 Let the Super Mario Odyssey hype begin. Not that it hasn't really been going on since it's revealed, but yes, Super Mario Odyssey has gotten its first official review. It's technically not available to the public yet. Edge Magazine gave Super Mario Odyssey a perfect 10. Now Edge Magazine is technically not available yet until I think it's tomorrow or later this week. Edge Magazine is usually available sooner than this, but they actually delayed the release of this magazine for an exclusive embargo on the Super Mario Odyssey review. Essentially, Nintendo said fine, you can be the first publication to publish your review, but you must wait until this date. And this week is actually the first week that Super Mario Odyssey is arriving with other media members out there. So I don't know what the review embargo will be on that. We'll probably start seeing everyone else's reviews pop up in 10 days or so, but yeah, this is exciting stuff. Now I'm not going to read anything too specific from the review itself. Obviously it's a review, so it contains some level of spoilers, but one aspect I do want to bring up, because this is extremely interesting, for those wondering, we all know, at least if you've been following anything about Mario Odyssey. You know that unlike collecting stars and other stuff in the past, you collect moons, and the moons are what power your little hat-shaped ship. I know it has a name, I'm trying to keep this a little bit spoiler-free. What's crazy is, and I don't even consider this a spoiler at this point, this is just an interesting fact, there are almost, here's the exact words, there are nearly as many moons in Odyssey as there are Korok seeds in Breath of the Wild. There's 900 Korok seeds. So if there's almost 900 moons in this game, now they could be exaggerating, but if they're not exaggerating, and there's like 800 plus moons to find in this game, this game is going to have a lot of replayability. And unlike games like Breath of the Wild where collecting isn't really part of the stick in Breath, you know, it became part of the stick with Korok seeds, but in Zelda, collecting is not really a thing. In Mario, there's a lot of thrill in collecting things, and collecting moons, it's a 3D platformer collecting type experience, and that's kind of the way it's been for a long time. So this actually fits better in that world. So the fact that there could be 900 moons is just blowing my mind right now. But what's interesting here is that Edge Magazine has given now, including Breath of the Wild, 20 perfect tens in the magazine's history. And the magazine's been around for a long time. But what's more interesting than that is the last game that they gave a perfect 10 to was Breath of the Wild. That means in less than one year. Like, think about this, we're going to be seven months in. The Switch has two games from Edge Magazine with perfect 10 scores. I'm sorry, someone's going to have to look this up. I tried looking it up myself. I don't have access to all of Edge's back catalog, so I couldn't confirm this 100%. But this might be the first time in history that a console in less than a year has had two perfect 10 console exclusive games from Edge Magazine and possibly from any publication. Now, I'm not going to say every publication. Obviously, you're Nintendo, everything's of the world. Your Nintendo World Report, you know, the Nintendo sites that are going to have some bias are obviously going to have multiple tens probably given out of multiple five out of fives in a single year. But this is just insane from a company like Edge. Now, obviously, we'll have to see if this holds up. Edge gave Breath of the Wild a 10 and we saw that Breath of the Wild came out and had tons and tons of tens and nines. And still to this day, I believe is in the top five overall rated games of all time. It was number one for a long time, but yeah, it's not number one anymore. But top five is still insane. And it appears that at least based on one review, we might be looking at Super Mario Odyssey potentially cracking that top five. Is it going to bump out Breath of the Wild? Is it going to join Breath of the Wild? Is it going to become the best rated game of all time? I have no idea. But this just is hype to the extreme. I almost wish this review would have came out a week ago. We would have talked about it on this week's podcast with the hype man himself, Mr. HMK, but that's all right, because I am pretty hyped about this as is. And man, two 10 out of 10 games on the same console in less than a year. Man, if anything, my only concern is how can Nintendo top this, right? This is like the perfect storm for Nintendo with the switch in year one. Peeling hardware and name, good marketing to the highest rated games potentially of all time exclusive to your platforms. I understand Breath of the Wild also came on a week. But Super Mario Odyssey is literally console exclusive in addition to Mario Kart 8 Deluxe and a brand new IP and arms and Splatoon 2 and Mario plus Rabbids Kingdom Battle. And you're starting to see some third party support, maybe some late ports, but at least it's there and Skyrim and Doom Rocket League. We're getting the Wolfenstein to the new Colossus next year. And while this isn't necessarily, you know, I said perfect storm, perfect storm will be like all third parties have already jumped on board. But this is you can ask for a better first year for a system. If I'm being honest, not even PlayStation 4 and Xbox One can stand up to this first year that Nintendo was having with Switch. Now, as I said, this does bring concern up 2018. I don't know how you follow up a year like this. I know some people say, well, you followed up with Metroid. You followed up with Pokemon. You followed up with Animal Crossing and you follow up with Smash Bros. And Nintendo certainly has enough big games left in their back pocket that they could just chuck out there and have just as good of a 2018 as a 2017. But it's hard to imagine them pulling that off. Maybe they can because maybe 100 percent of their development efforts are focused on Switch. There's no longer supporting two different platforms. I realize they're still releasing games on 3DS, but maybe internally, you know, they've shifted everything. And because everything's focused on Switch, maybe they are going to have a new Animal Crossing next year. They have that isn't announced yet. We know there's a new Fire Emblem coming. Maybe Nintendo is going to hit us with even more titles next year because it's arguable nothing in their library as big as essentially Pokemon, Zelda and Mario. Now, you could argue Animal Crossing is actually a more popular franchise than the Legend of Zelda, and you would be correct. But obviously, Zelda means more in the minds of solidifying this system with so far the target audience of the Switch, which is essentially lapsed gamers or Nintendo fans. So I'm really excited about this and I can't wait to get Super Mario Odyssey in my hands. No, I am not one of the media members getting my hands on Super Mario Odyssey. So you won't see any early gameplay or previews from me. But the gameplay you're seeing in here was graciously provided to us by GameXplain. I will have links to the original videos containing all their stuff down in the comments below. But yeah, thank you so much for tuning in. I am Nathan Ruffajans from Nintendo Prime. 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