Super Mario Odyssey

Overview

Super Mario Odyssey is a 3D platformer developed by Nintendo EPD and published exclusively for Nintendo Switch worldwide on October 27th, 2017. After losing both Princess Peach and his trademark red cap during an attack by the evil Bowser, Mario teams up with a top hat-shaped creature named Cappy to pursue the wedding-planning villain across the globe and far beyond the boundaries of the Mushroom Kingdom.

1-UP Studio provided additional development support for the game.

Announcement

During the unveiling hardware concept trailer for the Nintendo Switch on October 20th, 2016, a very brief piece of footage was shown for a new Super Mario game. Later during Switch's reveal event on January 12th, 2017 the game was unveiled in full as Super Mario Odyssey, developed by Nintendo EPD Tokyo, and marketed as a direct successor to the Super Mario 64 lineage of big open space exploration platforming Mario games, opposed to the more tightly focused and smaller level-based titles of recent years in the Galaxy and Super Mario 3D World style of Mario games.

Captures

Capture	Ability	Picture
Frog	Allows Mario to jump higher
Spark Pylon	Allows Mario to travel along power lines
Paragoomba	Allows Mario to fly
Chain Chomp	Allows Mario to smash through breakable objects
Big Chain Chomp	Allows Mario to smash through objects that are too far away for standard chain chomps to reach
Broode's Chain Chomp	Allows Mario to turn Madam Broode's pet chain chomp against her
T-Rex	Allows Mario to destroy rocks and enemies
Binoculars	Allow Mario to examine the given area
Bullet Bill	Allows Mario to fly and destroy objects on impact
Moe-Eye	Allows Mario to see hidden objects and platforms
Cactus	Allows Mario to move cacti
Goomba	Allows Mario to stack Goombas to reach new areas
Knucklotec's Fist	Allows Mario to fight back against Knucklotec
Mini Rocket	Allows Mario to access challenge areas
Glydon	Allows Mario glide across kingdoms
Lakitu	Allows Mario to fish
Zipper	Allows Mario to reveal hidden areas
Cheep Cheep	Allows Mario to swim faster and without needing to come up for air
Puzzle Part (Lake Kingdom)	Allows Mario to solve a puzzle in the Lake Kingdom
Poison Piranha Plant	Allows Mario to spit balls of poison goo
Uproot	Allows Mario to stretch upwards to reach high places
Fire Bro	Allows Mario to throw fireballs
Sherm	Allows Mario to shoot cannonballs
Coin Coffer	Allows Mario to fire coins
Tree	Allows Mario to move trees
Boulder	Allows Mario to move boulders
Picture Match Part (Goomba)	Allows Mario to play the picture match mini-game
Tropical Wiggler	Allows Mario to stretch out to reach new areas
Pole	Allows Mario to fling himself long distances
Manhole	Allows Mario to move manhole covers
Taxi	Allows Mario to reach a secret area in the Metro Kingdom
RC Car	Allows Mario to take control of people driving RC cars
Ty-foo	Allows Mario to blow away enemies and objects
Shiverian Racer	Allows Mario to bounce and gain speed as he does so
Cheep Cheep (Snow Kingdom)	Allows Mario to swim through cold waters
Gushen	Allows Mario spray jets of water that propel him around
Lava Bubble	Allows Mario to swim through lava
Volbonan	Allows Mario to fling himself long distances
Hammer Bro	Allows Mario to throw hammers or frying pans
Meat	Makes Mario look more appetizing to Cookatiel
Fire Piranha Plant	Allows Mario to shoot fireballs and light torches
Pokio	Allows Mario to poke into non-metal walls and fling himself to new areas
Jizo	Allows Mario move Jizo statues and break objects
Bowser Statue	Allows Mario to move the statue
Parabones	Allows Mario to fly
Banzai Bill	Allows Mario to fly and break objects while invincible
Chargin' Chuck	Allows Mario to break through objects
Bowser	Allows Mario to break through stone blocks
Puzzle Part (Metro Kingdom)	Allows Mario to solve a puzzle in the Metro Kingdom
Picture Match Part (Mario)	Allows Mario to play the picture match mini-game
Yoshi	Allows Mario to flutter jump and eat objects

Kingdoms

Kingdom/Location	Overview	Collectibles	Picture
Cap Kingdom Bonneton	A land of haberdashed dreams	31 Moons (Yellow) 50 Coins (Hat-shaped)
Cascade Kingdom Fossil Falls	The last holdout of history	40 Moons (Yellow) 50 Coins (Stone Disks)
Sand Kingdom Tostarena	Gateway to the stark beauty of the desert	89 Moons (Green) 100 Coins (Pyramid-shaped)
Wooded Kingdom Steam Gardens	The world's most advanced greenhouse	76 Moons (Dark Blue) 100 Coins (Nut-shaped)
Lake Kingdom Lake Lamode	The town both in and on a lake	42 Moons (Pink) 50 Coins (Scale-shaped)
Cloud Kingdom Nimbus Arena	The archeological dig site in the clouds	9 Moons (Yellow) N/A
Lost Kingdom Forgotten Isle	Lively paradise surrounded by a sea of death	35 Moons (Yellow) 50 Coins (Leaf-shaped)
Metro Kingdom New Donk City	The city that never leaps	81 Moons (Brown) 100 Coins (Portrait-stamped)
Snow Kingdom Shiveria	The warmest community in the coldest land	55 Moons (Orange) 50 Coins (Snowflake-shaped)
Seaside Kingdom Bubblain	The relaxing resort by the carbonated sea	71 Moons (Purple) 100 Coins (Shell-shaped)
Luncheon Kingdom Mount Volbono	The bubbling burg that heats the meats	68 Moons (Light Blue) 100 Coins (Tomato-shaped)
Ruined Kingdom Crumbleden	A grim reminder of past conflicts	10 Moons (Yellow) N/A
Bowser's Kingdom Bowser's Castle	The castle that walled off the sky	62 Moons (Red) 100 Coins (Oblong)
Moon Kingdom Honeylune Ridge	The new frontier of lunar life	38 Moons (White) 50 Coins (Star Bit-shaped)
Mushroom Kingdom Peach's Castle	The elegant heart of the kingdom	104 Moons (Star) 100 Coins (64-esque)
Dark Side Rabbit Ridge	The last word in dedicated wedding planning	24 Moons (Yellow) N/A
Darker Side Culmina Crater	Every travelers final stop	1 Moons (Yellow) N/A

Power Moons

Super Mario Odyssey’s main collectibles come in the form of Power Moons. Mario and Cappy need to collect these moons to power the Odyssey so they can continue their pursuit. There are more than 900 known moons scattered throughout the game’s seventeen stages. Some of these moons can only be collected after completing the stage’s main objectives or the main story.

Nintendo Labo VR-Kit Support

On April 25 2019, Nintendo released a free update for the game adding support for the Nintendo Labo VR-Kit, adding three new mini-missions in the Cap, Seaside, and Luncheon Kingdoms designed to be played in VR.