Topic: Super Mario Odyssey

The trailer reminds me a lot of that classic Simpsons Halloween segment where Homer goes into the 3rd dimension. Certainly the end of the segment where a computer generated Homer is walking around real streets but also the more abstract bits with street signs and the bit where Bart is climbing the bendy traffic light.

I want to say (without bothering to Google it) that episode dates back to around 1995, just before the mainstream started to see 3D graphics regularly and just before Toy Story came out.

Back then the strange abstraction of that episode seemed like it was the future - I thought we'd all be playing games that looked like that a few years later - but it's a future that never really came to pass. After Mario 64 3D games seemed to become more conventional in setting and less abstract. Hopefully Mario Odyssey does recapture the "feeling" that it's really a strange and exciting new world.

It certainly looks great so far.

I think that this game will be a great starting point for a lot of future Mario memes! By the way i'm really happy that they returned to a more hardcore type of Mario experience. I liked so much Galaxy 1 & 2 and 3D World but the difficulty difference between game itself and final level is too much and kind of frustrating. Better if they do a more constant experience within the game itself and not put all difficulties in one last impossible level

The whole concept of a "real" world is not something I expected Nintendo to put Mario in. Yet for some reason I never questioned it when I played Sonic Adventure as a kid... Maybe seeing Mario who's a cartoon human around "real" humans makes it more jarring.

Anyway, New Donk City still looks fun to explore!

@Dev Surely "New Donk City" is a reference to the only park of Donkey Kong's name that isn't a reference to King Kong? Namely, the "Donkey" bit...

I'm curious if there's gonna be 2-player co-op with Mario and Luigi. I can see it happening, since they planned on making Super Mario 64 co-op (I think). Also, Super Mario Odyssey kind of feels like a sandbox Super Mario Galaxy.

@TheLegendOfLaser It's a single-player game, no co-op.

I hope there will be two, recalling the reveal trailer scene with the lady going to that "party"

@FGPackers It isn't though. The description clearly says ''1 player''.

@Octane Yeah i know, i hope for a kind of surprise

So this game is essentially a middle finger to Universal? I love it

Anyone else get a Splatoon vibe from this Crazy Cap shop? It's like the Cooler Heads of the Mario Universe.

Yeah, I think it is a given. They have the shop in every region, why would they do it if it doesn't have any in-game meaning?

Guys, I figured everything out, and the game's true and final name.
It features hat, 4 large locations, is likely based on a time system, and has a moon visible everywhere you go.

Super Mario: Majora's Hat.
Majora's Hat is controlling Bowser, you have 3 days to stop the wedding, or the moon destroys the world.

NAILED IT.

@Joeynator3000 You can also transform into a business man, a walking spoon or a dancing skeleton!

Seriously though, that hat ship worries me, was hoping the hub level would be like 64's/Sunshine's. Starting to think it'll be like one of the Galaxy games, mainly 2. :c

@Joeynator3000 My real fear is that levels number is really 4. Even if they are big, sounds not good to me. I hope they're hiding most of it

@Joeynator3000: I would totally play that.

I'm sure there's more than they're showing. Nintendo doesn't normally pull what I call the "movie in a trailer" shtick.

Yeah I'm sure there's more than 4 levels.

@FGPackers It was a teaser trailer for a game coming out in the holidays. They're not going to show all the levels right now. They'll wait until E3 where they'll start to fully showcase the game. So don't worry there'll be more than what you saw.

This IS Nintendo, though...they spoiled tons of past games before, like with past Zelda games and showing off tons of bosses. Thankfully BotW isn't spoiling much this time.