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Tag a fire hydrant, for example, and it might dispense gold coins, while hitting an electrical cable will transform Mario into electricity, so that he can travel through the cabling to access otherwise unreachable areas. Interacting with everything is essentialĬhucking Cappy at anything from obvious targets to mundane objects yields surprises of all sorts. But note that these currencies are unique per world, so you won’t be able to spend them elsewhere.

Not to be confused with gold coins, each world will have its own currency for purchasing in-game items like new outfits. When your stash depletes, it’s game over. Gold coins now represent your life force, thus each time you’re hit by an enemy or fall too far, you’ll lose some gold coins. Players are encouraged to talk to the characters they encounter in each world, too, as these denizens will sometimes provide clues that can help solve puzzles or spawn new side quests.Ĭollecting 100 gold coins usually gives Mario an extra life, but that’s changed in Odyssey. Players aren’t kicked out of a level after recovering its Power Moons because the moons are a fraction of all the activities - some overt, plenty more cleverly concealed - that Nintendo’s baked in. (I wasn’t able to test this mode personally during my demo, but Nintendo representatives shared those details.) The worlds are brimming with secrets That’s a departure from the way multiplayer mode worked in Super Mario 3D World or New Super Mario Bros., where players would work alongside each other to get through levels. This incentivizes players to cooperate strategically: one player navigates through the course, while the other takes the lead in enemy battles. Play Super Mario Odyssey with another person, and one player controls Mario while the other maneuvers his magical cap.

Multiplayer will be a Mario-Cappy team-building exercise Players won’t get booted from a world after meeting its prime objective, which in Odyssey involves collecting tokens called Power Moons that fuel Mario’s airship. Not so with Odyssey: the worlds you encounter beckons without timetables, waiting to be explored. The classic goal in a Mario game is to race to the end of a course before the timer runs out. Exploration is at the heart of Super Mario Odyssey