
Exploring the Mushroom Kingdom and beyond This game takes all the best parts of previous franchise entries and molds it into one beautiful platforming experience. Mario can still run, jump, and wall-kick his way around. Goombas can stack, Chain Chomps can crumble walls, and you can become a T-rex. When using Cappy to take control of other creatures, players gain different abilities. Rather than just a bunch of costumes that give players powers, this design breaks that mold.īut don't worry! Costumes are still a thing, and Mario will still have different powers things just work a little differently in Super Mario Odyssey. You can also use Mario's new hat to reach new heights, cause damage, or as a temporary platform if you time it right. Mario can throw his pal at all sorts of objects and enemies to take over their bodies. Cappy is more than just a wise-cracking side-kick - he is the game mechanic. The storyline may be standard Mario fare, but the gameplay puts a new spin on things. Something that would be quite mind-blowing in 1996. Here’s a video tutorial on where to go and how to access the throwback area. If you plop Cappy (Mario’s super-hat) on top of the Eternal Star statue in the middle of the courtyard, you unlock the “Totally Classic” achievement, and add another Moon (which looks like a Mario 64 Power Star) to your collection. The only thing the throwback doesn’t include is RCA cords.

While wearing this costume, players can unlock a door in the Mushroom Kingdom which will lead them to a famously confusing Mario 64 area that, for decades, gamers thought unlocked Luigi.


In the level, players collect purple coins to redeem for a unique outfit - Mario’s low-polygon look from Mario 64. Spoilers from here on out!Īfter players finish Odyssey, Mario heads back to the Mushroom Kingdom. Now, as a nod to one of Mario 64‘s most enduring mysteries, Odyssey is sending players to a classic location. Specifically, 1996, when Super Mario 64 took the world by storm. The tight gameplay, clever design, and whimsy harken back to a time when gamers could gather around the TV and theorize over a game’s secrets without the help of millions of gamers on the internet.

Super Mario Odysseyis everything that’s great about video games.
