Topic: Super Mario Odyssey

I'm hoping the open spaces in Dino World are just to accommodate the giant Dinosaur capturable enemy. Banjo Tooie's Terradacyland(butchered that name) did that to accommodate the similar giant Dino transformation.

@Octane I dunno, New Donk City looks pretty dense and not that expansive (a lot of the skyscrapers are skybox), and the Steam Gardens just look like a Mario Galaxy level where you climb through the platforming challenges to reach the boss arena.

The desert is big but not THAT big, and there are far more points of interest than Breath of the Wild per square measurement. Moreover, the roll and capture abilities give Mario a lot more mobility than Breath of the Wild Link ever had even with the glider. You don't have to whip a horse everywhere with you, you can just throw your hat on a pole and fling yourself 20 meters up into the air.

However, like Breath with that shot in the trailer of chopping down a tree to bridge a gap, I'm worried that there won't be many designed opportunities that call for Mario to throw and jump off of his cap outside of the trailer.

39/40 in Famitsu. It's confirmed this game is rubbish! Hahahaha

Well there's the perfect score streak ruined already. It did worse than that thread where we try to count up posts before the mods arrive.

What do people think its average Metacritic score will be? I'm going to say 96%.

@GrailUK Who's the sourpuss that gave it a 9? I kid, I kid.

I've been watching more gameplay recently and I can not wait for this game. The cheep cheep beach area has me truly excited (I spent a silly amount of time in Jolly Roger Bay as a kid...mainly for the music but I was there long enough that I fell in love with water levels.)

@Haru17 Donk City looks fine, as long as there's plenty of ways to scale the buildings. I was mainly talking about Dino Land or whatever it's called. I vaguely recall a sparse open field with nothing but grass. But maybe it's just my memory acting up, or maybe it was just pre-release footage.

Can we please, as a fan community, not freak out at every reviewer who gives the game a score less than 10? I mean, I know it's gonna happen 100%, I just like to be hopeful that we've matured as a group.

@Operative2-0 I promise you Ryu and I were joking

Can we also not freak out over every reviewer that does give the game a 10? I know plenty of unenjoyable games people gave 9s and 10s, and while Odyssey will be great, those reviewers still have the trite opinions of people who are always rushing through and never finishing games to write to a very constructed audience.

@GrailUK I know!! I didn't mean to imply you weren't, it just brought up some unpleasant memories of when BoTW released

@Haru17 I mean, I doubt there will be many "freaking out" over 10's. At worst we'll get disagreements from people, but I can't say I saw the level of vitriol and toxicity for people that gave BOTW a 10 as the people trashing anyone that gave it below a 10 or 9. But yeah I completely agree with your statement anyway, just don't be trashy and taking any deviation from the reviews as stirring for controversy.

@Operative2-0 I wouldn't worry about Famitsu. Did you see the second highest review score that they gave this week? Lumped the Switch version in with all the others as well. They gave it 10/9/9/9 which means it's just 2 points or 5% worse than SMO and that's complete nonsense.

I should work for Famitsu; 10/10/3/10

Can you spot me?

@Octane Ok...you can go back to Push Square now.

@Octane You're one of the 10's but I can't figure out which one.

You have to be careful about how many sites are running on the hype that this game has been creating and the hype from the Switch in general. For a lot of reviewers especially in the US, Nintendo was their childhood and I think they're just massively excited to see them back and doing well.

I'm not saying that this will be why the game may receive such praise in the review scores but I think there'll be at least part of that involved.

@Snaplocket Not much history with coverage, but I can ensure you that 99% of the Odyssey reviewers played Mario 64 when they were younger.

I can, SM3DW. That's all though, of the mainline series of course.

How about we let critics have their opinions and we can have ours? Just because a person gave BotW a 10 doesn't mean they were a "fanboy" or "paid off," and the few people who gave it less than a 10 aren't necessarily trying to "get clicks." Some people LOVED the game, some people were less enthralled with it. Same will be true of Odyssey.

If Odyssey does get another absurdly high metacritic score, though, it'll be interesting to see if the Sony crowd gets riled up and destroys the user score like it did with BotW.

When is the review embargo for Mario Odyssey lifting? I am kinda surprised Edge and Famitsu already release their reviews so early.