Hit down on the D-Pad and you can pan, zoom, and filter your image, allowing for fantastic screenshots. You can tell the developer’s confident too - Odyssey is the first Mario game with a full Photo Mode. Switch doesn’t feel comparatively underpowered when games look this good on it. Its beach resort includes a volleyball minigame (amazingly, this and other games like the skipping rope we saw in New Donk City come with online leaderboards), and its crystal-clear seas are fully explorable with the aid of a captured Cheep Cheep.Īll three are gorgeous for entirely separate reasons - and act as further testament to Nintendo’s mastery of art design. It also contains the most bizarre capturable item I’ve seen so far - a giant, twitching hunk of meat. Luncheon is a bizarre mixture of lava and almost low-poly, technicolour textures - you can ping yourself around town using its living fork inhabitants, and utilise enemies immune to its deadly scenery to stay alive. Having played around two hours across three new areas - Cap Kingdom, Luncheon Kingdom and Seaside Kingdom - that could end up being Odyssey’s defining trait.Ĭap Kingdom - the stunning, almost monochrome world we saw in early trailers - acts as Odyssey’s tutorial area, introducing basic movement, the new Capture mechanic (letting you possess and use the abilities of more or less any enemy that isn’t wearing a hat), not to mention Mario’s quest to stop Bowser’s forcible wedding to Peach - kicked off with a weirdly stirring reason for him to require new companion Cappy. As they developed a way to return us to the exploratory style of old, it feels to me as though the Mario team may have been peeking over their cubicles to have a look at how the new Zelda was getting along.īreath of the Wild is remarkable for many reasons, one of them being how it saturated its world with the promise of secrets and satisfying treats for exploring. The thing is, you could take the entirety of that last paragraph and apply it to a different Nintendo game. It quickly becomes as much fun to just look around as it is to complete the quests thrown your way. I suspect you’ll often end up leaving an area and coming back later, armed not with new abilities, just knowledge about how the designers have slipped things beneath your notice. Every major area I’ve visited is somewhat non-linear in design, allowing you to wander, chat and poke around the darker corners for hidden rewards.
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