aaaaa. Mario odyssey has such a good structure of an open sandbox game that is ruiend by one thing, welll, a bunch of them. First, The fact that you can't get a chunk of the moons unless you finish the story of it's respective world or the story as a hole. So everytime I replay this game it's better to just do the general missions and guess what. Mario odyssey as a platforming gauntlet is actually really easy and boring.

I hate that. Buuuuuut once you DO finish the main story it's incredible. The fact that I can go from moon to moon and almost complete a kingdom in a play session is satisfying. The music is mostly good but the fact that I can play some of my favorites on the go is a blessing. And people don't praize the amount of costumes this game has!

And the movement is good, not as good as sunshine but better than galaxy. Though the captures kinda ruin the entire movement since they are worse than regular capy bouncing. I don't find them really appealing.

However that flaw is a major one and I can't look past it. And another thing that prevents me from upping the score are the kingdoms themselves. Besides lost and maybe luncheon, I don't really like any of them. Since they feel like you are going to moon A to moon B all the time with layouts that don't feel confortable for a sandbox game. Examples:
- Forest kingdom is vertical and it does not do a good job at it + deep woods
- Metro kingdom makes me feel lost and I go to the same subareas more than I should + a regular city is a bit boring for a mario game.
-Then you have weird structures like snow and cap kingdom that just feel weird.

I like this game, but for a Mario game I expect much more. Low 7/10