Topic: Super Mario Odyssey

Total blasphemy, but I plan on making Odyssey the first Mario game in twenty-plus years that I won't pick up on day 1. I'm excited, and it is a big reason why I bought the Switch, but man.....the SNES Classic is going to eat away at a lot of my time, over the next month! I'll probably get it in mid-November, so I can spend Thanksgiving break cracking out on it!

Well I am very lucky as at my job, being I work in the post room, the game is shipped straight to me at work. So I will just play it during my lunch break and then the entirety of the weekend as soon as work finishes!

Has anyone posted these tweets about the dive and ground pound spring jump yet? Odyssey looks like a full evolution of the 3D Mario gameplay style, sort of in the same way Monster Hunter: World is expanding and polishing up that series' weapon combos and traversal animations. They're subtle changes, but there are a lot of them and they'll each probably improve or diversify the experience of playing noticeably.

Dive and pound jump are slick.

Haven't been following this game really. Wanna just hop in and be surprised. So much footage floating around. The games I'm hyped most for (Super Mario Odyssey, Xenoblade Chronicles 2, MH World) I tend to ignore until release. It ruins half the fun seeing it beforehand.

Moves are fine though. In fact that's one thing I always appreciate knowing in advance. Gosh, Odyssey is going to be so epic. Another GoAT contender, without a doubt. Both I and my brother have scheduled vacation for when this game releases.

Footage from the Cascade Kingdom.

This looks like one of my favourites. I love the Xenoblade Chronicles type environment:

@MasterWario OK that sounds good, we'll see how they handle the bundles before judging

I just realized this is a good game for Halloween with all the costumes and such. I wonder if that was their intent with the release date...

I doubt it's much more than coincidence in relation to release timing. More than likely it was placed strategically, at Nintendo's discretion. After all, they're focused on like one major game a month, right? November we have already packed with LA Noire, Skyrim, DOOM(i think?), and December 1st is Xenoblade, so having Mario shoved into the middle would be bad for everyone, I feel.

Plus we get it sooner, so win win for everyone involved!

@Operative2-0 Doom I think is December going by rumours from some retail leak but no actual date I don't think has been set. Would seem odd to have it in November as well, though December seems too late.

As for Mario, I think releasing it at the end of October makes sense as it gives plenty of time to build up sales of the game and Nintendo Switch in the lead up to Christmas while also being a great way for Nintendo to then say to those buying the system throughout the next couple of months "Look at what else we have on the system - Skyrim, LA Noire, DOOM plus all these other games that came out earlier in the year".

Those moves look great. Mario's moveset is more flexible and fun than ever!

@Dezzy Wow, so I guess the 2D sections appear throughout the game. VERY neat.

Well it's definitely odd territory for Nintendo. Most main series Mario games were released in Nov., followed by Sept. and Dec., and at least in NA, the only main-ish releases I'm seeing with an October release date are Lost Levels and Super Mario World 2.

And it wouldn't have been hard to push it back a few days to November.

Apparently some Target locations now have a demo for Super Mario Odyssey at the Switch demo stations, with the demo appearing to be placed in a section of the Sand Kingdom. Also it doesn't seem to have a time limit either so you could 100% the demo if you really wanted to.

So, I was able to try a demo at my local target (I would suggest checking your local Target/Best Buy as well for demos) and it was really fun. I can't speak too much for it, because I only played for about 5 minutes, but the controls were very smooth.

I wouldn't think too hard about it. I think if they're releasing in October, it's for a very good reason for themselves. I'm not sure why it's important to release it in Novemeber, unless I'm misunderstanding.

I'll be honest, it would be news for me to even see a Switch demo at a store. I've LITERALLY not seen one.

^^^^ Truth to that, I'm still surprised places like Gamestop and BestBuy don't even have Switch units to demo.

About release date, it almost certainly has something to do with the 3rd party games. Nintendo probably let 3rd parties (especially Bethesda) make release choices and worked Super Mario Odyssey release date around them and if worst case scenario happened and delays meant the 3rd parties release their games in 2018 instead of holiday 2017 then Super Mario Odyssey would've been delayed to 17th November (Nintendo Day is a week before Black Friday).

wtf, gamestop doesnt have a switch demo? I just got my switch from target a few days ago and their demo was the first time i had seen one in person. they had the joycon grip controller, i walked up and picked it up and instantly thought, "this is the sh**tiest controller ive ever held, i am def getting the pro controller" ... then after using the joy cons independently at home i think they make the best controllers ive ever used.....

I hadnt even thought of playing mario for october, because i always like playing games during the seasons... so if that was their intention, they messed up... it should have been set to release earlier like the 18th or 20th or something because once halloween is over, that aspect is not fun anymore.

Fantastic new trailer!

That is the most awesome Nintendo commercial ever!