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Super Mario Odyssey features floating bodies of water in some locations (shown here in Bowser’s Kingdom). Mario is able to swim up to the edge of the water so that his face is sticking out into the air outside. Normally, whenever Mario’s head touches the water surface, he is able to breathe; due to an oversight, this does not apply to sideways surfaces. Despite Mario’s mouth and nose being out of the water, he continues holding his breath and will eventually drown.
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Concept art for unused outfit designs for Super Mario Odyssey, seen in the 2018 Nintendo employee handbook. While some of these, like the knight, caveman, clown etc. were used in the finished game after being redesigned, some others, like the Yoshi and Donkey Kong costumes, were left out completely. Interestingly, these drawings do not appear in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book despite it featuring hundreds of other outfit sketches, being exclusive to the employee handbook.
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All animated segments of Scientist Mario from the Japanese commercial for the Super Game Boy, which served as the source for the scientist outfit in Super Mario Odyssey (bottom).
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Super Mario Odyssey uses these ten gradient textures to color the entirety of the Luncheon Kingdom, including the piles of vegetables.
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Concept art of the Cascade Kingdom, seen in the Art of Super Mario Odyssey book. Note that at this stage of the design, the kingdom did not have any particular focus on waterfalls (with some seen only as a background element) and was instead a more traditional prehistoric kingdom.
Short looping footage of Mario’s animations in Super Mario Odyssey, as well as a view of the model’s wireframe during this, shared by Nintendo of America on their official site in 2018.
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Storyboard animation for the beginning of the E3 2017 trailer for Super Mario Odyssey, alongside the actual trailer for comparison.
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In Super Mario Odyssey, the Uproots are able to defeat each other by jumping, as shown in the footage. This is the only instance of enemies being able to defeat other enemies by jumping, as usually this ability is exclusive to Mario.
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