With mario odyssey on the horizon, was mario galaxy a good

Very good game

>>381267404
then why does nintendo hate it? they keep driving home how odyssey is NOT for casuals unlike galaxy

>>381267552
>they keep driving home how odyssey is NOT for casuals unlike galaxy
Where do they do this? I haven't seen it.

>>381268029
I think it was in the VERY first reveal of odyssey, the same place where ARMS and splatoon 2 were shown. They had like a screen with a bunch of the newer mario games and they said that odyssey is going to have a focus on exploration rather than linear gameplay

>>381267331
Hands-down best game of the 7th generation.

>>381267552
Odyssey is mainly meant to appeal to the Sunshine crowd, as the collectathon genre has become more popular in the past couple of years (see Yooka-Laylee, Hat in Time demo, Super Lucky's Tale, etc.) Galaxy and its sequel have a different structure for level design, but I'd say that the linear platforming in Galaxy was better than Sunshine's levels.

>>381268286
Really though, what is so linear about galaxy? I mean, it has a ton of levels and a lot of them have a lot in the way of exploration

>>381268221
>They had like a screen with a bunch of the newer mario games and they said that odyssey is going to have a focus on exploration rather than linear gameplay
Sandbox games are more casual than linear, course based games, so your logic makes no sense. This is to appease the 64/Sunshine whiners.`

>>381269112
>my logic
can you read?

>>381268964
There is a fair degree of exploration in Galaxy, but the main goal in every Galaxy stage is to find the Launch Star to get to the next planet. In Galaxy, the levels are always designed in a way to lead the player to the next Launch Star in a specific path. In contrast, 64 and Sunshine drop the player at a specific starting point, and force the player to find a star for themselves. As a result, the challenge isn't in the platforming itself, but navigating youself to the right goal.