I! NS game designer

Chapter 90 Mario Review

in a few days. Station b, a new game review video about Ren Xiaotang, quietly appeared on the popular homepage.

"Hello everyone, I am a reviewer with in-depth reviews and endless entertainment. Welcome to this review!"

Why don't you wait until the video is finished playing, and the players below the comments will leave a message below:

"What good reviews are there for Odyssey... I bought NS only after seeing the advertisement for Odyssey..."

"If you give Mario Odyssey to people around you, and after playing it, if the other person makes some unobjective comments such as "It's too childish and boring", I personally feel that he has no gaming soul anymore, or he is simply distracted by the fast-paced life. I have lost my exploration, innovation and even patience, so I don’t have to worry about sharing the joy of console games with him..."

"The most shocking thing about this game is its god-level optimization. Everyone knows that the performance of NS is poor, but after entering it, it is really powerful to run at 720 frames at 60p resolution. In addition, the game scenery is really beautiful. , the most shocking thing is undoubtedly the final scene where Uncle Ma possesses Kuba and escapes, with the theme song, it seems to tell us that the plot is over, but the exploration is far from over, this is a perfect masterpiece."

"Does this need a review? My mother can pass this game!"

"To put it bluntly, I think Odyssey is better than Zelda. To be honest, Zelda still feels a bit unfinished and half-finished. Odyssey is the most complete and ambitious Hakotida game of this generation."

"My wife has a negative IQ and can't tell the difference between monsters and players in Honor of Kings. She can play Mario and laugh like a child. This is the magic of Odyssey."

Yes, everyone in the comment section seems to be talking about this game. Does this game need a review?

Whether starting with Breath of the Wild or moving on to Mario, these two games seem to have become must-have items for players to buy the Switch.

It seems that without these two works, Switch is not a complete game console.

Gamespot and IGN both scored perfect scores, Famitsu scored 39 points, and MC scored 97 points. It is almost a game that cannot be faulted.

Domestic and foreign media are full of praise. Users love it deeply. Even players who play it for the first time will feel infinite happiness.

There will definitely be people who have never played it who will ask: Why is Odyssey so magical?

There are many reasons, but they are also very simple.

This game builds a fantasy semi-open world. The screen continues Mario’s consistent bright colors and cartoon-like character models. Of course, the improvement in precision and modeling level is visible to the naked eye. Taking into account the frame rate requirements and ns performance, this Compared with the horizontal aspect of the modern picture, it can’t be called stunning, but it is satisfactory enough.
Rely on developers' creativity and continuous updates to provide players with freshness;
Relying on the fancy gameplay brought by the players' inexhaustible imagination to give the game a new soul
Odyssey has both: while providing a variety of possessions with different functions, it does not interfere with the player's creativity as much as possible. This is the core charm of Odyssey.

Ren Xiaotang seems to use his unparalleled imagination and amazing game design to tell the world: "This is how games should be played!"

Pulling out the cork on the ground will pop up gold coins, and the continent in the mist can "pass through the past", which makes the player have to sigh: "So, it can still be like this!"

Neither an open world nor a linear game, "Super Mario: Odyssey" calls this combination of open and closed modes a "box game."

"Do you remember what attracted you to sit in front of the TV in the first place?"

Ren Xiaotang once again proved to the world: fun games do not necessarily rely on plot, graphics, characters, endless grinding, intrigues between players, or even who can earn more krypton gold.
“Just having fun is enough”

Nintendo has never been the master of the game world, players are. But as time goes by, we gradually forget and forget the most primitive happiness that games bring us.

But Mario always remembered, and he always believed: that child never left.

Nintendo's games have such magic power. Whether you are a teenage naughty boy or an adult who has already started a family and started a business, you can find your own happiness in them.
Happiness is the reason why we fell in love with games in the first place
Ren Xiaotang Company, Mario Studio.

"The bet has been placed, the bet has been placed! Can anyone guess the sales volume of Mario?" At this time, Xingtong looked at everyone in the studio and said jokingly.

Several people looked at each other.They all shook their heads.

Can not guess.

If Breath of the Wild was released last time because the game had just been released and the company had just replaced the machine, everyone didn't dare to guess, or they were afraid that sales would not meet their expectations.

But Mario is different because Zelda has already made a name for herself.They really couldn't guess it.

Just based on the number of anchors at Station B, there is no doubt that this game has exploded in popularity.

Because Ren Xiaotang’s official website has opened sales channels in Asia, it does not restrict other regions, which means that manufacturers in other regions can also obtain goods through purchasing agents and other channels.

(It’s similar to NS, where domestic players don’t buy Air China and buy foreign versions.)
It can be said that everyone is almost a novice, how could they know the sales volume this time?

"How about we reveal it? After all, everyone has no idea."

Wei Junjie looked at Xingtong and said.

Immediately afterwards, Xingtong opened the developer desk. After counting the game data in the past few days, with a short delay, the sales volume has come out.

30 copies…

Even more popular than Breath of the Wild!

There was silence in the conference room.

There was a look of horror in everyone's eyes.

You know, Mario Odyssey is exclusive to the Switch console, which means it is not logged on to the PC. From this point of view, the number of people buying Switch game consoles in China is still slowly increasing.

But this does not include offline game cassettes, and second-hand cassettes on Xianyu, Dangdang is a digital version of the game.

At this time, Chen Guoxing ran in with the Mario Odyssey cassette report. Everyone gathered around Chen Guoxing and picked up the cassette sales number to see.

Wang Hao swallowed slowly and with difficulty, trying to calm down the game.

"The number of copies of "Mario Odyssey" sold by merchants around the world is 100 million."

"How much more!"

Guo Shicheng asked with a look of disbelief!

"One million copies! And according to the IP ordering address, vendors in Europe and the United States account for an absolute percentage!"

Wang Hao said with a look of disbelief.

Mario's sales in Europe and the United States are more popular than in Asia.

(End of this chapter)