Gaming Do you think Mario Odyssey will be difficult?

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I remember when I was a kid, Super Mario Galaxy was the hardest game I had ever played. But now as an almost-adult, it's not so bad. Seems they'll be going for the same kinda sweet spot, where all ages can find the game fun. Actually, from what I've played and seen of it so far, there does seem to be some fairly challenging platforming sections. There are also "puzzles" scattered around that reward you with moons, but the puzzles are so extremely simple and practically give you the answer, so don't expect any Zelda-like puzzling here. It's a platformer through and through. I think the real fun is going to come from exploration. While actually getting moons doesn't seem to be difficult, finding them sounds like a blast. It's kind of like finding Korok Seeds in Breath of the Wild, where you're like, "What if I do this here...?" The game doesn't provide any markers for moons, making you track them down yourself. So in terms of difficulty, about as hard as past Mario games, with the added draw of exploration.
 

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imo the hardest game nintendo made staring mario was probably the lost levels and the original smb, every game after that you can beat preety easily imo, smb3,smw,sm64,sms,smg,smg2,sm3dw and 3dland.

sure they thrown you a hard level near the end but that level alone is not what makes a agme hard, nintendo rarely does hard games even on the nes and snes their games were way easy compared to konami stuff and manny other devs too.
 

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from what i have seen its going to be very easy most likely even easier than the galaxy game and we all know how easy those are

the galaxy games were a pain in the ass! Worst mario games made since mario's time machine. Too dam hard! Too much tricky time jumpy pro hickery, bs. if it is anything like those titles, my switch will be on ebay!
 

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the galaxy games were a pain in the ass! Worst mario games made since mario's time machine. Too dam hard! Too much tricky time jumpy pro hickery, bs. if it is anything like those titles, my switch will be on ebay!
i found them to be some of the easier games
 
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There's going to be at least one person that will call it the Dark Souls of Mario.

I think it's going to be rather easy/normal to get trough the stages, finding all the moons though? Oh boy.
 

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Nintendo will make it easy enough for everyone to enjoy but then f*ck you over when you try to collect everything. Like collecting the three coins in every level of New Super Mario Bros U or every black coin in Super Mario Run.
 

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I hope that this game is difficult and it will be worthy. However, if it is easy then its no fun and a waste of money.
Can you not make your own challenge? If you have infinite lives then say to yourself if you die more than ? times in a level reset the game and start again. Or give yourself a time limit to do a challenge/goal.
 

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I hope that this game is difficult and it will be worthy. However, if it is easy then its no fun and a waste of money.
Hard =/= fun. The challenge can be more rewarding, but pushing the limits of your skill constantly gets frustrating quick. Games like Mario are there for the breaks in-between, to unwind and just enjoy yourself. If you're not capable of that any more I'd feel pretty bad for you.
 

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Can you not make your own challenge? If you have infinite lives then say to yourself if you die more than ? times in a level reset the game and start again. Or give yourself a time limit to do a challenge/goal.
I guess you could. But I would much rather have the game facilitate the challenges as opposed to me having to think of ways to make the game more rewarding. I feel that's the developer's job, I'm just playing the game.
 

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I guess you could. But I would much rather have the game facilitate the challenges as opposed to me having to think of ways to make the game more rewarding. I feel that's the developer's job, I'm just playing the game.

That feels a bit lazy to me, and laziness to me is the best of the human virtues so that has to be pretty lazy. I long ago came to the conclusion that developers of games are incompetent and incapable, however in spite of that there is still the option to have some fun if you make it yourself (be it with a hex editor or something more abstract).
 

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