and pits with the aid of power-ups such as the Super Mushroom, Fire Flower and Starman.Ĭompleting the final level " World 8-4" will activate the ending sequence, which shows a picture of Princess Peach with the word "Thank You!" accompanying it. Mario, his brother Luigi, Wario and his partner Waluigi travel to the Mushroom Kingdom to rescue Princess Peach from the main antagonist, Bowser.