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TopicArti's Top 10 Games of 2017 (and other lists)
Arti
02/26/18 10:06:37 PM
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3. Super Mario Odyssey
Nintendo
Nintendo Switch
Released October 27, 2017


When I started Super Mario Odyssey, despite all the positive praise I was still skeptical that it would be better than my favorite Mario game, which is Super Mario Galaxy. I believe it exceeded that bar by a good amount.

The basic Mario story is the same as always - Bowser has kidnapped Peach and Mario has to save her. He is accompanied by Cappy, a cap which can take control of various enemies and other objects in the Mario universe. In this game, Mario gathers Power Moons to power a ship called the Odyssey that travels to different kingdoms. I gathered more Power Moons by just beating the game than I've gathered stars/shines/whatever in any single Mario game, which speaks to how plentiful they are. While I do enjoy the idea of having a Moon in practically any place possible, I find it difficult to enjoy collecting some of them that are just made to be easy. When we're getting to Moon on top of some Scrap it feels like they might have just added too many in such a small area.

A lot of the moons add some interesting gameplay to the collection. There's plenty of moons that require traversing in the 2D mode from the original Super Mario Bros., sometimes even with 3D dangers in play. There's plenty of musical note collections, some which require moving back and forth with the above example. Many of the Moons use the unique powers that each enemy has to unlock various Moons in each level. One of the fun things for those that played Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker is finding Captain Toad in all sorts of strange places throughout the kingdoms. I still can't find out how to get to him in a few kingdoms, but I'm definitely going to try for all of those.

Though I do like the design of most of the kingdoms, the true highlight for me was the Metro Kingdom, or New Donk City. (It's totally not because I've been in New York City both Saturday and today). It's a blast just walking around and finding hidden Moons, especially up in the skyscrapers. Jump Up, Super Star is also a great video game track and one that I occasionally listen to outside of the game as well.

The only excuse for not playing Super Mario Odyssey by now is not owning a Nintendo Switch, but even if you don't have one, Super Mario Odyssey is definitely worth the console purchase and is the best game I've played on the system (though I haven't played many games on the system yet, but I'm not sure any of the other games will top it, either.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhciLj5VzOk

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