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Developer: here's a fun little thing people will be excited to find!
Player: I will never trust anyone again
I love it, when Devs anticipate that players might break their levels and reward them for it.
E.g. when I played Supraland, I had it happen several times, that I managed to get to places that were obviously not intended to be reachable - you know the drill: Low poly terrain, low res textures, holes in the terrain, invisible walls everywhere,... You keep exploring that wasteland, carefully managing to not fall of, go around a corner and... There's a chest there waiting for you.
Or some of the coin stacks in Super Mario Odyssey, that you'll never really see or collect, until you do some crazy trick jumps or so to get on top of $building.
Super Mario Odyssey is such an amazing game. If the sequel is anywhere near as good, I might get a Switch 2 just for that.
IIRC the team behind SMO is the team that made Donkey Kong Bananza. So... Either another team is responsible for a new 3D Mario, or it will take quite a while before we get another 3D Mario. So far, there's no announcement for a new 3D Mario (yet).
But Donkey Kong Bananza looks dope. Also I like that Ceave Gaming video where he overanalyzes the Donkey Kong trailer and goes over all the bits that have been revealed so far https://youtu.be/xc_YjHqqTm0
I thought I recall them talking about working on SMO2 like several years ago (before Switch 2 was announced, obv). I'll see if I can find a link...
But I didn't know that about the DK game, that's good to know.
Edit: ok, found what I was thinking about. Apparently, back in like 2019 or something, Nintendo confirmed on Twitter that they were hiring for a new 2D, and a new 3D Mario game (I imagine the 2D game was Super Mario Wonder).
So they never confirmed or denied that the 3D Mario game was SMO2, but it seemed likely at the time.
Maybe they ended up changing course and doing DK instead?