By December 2020, the game had sold over 20 million copies and became one of Switch’s best-selling games. It has also won numerous awards, including the Game of the Year, and has since been considered one of the best games ever. Super Mario Odyssey has been hailed as one of the best games in the series, especially for its ingenuity and originality. The game also includes the first Jump Super Stars vocal theme song in the series.
The team designed Super Mario Odyssey to appeal to the mainstream fans of the series in the Super Mario 3D World for the general public. Different from previous releases such as New Super Mario Bros. Various ideas were proposed during the development process, and the team decided to use the sandbox style to put them all together. The game was developed by Nintendo’s Entertainment Planning and Development Department and began shortly after Super Mario 3D World was released in 2013. Unlike the linear gameplay of previous games, the game reverts to the predominantly open 3D gameplay introduced in Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. Followed by Mario and Cappy, a perceptual hat recorded in the Super Mario series that allows Mario to control other characters and objects as he travels through different kingdoms and rescues Princess Peach from the enemy Bowser. Super Mario Odyssey is a 2017 platformer developed and released by Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch.
