This is also one of my favorite trailers for a Nintendo game because of the sheer insanity from the first time reaction myself and many others had to seeing it. It was both a celebration of Mario as well as taking a 30 year old franchise in a fresh direction. Mario goes to New York? He possesses a T-Rex? It is such an eclectic mix of game design and artistic ideas that made peeling away at the game's challenges and worlds so rewarding. It reset the expectations on what a Mario game is by returning to the sandbox style of 64 and Sunshine after 15 years, and a lot of the ideas were off the wall crazy with the themes of a journey around the world and Mario having a hat that could take control of anything. I look back fondly on Odyssey because even though it isn't my #1 Mario game, I think it was a crazy shakeup that the franchise really needed at the time. But getting a new Nintendo console and having both a new Zelda and Mario on it within 6 months was just an incredible moment that couldn't be passed up on. To me, this was the game that made the Switch a must buy in its first year with BotW being multiplatform. Super Mario Odyssey has turned 5 years old, as it originally launched on October 27th, 2017.
