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We live in a strange time. People spin spinners, catch Pokemon with their iPhone, disappear en masse in PUBG , which is so hard to play . Beautiful studios like Visceral Games 9 are closing0092 . In an era of tension and instability, only the ancient Japanese company Nintendo remains true to its principles: gameplay is above all, the achievement system is evil, and Mario is a plumber who breaks bricks with his fist.

More than fifty transformations guarantee that you won’t get bored. Here you can build a tower of a dozen goomba mushrooms and roll up to a woman goomba to get a «blue moon». You can turn into a tank and shout «Russians don’t give up!» set up a branch 9 in a magical world0091 Call of Duty . Experience a 2D mural that looks exactly like the first Super Mario Bros. , and return your «when-you-got-a-Dendy» year. Or just get on a trendy Vespa moped and race with a tyrannosaurus rex. In general, everything related to the ways to achieve the goal is incomparable.

“The blue moon is to blame for everything…”

Anti-wedding trip

But what about the goals themselves is not so cloudless. The main storyline is Bowser’s desire to marry the princess. To play a wedding, you need to collect a lot of things around the world — from a multi-layered cake and a dress to a bride’s bouquet and a festive dish. Therefore, the unemployed man and his cap fly after the scoundrel across different kingdoms on the Odyssey spaceship. And in order for the miracle of technology in the form of a hat to fly further, energy moons must be found in each kingdom.

This system is also not new — just like Mario went forward in each of his three-dimensional campaign. In Odyssey , out of the world-kingdoms, they decided to make sandboxes that are now fashionable. Our device lands in the middle of waterfalls, deserts or snows — and come on, gamer, run, look for the luminaries. Most often, magical crescents are hidden cleaner than Koshcheev’s death. They want to seek and find, not to find and not to give up. Sometimes, having solved a problem after many attempts, you feel a feeling close to happiness.

But many moons lie, if not quite on the road, then next to it. Sometimes quests are made entirely for children: they turned into a flying goomba — fluttered to one corner of the map, steamed to another — plus two moons. For children (as well as fanboys) a change of costumes is also attached. They almost do not carry a gameplay load, except that sometimes you will be allowed on a special quest only in the uniform of a builder or researcher.

In general, the level design and variety of tasks hold up to a very high level — neither in the story, nor after it, I did not want to postpone the Switch, although I collected more than two hundred stars for this review. And those zones that turned out with inspiration, for example, the realm of food with Italian notes or Bowser’s samurai citadel, are remembered for a long time. And of course, the series has never had such vast spaces to explore.

But not all kingdoms are at the pinnacle of game design. Some, like the snowy one, are not «sandboxes» at all, but just a «hub» leading to unrelated rooms with simple tasks. Others are tiny and only serve one «boss» fight, although they could be developed into great spaces to explore.

My personal favorite is Steam Gardens with an absolutely brilliant melody and vegetalization.

Hundreds of moons later

Perhaps the Nintendo wanted to motivate you to explore every nook and cranny. You can run the story campaign in about six hours. And it will be the lightest part of Super Mario . At the same time, there will be enough content for all sixty. «Postgame» opens up new kingdoms and a huge number of moons, the ability to get into the shoes of another classic character in the universe, complicated versions of «bosses» and just hardcore reaction tests. All this is magical, the game literally grows before your eyes, it gets better with every hour spent after the decisive battle.

But, unfortunately, having delved into the entertainment after the final credits, the developers did not catch one important trend. If seven or ten years ago, at the time of the Galaxy duology, it was very cool to make a small campaign and huge spaces for research past it, now, especially after all sorts of Breath of the Wild and The Witcher 3 , the situation , when the plot outline is not quite included in the research, it is no longer so pleasing. Yes, Odyssey uses proprietary technique Nintendo — grab your attention with some little thing and turn it into a mini-quest. But this technique, as the only feint of a football player, has already been learned by everyone.

And, unfortunately, it can be seen that Mario was assembled in a hurry during the odyssey. This is evidenced by kingdoms very different in quality, and minor technical problems, and the short duration of the storyline. But this decision was absolutely correct, because in the last generation, the excellent Super Mario 3D World appeared too late, when many people already managed to bury Wii U. And now the platformer, which every Switch owner is waiting for, came out literally six months after the launch of the console.

The city kingdom was the most promoted, but, alas, it turned out to be not as huge and beautiful as it might seem.

Full and empty moon kingdom

Yes, technical problems happen here too. The graphics in some places (see the screenshot above) reminds of Super Mario Sunshine , and she just turned fifteen years old. The case is complemented by small bugs with shadows and not the most pleasant «ladders» on the characters and scenery — although the characters are more detailed than in the recent Mario + Rabbids . Separate textures are clearly taken from the storerooms for the second time, the spaces sometimes look empty, and therefore the picture, in general, has not gone much ahead compared to Wii U.

in general, the cartoon style will not allow Switch owners to show off the «grafon». But the game can easily be shown to any friend by simply giving him one of the Joy-Con controllers. In 2-player mode, Cappie is controlled by a second person, and it’s just a great co-op option if you have kids or younger siblings.

In the variant for one, the movement control is a bit forced on us — with it we can climb faster and (in theory) make some of the hat tosses easier. But in reality, your lunges are not always recognized perfectly, and using a regular gamepad to control Mario’s pirouettes is much more convenient. I’m devoting a whole paragraph to this because, as always, there are challenges, such as getting moons in turtle runs, that require near-perfect hero control. «Odyssey» is only basically childish — only real masters can collect everything and everything.

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The Odyssey has a place of honor in the major league of platform games. Just not next to the brilliant Super Mario 64 or Galaxy , but at the level of Super Mario 3D World . That is, a game that does not create anything fundamentally new, but simply adequately uses and develops what has been done before it. For Switch owners, this is another must-have exclusive and a powerful argument in favor of the console, but to count Odyssey is the best in the series, we must forget the previous adventures of the former plumber.