SeekerSuper Mario Odyssey
Super Mario Odyssey, which launches on the Nintendo Switch tomorrow, is simply bursting with wild creativity. One minute you’re driving a tank down a rain-slicked city street, the next you’re dressed as a clown while trying to guide sheep across the desert.
-- As reviewed by The Verge
Product details
- Explore 3D kingdoms filled with secrets and surprises, including costumes for Mario and several ways to interact with environments
- Mario's new friend, Cappy, lets you master new moves like cap throw, cap jump and capture
- Visit astonishing new locales, such as the skyscraper-packed New Donk City, and run into familiar friends and foes as you try to save Princess Peach from Bowser's clutches and foil his dastardly wedding plans
- Hand a Joy-Con controller to a friend to enjoy simultaneous multiplayer: Player 1 controls Mario while Player 2 controls Mario’s new ally Cappy
- Unlock even more features with the exclusive new amiibo figures - Mario, Princess Peach and Bowser dressed in their wedding outfits
PROS
+ Innovative gameplay
+ Colorful, beautiful graphics
+ Creative levels
CONS
- Camera isn't tight enough
- Motion controls required for some moves and are difficult, if not impossible, to use in handheld mode
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Expert reviews and ratings
By The Verge on October 26, 2017
Super Mario Odyssey, which launches on the Nintendo Switch tomorrow, is simply bursting with wild creativity. One minute you’re driving a tank down a rain-slicked city street, the next you’re dressed as a clown while trying to guide sheep across the desert.
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By Tom's Guide on October 30, 2017
Super Mario Odyssey is a joyous celebration and will go down in history as part of the best of the Mario canon, but its controls and camera need more polish.
90
By Pocket-Lint on June 14, 2017
This is the best modern Mario game, and one of the greatest platformers ever created.
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By IGN on October 26, 2017
Mario’s games have been around for almost as long as game consoles have been a thing, but thankfully, he’s always evolving. We rarely get the same Mario twice. Super Mario Odyssey delivers on that ongoing promise of originality and innovation: It distills the venerable series’ joyful, irreverent world and characters and best-in-class platforming action, and introduces a steady stream of new and unexpected mechanics. It’s all spun together into a generational masterpiece.
100
By TechAdvisor on October 27, 2017
Super Mario Odyssey is easily one of the best Mario games in a decade and Nintendo has crafted a game full of fun and surprises. It’s a beautiful balancing act of the classic gameplay with new features so Odyssey feels familiar yet fresh. Cappy could be a gimmick addition but is actually a stroke of genius. Super Mario Odyssey is a must for Switch owners, young and old, and will no doubt go down as a classic.
100
By TrustedReviews on February 08, 2018
It carried ginormous expectations, but somehow Nintendo has managed to leapfrog over the bar by a huge distance. Offering the most satisfying gameplay experience of any Mario game to date, Super Mario Odyssey is near-perfect.
100