Whether or not Super Mario Odyssey becomes your favorite Mario game, your favorite Nintendo game, or your favorite game this year is ultimately up to you. The Mario and Zelda franchises have and continue to hit such high and consistent levels of quality that there are fair arguments to be made in favor of any of their recent titles. Will its globetrotting premise feel like a step down from the planetary leaping of Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2? How will its open, sandbox nature compare to earlier entries in the series: Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine? Will the game translate well to portable play on Nintendo Switch? And, of course, the question we’ve all been asking since March of this year: will it surpass The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild?Īs I similarly prefaced my review of Breath of the Wild, I alone cannot and should not be the be-all, end-all authority in answering these questions. Now, in 2017, Super Mario Odyssey has hit store shelves, bringing with it a lot of questions. Praised for its inventive design, diverse levels, sharp controls, and beautiful presentation, Super Mario Galaxy 2 continued to raise the bar for 3D- Mario platforming experiences. Some critics even went so far as to call it the greatest 3D- Mario game of all time. Matching its predecessor with a 97 Metacritic score of its own, the sequel was considered by many to be even better than its inspiration.
Super Mario Galaxy 2 released to rave reviews. Surely, a grab-bag of cut ideas couldn’t result in a great game… could it?
Spending the next three years iterating on cut content from Mario’s space adventure, the company released a sequel to Super Mario Galaxy in 2010. Galaxy was a massive hit, selling over 12 million copies (to date, the best selling of the 3D- Mario platformers) and garnering “universal acclaim” with a 97 Metacritic score. As crazy of an idea it was at the time, Nintendo’s thinking paid off. In 2007, Super Mario Galaxy essentially took the franchise someplace it had never gone before: outer space. To say that Super Mario Odyssey had big shoes to fill is an understatement.
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