Super Mario Odyssey Reviews

Super Mario Odyssey is ranked in the 100th percentile of games scored on OpenCritic.
Will Greenwald
Top Critic
Oct 26, 2017

Super Mario Odyssey isn't just the best Nintendo Switch game yet, it's the best Mario game since Super Mario Galaxy.

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95 / 100
Oct 26, 2017

Super Mario Odyssey is a masterful jump & run full of surprises, charm and ideas and a compulsory purchase for every switch owner.

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10 / 10.0
Oct 26, 2017

Super Mario Odyssey is the best game available on Nintendo Switch, and just might be my favorite game of the year. It isn't just a masterclass of level and sound design, it's a celebration of the Super Mario franchise, and one of helluva celebration to take part in.

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Fandom
Top Critic
5 / 5.0
Oct 26, 2017

If you’re tired of empty-feeling open worlds and soulless grinds, do yourself a favor and pick up one of the most inventive and enjoyable video games in recent memory.

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100 / 100
Nov 6, 2017

Super Mario Odyssey is a treat that needs to be experienced by everyone who has a Switch. The attention to detail mixed with a host of expansive content and enjoyable gameplay will have you coming back for more.

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10 / 10.0
Nov 1, 2017

Super Mario Odyssey will easily rank as one of the best Mario games ever made. It's pure fun, plain and simple.

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9.7 / 10.0
Nov 3, 2017

The key to games is what they do in response to our actions. We put ourselves into these things through button presses and the decisions that we make, and how we feel about them is dictated by what we receive in return. Ideally, that receipt will be something we can classify as fun, no matter how vague that term is. Like so many Nintendo games, fun is definitely the primary product of Super Mario Odyssey, and the sole reason it exists. Cool: The Mario game is good.

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Nov 2, 2017

Super Mario Odyssey had a lot of potential, and it lived up to it in just about every way imaginable. Go get this game, it's one of the best ones out there.

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Unscored
Nov 1, 2017

Taking something so familiar and comforting and enhancing it in such a creative and fun way makes this not only the best Mario game I’ve ever experienced, but one of the best games I’ve ever had the pleasure of playing, period.

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Digital Chumps
Top Critic
10 / 10.0
Sep 19, 2017

Super Mario Odyssey is essential gaming. It's a sanguine throwback, a jewel of gaming fundamentals distilled to its core, constructed with the building materials of fun and surprise. Predictability and reason have no place on this journey—but the kid in all of us will surely take the helm, a smile on his face.

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GamingBolt
Top Critic
10 / 10.0
Oct 29, 2017

Super Mario Odyssey is a culmination of thirty years of Mario, and a celebration of video games.

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9.5 / 10.0
Oct 25, 2017

Nintendo has once again redefined the platformer genre. Well known solutions have been perfected and the entire game is well designed and has a soul. Super Mario Odyssey is a game aware of its heritage and at the same time it proves that a good idea never gets old. A true masterpiece!

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Ben Salter
Top Critic
9.5 / 10.0
Oct 27, 2017

With Super Mario Odyssey Nintendo proves the 3D sandbox platformer is not only alive and well, but that it can continue to be evolved and surprise us, consume us and astonish us in clever and elegant ways.

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9.5 / 10.0
Oct 26, 2017

How Nintendo somehow keeps their lil' platforming plumbing mascot relevant and exciting decades later is a mystery, but there's no denying the company has delivered another Mario masterpiece for The Switch.

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10 / 10
Oct 26, 2017

I don't know how Nintendo continues to do it, but they've managed to reinvent another classic franchise and push it further than imaginable. Super Mario Odyssey is the game that we've been waiting to play for more than 20 years. It feels like it borrows key elements from almost every Mario game that has come before it to create what is possibly not only the greatest Mario game, but one of the best 3D platformers of all time.

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9.7 / 10.0
Oct 27, 2017

Super Mario is back! Jump into a fun adventure that combines best parts of previous Mario games and adds a few excellent mechanics that further elevate what was already a juggernaut of platforming experience. Odyssey puts Super into Super Mario.

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games(TM)
games™ Team
Top Critic
10 / 10
Jun 1, 2018

Another Mario marvel

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Evan Norris
Top Critic
Unscored
Nov 15, 2017

Odyssey is one of Nintendo's most inventive, joyful, and audacious adventures, and one of the marquee games of 2017.

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10 / 10.0
Nov 10, 2017

Updated for a new generation, yet full of old school charm and nostalgia for long time Mario fans. Super Mario Odyssey is simply one of the most joyous games of all time.

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10 / 10.0
Oct 26, 2017

Mario is back in his first full 3D adventure in fifteen years, and Super Mario Odyssey is unequivocal proof that the (former) plumber still has more than a few tricks under his hat

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