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Opencritic: Super Mario Odyssey is The best video game of the generation
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Heart_Attack
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It's a Great Game, but it's not even better than Mario 64.
policestationx
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Panajev2001a
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I disagree, it was the first time in what feels like forever that they gave gamers a proper free roamy 3D MARIO instead of the 2D formula in 3D like spaces. Scored really well, sold a lot, and plays like a dream (quite a lot of variety in gameplay and scenarios too).
3D World (and 3D Land) is great in its own right, but I wanted something that brought me back to SM64 like exploration and free form gameplay without a timer running and trying to prevent players from exploring a world that was not designed to be explored but run through.
plushyp
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Less posting, more playing!
Mista
Banned
No no please play it. They’re waiting for you so they can release 3
MoreJRPG
Suffers from extreme PDS
From what site? Push Square? Official Sony Blog? Sony hasn’t made an exclusive worth playing since The Last of Us a generation ago. If you haven’t played an exclusive since then you’ve miss absolutely nothing.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
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Odyssey is a masterpiece
Great Hair
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Porcile
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Mario 64 is a once in a lifetime game though. Probably nothing will ever come to close reinventing the wheel and doing it so right and timelessly at the first attempt like Mario 64 managed to do.
mejin
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If it was that easy even MS would have a GotY and nintendo would won every year thanks to their mindless fans in the media outlet.
Hoho for breakfast
Member
To each their own. I've had way more fun with Bloodborne, Destiny 2, BotW, and Fortnite than anything else this gen. I'm sure Odyssey is a fine game but I never really got into it. And with Animal Crossing right around the corner who knows. Could be a contender as well.
trikster40
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That’s pretty much all Nintendo games. If there’s one company that constantly delivers extremely polished games, it’s Nintendo. I’m surprised they ever have to patch them.
On topic, SMO is not even close to game of the generation.
Mista
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Great game but far from a "masterpiece" and game of the generation
IKSTUGA
Member
I really like Odyssey, but game of the generation? Some of the worlds are super generic and there are just way too many moons in the game. Like, remember how special it felt when you got a star in Mario 64. In Odyssey moons are like coins, they're everywhere, disposable and uninteresting.
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CuteFaceJay
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It good but it's not that good!
#Phonepunk#
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Lol I don’t get this kind of criticism.
like, it is a Mario game. lol. your head canon where it doesn’t have Mario and is a different game doesn’t exist. it isn’t reality.
it’s like saying “nobody would like this Beatles record if it wasn’t the Beatles”. sorry to be the bearer of bad news, the Beatles album is a Beatles album.
it’s like, lol, but it is. it is a Beatles album. It is a Mario/Zelda game. sorry to break this to you. your argument has no validity when considering tangible reality
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Nemesis Prime
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Red dead redemption 2 making it second shows all you need is nice graphics and story to be successful
policestationx
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It's nice to see the mantra of gameplay>graphics is still holding up true in this Generation.
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PumpkinPie
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policestationx
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The true GOTG that was promisedThey didn't want to make Odyssey look bad
CitizenX3639
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Lol, not even in worthy of being invited to the discussion. Another good game by Nintendo, but its just another one.
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
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We disagree. It's a stellar game full of imagination and creativity. Great mechanics, beautiful presentation, amazing controls that allow you to do all sorts of tricky long/high jumps, and it provides a legitimate challenge when you go for all 999 moons.
It's not my personal choice for game of the generation, that would probably be Bloodborne or Divinity OS2 or something I haven't decided, but Odyssey is a very respectable choice.
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SLB1904
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innovation
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Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
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I didn't specifically say it was innovative, but it does add all manner of new ideas on top of the perfected jumping mechanics like the various creature transformations where Mario can become a dinosaur or a cheep-cheep or even a ball of lava. There are pointy nosed birds called "pokios" Mario can transform into, and he can use their sword-like nose to stick into walls and spring himself high into the air with a kind of rubber band like snap. And there are plant creatures he can take over that extend their legs extremely long like stilts, and a bunch of puzzles based around that idea.
So yeah, thanks for reminding me that the game is very innovative, although such new gameplay elements are supplemental to the "tried and true" run and jump mechanics that are the best in the history of 3D platforming.
SLB1904
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i mean this sound more interesting than chase 999 of anything
Touch fuzZy. get BizZay
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Well, I have the type of obsessive personality where when I really enjoy a game I want to 100% everything or go for the platinum trophy or whatever. Sometimes it adds to enjoyment and other times it ruins the game. Most of Mario's extra moons are fun but admittedly some of them are boring or pointless or filler, not all 999 are great but overall I enjoyed maxing everything out
Kerotan Frog
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Nope. Got boring af after the first couple worlds. DMC5, Dark Souls 3, or Bloodborne were way better for me.
DonF
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Agreed, main game is super easy. Post game is pretty hard and quite challenging.