A recent revelation unleashed for the next entry into Mario’s adventure, Super Mario Odyssey, has prompted negative reactions from critics as it has been revealed that no matter how many times players die, they will never get a game over – once again reinforcing Nintendo’s known tendency of catering toward the ever incapable casual crowd and young children.
This revelation however had been predicted by many as a myriad of Nintendo games (or at least their main IPs) in the past few years have been made significantly easy (or allowing them to simply skip entire levels) in order to appease impatient millennials; the Super Mario Odyssey Twitter account showed off this new “mechanic” (or lack thereof):
Upon death, players will merely lose 10 coins (and possibly be brought back to a spawn point of some sort) much like Sonic the Hedgehog, though naturally many are hoping that Nintendo are not looking toward the franchise for inspiration – Super Mario Odyssey will launch for the Nintendo Switch on October 27th.
Mario Odyssey 2. Future content: If you are stuck on same level for 20 minutes main boss will defeat himself and you will get Congratulations for winning the game.
Wahhh I can’t win da game its too hard wahhhhh
>No game overs, no fail states
Yay now I don’t even got to try, I can just spend enough time and eventually win anyway just because!
Casuals in a nutshell.
And this is why casuals will never be acknowledged as actual gamers..take any casual, throw them into a real game and watch the ragequit and tantrums ensue as they fail and can’t handle it.
Newsflash–you can fail in real life too. This new generation can’t handle that? Kill yourself then. If you can’t handle failure, you don’t deserve to succeed either. That’s what life is all about–failures and successes. Success without failures is MEANINGLESS.
Oh, come on. “You don’t have a Game Over Screen” isn’t the same as “you can’t die”. It’s a game about exploration and experimentation as far as I can see, and people who has actually played it says you’ll die from time to time. “Game over” screens are just a formalism, you’ll lose some coins for sure, but you’ll go back to action in no time. With a Game Over screen you’ll do the same in more time.
i kinda like wario better , the story line for mario is always the same crap .
Wario is about the money. Mario is about the pussy.
Get six coins to enter your castle to kick your old childhood friend out?