We've absolutely adored the time that we got to spend with Super Mario Odyssey at E3, and it's fair to say that it's shaping up to be an amazingly creative game which mixes the usual Mario platforming action up with hat-possessing abilities and a whole host of zany real-world style levels.
While the E3 demo for Super Mario Odyssey has certainly whet our appetite, it seems there may be a few more surprises under Mario's cap. In a recent interview with TIME, the game director Kenta Motokura revealed the following in regards to multiplayer possibilities:
This is a game for the Nintendo Switch, so probably. But I'm afraid we can't share anything about that today.
"Probably" is good enough for us; multiplayer would be the icing on an already delicious cake. In addition to this, Motokura also revealed that Cappy cannot capture every enemy:
There is a rule where if you come across enemies wearing hats in the game, you're not going to be able to capture enemies already wearing hats.
Let's hope Mario doesn't come across any gigantic dinosaurs wearing hats then or he might be in trouble. Be sure to hope over to TIME and read the full interview, there are a few more interesting details which you might not want to miss.
Are you excited about the possibility of multiplayer in Super Mario Odyssey, be sure to let us know with a comment below.
[source time.com]
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I know there are major Mario fans out there. There are tons of games I am looking forward to when it comes to Switch but Mario is not one of them HOWEVER if it has multiplayer then I might consider it. Not just normal multiplayer but online multiplayer.
I don't think it would be a co-op style like Super Mario 3D World, as amazing as that would be, could imagine it just being some basic mini games or maybe a few competitive modes
He also said online is possible.Both his answers about multiplayer and online were basically him saying they're in there,we just need to wait for them to tell us more.
Well in the Treehouse stream they explained (and demonstrated) that you in fact CAN possess enemies already wearing hats, only you'll need to knock their hats off first.
I hope including multiplayer doesn't compromise the camera position like it did in Super Mario 3D World. I could never see properly where Mario was in that game because the camera was always so far out.
Super Mario 3D World 2?
Local multiplayer would make this a day 1 buy for me as long as it's not like Galaxy's.
3D World-style multiplayer would be amazing.
I'm not expecting anything substantial where multiplayer is concerned considering the nature of the game though.
Aren't Hammer Bros. wearing helmets though? That didn't seem to stop him.
The game on the nintendo website says 1 player, not something like To Be Determined, so I don't think something like number of players wouldn't be kept a secret
Okay, if another characters will be added, they must at least wear their hats. Luigi has Green Cap, All Princess will throw their crown while Toads.... will throw their "Turban". XD
Watching the coverage of this game I've been thankful it's a true 1 player game like Super Mario Galaxy and Sunshine. If they forced in multilayer I'm afraid it won't be as good. Unless it's some Nintendo Land like minigames. Always wondered why Wii U never got NL2, maybe it's in here?
"Let's hope Mario doesn't come across any gigantic dinosaurs wearing hats then or he might be in trouble."
Mario came across a T-Rex wearing a Sombrero in the afternoon Treehouse segment. It was sleeping, but that would explain the hat.
Mario multiplayer will involve linking up with your friends in the internet for miniraids of asteroid outposts, acquiring slightly better sweet loot than your last run on the asteroid, and using such loot to dominate your friends in unbalanced PvP matches. All of this for no reason and no developing story. Oh wait that was some other game....
I have already pre-order this and every other game they announce. I even want the sushido one.
Anyway I hope they do the same with Metroid in terms of bringing the franchise to new gen development and ideas and put a multiplayer aspect to it. We need a First Person Shooter and Samus can be Master Chief for Nintendo. More so considering Microsoft rip-of Chief design from Samus.
I really hope it's either local split screen mulitplayer or local co-op using 2 Switches.
Blaster Master Zero or Mario Galaxy mulitplayer is not good enough.
I don't care if this is multiplayer or not. I can already see from the trailer that this is the best video game ever made in history
Well, more money for Nintendo if players have more options.
What if it's like Galaxy's "multiplayer".
Well and what do you know? Nintendo actually showed off multiplayer for the game today in its Treehouse event. Player 1 controls Mario, player 2 controls Cappy separately. ^^
I'm from a few hours in the future.
There's multiplayer.
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