 So another day has passed and another Super Mario Odyssey review has come out This from Japanese publication Femitsu now There's a lot of people that don't necessarily trust Femitsu when it comes to review scores anymore because a lot of the review scores are generally between a 35 and a 40 but it is interesting noting this because right now Super Mario Odyssey is tied for their best ever Rating of a Mario game So what how Femitsu does things is they have four Separate people review the game and then they put those reviews together and they're based out of 10 They add it and you end up with a final score out of 40 So what happened is three of the reviewers gave Super Mario Odyssey a perfect 10 Well one reviewer gave it a nine out of 10 for a total's cumulative score of 39 out of 40 And to put this in perspective Breath of the Wild actually got a 40 out of 40 For some reason that there's actually quite a few Zelda games that have gotten a 40 out of 40 So Femitsu the reviewers at least that worked there really love the Zelda series clearly But what's interesting is no Mario game has ever gotten a perfect score So 39 out of 40 is actually Do you like the highest praise of Mario game has ever gotten from them? And the only other Mario game that came close or I should say literally identically tied it was Super Mario 64 which also tallied a 39 out of 40 that means that they put Super Mario Odyssey as On par if not maybe slightly better than Super Mario 64 In fact, here's a listing of all of their titles Now you'll notice interestingly enough Super Mario Galaxy 2 is actually one of the lower rated 3d Mario games ever released and A lot of people think that Super Mario Galaxy 2 is better than the original Super Mario Galaxy But hey, you know what opinions subjectiveness it all happens. We all have our own situations But this is interesting now because not only has Super Mario Odyssey gotten, you know The highest praise of Mario game has ever gotten from Femitsu magazine It's also got a perfect 10 from Edge as we reported earlier in a video. You could check up in the right corner so This is just a really interesting thing to me that Super Mario Odyssey to reviews in is Really sitting at the top of the heap at least when it comes to Mario games I'm gonna be interested to see if this holds up once we get more reviews Obviously, I couldn't read the Femitsu review So I don't know what they you know if there's anything in the text of the review That I would want to highlight because it's in Japanese, but it's still really interesting This also brings up a grander point of you know Do review scores matter certainly Nintendo thinks they matter and the review scores a breath of the wild earlier this year Clearly helped drive the hype and the continued sales of breath of the wild even to this very day So it'll be interesting to see if Super Mario Odyssey can keep up its torrid pace of scores so far I know it's just two, but they're big ones and Yeah, I don't know. I guess the question I'm gonna throw at you guys Do you think Super Mario Odyssey is going to score as well as? Zelda now Zelda was interesting because breath of the wild got a ton of perfect scores And I don't know if Super Mario Odyssey can honestly match the total perfect scores that breath of the wild got But breath of the wild also had a handful of lower scores We're talking sevens out of ten and while you might disagree with that there's plenty of people that do agree with that kind of scoring and It'll be interesting to see if while Super Mario Odyssey might not get as many perfect tens It's also it might have less low scores And if it has less low scores Potentially it couldn't end up higher rated than breath of the wild I know this is all like way speculation on subjective opinions and none of it really matters honestly You'll pick a reviewer you trust If you're not sure if you want to buy the game pick the reviewer you trust See what they have to say about it and make your purchasing decision then but I'm obviously getting Super Mario Odyssey We're giving away a copy of Super Mario Odyssey. There's a link to that giveaway down in the description below This is a reminder. I'm sure most of you guys by now have already entered. We have over 4,000 entries, which is just awesome I'm glad to see so many people excited for Super Mario Odyssey But yeah, let me know Do you think review scores matter in today's day and age clearly they you know, they still matter for sales But do they matter to you and or is it the content of a review that matters more? Obviously, I can't give you the content of Femmits review. I can only tell you what they scored it And just to let you guys know I will not be reviewing Super Mario Odyssey I know some of you guys like my Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle review, which you can also check up in the top right corner, but I Decided that game reviews are something I really enjoy doing There's a lot of people that actually liked my take on Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle And they also like some of my prior product reviews like the rap power review And some other reviews that I've done of products But the thing is is reviewing games in comparison reviewing products all of that rap power review that took a long time So many scenarios on one of the test those bad boys and there were some big battery banks So it took a long time to test but to look at things, you know as Objectively as possible And then here's like I don't think game reviews can actually be objective I think the whole purpose of a game reviews to be subjective I think tech analysis is something that can be objective But that's what you turn to digital foundry for we don't do tech analysis here. So I Decided game reviews are gonna be part of our patreon and I understand that some people don't like that, but We have a stretch goal on patreon of three hundred dollars per month for game reviews And I'm doing this on purpose because I really just want I'm doing this on purpose because game reviews take a long time There are you know at least a hundred hours sunk into a game review and it's not just playing the game, right? You know say Super Mario Odyssey say I only need to play 40 hours of Super Mario Odyssey in my opinion to properly Review the game even if I don't beat it, which I probably would beat it in that time But you know what I mean even if I don't 100% the game but That doesn't include the time it takes to take notes That doesn't include the time it takes to write up the review That doesn't include the time it takes to edit the review heck That doesn't even include the time it takes to record footage Which I might have to do after the fact in replaying the game Which could add more time because I didn't want to necessarily record footage while playing it for review purposes in case In case I just don't have space right if I if I just recorded my entire playthrough of Super Mario Odyssey from day one I Would be and I'd be screwed if I'm being honest, so It's just something to think about How much time it takes for me to create a review and like I review Mario Plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle only had about 1300 views I'm sure Super Mario Odyssey would probably get two to three thousand if not more but While I love doing game reviews They are so time-consuming that it's hard for me to justify setting time aside But if we could hit that $300 stretch goal 200 of it which goes towards game reviews it makes me realize you know what game reviews are worth it now We would only review one game per month to start Until we get to a better flow and then maybe there'll be more than one review per month But you guys would be able to select which game we review every single month I don't know if I'd open it up to a public or just patreon backers yet, but yeah It's something that I love doing I want to do and maybe someday I'll do it on my own regardless of what we get on patreon But if you guys would like to see me review games like Super Mario Odyssey and stuff Please head on over to patreon.com slash Nintendo Prime show some love even for as little as a dollar a month I mean we get thousands of views on our videos Literally if 200 of you would just give a dollar even less than 200 I think at this point we would be at our stretch goal and you would get game reviews So thank you so much for tuning in I am the thinner of a dance from Nintendo Prime If you like this video, you know what to do And if you dislike the video hit that dislike button subscribe for more content like this and I'll catch you in the next one