Super Mario Odyssey Review: Moe Gives It a 9.6 / 10

Super Mario Odyssey is pure joy with a capture button. Mario throws Cappy, lands on a Goomba, a T-Rex, a tank, a slab of meat, and every single capture is a new toy. Nintendo took the playground energy of Mario 64 and shipped it around the world: a city, a desert, a kingdom made of lunch.

New Donk City alone is worth the price. Pauline singing, taxis bouncing, a festival that turns into a full musical number: it's Nintendo showing off, and they earned the right. The moons are everywhere, hundreds of them, so exploration always pays you something.

Every capture is a new toy: a Goomba, a T-Rex, a tank, a slab of meat.

If I'm marking it down, it's for the motion control moves locked behind shaking the controller, and a few kingdoms that feel like hallways between the great ones. The postgame will also consume your life if you let it, which I did.

A 9.6. Odyssey is the happiest game on this entire list, and the gap to second place is wide.