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27 jan. 2023

Super Mario Odyssey (Switch) — 10/10

It’s hard to write anything interesting about a game that is so perfectly designed. The controls and animations are impeccable, making the simplest traversal fun. Puzzles are creative and varied, with optional objectives bringing different levels of difficulty. The worlds are gorgeous and inventive (it’s hard to imagine another franchise being able to reconcile such wildly different visual styles). Boss fights are just hard enough, and long enough, to give me a jolt of adrenaline without leaving me frustrated.

This was the first Mario game I played from beginning to end, and I finally know what so many developers making exploration platformers are striving for. With such overbearing references, I guess it’s impressive that they even dare to try.

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