So Allegra, as someone without my old-man fondness for the Mario series, how have you liked Super Mario Odyssey? I can say with confidence that there hasn’t been another game this year that has so consistently had me grinning. And, just like I remember from my formative years, this emphasis on exploration and discovery serves as a bottomless well from which to draw buckets of good feelings. Spend as much time as you want messing around chances are you’ll be rewarded for it. The whole game is basically structured like a massive playground. Each of these “captures” has new moves of their own.
There is so much in this game Mario himself has so many moves and abilities, and then on top of that over a dozen different enemies or allies can be taken over with Cappy, his new ghostly hat companion.
Then this week, once again, I felt that surprise and joy with Super Mario Odyssey.
The most recent time a Mario game captured that same feeling of discovery was when Super Mario 64 first took the series into 3D. The whole game is basically like a massive playground
