Nintendo Switch Thread - Page 64

On November 06 2017 09:45 Therapist. wrote:
Posting my unpopular opinion of Mario Odyssey here, do with it what you will.

Mario Odyssey is about as generic as Mario gets. It adds basically nothing to the formula and provides levels that are far more linear.

Exploration is less rewarding, even though you find stuff everywhere. I don't care about any of the stuff I find because there's such an over-saturation of it. I can collect 999 moons, wonderful, and almost all of them are just sitting there out in the open requiring me to do absolutely nothing to collect them other than walk into them as they cross my path.

Normally for a game like this I'd be compelled to be a "completionist" and collect all the moons. But with so many moons and almost none of them providing even the least bit interest in what it takes to get them, I really can't be bothered.

I'm at about 350 moons, and I don't think I'll go much further.

Level design is overall mediocre, with a few exceptions. New Donk City is a very well designed level, but then you get other levels that are basically just hallways filled with moons around every corner. I don't consider "shotgun blast worthless bullshit to collect every 10 feet" to be good level design.

This whole point of this game seems to be to take the Korok minigame from Zelda and make a whole game out of it. As if the map designers felt that anything that took more than 3 seconds to solve would lose the attention span of the player. And they're not wrong! They've put SO many moons everywhere that if a moon is even the slightest bit baffling, you may as well just forget it and leave it for later.

This game really relies on the player being strongly attracted by a virtual hoarding simulator with little actual substance.

One last thing I want to note is that the game is super lazy with boss battles. All of the boss battles are repeated again with almost nothing (I honestly couldn't tell if anything changed in a few instances) changed whatsoever. And with a few exceptions, they weren't particularly interesting in the first place. Only a few boss fights really did anything interesting with the engine. Most boiled down to "throw hat at enemy then jump on his head."

EDIT: Final note, wanted to say that overall I'd give the game a C. It was fun enough for what it was, but I don't get the massive praise. I often wonder in these instances if the game would get even close to as much praise if it was titled something other than "Mario".