Super Mario Odyssey

Kenta Motokura, Yoshiaki Koizumi, and Nintendo EPD's boundless, jubilant, and mechanically euphoric 3D sandbox platforming masterpiece exclusively for the Nintendo Switch (Super Mario Odyssey), released in October 2017 by Nintendo, earning perfect 10/10 scores from IGN, GameSpot, and Edge, with a 39/40 from Famitsu and 97/100 on Metacritic and selling over 28 million copies worldwide, standing as the glorious return to the sprawling open sandbox 3D platforming design of *Super Mario 64* and *Sunshine*, teaming Mario with a magical sentient ghost hat named Cappy from the Cap Kingdom aboard their globe-trotting hat-shaped airship The Odyssey, traveling across 17 distinct fantasy kingdoms to stop Bowser from forcing Princess Peach into a wedding on the Moon, single-handedly pioneering the revolutionary "Cappy Hat-Throw Capture & 2D-to-3D Mural Platforming" engine (tossing Cappy to possess and control over 50 distinct objects and enemies: T-Rex dinosaurs, Goombas, Bullet Bills, Chain Chomps, electricity wires, and taxi cabs, using Cappy as a mid-air dive-jump platform to string together infinite acrobatic movement combos), the iconic swing-jazz vocal anthem *"Jump Up, Super Star!"* sung by Mayor Pauline in New Donk City, collecting 880 Power Moons, and Naoto Kubo and Koji Kondo's joyous, genre-spanning big-band jazz, rock, and orchestral soundtrack.