benji232 said:
My exact point. Whereas every single previous 3d Mario game were incredibly fun and still felt fresh while going for 100% and felt incredibly rewarding. Odyssey feels like an incredible grind to go for 100%. Outside of the fun but short platforming bits inside the hat doors (which if you explore a bit in your first playthrough, your going to get most of them anyways), going for 100% is tedious and not very fun. In fact, I'd argue that going for 100% exposes the games biggest flaws that you probably won't feel when completing the campaign such as the formulaic structure of each kingdom (see one of my previous post). Trust me, I'm not just criticising for the sake of criticising, I've already 100% the game lol... Completed 100% every kingdom and got every purple currency and every moons. That, of course, is just my opinion. Again, I feel like Mario Odyssey feels amazing for the first playthrough but then quickly falls off a cliff when you go for 100% whereas, in previous Mario games, going for 100% and completing the bonus worlds was often the most fun and rewarding part of the game! |
I guess we have opposing views on this, I found that the game gets much more interesting once the story is complete! Koopa racing is a lot of fun trying to find ways to cut your time. The moon rocks moons add some much needed challenge and yes there are tasks you need to do in all kingdoms but they're fun tasks.
Maybe it'll get less interesting as I close in on the last moons but so far at 500+ moons I'm still having a blast so there's much more than only 8 solid hours of gameplay bliss in there.
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