A new entry in the Super Mario series is upon is! We are just days away now from the glorious Super Mario Odyssey! Run, jump, and explore your way through plenty of 'Kingdoms' setup similarly to the great Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine! This is the Mario game everyone has been waiting for!
Check out Nintendo's now-famous Super Mario Odyssey 1:30~ long commercial!
And check out some of the glorious screens as well! Soon you'll be able to use the special mode found inside the game to pause the action at anytime for a photo, but you can also change the angle in anyway way also. Quite a neat feature.
Only did the balloon game tutorial just now, but it seems like a fun little mode to add some extra spice to your playing sessions! I went and hid my balloon in a pretty crappy place in Bowser's Castle and tried - but failed - to find someone else's balloon in the same level. This will surely encourage players to master the platforming skills in order to hide balloons in hard to reach places. Good stuff!
@DrFinkelstein Good question. There doesn't seem to be tab for friends' balloons in the list, only random ones. You can, however, press the + button on the balloon game menu and enter a nine character code for someone else's balloon.
Here's a code of mine from Cascade Kingdom, in case anyone wants to try it out.
008 GHN HTP
EDIT: Just noticed a friend of mine logged on. I played around in Lake Kingdom for a bit (turns out I suck at finding stuff there) and went back to Metro Kingdom. His hidden star is now my first suggestion in the list of stars to hunt for, so maybe friends' stars get some special treatment? Or maybe it's just coincidence?
EDIT 2: Okay, guess I'm back to shooting demons in Doom. I'm starting to come across hidden balloons that are wedged inbetween buildings and stuff, and don't seem to be possible to reach without going out of bounds. Fuck that shit.
@carlosrox Oh, mine's nothing special or anything; I just hid a balloon so I could get a code to share. But hey, thanks!
You don't have to share codes, I don't think, but if you want to make sure that one of your friends can attempt to find a particular balloon that you've hidden you probably have to.
@r_hjort I think I ran into that issue myself with one I couldn't find.
I'm not sure if there's anything Nintendo could do about it. I dunno if there's a way for a balloon to "detect" that it's out of bounds, and fixing all of the collision glitches in the game would be quite the undertaking.
@Mop it up Yeah, there's no real way for them to fix every single instance, but they should at least be able to define the general play area so that they can't cram balloons inside walls that serve as the level's outer limit and such. Doubt they can do much about balloons shoved inbetween geometry and stuff, though. Well, they technically can redo the collision detection for stuff to keep people from glitching through I suppose, but patching up all the exploits in a game like this isn't really viable.
It's a pity, because it's a fun mode that suits the game so well.
Tried it out for a little bit yesterday! Man, I think I'd be all over this if it had come out when I was still playing the game, but I don't have much desire to stick with it right now. Awesome idea for a mode, though.
@Secret_Tunnel For me it was kind of the opposite; I don't think I would have cared very much when I was playing it the most, 'cause then I had so much other stuff to do, but now this works as an incentive for me to get back into the game and keep my platforming skills polished. Well, it worked like that for a couple of hours, anyway.
Balloon World is a good way to rack up coins quickly, for those of you who still have costumes and moons left to buy.
It's too bad you can't play the game using the photo filters, that'd be pretty trippy.
After searching for balloons in every kingdom, I would say the Metro Kingdom is by far the most problematic with balloons hidden inside solid obstacles. It seems to be the world with the most collision glitches, though I s'pose that makes some sense as it seems to have the most complex geometry. There is also a popular spot in Mushroom Kingdom with balloon inside the solid part of the bridge to the castle, but that's right by the start point so it's easy to notice those balloons are glitched. I also ran into one in Cascade and Cap Kingdoms, but I have yet to come across them in the other worlds yet. They may exist, just haven't found them yet. I've taken note of the arrow direction and distance for the glitch spots, so I can avoid the ones I know about now. Metro Kingdom is the only trouble world since there are so many glitch spots.
What exactly is balloon mode? Someone hides a balloon, and you run all over trying to find it? Is there any hint at all, or is it just... search every inch of this kingdom?!
@Zero You have a meter telling you the distance to the balloon, and an arrow pointing you in its direction. The arrow starts to fade away when you're moving, though, so you have to use it strategically considering you're working under a time limit. You can of course also hide balloons for others to find. You have 30 seconds to run away from the starting point and hide it anywhere, as long as it's a spot that you can stand on.
Hmm, this actually sounds pretty fun. I should check it out. For some reason I had it in my mind that it was just like... run all over the place trying to find something with no hints, which would be annoying.
