LogFAQs > #932205277

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGQHQc_3ycE

2017
Switch

This game is just pure unadulterated joy. Its so colorful and happy and feels like magic. I wish this game came out when I was a kid because wow. My kids take to this game like moths to a flame. I always watch their reactions to Odyssey and imagine what I was like as a wide-eyed child who was just introduced to what would go on to be my first favourite games, because that's what this will be to them.

Each monster that you can capture adds a new wrinkle to the gameplay. You could do a whole ranking of the Odyssey captures because each one brings so much new to the world. My favourites, without putting a ton of thought into this, are the leggy dudes from the Wooded Kingdom and the Goomba just because stacking a crapload of goombas on top of each other is always amazing. The unique worlds are really unique and add a lot too.

3d Mario isnt typically my thing -- Mario 64 singlehandedly turned me off to the n64 -- because Im only so-so at 3d platforming. Odyssey, though, feels more like an open world adventure game with how much fun it is to explore the areas and see all the secrets they shoved into every corner. If you poke at the edges of this game world, youll find things that feel rewarding all over the place. Each world is bursting with hundreds of secrets. Sometimes you get a moon, sometimes you find some purple coins and sometimes its nothing. What a cool game this is.

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xyzzy