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LttP: Super Mario Odyssey - "That's my secret, Cap. I'm always platforming."
- Thread starter Kazin
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That's a great bit too. I think Mario Odyssey is about the journey more than the goal. The minute to minute act of discovery rather than the Pringles- like act of collecting moons. What's down here? Is it possible to wall jump up this one wall with judicious cap usage? Can I "be" a T-rex?
Breath of the Wild is the same, but it's about your ability to improvise. What's over that ridge? Oh crap, a Guardian, and it's seen me. How do I get away, bearing in mind it's raining? One of my favourite moments in gaming came because of that - it was a thunderstorm and I got spotted by a moblin. As I only had crap wooden weapons (thunderstorm) I decided to leg it with the moblin in hot pursuit. It swung its wicked- looking sword at me, got instantly killed by the thunderbolt and I ran down the hill which was now a sea of fire. There's times of moments like that which are possible because of the systems, and the feeling that Hyrule is an actual living, breathing world and not some Truman Show like illusion is amazing.
I'm glad Odyssey discourages you from getting all the moons, because some of those hat-less runs on the dark side of the moon are just not going to happen lol. Leading the giant Bullet Bill back across tiny platforms you have to long jump across? No thanks lol. And the darker side of the moon I'll probably keep trying, and I get it's like The Ultimate Challenge, but some checkpoints would have been appropriate, I think. At least once you get to Yoshi ffs!
I now kind of view Odyssey as being the ideal version of Sunshine; it’s got the same feeling of each world being connected to one another (even if they blatantly are not), each world being just dense with little books and crannies to explore for more stuff; and occasionally the entire world changes entirely after pursuing certain challenges.
Key difference is that, as fun as Cappy is, he never feels vital, so being stripped of him doesn’t feel like a punishment, it just adds a new wrinkle to things. Also, few of the challenges are mandatory; you can pick and choose whatever widget you’re hunting down easily (this goes double for the post game); and while getting a 100% clear is every bit as non-viable, here it’s just because of the sheer breadth of Stuff in the game, not because it’s just a hugely unsatisfying pain in the butt.
64 and Galaxy, as wonderful as they are, feel more like barely connected video game stages, as opposed to a loved in world that just happens to have more lava pits and floating platforms than most cities
Key difference is that, as fun as Cappy is, he never feels vital, so being stripped of him doesn’t feel like a punishment, it just adds a new wrinkle to things. Also, few of the challenges are mandatory; you can pick and choose whatever widget you’re hunting down easily (this goes double for the post game); and while getting a 100% clear is every bit as non-viable, here it’s just because of the sheer breadth of Stuff in the game, not because it’s just a hugely unsatisfying pain in the butt.
64 and Galaxy, as wonderful as they are, feel more like barely connected video game stages, as opposed to a loved in world that just happens to have more lava pits and floating platforms than most cities