It almost feels like an adventure game at times. Vulture Island takes a lot of influence from classic 2D Mario games, but its link to Super Mario Odyssey lies more in its open, non-linear structure. Super Mario Odyssey's seems pretty easy-going on its surface, but it's packed full of perplexing mysteries and secrets if you're willing to look a little closer.
Oh, and unlike Super Mario Odyssey's equivalent sections, it's multiplayer. It's quick, lovely to look at, and really rather brilliant. ReRunners is a 2D platformer built entirely around this kind of premise. These see you racing a bunch of koopa troopers across the game's wonderfully inventive levels. Some of the most difficult, pure challenges in Super Mario Odyssey come from their foot races. The rigid, awkward way your character moves and jumps is not what you'd expect, and it takes on flavours of maze-escape puzzlers and shooters as a result. When I think about a mobile game that shows similar disregard for platforming etiquette while remaining cute and approachable I think of Nitrome's Gunbrick. It does plenty of crazy and unexpected things with the well-worm platformer format. Super Mario Odyssey is downright weird - and that's mostly a good thing. There are still question mark boxes and tactile jumping and coins and secrets and Bowser. Super Mario Run is a the opposite end of the Mario game scale to Super Mario Odyssey in depth and scale, but it's still Mario. Yes, we now actually have a Mario platformer to play on our mobile phones - and it's not through a dodgy emulator or anything! Let's get the most obvious one out of the way. Check these mobile alternatives out while you weep into your cereal. There's nothing like it on PS4 or Xbox One either.īut there are some great mobile platformers out there that capture a certain amount of Super Mario Odyssey's magic in various ways. I'm not going to lie to you - there's nothing that even approaches Odyssey's 3D platforming majesty on iOS or Android.
Unless you don't have a Switch, of course, in which case you will be sad and you will cry. Super Mario Odyssey for Switch hits shops and doormats today.
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