bbattbq01 said:

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Judging from how complete the odyssey balloon is getting I think I'm getting close to the end.

How many moons are you guys typically finding before you move on to the next world? I've found myself staying in a world until I'm done with all of the story missions and then I move on. Usually have 2 to 3 times the number of moons that were required for going to the next world.

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I've been shooting for 75% of the moons on each world. Also been trying to get all of the special coins before leaving. So far my favorite level is the sand zone. Just got to New Donk City.

The adventure/exploration aspect of it is exactly what was missing from Galaxy and 3D World, for me.

That, combined with the platforming, makes this a 10/10 for me. It's everything I love about Mario.

Also, some of these boss fights have been insanely fun. I really enjoyed the UFO thing at the end of Wooded Kingdom, and the first Bowser fight.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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Also, some of these boss fights have been insanely fun. I really enjoyed the UFO thing at the end of Wooded Kingdom, and the first Bowser fight.

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Agree! Except the poison guy, I hate the poison guy!!

The festival! (New Donk City)

No spoilers, but, amazing!!!

Now in the snow kingdom after the metro one. I got 51/66 in the metro without any googling, I'm starting to figure out their little tricks.

Pro tip: anytime you go to a bonus area, whether it's a pipe, 2D pipe, giant beanstalk that grows into the clouds, whatever. There's always a second hidden moon. Always.

agfan2013 said:

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Pro tip: anytime you go to a bonus area, whether it's a pipe, 2D pipe, giant beanstalk that grows into the clouds, whatever. There's always a second hidden moon. Always.

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I kinda wish they'd throw an extra one in there every once in a while... makes it too easy to know you're only looking for 2!

rangerdanger said:

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bbattbq01 said:

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Judging from how complete the odyssey balloon is getting I think I'm getting close to the end.

How many moons are you guys typically finding before you move on to the next world? I've found myself staying in a world until I'm done with all of the story missions and then I move on. Usually have 2 to 3 times the number of moons that were required for going to the next world.

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I've been shooting for 75% of the moons on each world. Also been trying to get all of the special coins before leaving. So far my favorite level is the sand zone. Just got to New Donk City.

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Were you able to find all the purple coins? I went back to it last night and spent like 2 hours trying to find the few I had left. I'm missing 4 coins and like 8 moons and I can't find them.

Beat it on Tuesday. Looking forward to hunting all the missing moons now.

Ending sequence was very metroidy

Really excited for this one. Waiting until the major stores have their Black Fridays ads posted before pulling the trigger on a Switch. I doubt there will be any deals, but a $20 gift card or free joy-con or other accessory is worth the extra 2-3 week wait.

I beat the story Wednesday, there's a lot more to do. Tons of moons! More outfits to unlock. I've been going back to the semi kingdoms that were breezed through in the story and collecting all of the moons. Unlike Zelda, I think this will be the game that I beat completely.

Pman17 said:

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I beat the story Wednesday, there's a lot more to do. Tons of moons! More outfits to unlock. I've been going back to the semi kingdoms that were breezed through in the story and collecting all of the moons. Unlike Zelda, I think this will be the game that I beat completely.

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Same here. I'm still missing lots of shrines and seeds in zelda but don't really care too much. I really want to find these moons though!!!

Pman17 said:

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I beat the story Wednesday, there's a lot more to do. Tons of moons! More outfits to unlock. I've been going back to the semi kingdoms that were breezed through in the story and collecting all of the moons. Unlike Zelda, I think this will be the game that I beat completely.

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Same. I'm over 500 moons. The portion you open up at 500 is pretty difficult, it took me about two hours to beat.

I beat the main storyline this weekend, finished it with about 350 or so moons. I was kind of surprised when reading IGN's review on the game where the reviewer said they finished with barely over 100, but I'm guessing they were in a rush to get the review out, otherwise there's no way they passed up that many moons. They must have just done the objectives in each kingdom and moved on.

Anyways, I've been playing the endgame some as well and now have a little over 500 moons. The mushroom Kingdom is definitely a nostalgia blast, I've had a lot of fun running around and collecting the "moons" in that one.

Favorite kingdom is the seaside one. Favorite outfits are the retro costume and the astronaut one.

Finished the story last night with 250 moons.

Holy ****, what an awesome ending. Especially when you capture Bowser and escape. Honestly didn't see that coming.

Mushroom Kingdom is a HUGE nostalgia bomb. I damn near got emotional. SM64 is one of my favorite games of all time, so that was a ton of fun. Hearing the music in Peach's Castle was awesome.

After getting every moon and every purple coin in this game, I can say that this game is my favorite game of all time.

If anyone that has beat the game is looking to sell their copy, I am interested.

At close to 600 moons

This game is spectacular.

615 on the dot for me. I'm not getting all the special coins in each area, just the moons, but usually lack less than 5 coins for any world. I usually end up having to google 5-10 moons per world but I definitely try to find them myself first.

A lot of the extra moon rock moons have the platforming sections in the chimneys that appear which I really like so I think odyssey might pass up 3D world now for me.

I'm at just under 400 moons, and having just as much fun in the "post-game" as I was before beating the main story.

Amazing game.

Minor spoilers?



mario 64 outfit is best outfit.

Followed closely by wedding dress mario.

I was really happy to see that in the game. Not to mention the courtyard straight out of Super Mario 64.

And the music in Peach's castle, Yoshi on the roof, the jingle when you collect a star, all those small details that tie it to 64 and give a huge dose of nostalgia.

Brian Earl Spilner said:

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I was really happy to see that in the game. Not to mention the courtyard straight out of Super Mario 64.

And the music in Peach's castle, Yoshi on the roof, the jingle when you collect a star, all those small details that tie it to 64 and give a huge dose of nostalgia.

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I was so happy when I went in the castle. Especially when I looked up at the ceiling in the middle of it and got a hidden star. It was the first thing I tried when I went in there and just started laughing when it worked.

And not to mention the jumping into paintings to re-fight the bosses again

Same here!

I've been trying my best to not use the internets to find moons, but in wooded kingdom, I had exhausted everything I knew to do to find the last 7 moons or so. Finally broke down and bought hints from toad and I had no idea there was a deep woods and instantly went "holy crap. how many other secret places have I not discovered"

Predmid said:

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And not to mention the jumping into paintings to re-fight the bosses again

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And the sounds for that were AMAZING

LOL one of my boys was playing and was in that section and needed my help getting out. I had no idea where he was. I missed it on my playthrough and haven't been back to that world yet in the postgame!

Been a while since I've played through any video game. I think the last one was GTA 5. Picked up a Switch and SMO last week. Haven't made it very far yet, I've only been playing about an hour per night, but it's been a blast so far. I only got to Wooded Kingdom last night, I realized all I had been doing was screwing around and exploring in Sand Kingdom. I figured I better move on and make my way through the game, then I can go back and explore later, or else I'll never finish it.

I was being stubborn and didn't want to use the motion controls. I finally caved last night, it's so much better playing with the motion controls..

Up to 840 or so.

F some of these moons.

Finished the story today with ~200 moons. Still got a lot of work to do.

This is the most fun I've had with a video game in a long time.

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