Sweet summer children copping "lol looks like sonic 06" might want to swerve back into their lane of blissful ignorance. If all you took away from Sonic 06 was "too realistic lol" then you don't know the first thing about it - and things should stay that way. That rancid thing was a culmination of fuckery over a half a decade in the making, a planetary alignment of everything that could go wrong in a game stacking together like a masterclass game of Tetris, except the blocks don't go away when you line them up and they smell vaguely of shit. Nearly a decade of Takashi Iizuka rolling his face across keyboard after keyboard screaming, "WHAT IF SONIC REAL" and "HOW I MAKE THIS DARK(ER)??" inflicted that franchise with a game that could make grown men declare e-war on each other. Between the busted controls, the shitty levels, the convoluted grimdark story, glitches, load times, and missing features, Sonic 06 wishes its characters looking out of place was its problem.
Mario Odyssey is whimsical dissonance. Every level intentionally looks like it could come from another game, and most of all, the game looks fun. There are no apocalyptic backdrops, no angsty backstories to highlight. Mario is bouncing off cars and swinging from street lamps like Peter fucking Pan. How you got Sonic 06 from that I'll never know, but it's a good thing don't know the true hell that game was to not make such a lowest common denominator "comparison." Pray to whatever god you worship that Mario never hits the lows Sonic did. This community wouldn't survive it.
"Too realistic lol" is for people that didn't watch a hedgehog make out with a realistic woman. "Too realistic lol" is for people that still believe in goodness and light.
It'll be interesting to see where the story goes. I mean the city world looks similar to the real world but not quite, then there's the desert, food world etc which are more typical Mario.
