What a nice Saturday this has turned out to be. Woke up at 9am of mother bringing in an envelope that felt like there was nothing inside it. I shook it around and thought “oh wait!! I think this is the SD card!” Got up and grabbed a pair of scissors and opened it up. Sure enough, it was the microSDXC I ordered! Sweet!
Went back to bed. 12pm came and I had to use the restroom. Grabbed my phone, my switch and the SD card packet. Searched for how to install it, and did so. Restarted the Switch and then asked Ruffy about how to move games off of the internal storage and onto the SD card. He said I would have to reinstall them.
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So with the card installed, I was upset I still wasn’t getting the game from Gamefly.
Around 1pm, mother knocked on my door.. and I got the game! YES! Same envelope as the ones I got for the PS4, but there was the tiny game card. Popped it into the Switch and then got an update for it.
Ruffy then wanted me to show him my first time playing. Despite trying to find good enough spot to prop my phone up, it worked alright. The game’s been working great. Simply amazing how something so little, contains this much game.
So Super Mario Odyssey is what you would expect for a 5-year-old game (that most people have played by now). Bowser kicks Mario’s ass with a hat (and is presumed dead). Bowser sees this as a victory and spends the rest of the game in an attempt to marry Princess Peach against her will.
Soon you get to play the game, learn the basic movement controls (such as pressing B
and “oh hi I’m still alive after falling from a very high point up”.
Turns out these hat ghosts are being harassed by Bowser too. And since Mario is on the same quest to defeat him, a ghost that has what’s left of Mario’s hat becomes his hat (and you get Cappy as your companion). Cappy tells you of the Odyssey, one of their airships that are fast enough to reach Bowser’s airship.
The levels (13 of them) are 3D based, though there are ‘retro sections’ back to the original Super Mario Bros.
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If it gets too hard, you can enable ‘Assist Mode’ which sets your tries to 6, and will reset you back to the last stepped on solid platform. It’s very helpful for people like myself.