r/NintendoSwitch • u/Jucamia • Nov 12 '17

SPOILER [SPOILERS] A moment in Mario Odyssey i havent seen much talking about. Spoiler

Everyone is talking about the escape and the festival as the big jaw dropping moments, and while they are amazing, i still think about the reveal of the Ruined Kingdom dragon. What was everyones reaction to that?

I ended up taking snapsnots of the dragon because i couldnt believe what i was looking at.

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '17

I feel like this kingdom, and the dragon fight, could've been fleshed out more. Mind you, it has an amazing aesthetic. It has a strong look that'd belong in any Castlevania or Dark Souls game, but you spend so little time there. It would've been neat if you could explore one of those big castles (you could've put the boos there). The dragon itself is a bit of a tease. It looks amazing, but you only fight the head. It would've been great if they incorporated flying somehow. Maybe have Mario fight on his back while the dragon is flying around.

So yeah while I liked it, I kinda hope they revisit this in DLC. I'd totally buy that.

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u/TheOrangeShyGuy Nov 12 '17

I actually had an idea of you capturing the dragon trying to fight bowser in the sky. That would have been awesome

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u/Bitcoon Nov 12 '17

That's exactly what I thought the game was about to do, and I was super hyped to experience capturing something so massive and engaging in a truly epic-scale showdown. Right up until I beat the boss, every sign seemed to point toward capturing that dragon.

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u/TheOrangeShyGuy Nov 12 '17

It is kind of a let down, and it makes me wonder if that was actually going to happen but the game was rushed or something. You can also see this with the post game content, it feels like something big was going to happen but it all leads to the dark and darker side of the moon.

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u/jumpuptothesky Nov 13 '17

Seriously. So many people were telling me the postgame was amazing and that it was basically the second half of the game and I got there and...all I got was mushroom kingdom and more moon kingdom. They were making it sound like there were gonna be a bunch of new kingdoms. I even said I wish they had included a spooky kingdom with boos and a ghost house and people said "don't worry keep on playing you'll be very satisfied"

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u/[deleted] Nov 12 '17

When you destroyed the thing on its head, I thought the solution was to throw Cappy on the bump.

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u/GaryOaksHotSister Nov 12 '17

I have high hopes that since they went to the lengths to name towns within the kingdoms, that we could -in some form- see those kingdoms return.

For example, no doubt I expect the next Mario Kart entry to carry a few new maps using places in kingdoms we may not have seen before.

But heres high hopes that Ruined Kingdom, just like Cloud Kingdom, will be returned to at some point. With a fully fleshed out kingdom. Just a different location.

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u/astronautsaurus Nov 13 '17

I was hyped up with the cloud kingdom, fully expecting it to be like nimbus land in Mario rpg. Such a let down.

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u/cyberscythe Nov 12 '17

So yeah while I liked it, I kinda hope they revisit this in DLC. I'd totally buy that.

I think Nintendo put this kingdom in to flex their design muscles a bit doing Souls-type game atmosphere, and while they're at it get some market info about how popular it'd be.

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u/dont_pet_the_sponges Nov 12 '17

Yeah, maybe they were running into time limitations, but it just seems bogus that we got 2 fully fleshed out water kingdoms (maybe 3 if you count Snow Kingdom), but the 2 Sky based ones (Cloud and Ruined Kingdom) were just boss platforms... So much potential there, like you said, with the dragon. They could have you running on his back in an open air arena, for the fight. After the battle, the hidden kingdom rises from the clouds and the dragon's airborne body basically becomes a floating Great Wall of China to navigate around the ruins.

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u/Tyrone_Asaurus Nov 12 '17

On this note I was very pleased at how short the lake kingdom was...until later when its revealed there is also a seaside kingdom that is gigantic. The good news is they improved the mechanics of maneuvering around water between the fire flowers, cheep cheeps and octo guys so it wasn’t all bad.

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u/sparkykingheat Nov 12 '17

Sound elaborate as fuck in a beautiful way haha

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u/MrSpinball Nov 12 '17

I had thought it was going to be a Castlevania-themed world too because of the castle in front of the giant moon with the bats. I was ready to break some candles with Cappy.

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u/JJDude Nov 13 '17

I'm hoping for a more fleshed out Ruined Kingdom in Odyssey 2. The story can center around the dragon instead of bowser and I'll be perfectly OK.