Board 8 > What's the best way to play Super Mario Odyssey?

(+) Yeah! (+)

I finally started last night and used the Pro Controller, but based on tutorials and the control scheme, I feel like the disconnected Joy Cons are the way to go (even though they're tiny as hell in my hands).

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The game wants you to use disconnected joy cons to do the fancy hat tricks... even for a premiere game on a system championing its portability

A blemish on an otherwise perfect game

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Pro Controller's probably fine

Alternatively just tablet mode

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pro controller is 100% fine, dont listen to them with the detached joycon stuff. theres some hat tricks you can do but theyre not needed and can be done with enough waggle if you really want on pro.

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gamecube controller

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I used connected joycons and had no issues. Play it with whatever control style you prefer and enjoy the amazing game.

Portable. Always portable.

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Disconnected Joy-Cons

Its fully playable on a Pro Controller but Disconnected Joy-Cons works SO WELL
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ZenOfThunder posted...

gamecube controller

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If you are an adult male, with normal sized hands, I feel like the answer is always pro controller.

This is speaking as someone who does not own a Switch, so maybe it's easy to get used to joycons, idk. But my limited time using one is that the buttons are way too small for my liking. It was like going from a Gameboy Classic to a Gameboy Color, except more.

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The answer is always pro controller except when it's literally not an option like Snipperclips.

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Ill always evangelize Joycons for this game, and I say that as someone who will evangelize the Pro Controller for BotW
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I played disconnected for a while. Switched to handheld and had way more fun

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God damn this is fun

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It's like Wargames, the best way to win is to not play at all

Pro controller.

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I started this recently using the pro controller and it's been fine.

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Disconnected joycons

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New Donk City Festival - another reason why Nintendo will never be topped in this industry.

I don't even wanna get the moon to finish it.

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I never bought a Pro Controller, but I found connected Joy Cons to be just fine.

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

New Donk City Festival - another reason why Nintendo will never be topped in this industry.

I don't even wanna get the moon to finish it.

That festival part is so great

I knew youd love this game

lets do the odyssey

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New Donk City is fantastic.

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The ring from that ring game

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New Donk City might be the best world in a Mario game ever.

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bryans7 posted...

New Donk City might be the best world in a Mario game ever.

Honestly the hits keep coming in this game
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bryans7 posted...

New Donk City might be the best world in a Mario game ever.

Honestly it's one of my least favorite worlds of the fame but the festival is so incredible its maybe my favorite moment.

How people think botw is better blows my mind


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But what is the best piece of music in the game, and why is it Steam Gardens?

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_SecretSquirrel posted...

But what is the best piece of music in the game, and why is it Steam Gardens?

That's a weird thing to say when Steam Gardens isn't the best track in the game.

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Aecioo posted...

How people think botw is better blows my mind

It's a great platformer and Mario Game, but BotW was almost a transformative gaming experience for me. This hasn't hit heights that lofty yet (apart from the aforementioned Festival, but that's easily been my favorite moment so far). Who knows, maybe it'll rival BotW by the end, as I hear it has a robust endgame, but I'm already 200+ moons in and it'll really need to blow me away.

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I loved New Donk, yet there is a kingdom later that I might like even more!

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With a dolphin.

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I was initially annoyed by how small the disconnected Joycons felt (mostly because I can't really use my middle fingers for ZL/ZR like I normally do) but I got used to it pretty quickly. It's very comfy once you do.

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Aecioo posted...

Honestly it's one of my least favorite worlds of the fame but the festival is so incredible its maybe my favorite moment.

How people think botw is better blows my mind

There are more gameplay options in BOTW. The game is also very open with experiments with its physical engine.
Mario Odyssey is more a level design and game design ideas game. You can pick any sub level of this game, synthetize the rules of game and create an entire game based on it.

Alright, that ending sequence is making me reconsider Smash > Mario. Talk about sprinting across the finish line and giving players something they'll remember.

Also, how the hell did Nintendo release this and BotW nine months apart. Has a developer ever released two games this good in a calendar year? I know Square was on a roll in the 90s, but I'm not sure if two of their heavy hitters dropped in the same year.

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Wiimote-nunchuk
That's never the answer to anything, is it?

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Alright, that ending sequence is making me reconsider Smash > Mario. Talk about sprinting across the finish line and giving players something they'll remember.

Also, how the hell did Nintendo release this and BotW nine months apart. Has a developer ever released two games this good in a calendar year? I know Square was on a roll in the 90s, but I'm not sure if two of their heavy hitters dropped in the same year.

FF6 and Chrono Trigger were 11 months apart
Mario RPG was 1 year almost to the day after CT
FF7 was less than a year after SMRPG and FFT was only six months after 7
And then Xenogears was 8 months after that
FF8 was exactly a year after Xenogears
FF9 breaks the 1 year chain by being 16 months after 8
But then FFX is a year after 9


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Aecioo posted...

Honestly it's one of my least favorite worlds of the fame but the festival is so incredible its maybe my favorite moment.

How people think botw is better blows my mind

Same. I played BotW before this and was very disappointed with it. Had I played SMO first I wouldve been even more disappointed in BotW. Odyssey is just way more fun to explore and find all the stuff in it

CaptainOfCrush posted...

Alright, that ending sequence is making me reconsider Smash > Mario. Talk about sprinting across the finish line and giving players something they'll remember.

Also, how the hell did Nintendo release this and BotW nine months apart. Has a developer ever released two games this good in a calendar year? I know Square was on a roll in the 90s, but I'm not sure if two of their heavy hitters dropped in the same year.

Are you going for the post-game content? I'm interested to see what you think of how the game continues on afterward.

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when you were talking about doing FF7 Remake before Odyssey, I was floored, not because of FF7 but because the great Nintendo fan yoblazer somehow hadn't played the best Mario game in at least a decade.

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Yeah there is a ton of great post game content
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transience posted...

when you were talking about doing FF7 Remake before Odyssey, I was floored, not because of FF7 but because the great Nintendo fan yoblazer somehow hadn't played the best Mario game in at least a decade.

Speaking of, did you quit on FFVIIR or did you just let the topic die?

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Also within the 9-month span between BotW and Mario Odyssey, they also released Splatoon 2 and Samus Returns, no slouches in their own rights

(Also 1-2-Switch, ARMS, FE: SoV, and Hey Pikmin but Im not sure theyre worthy of this conversation <_<)
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the best mario game in at least a decade is super mario 3d world

hot take train incoming, choo choo

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I'm on chapter 14, near the end. I'm enjoying it but the middle chapters got me down a little bit.

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transience posted...

I'm on chapter 14, near the end. I'm enjoying it but the middle chapters got me down a little bit.

You're still ahead of me! I'm only on Chapter 9.

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also maybe disconnected joycons are a little small, but i really like the freedom of detached controllers. its comfy not having your hands cramped into an awkward position based on the size/distance of the controller (oh hi there gba sp)

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CaptainOfCrush posted...

Alright, that ending sequence is making me reconsider Smash > Mario. Talk about sprinting across the finish line and giving players something they'll remember.

Also, how the hell did Nintendo release this and BotW nine months apart. Has a developer ever released two games this good in a calendar year? I know Square was on a roll in the 90s, but I'm not sure if two of their heavy hitters dropped in the same year.

Just finished this up. It was a really cute sequence.

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390 on Beach Volleyball

FUCK YOU SNAIL YOU PIECE OF SHIT

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Not sure if it's been mentioned, but there are a few moons (or at least one I can think of at the moment) that are basically impossible to do without the disconnected joy cons for advanced cappy throws. But besides when getting said moon(s), pro controller is no question the way to play this and basically every Switch game.

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