Gaming Mario Odyssey looks like a mix of 64, Sunshine, Galaxy and 3D World

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No.. Sonc 06 was not a Sonic Adventure 5. Sonic 06 was intended as a soft reboot. And none of the games except Generations really had no throwbacks to Sonic Adventure/Heroes or Shadow. Hell. Sonic Boom was in a different continuity together.

And same could be said for many of the 2D games. There are differences between "Dur dur.. 3D games" and being actual continuation of story lines, such as Heroes and Shadow directly connecting to Adventure 1 and 2.
 
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I really liked the story arc from Sonic Adventure to Shadow The Hedgehog. The first game's story arc only lasted one game, but the one started in SA2, lasted 3 games. So far, that's the longest story arc, in the series.

Yeah, I new Sonic '06 was intended to be a reboot but I was just pointing out how many 3D Sonic games there are. Almost more than both Mario and Zelda combined.
 
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I hate to say it.. but that may be why so many of them suffered so badly. x.x;
Sonic kinda reminds me of Family Guy. In a way, Sonic is the "Family Guy" of video game franchises. Both started going downhill after being around, for less than a decade. Sonic went downhill with the 3D games while Family Guy went downhill when it got revived, nearly 12 years ago. Both franchises are the most hated of their respective mediums, both had crossovers with their rivals, and both killed off a character that returns, not much later. Both also met their classic incarnations, even in the same year; Late 2011.
 
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I actually think Adventure 1 and 2 where not that bad as 3D cameras at the time were still god-awful. *Looking at you Drakengard* but passable. But once they moved on to the NGC era, they really should have sat down and thought the cameras and physics out before throwing them together and using chewing gum and toothpicks to hold everything together.
 
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Mario Odyssey looks like a Sonic game
FIFY
During these months though, I sure hope that the prices decrease a bit in EUR/GBP.
AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH Yeah no. Either going up, or staying the same. This is Nintendo we're talking about.
How do I know? The Wii U's a dead console, no? So the prices for the games should go do-
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Nevermind.
 
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i was excited when i saw the trailer for odyssey. i will probably wait until holiday to get a switch due to this game and the fact that i will probably pay a little less or get more for the same price at that point.

i think the switch will be a flop overall though. the price is just too high. make it $249 and bundle in a pro controller, im in.

i still do not own a wii u pro controller as i will not pay more than $40-ish for a controller. FUCK THAT SHIT.
 

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I have two thoughts I thought I would share. First, is that the choice of Odyssey in the name resembles the choice Sega made to name the Sonic mainline game on (what would become) their last console "Adventure". I mean adventure and odyssey are almost synonyms, so wouldn't it be ironic if this console actually became the swan song of Nintendo's consoles, like it did for Sega? It would be a weird coincidence, to say the least.

Secondly, I just wanted to note that last night I watched videogamedunkey's vid of the game Time Zone, and man did that game make me think of SMO's idea of throwing Mario's hat. Sure, SMO won't be the first platformer where you throw your hat to attack or whatever.

Still, I started looking further into this and the more I read the more I see a conspiracy of a sort. From mobygames I see the cover art of Time Zone showing a kid looking a lot like a mix of Mario and Ness. Then I read that the creator, Kenji Eno, passed away at only 42 in 2013, and he had a certain fame in Japan. Fumito Ueda (Ico, SoC, TLG), started his career working for him, and in The Last Guardian's credits we find a special thanks to Eno for this reason.
Kenji Eno's company developed the game D2 which was the first title announced for the Sega Dreamcast. At the same time Super Mario Odyssey was one of the first announced for the Switch, being in the reveal. If you delve deep enough into this, you'd think Nintendo giving Mario the hat move is a subtle way of paying respect to Kenji Eno. SMO is said to be almost finished, so believing that development started around 2013-2014 isn't too far-fetched. After all, Time Zone was released for Nintendo's NES.

Anyways, this is probably just some random coincidental bullsh*t. I need to get a life.

Sources:
Dunkey's Timezone
https://youtu.be/-bUN8Ejnyuo
Mobygames Time Zone NES
http://www.mobygames.com/game/time-zone_
 
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The game looks great to me. I plan to buy it when it comes out. I have always like these open type of mario games vs the side scroll.
 
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Reminds me of SMG ! :)

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Release date in a year.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Mario_Odyssey

Nintendo sucks.
A new report says that Nintendo is mostly done developing the game so what they supposedly have left to do is, polish the game and make sure it's as solid as it can be. But well, surely polishing it can't take so long as to be released only within this Christmas! That's way too long and Switch needs good games! :(
 

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A new report says that Nintendo is mostly done developing the game so what they supposedly have left to do is, polish the game and make sure it's as solid as it can be. But well, surely polishing it can't take so long as to be released only within this Christmas! That's way too long and Switch needs good games! :(
I guess they need a reason for kids to want it for Christmas? I remember my friend got his N64 as a present and it was awesome. Cool Cool Mountain and its soundtrack still makes think of Christmas.
 

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My guess is that they needed a holiday game, so they pushed the release back (even though it's basically done) instead of putting the 11 months they still have developing something else that's decent.
 

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