 Ah Super Mario Odyssey folks welcome to our first ever first impressions video And we're talking about Super Mario Odyssey. I played it for about two hours last night. I actually did it through live stream and It We're gonna talk about it. We're gonna talk about my experience with the game We're not we're gonna be reviewing Super Mario Odyssey. We haven't hit our stretch goal yet on patreon, but we're getting closer so Let's just talk about What I feel there's a lot of people asking questions in the live stream how I feel about the game right now and I gotta say I'm gonna try to keep this a spoiler free as I can but because it's only the beginning of the game I'm talking about I feel like I don't need to hold back too bad You start out, you know with a light story, but it's an interesting story And this is probably the one spoiler. I'm gonna throw in there So I'm warning you right now. I'm gonna spoil the very beginning of the story The game starts out where you're fighting against Bowser Mario is literally already fighting Bowser This is usually what happens at the end of a Mario game so he's fighting Bowser who already captured Peach and Yeah, the Bowser's all decked out like he's getting married Peach is not decked out like she's getting married nor is Mario and It's an interesting situation because Mario loses and his hat basically gets destroyed And before we even see Cappy we see, you know, tiara or like the I don't know the name of the character yet but the tiara character with the eyes that That Bowser has put on top of Peach And it's just a really interesting beginning It's not like it's a super super in-depth story and you find out that the tiara thing is Cappy's sister So he's trying to save his sister. You're trying to save, you know the princess as always So that's kind of a setup and there really hasn't been a whole lot of story sense Also, the fact that Bowser's kind of destroyed the world Or at least destroyed the Cap Kingdom. So that that that happened, I guess. I Don't know. I don't know how the rest of the world plays out yet, but You start on the Cap Kingdom and you can't really do much. It's a tutorial. It's teaching you how to play There's not really a whole lot of like interesting discoveries beyond some coins But it's fun. It's interesting. It's a nice little tutorial area And that's all I'm gonna say for the story. There's a couple of other things that happen But you know, I'll leave them for you guys to discover You do get to fight, you know a few bosses or a couple bosses so far I've fought in two bosses both of them relatively easy Although this is the beginning of the game now I've heard one of the criticisms of this game by certain reviewers is that it's not extremely challenging and I Think if you're just playing from start to end if you're just going from I want to go from point a to Saving Princess Peach at the end of the game. It probably is pretty easy I think the required moons that you need for your odyssey ship because you need to collect moons for your odyssey ship to travel from location to location Are relatively easy to get because you get some for beating the boss you get some you are just really easy to find or right out in the open And because of that, I don't think you actually need to do a lot of exploration To at least early on in the game to get the moons that are required to move on to the next area So from that perspective, I think I understand the lack of challenge But I think what some people forget is the challenge in Mario games isn't the boss fights I mean if you think back to Super Mario 64 because that's what I'm gonna keep comparing this game to The challenge is not the boss fights. The boss fights of Super Mario 64 are not hard I don't think I ever died to a boss in Super Mario 64 and I was like 10 or 12 at the time So I'm not gonna die now Unless I really really screw up And that's despite the fact that if you watch that live stream or you're watching now I'm a little clunky with the controls not only because there's a lot of new moves But even some of the old moves like the triple jump I was struggling with and that's okay I mean, and I'm I'm sure you guys didn't want to spend out the footage. I'm showing you right now Isn't from our live stream. I'm playing Cascade Kingdom, which is the second kingdom you go to after Cap Kingdom and Yeah, I mean, I've already done everything I can do I've already like 100% of this area for as much as I'm able to there are some moons You can't get into a late game or like end game like you beat the game that you can go back and collect more moons So I've done everything I can so you're not gonna see you you'll see the outlines of the moons and the coins or whatever But I'm just showing you some gameplay because I was doing this all during live stream Anyways, it's it's very interesting Just experiencing this on the whole When I first got the Cascade Kingdom during the live stream I got to the top of the pole there's a pole you can climb right away and I just wanted to see like, you know the world itself and Nostalgia just rushed over me. I got emotional. I cried. I legit cried because this world looked like a world from Super Mario 64 and if I'm being honest I've been waiting 21 years for a true sequel to Super Mario 64 like a true honest-to-goodness Slap me in a world and let me freely explore game. Yes, there is an objective Then they give you a mark on your map for the objective But that's not what made Super Mario 64 the way it is and that's not what makes odyssey Well, when people talk about the lack of challenge I question how many of those people 100% of the game and I'm not saying that because you need a 100% odyssey to enjoy It no no no well one of the great things about this game is it is a 3d platforming collectathon This is just like the games we got back in the 90s Just like the Super Mario 64 is in the banjo kazoos and even the conquerors bad for days of the world You can even argue Crash Bandicoot back in the day was a little bit like this a different style of platforming But still This is what we grew up on in the 90s and these kind of games just don't exist very much anymore We got ukulele which some people chastise for being too much like the old-school banjo-kazoos games Including all the faults and I haven't played it So I don't know what that means because I didn't see any faults like to me banjo-kazoos from my memory I know it's rusty. I keep thinking it's a perfect video game, but I know it's not actually perfect You know, it's one of those I'm older now. I'm not a child. I understand. There's probably flaws I just because of nostalgia or whatever the case may be I can't see what those flaws are but Super Mario Odyssey Really, as I said, I only played the first Kingdom. So I'm not gonna be like, oh, this is the best Mario game I've ever played Or this is the best game like I kept having some people asking. Hey, is this the is this better than Breath of the Wild? Like you that's something you can't determine till you've experienced the full game And that doesn't mean you have to 100% if you got a lease get to the end And I got to the end of Breath of the Wild. I have any 100% in Breath of the Wild I'm working on a 100% master mode run which is now on pause for Super Mario Odyssey because it's the new hot thing out And I guess I said 21 years in the in the waiting for a game like this So far just in the Cascade Kingdom, I'm very impressed with this game The T-Rex They let you control T-Rex early that's that's in the Cascade Kingdom Cascade Kingdom Basically the dinosaur kingdom And the T-Rex it wasn't as exciting as I hoped Maybe because I saw a small preview video where I just saw it kind of walking around wrecking things That's pretty much all it does I don't know what I really expected the T-Rex to do if I'm being honest It's a T-Rex. It's just gonna walk around and wreck things. That's just what it does But yeah, the game Basically gives you the ability to control it as soon as you get cappy It enables you to do basically every move in the game But it slowly introduces you to these moves So if you don't want to go into the action menu because there's an action menu and you can learn all the moves there it will show you As you need those moves like eventually I'm sure I'm going to need the move where you throw the cap and you jump on the cap and you get across the gap Now I've done that a couple times during the demo or during the demo during the the live stream But uh, I'm not very good at it and it's going to take a lot of practice because it's a new move Um, even the old moves as I said, you know the triple jump I was really really struggling with the triple jump even though some people were saying it works exactly like in mario 64 Well, here's here's a new here's a news flash. I haven't played mario 64 in probably 20 years as much I'm not one of those gamers. I guess that plays game like there's some people that oh, I love mario 64 so much I play it every single year or I played through it a zillion times I played through mario 64 twice in my life both of it the year that the game launched So I haven't really played sense because I'm not one of those gamers that feels like I need to I feel like there's always great games coming out And I should be moving on to those experiences because I already got my full experience And one thing I actually struggled starting super mario odyssey. I almost got emotional before the start because Sometimes there's those rare moments in life. You know, you're about to start a special journey And I've seen the reviews. I know how well this game is scoring I know that it looks a lot a lot like mario 64 And sometimes you just know you're about to embark on a special journey and you're afraid to start Because once you start you can never do that again You can replay the game. You could have fun with it and not saying the game gets old or boring But you'll never be at that point where you're first experiencing the game I never played the demo for this game whether it was a best buy or game stop or target or whatever I didn't play it at e3 like literally Unlike breath of the wild which I had played demos of and had experience with before it came out Especially in that opening area So a lot of the luster of the opening area was kind of lost on me A lot of the wow factor because I got that wow factor at e3 2016 I've not had the wow factor with odyssey So it was one of the games like for the first time since I was a child. I went into it almost blind barely knowing anything about it and That experience of just Starting that special journey playing it for your first time Even if I had known a bunch whatever playing the game for your first time Very few times in my adult life have I experienced the rush and the thrill And the reverence of just knowing I'm in the midst of something special And I'm never going to get that again and because I'm never going to get that again I'm going to 100 odyssey this first time I play it and I'll probably never touch the game again Unless I'm recording gameplay specific for videos that we're doing here in tender prime And that's just because it's a single player game. That's just the way I am with single player games I usually play them through once if I want to 100 the game Maybe I'll play it again or I'll try to 100 the file I have and that's it In fact, the only reason I'm playing the breath of the wild twice is because master mode I wasn't available till later if master mode would have been available day one when breath of the wild launch I would have started the game of master mode never even played in normal mode And I would have already beaten it and maybe even 100 of it, but The reason I didn't 100 normal mode in breath of the wild is because I knew master mode was coming And I wanted to 100 master mode because I feel like that's a grander challenge to me as a zelda fan This is just There's not a lot I could say that hasn't been said by other people about mario odyssey so far I'm at the beginning of the game. There's no way in heck. I can I can use the beginning to judge the rest It is relatively easy. It is relatively holding your hand a little bit just a little bit Exploring and collecting all of the 50 coins and all of the The moons I could collect. I think I could collect 18 moons or 17 moons or whatever the case may be Right now in cascade kingdom It wasn't exactly easy because you really have to look around for everything possible to collect those moons It just takes me back Super mario odyssey is a 3d platformer built on basically the husk of you know, the dead husk of super mario 64 And it's just brilliant that formula that super mario 64 had that all those collectathon 3d platforms had still works It still works today and the game is gorgeous on top now. I was only in cascade kingdom, but it is it's a gorgeous game Uh, I don't really have any I didn't see any graphical issues. I never saw any frame rate dips now There are frame rate dips. We know and it happens in new dong city actually a lot so i'm sure i'll i'll experience some stuff there, but Yeah, i'm really really pleased with this game and i'm actually curious what your guys's first impressions are of super mario odyssey as well because I mean, I could tell i'm playing something special. Is it going to be my favorite mario game? I don't know It's got a tall mountain to climb because the super mario galaxy 2 is my favorite right now And that's an excellent game. So it's got a it's a tall task to top that It's also a tall task to top my favorite game of all time, uh breath of the wild And it's a tall task to top my second favorite game of all time secret amana. So Um, I don't know what's going to happen But that's the crazy thing is that I don't know what's going to happen I know some of the kingdoms, but I don't know what to do in those kingdoms. It's going to be crazy It's going to be fun. I can't wait to 100 percent this game Uh, it's one of those games these collectathon style 3d platforming games are the kind of games I want to 100 percent So I'm I'm I'm just having a blast. That's all it really matters, right challenge or no challenge I'm having a blast and yes, I'm going to continue our live stream of this game later today Uh, I don't know when Just tune in when it happens Anyways, folks, I'm Nathaniel Robledance from the tenor prime if you like this video You know what to do and if you dislike this video hit that dislike button subscribe for more Content just like this and I'll catch you in the next one