The current debate in the Inbox regarding the relative merits of Super Mario Odyssey vs. Super Mario Galaxy really does bring home just how much a matter of personal taste gaming really is.
Personally, if I had to choose, I’m very much in favour of the Galaxy games. However, even though of all my Switch games I actually found Odyssey the most disappointing, I’d never outright come out and say I thought it was a bad game, because… well it isn’t. It’s just what it offers appealed to me less than the design and gameplay mechanics of its forerunners. I certainly don’t hate it, but it has made me a lot more curious about the 3D Land/World games I missed due to not owning either of their home formats. Fingers crossed for Inbox magic on a Switch port sometime early 2020…
Nintendo have a real knack for being able to hone their AAA franchises to the peak of whatever they are aiming for with them. Odyssey’s free form exploration might have failed to grip me as much as Galaxy’s bite-sized nuggets approach but it’s unquestionably an exceptionally well-made game. A bit like Zelda: Breath Of The Wild, it’s something of a departure from it’s predecessors but whilst we all like to think we’re always in the market for something different, maybe in it’s own way, Odyssey is doomed to be one of those Marmite games that will always split the fan base to some extent.
I’m holding out a great deal of hope that whatever Nintendo and Retro are doing to Metroid for Prime 4 clicks for me. I’m biased, but I’m certain Breath Of The Wild 2 will be a winner, but I’ve got a bit of a craving to see how first person shooter Metroid handles on the Switch. The lack of anything beyond a fairly uninspired title graphic is a bit disappointing. I know they said they’d had to scrap it and start over, and I’m all for them taking all the time they need to polish it up to standard, but has there been any indication how far off any kind of news or a reveal is?
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GC: No clue at all. But a good quality game would take at least three years to make from scratch, so assuming it wasn’t restarted much before the announcement in January there’s a long way to go yet.
