Nah, mines fine. Think an amalgamation of higher levels of borked than it should have been but also internet allowing disappointed men to shout loudly about their broken tech.

I sit around 3 to 4 m from mine and it’s fine.

But yeah, there was a problem with some of them so if it’s no upheaval then get it fixed for free whilst you can.

It definitely sufferes from interference, I noticed it in the right joy con when I had the dock behind the TV. Now it's in a better position but still occasionally get it not responding.

My new switch and this arrived today, I started it a few hours ago after setting up, and I just can’t stop thinking about moons. I played a bit of 3D world on the Wii u, but started to feel maybe I was getting over 3D platformers (never my favourite genre).

But nope, just needed one as good as this.

It's a terrible hardware design (driven by savings) that recalls Miyamoto's Wiimote failure.

Why are you emailing customer services? Book a repair on https://www.nintendoservicecentre.co.uk/

So I just finished Super Mario Odyssey.

What a wonderful game.

I'm still actually a bit giddy by it all - that finale! 

Better than Galaxy? I'm not sure. 

It's perhaps not as immediate as Galaxy, and it took me maybe the first 5 or 6 worlds to completely fall for it. I guess the central hook of the hat doesn't quite tickle the imagination in the way the gravity-bending plantoids of Galaxy did, but the countless ingenious uses chipped away at me over time and it ended up just as special. Plus the ending's better. 

I guess my main beef would be that some of the art direction/design choices felt a bit off to me, especially in the first half. There's gorgeous stuff in there for sure, but not everything's lives up to the the impeccable standards set by Galaxy and 3D World and some of it felt a bit alien to Mario overall (still not completely happy about the "real" people of New Donk City and even less so with their weird hybrid Mayor). 

By the end none of that mattered. There's stuff in here that's absolutely pinnacle Mario and I loved it.  

That I've still got so much left to do makes me very happy indeed. Think I've got a pretty good record for total completions in mainline Marios and if ever there was a mario that deserved to be 100%'d it's this one. If it can keep up the quality over the God-knows how many remaining moons, then it might be a Galaxy-beater after all. 


An easy 10. 

A genuine classic. 

A masterpiece.

I will go back to this and get some more moons, but am focusing on other games at the moment. I really enjoyed getting to Bowser and seeing credits, I think I had around 220 moons or so when I finished. Knowing how many more moons there are though is quite daunting, I think the only criticism I have of the game is there are actually too many of them. There are quite a lot that are given just for frivolous stuff, like ground pounding a specific point or similar and I think these could be removed and it wouldn't affect the game at all.

I have no desire to go back to this. Fucking adored my playthrough and it is a [10] but it isn't the second coming I initially stated.

It does to me, that's the major spark, something I'd get joy out of repeat playing. I got joy out of that playthrough though, but I'd happily lend it on now.

Dark Soldier wrote:

it isn't the second coming I initially stated.

None of us are getting any younger.

That vid though I got onto the bit about wall jumping being bad cos its not as wide as 64 and nah man. He's thorough tbf

I didn't click on it because it's called 'Super Mario Odyssey - it's no Masterpiece', so how interesting could it possibly be?

He puts out good content. A lot of effort went into that.

Christ, I had to turn off after five minutes as he spent too much time explaining what he wasn't saying about Dark Souls and Nioh and nothing about how Mario Odyssey disappointed him. I didn't need the "My life in games" opening either. Five minutes of my life wasted, I'm hardly going to waste another 115 on it.