“But Daddy you said you loved me so much. “I’ll come back later, I need to make lunch.” Five straight plays and 1100 coins later, I tossed the controller onto the couch. In isolation, endlessly replayed like some fucked up digital Groundhog Day, it’s less joyful. Super quickly.Īs part of the New Donk City questline, the Donkey Kong mission is a spectacular end to one of my favourite sections of Super Mario Odyssey. “I’ll just play this over and over till my son gets bored,” I thought. It also plays host to a buttload of coins. The Donkey Kong mission is perhaps the largest of these levels. You go down a 2D Pipe into what my son terrifyingly calls ‘Minecraft Mario’ - supremely inventive 2D levels that live inside the 3D world like well-designed Picasso paintings. It’s arguably the highlight of Super Mario Odyssey. The literal maximum amount of coins one can collect and hold in Super Mario Odyssey. Nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine coins. Guess how much that thing costs in Mario Money: Quite the collection, but one crucial item missing. Many a time he’s gleefully scrolled though his Mario wardrobe (“I’ve got this one and this one and this one and this one)”. It’s been a fruitful search for the fruit of my loins and he’s done pretty well for himself. Now that he’s ‘finished’ Super Mario Odyssey and officially defeated Bowser, he’s set his sights on acquiring every single outfit in the game at any cost. Because video game costumes are not my thing.

I was also comfortable in not needing to buy any more outfits in Super Mario Odyssey. Of course I bought the shorts because Mario nipples, and I was comfortable with that choice. “I might actually need these coins,” I thought to myself, “when I literally and actually die.” If you lose a life in Mario you lose coins. It took me a while to collect these coins I thought and, unlike in previous Mario games, coins also sub for ‘lives’. I remember spending quite the period of minutes umming and ahhing over the 1000 coin purchase of Mario swimwear. Most are easily acquired - 100 coins or so, no big deal. Super Mario Odyssey has a shitload of costumes. Super Mario Odyssey is a very good video game and Super Mario Odyssey has costumes. I’ll definitely be keeping a record of that wrong.

It does not dishonour others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs.Įxcept for that one time my 5-year-old son made me farm 9999 coins in Super Mario Odyssey so he could get the stupid Skeleton outfit. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud.

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