Topic: Super Mario Odyssey

Who's to say New DONK City isn't the hub world?

You're not getting what I mean by "hybrid", I mean something that appeals to both linear platforming fans and exploration fans, which is something Nintendo has never done, not like 3D Land and 3D World which were basically just NSMB in 3D and had no exploration elements whatsoever.

If there is a hub world, I doubt it's that one. I think they'd choose something a little more Mario-ish than that.

@KirbyTheVampire The only reason I would even think it is because we don't really see any enemies there. It could be a lot like what they did with Sunshine. Now I think there was a boss but other then that it just looks like a plain old city with people so why not make it a hub?

You know, I wonder how many people will tune in for Bowser and Peach's royal wedding? There seem to be plenty of people in New Donk City who would be willing!

Speaking of New Donk...It makes me wonder how DK himself had his name applied to a city....

If it's not the hub world then why all the people walking around? I'm really starting to think it's either not finished or it is the hub.

Maybe just for helping with the city vibe? Who knows. I wonder if you can interact with them at all.

@KirbyTheVampire You can. I seen one video with Mario jump roping while the people were holding the rope.

Game of the year confirmed.

Looks simply awesome, really looking forward to it

You should get something for doing that jump rope segment. Maybe coins or a 1 Up or even a Power Star.

@Spoony_Tech Those tank enemies are also in New Donk City, and you can also see Goomba in a scene. There are definitely enemies. Although, yes, it's a unique setting, and I wouldn't be surprised if it was a hub world, especially considering New Donk City is by far the smallest world we've seen so far. The other levels seem to be a lot bigger. On the other hand, we've also seen at least one boss fight, and there are Bowser flags all around the city, just like in the other levels.

I think the spaceship thing probably suggests there is no hubworld. He probably travels between them like on spaceship Mario in Galaxy 2.

Yeah, after seeing the trailer this immediately shot up to my most anticipated game of the year. Between this and Yooka Laylee, this is going to be a great year of 3D platforming.

@Octane,

Maybe you are right about the city. It did give me a big impression though, but that may be because of the skyscrapers that you can climb. This is probably the world you start of in (Nintendo's version of Brooklyn), and then you fly of to different worlds. I didn't see any coins though, am I blind?

@Henmii I highlighted a row of four coins. There's also a crate that you can undoubtedly smash for more coins. A little bit to the right you can see two purple collectibles that can also be seen in other levels. Then there are the ?-traffic lights, of which I'm pretty certain that they will also give you coins when you hit them. And if you look all the way to the right, you can even see a Bowser checkpoint flag like this one, except a Bowser flag instead of a Mario flag.

@Octane,

They might be coins. But they are so far away that it is hard to tell. From the looks of it most coins have been replaced with strange purple things.

@Henmii They're coins, you can see them in other parts of the video too. And in motion you can clearly see they're spinning around. Uploading images doesn't do the resolution any favour, can be difficult to tell from the image alone, but I can guarantee you, those are coins.

We'll see! It would be weird without coins, but then again Breath of the Wild is without the Green tunic (from the looks of it).

I am curious about those purple triangle things. Are they like purple coins? Do you need to collect 100 of them to get a Power Star?