01/10/2018 (2 of 2 found this helpful)

He’s Still Our 1-Up Boy.

It has been a long, long time since Nintendo produced a ‘properly’ 3D entry in the ‘Super Mario’ platforming franchise. Indeed, the last time we got to play a ‘Mario’ game whose lineage can be traced back to those first cumbersome steps taken by “Super Mario 64” it was 2010, and the game in question was the expansion-pack-flavored semi-sequel, “Super Mario Galaxy 2,” which was so good and so well-designed that I believed Nintendo had finally figured out what they were doing with regard to Mario and 3D. Then, three years later, Nintendo floored us by releasing “Super Mario 3D World,” which scrapped all of their hard work and seemed to want to reboot 3D ‘Mario’ games into something more in-line with traditional 2D ‘Mario’ titles. As one of the few rare critic...

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12/19/2017 (1 of 1 found this helpful)

One Of Super Mario's Greatest Games

Super Mario Odyssey does an excellent job of blending old school Mario with a whole new adventure making one of the best games in recent memory.

If I had to describe Super Mario Odyssey in just a few words I'd say it comes across as the first true sequel to Super Mario 64. While there are many differences between the two games the basic concept is similar. You go to several very large levels where you can take on several tasks or goals in a open 3D world adventure. I bet those who've played a lot of Mario would say Super Mario Sunshine was the real sequel to Mario 64 and while I can't really argue a whole lot about that, I simply didn't like that game very much and it really didn't remind much of Mario 64 so there!

The story of Odyssey isn't all that surprising. Bowser kidnaps t...

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