In case anyone's wondering, the review only uses footage from the opening cinematic and the first three kingdoms. I tried to strike a balance between being thorough and being spoiler-free, so I'm hoping anyone can enjoy it. And if you don't want to see too much of those first kingdoms, just listen to the review without watching and you should be fine.
Can you please do a video on A HAT IN TIME. I asked the developers to send you a review copy since I knew it would be perfect for you, since you like 64 and Sunshine so much
Stumbled across your videos while researching a Switch for my kids. Not only do I find the information well laid out, when talking about Mario and other Nintendo characters you remind me of when I was a kid playing these games. Thanks
Dude i completely know what you mean playing the game and hearing him talk ablut it reminded me of being a kid and playing the game with my dad I'll always miss him and playing this game brings me right back to those times. I miss being a kid.
Btw none of the moves require the motion controls ever move Mario does can be done with button inputs I still here people say this game has forced motion controls when it doesn't...
What the heck am I doing watching a review of Mario Odyssey two years after it came out and, after I already completed the game on its 100%? I guess I'm nostalgic. The hype for this game and the experience of playing it it's something that I would like to repeat, and the emotion and love that Arlo gives in this video, makes me go back in time. Thanks Blue friend
I'm 34 years old now and felt like a damned child during my time playing through Odyssey. Thank you, Nintendo, for reminding us that no matter how old we get on the outside, there's always a child lurking somewhere within!
This is actually a great game for all ages. I thought it would be a kids game playing it but the challenges are so well done. As good as games get imo.
I’m 34 and just started playing this the other day. Reminds me of my 64 days. The only other games ive played on switch are botw, luigis mansion 3 and mk11. All are great.
I'd have less of a problem with the motion controlls if the controller didn't have 8 STINKIN UNUSED BUTTONS that could easily have the motion control moves mapped to them! A and B both do the same thing. Same with X and Y. L and R ZL and ZR 3 buttons on the d-pad go unused As does pushing in the left joystick. EDIT: I understand that the controls have to be simplistic, but they still can be. Snapshot mode could be remapped to pushing in the right joystick (who honestly uses first person view?) and the up, down, and spinny cap throws could be mapped to the up, down, and left & right d-pad buttons, respectively. I think most people would be able to understand that. And for captured creatures, Y for example could do the dash move, and X could be used for the super fast dash. B could be used for a normal jump for frogs or something, and A for a super jump. You'd be hard pressed for find someone that can't understand a control scheme like that. Or Nintendo could just, ya know, let us remap the controls ourselves.
I'm pretty sure the thinking was to keep the controls as simple as possible, and while I think it works fine in some cases (flick controller in a direction to do homing attack), having to shake the controller like crazy to do capture moves better and nudging it just right to do the spinning hat move are obnoxious.
This might just be a personal thing, but I wish they would have used those buttons to work on some of the other commands. It's difficult for me to perform a cap jump dive versus a normal cap dive because the only difference is holding a button as opposed to just pressing it. And with the movement being so quick it's a difficult maneuver and yet I feel like it's so important. Only three buttons are necessary, and I wish it wasn't the case
I just bought a switch and this game and it’s an amazing experience for me because of how hooked my 4 y/o son is on it. This game is gonna be to him what super Mario bro’s 3 was to me. In thirty years he’s gonna be digging out his old switch just to play this game. He likes other games we got like luigis mansion and Mario party but this is the game that has made him a gamer
My four-year-old son is also absolutely obsessed with Odyssey. He pretends to be Mario all day long. Similar to your experience, it reminds me of young me when I found SMB 3.
i love this, my dad bought an n64 and a switch for me and my sister (and for him lol) so that we can play and compare games like zelda, super mario, mario kart, and a few others. i hope one day they make a new 007 game though, that would be great.
I would have found it hilarious if the clothing had effects, but were completely useless as a joke, like *Spoilers for some outfits!* Cowboy Outfit - Better at dueling Samurai Outfit - Better at sparing Crazy Cap Outfit - Get a 50 coin discount at Crazy Cap... Expired last year. Explorer Outfit - Can throw out a rope to climb, but it's all out. Resort Outfit - Fall asleep faster on beach chairs if they have a towel on them Kings Outfit - Sparkle 50% more
Nintendo's never been that good at ironic humor. You'd want to look to HAL or Intelligent Systems for that. You know, if Nintendo lets them make something other than a Kirby minigame or freaking Fire Emblem again this holiday season.
I agree about the motion controls. There's a certain moon in Sand Kingdom that requires you to continuously shake the controllers while controlling a Bullet Bill and doing it in handheld mode is AWFUL.
With all of Arlos "If you went back in time and told me..." quotes, now I really want someone to invent a time machine, and do nothing but go back in time, say all those things, and record Arlo's reaction. I'm getting my priorities straight, here...
I play exclusively in handheld mode as well and didn't not find the issue anywhere close to as extreme or debilitating as you make it seem. I think everyone should get this game, it's outrageously fun.
Karnage Fails I beat the game completely without motion controls, it wasn't until I got to SOME of the challenge moons that it became necessary, but even those were few and far between (keep in mind I was well beyond 600 moons before this even happened, and I could've just avoided it and moved on). Moons of that caliber won't even be attempted by the general public.
Toxically Masculine I also almost entirely played in Handheld mode. The point is that it does not feel like a handicap, the games is super fun with or without motion controls and I never found myself desiring to use them, or frustrated that I could not.
I also played exclusively in handheld mode (I only played a small bit of metro kingdom - that tank moon particulary) and I even enjoyed the game more in handheld than on TV, even though I played the final and some other major parts of the story in tabletop because motion controls still a bit of depth to the. Graphics didnt go through some major downgrade and the motion controls? I was able to pull some of them even on handheld! It wasnt easy and they should at least try to make the circle throw easier to do on handheld, but it didnt affect my experience at all. I would like if it was mapped to some button, but I am OK with the way they handled them The game is awesome, everybody should play it!!!
Great review, Arlo. I love that you can be excited for a game without sounding like a fanboy, while at the same time giving honest criticisms without sounding like a hater. Perfect balance.
@@samanthacino I don't see the issue with some of the moons being simple. Those just happen to be the moons that are the most easy and fastest to do. There are plenty of other moons that you must complete a challenge for, or explore the map and find.
Every time I feel like I'm getting tired of the game I'm playing, I watch one of your videos about that game and get so pumped up to play it again, that my controller's usually in my hand less than 2 minutes into the runtime. Thank you so much for all that you do man, you really manage to get across what really makes these games beautiful and special.
With 812 moons (not counting the 22*3 multimoons), that gives 329266 possible pairs of moons. Therefore, I can only conclude that your correct guess means you must have snuck into my house, found my Switch, and peeked at my save file! Or, yeah, context clues and the obvious answer ("both jump rope moons" would also be possible from context, but not if you've actually tried the minigames)
Me to Nintendo: You know how you revitalized the 3D Mario series by returning it to its roots by creating the beautifully made, critically acclaimed and fan adored Super Mario Odyssey? Yeah. Now do Paper Mario. (I know I made this comment on another Arlo video recently, but isn't it still just as true?)
@@theAstarrr Origami King: A solid game, but definitely not the return to form I wanted. TTYD: Close to perfect, and gives me hope that the next original Paper Mario will be similar.
RandomName 101 Sorry if you think I meant Odyssey stinks, I mean that people are giving way to much credit to the new capture mechanic which is simply another way to get power ups. I also don’t like the repetitive power moon placement.
Fair points, but I felt like the capture mechanic was different from power ups. Power ups are usually all the same, and used in every course, but each of the captures were different and (most) of the captures were unique to one specific kingdom. I also felt like there were _that_ many repetitive power moons, although I haven't 100% the game yet so I haven't seen all of them.
36:26 btw arlo. you have to keep in mind. no game can be perfect. nintendo realized this, and added the motion controls just to screw with you, and by the looks of things it worked XD
Hey, glad to hear that there are other people care about the plot in Mario games. Honestly, there are so many stories we can all tell in this Universe!
I remember watching this fresh. I was in 8th grade at the time, the switch and Mario odyessy were so game changing and the excitement and hype around it pervailed myself, my friends, and the youtubers like Arlo that I watched at the time. Here I am now, 4 years later, 2 years into Covid and attending a whole different school in a different town. I miss when this was new, I remember asking my mother for a switch and Mario odyessy for christmas, and this being my real leap back into nintendo WII when I was 6 years old. To any people who find this review for whatever reason it may be, I hope the feelings of nostalgia, when games like this and BOTW were still new also bring a tear to your eye as it has mine.
I completed this game 100% including buying the skeleton suit, tha game is long to complete but the pure joy of controlling Mario with fluid control helped me going through this. The game deserve every hype it get if its taken as a platformer game. 10/10
This is a delightful review, solid all the way through. The introductory scene is really funny, and you’ve got a wonderfully silly metaphor soon after: “It’s like a loved one thought lost at sea, years ago - then found, safe and sound, and stuffed with moons.” Nicely done, and thank you.
Yep, as someone who plays Switch almost exclusively in handheld mode and the motion controls were a mess. Shaking the poor console to speed up climbing was both anoying and scary (I was afraid that I break the joycons). Still... It was a great time :D
I put this video in my watch later list because I was expecting it to be full of spoilers, I just recently got myself a Switch less than a week ago along with odyssey, Mario and Rabbids, and MK8D. I'm now kinda disappointed that you didn't discuss the whole game... Sequel! Sequel!
I watched this video when you first released it in 2017 and I'm coming back to watch it again years later, as I'm replaying Super Mario Odyssey. You are absolutely correct about this game being a source of joy: when life does get me down I play this game and I do share that feeling you have about the game lifting you up and making you happier. Really insightful analysis of this game, Arlo, it is always a pleasure to watch your reviews!
This game is wonderful. New Donk City filled me with so much joy. The only downside to the game are Bowser's rabbit minions, and they aren't even bad, it's just you have to beat them multiple times during the initial game. If we had a new boss for each level this game would have been truly perfect.
After many years of being mainly a PS and PC gamer I've found myself coming back to Nintendo and really enjoying this game, think I've become bored with all the ultra realistic stuff,this game just feels good to play.
Also, I don't use the motion control moves in the game not because I grudgingly do so just to play in handheld, (Which I beaten the game completely ONLY in handheld mode), it's because I have found that 0 moons absolutely require motion controls, even the ones with the extra shake, you can just exit the enemy. It also does nothing to make my movements better, unless I want to get WR on a Koopa Freeruning event or something. The only exception I feel is the Homing Cap throw, which I don't use because I don't usually miss a lot, but I can see that as a problem for others, and could of easily been set to a double tap Y.
To be fair, the other thing they should fix is to be able to map your controller. For a platformer with very simple "This button does that, this one does this other thing", there's no reason we shouldn't be able to swap what our buttons do.
Okay now we need the ultimate connection to this review in Pikmin 4 when Arlo appears to him again and death says it took longer than I thought and Arlo replies with "Yeah Nintendo did take way longer on this game than I thought. Maybe even the raycon thing can be how he gets out of it.
Zippy Ragu Nintendo really doesn’t support creators. Many youtube creators literally have to “partner” with them to not receive copyright strikes. I put partner in quotes here as it’s less being a partner and more “Hey there friend! We are gonna send you a free game of any cost and you have to make a video on it wether you like it or not. If you don’t well we are gonna spam your email telling you to”.
It's a technical term in art design. A jaggy is the name for a surface that is clipping with another surface or the background. It is frowned upon in the digital art world.
Nostalgia Works do you get the joke? Arlo used to run a channel named Jaggy Thermas where he had a FACE REVEAL! The channel still exists, and I sadly came upon it recently.
I only got this game very recently and didn’t want to watch this until I finished it - I absolutely love this game but couldn’t agree more with what you said about the controls. I played this on a switch lite and did feel restricted/felt it difficult to use a lot of moves. I took it down to “the switch lite wasn’t released when this game came out” but what you said about the switch having handheld mode made me realise it’s not a switch lite problem haha! Thanks for reviewing this Arlo, definitely worth the purchase if you haven’t played this yet (even in 2022) ☺️
I can't get the motion controls right. I like aspects of them, but the problem isn't liking the motion controls (You good), it's just that there is no alternative for people who just can't pull them off reliably.
The fact that the motion controls lack a button equivalent half the time annoys me. I play handheld mode exclusively. Shaking my screen is really annoying. I can get through the game without those moves but I regret not haivng the choice to use them in my ideal mode of play, it feels against the grain of the 'play where you want' idea of the switch.
Homing hat toss, up/down, quick spin all require motion controls. They arent needed, really, but it feels restrictive as well as kinda stupid because there's two free buttons that are just assigned to hat toss and jump twice. The games all about getting around in as many fun ways as you can and having some of those ways locked to motion controls is bad. That just feels awful for me as a handheld mode player. I could be double tapping y to home or hitting x to spin but instead its shake the screen.
From the Kingdom that is a homage to the original Donkey Kong game, to the original 2D segments, to Peaches castle from Mario 64 in the postgame, Mario Odyssey feels like a love letter to Mario's entire history while having its own distinct identity. Every game in the Mario series have their own appeals that make you want to play them, but Odyssey, to me, is the definitive Mario experience
I've discovered that this is the perfect video to doze to. It's engaging enough to keep you from falling fully asleep, but easy enough to follow as just audio to not require you to look at the screen to appreciate it. You get this delightful sort of half-lull as you listen, eyes closed, to Arlo gushing about how great Odyssey is, and by the end you get up feeling refreshed.
I don’t think how great a track is depends on the “Will You Hum It Later” test. If that is the case, pop music would be the best genre ever because that’s what it’s designed to do. Get stuck in your head. There’s way more to a track besides if it’s catchy or not. I see this in almost every game review and it bothers me that they talk about music this way, as if there’s nothing else to it. Especially when it comes to TV or video games, the main focus is feeling and if the track fits the mood, and if does a great job at doing it. Music is supposed to make you feel. For example, when you’re in the little jolly town of seals in Snow Kingdom, you hear a happy fiddle tune playing. I can’t think of a better way to show off their village. Or, in the Lake Kingdom, the music gives off a very mystic vibe, I mean, they’re mermaids, and the beautiful water you have to swim through goes well with the music. I hope I made my point clear enough. I want people to look at music more closely. I love Odyssey’s ost.
A little late here, but the proposed motion control alternative wouldn’t work. If pushing Y twice would trigger a homing cap throw, then the dive-to-cap-bounce combo would be impossible. Plus, if the spin throw were so easy to perform, it would trivialize most combat encounters. The motion controls are annoying to perform while in handheld mode, but the most important moves are always easy to perform with buttons. I also think the easier-to-perform moves are what make the game more fluid and fun; not the weird cap throws that really all do the same thing, capturing and attaching enemies. All capture-specific motion controls only ask that you shake the controller in a non-specific way, so it’s always easy and comfortable to do, assuming you have the motion control sensitivity option toggled to fit your current gaming situation. I understand the surface level criticism of motion controls for the mere fact that they aren’t always accessible to everybody, but I think objectively, the motion controls do nothing to hamper any aspect of the game in even a small significant way.
What if the X button was used to throw Cappy upwards and A to throw him downwards (who even uses A and X for standard controls anyway)? I think that this would be the perfect solution for at least those 2 moves. You could even do this in 2 player mode!
Oh my god thank you! I thought I was the only person that actually wants some sort of story motivation from a mario game. So many people trash me for having that thought process,
Niceri98 if a game doesn’t have a sliver of a story, it makes the game a tiny bit worse, but when they have a story, even when that story is online on UA-cam and stuff, I tend to like them a lot
It is still a super generic mario story....bowser gets peach....go get her back....but at least the road on the way is really cool and interesting....I JUST HATE THE MOONS!!! 😂😂😂😂
Sunshine is my favorite 3D Mario just for the interconnected areas and story driven quest And odyssey also has a story driven quest but everything is disconnected plus the game is really on the easy side
6:49 I LOVED that ending!!! My favorite part was the music that played, it plastered this cheesy grin on my face for the whole duration of the end sequence. You should check out the cover I did of that song if you get a minute: ua-cam.com/video/zj93Imivr54/v-deo.html
Me: *Have to do a project for school do at midnight.* Arlo: Hey look I uploaded the long awaited Super Mario Odyssey Review! Me: ...Well, f- Arlo: Also, there isn't much in terms of visuals in this video so you should be fine hearing the video without watching it. Me: ...antastic, thanks Arlo! Edit: Watched the whole thing anyway, have a hour left to complete a 3 page paper. Going balls deep.
I think that Odyssey is one of the best 3d platformers, and arguably the best mario game, and I'd say that it's at least the best 3d mario, so a sequel that improves the minor issues like the galaxy games... My god I think I'll cry
Odyssey be like: “3 foot chubby Italian uses shapeshifting cap takes control of local wildlife including Tyrannosaurus rex to help in saving girlfriend from being forced to marry a giant reptile kidnapper”
23:57 Arlos love collecting and buying stuff There's more than one Arlo??? Also Arlo you got a minor fact wrong at 34:37 (fine since you don't even own the game) but in ARMS you can curve your punches using standard controls, you just cannot curve 2 arms in different directions.
I don't get why people complain about a "lack of a hub world" either. All of the large kingdoms are even larger in scope than the old hub worlds and you literally get a new version of Peach's castle. I'm more into level-oriented gameplay because I'm such an old fart so I never really liked collect-a-thon style platformers (and I'm awful at 3D platforming in general). It speaks to just how incredible Odyssey is that I absolutely love it.
Three things: -Sentences that start with "Arlos love..." from this channel, have yet to not apply to this Arlo. Bravo ;) -I don't think it's fair to review this game without talking about New Dunk City. -Considering how much you say about the motion controls, I'm surprised to hear nothing about the camera controls. The motion controls are bad, but mostly just annoying. The difficulty in making the camera obey me has lead to over 30 deaths already, and I'm only at around 250 moons.
That's an interesting third point... Personally, I never had any problem with the camera while playing Singleplayer. Playing 2-players coop with only 2 joycons, though... that's when the camera controls get outright awful. Thank goodness you have Cappy obliterating everything on-screen to be able to move it around without stress, but I had resign from ever doing the linear platforming challenges when I'm playing with somebody else because of it. Else in singleplayer... I always felt the game made it clear when you had free camera movement and when it was fixed. And other than that, maybe it was because I grew up with much worse thanks to the N64 era, but I never died because of wonky camera while playing on my own.
Inverse it? Change the speed? I thought it was insufferably slow so I turned it up. Now I still don't like how it kinda bobbles when you stop moving it, but it works. My girlfriend plays inverted both horizontal and vertical and she set the speed to lower for her motion sickness. It's pretty much trial and error until you figure out the options you like.
In case anyone's wondering, the review only uses footage from the opening cinematic and the first three kingdoms. I tried to strike a balance between being thorough and being spoiler-free, so I'm hoping anyone can enjoy it. And if you don't want to see too much of those first kingdoms, just listen to the review without watching and you should be fine.
Arlo thanks Arlo for this amazing Review😊
Arlo are you the only Arlo or is there an Arlo species? Do they have laws and stuff or do they just live in the wild?
Hey Arlo, are you going to cover A Hat In Time? It seems like the kind of game you would enjoy.
Can you please do a video on A HAT IN TIME. I asked the developers to send you a review copy since I knew it would be perfect for you, since you like 64 and Sunshine so much
potato_the_pig I was literally typing that at the same time
Stumbled across your videos while researching a Switch for my kids. Not only do I find the information well laid out, when talking about Mario and other Nintendo characters you remind me of when I was a kid playing these games. Thanks
Just do it! You`re gonna be dad of the year (maybe you already are, since this a year old comment).
Dude i completely know what you mean playing the game and hearing him talk ablut it reminded me of being a kid and playing the game with my dad I'll always miss him and playing this game brings me right back to those times. I miss being a kid.
Nice
get one for yourself if your feeling nostalgic - or if you don't like the large price tag get a 3ds
@@Felipera_ dad of the year? Is that an actual thing?
“As long as you don’t complain about the motion controls!”
“Ok”
“Heh, heh, heh”
Death said the whole time
_Shake the controller to reply faster!_
@@Cabalex I literally laughed out loud. Thank you for that.
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Btw none of the moves require the motion controls ever move Mario does can be done with button inputs I still here people say this game has forced motion controls when it doesn't...
Wait a minute... The SAND kingdom is the first fully open SANDbox world...
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*Assassians Creed Odyssey intensifies*
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Hahhaahahahahhahahahahahaahahahahaha
Oomph
What the heck am I doing watching a review of Mario Odyssey two years after it came out and, after I already completed the game on its 100%?
I guess I'm nostalgic. The hype for this game and the experience of playing it it's something that I would like to repeat, and the emotion and love that Arlo gives in this video, makes me go back in time.
Thanks Blue friend
three years after the actual release, and finally I decided to watch a review!
@Simsi: Same. @Pax Wright: Yes. Absolutely. 100% certain.
I just bought it minutes ago
@Kitty Cat yes, yes, yes, and most importantly, yes.
Same
I'm 34 years old now and felt like a damned child during my time playing through Odyssey. Thank you, Nintendo, for reminding us that no matter how old we get on the outside, there's always a child lurking somewhere within!
I'm 37 and that's how I'm feeling,nice change from the usual serious stuff I've been playing for years.
This is actually a great game for all ages. I thought it would be a kids game playing it but the challenges are so well done. As good as games get imo.
bruh 34 not old at all Im half that age
I’m 34 and just started playing this the other day. Reminds me of my 64 days. The only other games ive played on switch are botw, luigis mansion 3 and mk11. All are great.
I'm 44 and I often play this during my lunch break at work. I really REALLY hope we get another Mario game like this one.
I'd have less of a problem with the motion controlls if the controller didn't have 8 STINKIN UNUSED BUTTONS that could easily have the motion control moves mapped to them!
A and B both do the same thing.
Same with X and Y.
L and R
ZL and ZR
3 buttons on the d-pad go unused
As does pushing in the left joystick.
EDIT: I understand that the controls have to be simplistic, but they still can be. Snapshot mode could be remapped to pushing in the right joystick (who honestly uses first person view?) and the up, down, and spinny cap throws could be mapped to the up, down, and left & right d-pad buttons, respectively. I think most people would be able to understand that. And for captured creatures, Y for example could do the dash move, and X could be used for the super fast dash. B could be used for a normal jump for frogs or something, and A for a super jump. You'd be hard pressed for find someone that can't understand a control scheme like that.
Or Nintendo could just, ya know, let us remap the controls ourselves.
Well zl does stuff.(ground pound, dive etc.
I'm pretty sure the thinking was to keep the controls as simple as possible, and while I think it works fine in some cases (flick controller in a direction to do homing attack), having to shake the controller like crazy to do capture moves better and nudging it just right to do the spinning hat move are obnoxious.
Actually only 1 of the Dpad buttons really go unused.
there is 2 player
This might just be a personal thing, but I wish they would have used those buttons to work on some of the other commands. It's difficult for me to perform a cap jump dive versus a normal cap dive because the only difference is holding a button as opposed to just pressing it. And with the movement being so quick it's a difficult maneuver and yet I feel like it's so important. Only three buttons are necessary, and I wish it wasn't the case
20:53 _"and then when i finally conquer that challenge, i feel nothing but a great feeling of pride and accomplishment"_
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Did not catch that, fucking wonderful.
I just bought a switch and this game and it’s an amazing experience for me because of how hooked my 4 y/o son is on it. This game is gonna be to him what super Mario bro’s 3 was to me. In thirty years he’s gonna be digging out his old switch just to play this game. He likes other games we got like luigis mansion and Mario party but this is the game that has made him a gamer
My four-year-old son is also absolutely obsessed with Odyssey. He pretends to be Mario all day long. Similar to your experience, it reminds me of young me when I found SMB 3.
It's lovely to read these storys, my best wishes to your families :)
Wow!
That's super cool!
i love this, my dad bought an n64 and a switch for me and my sister (and for him lol) so that we can play and compare games like zelda, super mario, mario kart, and a few others. i hope one day they make a new 007 game though, that would be great.
I would have found it hilarious if the clothing had effects, but were completely useless as a joke, like
*Spoilers for some outfits!*
Cowboy Outfit - Better at dueling
Samurai Outfit - Better at sparing
Crazy Cap Outfit - Get a 50 coin discount at Crazy Cap... Expired last year.
Explorer Outfit - Can throw out a rope to climb, but it's all out.
Resort Outfit - Fall asleep faster on beach chairs if they have a towel on them
Kings Outfit - Sparkle 50% more
Nintendo's never been that good at ironic humor. You'd want to look to HAL or Intelligent Systems for that. You know, if Nintendo lets them make something other than a Kirby minigame or freaking Fire Emblem again this holiday season.
LOL good ideas!
Gavin EOS doesn’t the gold Mario outfit sparkle or have a sparkle sound?
Waluigi outfit - won’t be in smash
"BenBen, unquestionably my number one fan."
I... I'm dead... I can see Duck-Face Death right beside me...
The Arlo Fan Community I thought *that guy* made your games be over. In the 3 years of Arlo video?
Nice one buddy also your vids are pretty dank
The Arlo Fan Community Gratz!!!
Electric Gaming, I got better.
I agree about the motion controls. There's a certain moon in Sand Kingdom that requires you to continuously shake the controllers while controlling a Bullet Bill and doing it in handheld mode is AWFUL.
I- I can’t see what I’m DOING!!!!
Alright, time to put everything aside to watch this.
just2good lol
just2good lol
I also love your videos :D
Also your awesome
just2good from Lego videos to a puppet reviewing a Mario game
With all of Arlos "If you went back in time and told me..." quotes, now I really want someone to invent a time machine, and do nothing but go back in time, say all those things, and record Arlo's reaction. I'm getting my priorities straight, here...
we need a luigi's mansion on the switch that looks like this
zSPC ikr. They put freaking original Luigi's mansion on the 3DS but not this
Luigi's Mansion 3
...VERY good news.
Oh my gosh you managed to tell the future 😮
I am from the future and I have got some news for you buddy
I play exclusively in handheld mode as well and didn't not find the issue anywhere close to as extreme or debilitating as you make it seem. I think everyone should get this game, it's outrageously fun.
Karnage Fails I beat the game completely without motion controls, it wasn't until I got to SOME of the challenge moons that it became necessary, but even those were few and far between (keep in mind I was well beyond 600 moons before this even happened, and I could've just avoided it and moved on). Moons of that caliber won't even be attempted by the general public.
yeah how fun to play the whole game with a needless handicap when most of the buttons aren't even mapped to anything
Toxically Masculine I also almost entirely played in Handheld mode. The point is that it does not feel like a handicap, the games is super fun with or without motion controls and I never found myself desiring to use them, or frustrated that I could not.
I also played exclusively in handheld mode (I only played a small bit of metro kingdom - that tank moon particulary) and I even enjoyed the game more in handheld than on TV, even though I played the final and some other major parts of the story in tabletop because motion controls still a bit of depth to the. Graphics didnt go through some major downgrade and the motion controls? I was able to pull some of them even on handheld! It wasnt easy and they should at least try to make the circle throw easier to do on handheld, but it didnt affect my experience at all.
I would like if it was mapped to some button, but I am OK with the way they handled them
The game is awesome, everybody should play it!!!
Lemme tell you... -I only have a switch lite. 100% handheld.
I vote yes for the second review you mentioned!
which is?
ua-cam.com/video/zDzf3UL88nc/v-deo.html
Hey bae how you doing
Rebecca Whiteway me too
L O N D O N
"Hey, where's my graphic?"
My first thought: "Nintendo had it taken down for copyright infringement because it included the Super Mario Odyssey logo."
*Great but what about the Super Mario Odyssey review huh?!? Oh wait!*
Great review, Arlo. I love that you can be excited for a game without sounding like a fanboy, while at the same time giving honest criticisms without sounding like a hater. Perfect balance.
Nick Schoenfeld 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯
Yep.
20:50 "Pride and accomplishment"
Watch out, EA's gonna try to hire you, my dear Arlo...
David Resin He would actually make EA a MUCH better company.
I got battlefront two flashbacks when I heard that.
I think he is already an EA-spy 😱😱
*20:56
Arlo: "Moons aren't tedious."
me: *cries in Wooded kingdom sheep minigame*
Yes but i think he means that the tedious moons are far and few between
I guess he hadn’t got to that one yet
@@mm-lw8yd I 100% the whole game, and the only moon I remember being overly tedious to get was the volleyball one.
@@samanthacino what? I found them all to be pretty fun to get with only a couple exceptions
@@samanthacino I don't see the issue with some of the moons being simple. Those just happen to be the moons that are the most easy and fastest to do. There are plenty of other moons that you must complete a challenge for, or explore the map and find.
Where do I sub to death’s channel? There’s no link in the description
Spork i know.
Spork - There is a "Link" in this comment section though, *wink wink*
Damn it, I was about to make that pun!
Hah! Unintentionally beat you to it!
Hahahahaha
Every time I feel like I'm getting tired of the game I'm playing, I watch one of your videos about that game and get so pumped up to play it again, that my controller's usually in my hand less than 2 minutes into the runtime. Thank you so much for all that you do man, you really manage to get across what really makes these games beautiful and special.
Same :)
I had a dream I was playing this... thats how badly I want this.When I woke up I realized Christmas isnt here yet, and I have school.
F
Life is full of disappointments.
Reality is often disappointing
@@General12th true XD
Keep going to school if that`s your plan and soon you won`t have to wait til christmas for shit, you just buy your own stuff whenever you feel like.
...So I'm guessing Arlo hasn't done Jump Rope Genius.
I have two moons left unclaimed. Guess which they are...
With 812 moons (not counting the 22*3 multimoons), that gives 329266 possible pairs of moons. Therefore, I can only conclude that your correct guess means you must have snuck into my house, found my Switch, and peeked at my save file!
Or, yeah, context clues and the obvious answer ("both jump rope moons" would also be possible from context, but not if you've actually tried the minigames)
oooorr……… T h e d a r k e s I d e
okay im super late, but do people actually consider it hard? i mean, i thought it was pretty easy..
@GameLab Inc. that dang S rank racing minigame though was total nonsense tedious
This game is one of the best games I've ever played. The graphics consistently wow me, with the absolutely breathtaking color palette choices.
Ya, it's such a good game 👍
I didn't even realize it until now about the starting area. There's a giant city almost surrounding this island on the coast: it's ManHATtan island!
Me to Nintendo: You know how you revitalized the 3D Mario series by returning it to its roots by creating the beautifully made, critically acclaimed and fan adored Super Mario Odyssey? Yeah. Now do Paper Mario.
(I know I made this comment on another Arlo video recently, but isn't it still just as true?)
British Luigi sooo 1000 year door?
Paper Mario and the 17 year door
Thoughts on Origami King and their remake of 1000 Year Door?
@@theAstarrr Origami King: A solid game, but definitely not the return to form I wanted.
TTYD: Close to perfect, and gives me hope that the next original Paper Mario will be similar.
When I launched Super Mario Odyssey i said to myself, "This is going to be a special game." and I was right.
Daniel So true with all the filler moons and dumb gimmicks.
Could you explain?
RandomName 101 Sorry if you think I meant Odyssey stinks, I mean that people are giving way to much credit to the new capture mechanic which is simply another way to get power ups. I also don’t like the repetitive power moon placement.
Fair points, but I felt like the capture mechanic was different from power ups. Power ups are usually all the same, and used in every course, but each of the captures were different and (most) of the captures were unique to one specific kingdom. I also felt like there were _that_ many repetitive power moons, although I haven't 100% the game yet so I haven't seen all of them.
@@danielahn5140 It already was from day 1
36:26 btw arlo. you have to keep in mind. no game can be perfect. nintendo realized this, and added the motion controls just to screw with you, and by the looks of things it worked XD
This game was the only reason the switch has motion controls 😂
8C Emil Rosenkrands Soendersoeskolen motion controls is the only reason the switch has 1-2 switch
No it’s because of gyro aim
I want that UA-cam channel that Death started to be real lol
Hey, glad to hear that there are other people care about the plot in Mario games. Honestly, there are so many stories we can all tell in this Universe!
We're the ones who made it this far!
I'll be your Arlo girlllll!!!
Wilfred Cthulu hmm...
10 9 8 7 6 5...
1 2...
No joke to make here!
So where's death's channel?
Dooble You can't see it because it died.
Matthew Cobalt no. It’s my channel
I’m still waiting
Your Fellow Hufflepuff it’s my channel
Are you starting a youtube channel?
S I L E N C E . . . yes
I remember watching this fresh. I was in 8th grade at the time, the switch and Mario odyessy were so game changing and the excitement and hype around it pervailed myself, my friends, and the youtubers like Arlo that I watched at the time. Here I am now, 4 years later, 2 years into Covid and attending a whole different school in a different town. I miss when this was new, I remember asking my mother for a switch and Mario odyessy for christmas, and this being my real leap back into nintendo WII when I was 6 years old. To any people who find this review for whatever reason it may be, I hope the feelings of nostalgia, when games like this and BOTW were still new also bring a tear to your eye as it has mine.
Actually, fun fact, all of Midna's lines in cutscenes DID have unique audio for each line :)
It's all a jumbled mess of the things she actually says
This is the best super mario odyssey review I have seen
Ei coelho No Japão Como Estás?
N és o único que sabe falar inglês kkk
That’s the idea
Same
Butter nut squash
Y E S P L E A S E
Yeah but solid snake
Why so long to make the review?
/looks at length of review/
*oh*
He also doesn't have very much time to play games, let alone make regularly-lengthed reviews, LET ALONE a review like this (UA-cam isn't his job yet)
*Time to grab the popcorn!!!*
I like ur vids
“Fortunately the game introduces a NEW type of jump where you come out of a ground pound to get some extra height.”
3D World: ...
Thats what i thought :)
Satan is a duck?
thebahooplamaster Obviously
Infinity Quack Games yeah.....
Technally it's death
Satan =\= death
thebahooplamaster
Probably a goose but close enough.
I completed this game 100% including buying the skeleton suit, tha game is long to complete but the pure joy of controlling Mario with fluid control helped me going through this. The game deserve every hype it get if its taken as a platformer game. 10/10
WIIFAN619 No point in collecting moons when you came literally buy then all 😂
Kevino Casino because you actually want to Play a game and Not Just pay2win - ingame Money edition?
WIIFAN619 long? I got 100% in less than a week
There isn't enough money in the game to buy them all lol.
Dom Noah yes there is, you can easily grind up coins
This is a delightful review, solid all the way through. The introductory scene is really funny, and you’ve got a wonderfully silly metaphor soon after: “It’s like a loved one thought lost at sea, years ago - then found, safe and sound, and stuffed with moons.” Nicely done, and thank you.
Yep, as someone who plays Switch almost exclusively in handheld mode and the motion controls were a mess. Shaking the poor console to speed up climbing was both anoying and scary (I was afraid that I break the joycons). Still... It was a great time :D
I didn’t figure this out until really late, but you can also hold Y to speed up climbing.
Apparently, the console can actually withstand a bit of abuse. Not quite Gameboy tough, but not super flimsy either.
+Kevin Stevens,
Still slower than shaking however, unfortunately. "Love motion controls just like wii love them!!!!!" ;)
I haven't have to use motion controls ever and I have 750 moons.
+PokeJake 28
Great! Who cares?
*Hyperventilates*
Fu- Fu- Fufufufofo FORTY-SIX!!!?
EDIT: Also yes, sequel review, that would be nice, yes...
"It even more doesn't matter than I thought it would doesn't matter"
-Arlo 2017
Wow! 46 minutes long! This is gonna be good!
Also...Breath of the Wild review...make it...preferably sometime this decade.
I put this video in my watch later list because I was expecting it to be full of spoilers, I just recently got myself a Switch less than a week ago along with odyssey, Mario and Rabbids, and MK8D.
I'm now kinda disappointed that you didn't discuss the whole game...
Sequel! Sequel!
He made one! With all the "spoliery stuff!"
Those are the exact games I started with, lol
I watched this video when you first released it in 2017 and I'm coming back to watch it again years later, as I'm replaying Super Mario Odyssey. You are absolutely correct about this game being a source of joy: when life does get me down I play this game and I do share that feeling you have about the game lifting you up and making you happier. Really insightful analysis of this game, Arlo, it is always a pleasure to watch your reviews!
Yes, spoiler discussion please. Especially on the sequence after the final fight.
Louis Thrift and I gotta know that one capture he didn't like the controls of
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Shay Apetagon no
14:43 Ground Pound Jump came from 3D World, too
This game is wonderful. New Donk City filled me with so much joy. The only downside to the game are Bowser's rabbit minions, and they aren't even bad, it's just you have to beat them multiple times during the initial game. If we had a new boss for each level this game would have been truly perfect.
14:55 The groundpoundjump also came from 3d world
The Fancy Spider yup
and galaxy too I remember
Yes, do a part 2 with spoilers
Beau Bezemer yeah! I already know what happens cus I beat the game like 2 months ago
After many years of being mainly a PS and PC gamer I've found myself coming back to Nintendo and really enjoying this game, think I've become bored with all the ultra realistic stuff,this game just feels good to play.
I jump with B though....
Also, I don't use the motion control moves in the game not because I grudgingly do so just to play in handheld, (Which I beaten the game completely ONLY in handheld mode), it's because I have found that 0 moons absolutely require motion controls, even the ones with the extra shake, you can just exit the enemy. It also does nothing to make my movements better, unless I want to get WR on a Koopa Freeruning event or something. The only exception I feel is the Homing Cap throw, which I don't use because I don't usually miss a lot, but I can see that as a problem for others, and could of easily been set to a double tap Y.
With B? Ewwwwwwwww
Just feels easier to press Y after a jump with B as opposed to a jump with A.
To be fair, the other thing they should fix is to be able to map your controller. For a platformer with very simple "This button does that, this one does this other thing", there's no reason we shouldn't be able to swap what our buttons do.
Every game should have a custom map controller option period.
Okay now we need the ultimate connection to this review in Pikmin 4 when Arlo appears to him again and death says it took longer than I thought and Arlo replies with "Yeah Nintendo did take way longer on this game than I thought. Maybe even the raycon thing can be how he gets out of it.
It's a brilliant game. 10/10 as far as I'm concerned
Was that a "Pride and Accomplishment" EA roast?
To be fair, it's pretty low hanging fruit
I did feel like saying "actual pride and accomplishment, not EA pride and accomplishment."
Everyone Other than Arlo: HEY GUYS SUPER MARIO ODSSEY WAS RELEASED A DAY AGO HERES THE REVIEW!!!!!!
Arlo: yeah I think I can wait a month...
almost two months
"no levels so hard i threw up my hands and called it quits" wait until you get to darker side buddy
Is Duck-Faced Death going to be a recurring character? It would be awesome if he was!
“This is perfection” Arlo says when talking about the graphics, while on screen the little thing for the sand kingdom says this is terrible
6:49 "No pun intended"
Biggest lie since Bowser told Bowser Jr. that Peach was his momma
YES! Please PLEASE do a video on the spoilery post game content PLEASE!!
Most annoying moon is Shiverburn Circut Class S
I did it on my third try
It sure wasn't annoying as some galaxy and sunshine stars/shine sprites
Lil Red Wrong. The most annoying is Jump Rope Genius.
MrGameAndSketch no way, I finished that the 1st time I even tried it
Arjun Swamy Dark
Volleyball is a satan spawn
This is my all time favorite video game.
Super happy Nintendo is supporting you, hopefully they'll flat out hire you!
Zippy Ragu Nintendo really doesn’t support creators. Many youtube creators literally have to “partner” with them to not receive copyright strikes. I put partner in quotes here as it’s less being a partner and more “Hey there friend! We are gonna send you a free game of any cost and you have to make a video on it wether you like it or not. If you don’t well we are gonna spam your email telling you to”.
Kevino Casino, how did you get this information?
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Kevino Casino nope. Nintendo gave ARMS to Nathaniel Bandy and he heavily criticized it.
@@landfillgaming2002 he didn't say they were forced to review it positively, just that they pester you to review it
13:24 Minimal Jaggy's?
"Hey everyone, Jaggy here!"
TheBlackKnight1o1 stop giving me flashbacks
TheBlackKnight101 No, please don't. Arlo isn't human... Arlo isn't human... Arlo isn't human? HELP ME
It's a technical term in art design. A jaggy is the name for a surface that is clipping with another surface or the background. It is frowned upon in the digital art world.
Nostalgia Works do you get the joke? Arlo used to run a channel named Jaggy Thermas where he had a FACE REVEAL! The channel still exists, and I sadly came upon it recently.
Source Dasher it’s a jooooooooooooooooke
I only got this game very recently and didn’t want to watch this until I finished it - I absolutely love this game but couldn’t agree more with what you said about the controls.
I played this on a switch lite and did feel restricted/felt it difficult to use a lot of moves. I took it down to “the switch lite wasn’t released when this game came out” but what you said about the switch having handheld mode made me realise it’s not a switch lite problem haha!
Thanks for reviewing this Arlo, definitely worth the purchase if you haven’t played this yet (even in 2022) ☺️
Is it a bad time to say I actually quite liked the motion controls? Although that said, I did play docked or in tabletop mode majority of the time...
Same, I enjoyed the motion controls too
ChickenUniverse CU the motion controls is fun to play with
Dude. That’s literally the ONLY way I play these games.
DaKruger Toch91 handheld?
I can't get the motion controls right. I like aspects of them, but the problem isn't liking the motion controls (You good), it's just that there is no alternative for people who just can't pull them off reliably.
The fact that the motion controls lack a button equivalent half the time annoys me. I play handheld mode exclusively. Shaking my screen is really annoying. I can get through the game without those moves but I regret not haivng the choice to use them in my ideal mode of play, it feels against the grain of the 'play where you want' idea of the switch.
Homing hat toss, up/down, quick spin all require motion controls. They arent needed, really, but it feels restrictive as well as kinda stupid because there's two free buttons that are just assigned to hat toss and jump twice. The games all about getting around in as many fun ways as you can and having some of those ways locked to motion controls is bad. That just feels awful for me as a handheld mode player. I could be double tapping y to home or hitting x to spin but instead its shake the screen.
From the Kingdom that is a homage to the original Donkey Kong game, to the original 2D segments, to Peaches castle from Mario 64 in the postgame, Mario Odyssey feels like a love letter to Mario's entire history while having its own distinct identity. Every game in the Mario series have their own appeals that make you want to play them, but Odyssey, to me, is the definitive Mario experience
Is Death really getting his own channel? I hope so.
FREAKING FINALLY
I've discovered that this is the perfect video to doze to. It's engaging enough to keep you from falling fully asleep, but easy enough to follow as just audio to not require you to look at the screen to appreciate it. You get this delightful sort of half-lull as you listen, eyes closed, to Arlo gushing about how great Odyssey is, and by the end you get up feeling refreshed.
I don’t think how great a track is depends on the “Will You Hum It Later” test. If that is the case, pop music would be the best genre ever because that’s what it’s designed to do. Get stuck in your head. There’s way more to a track besides if it’s catchy or not. I see this in almost every game review and it bothers me that they talk about music this way, as if there’s nothing else to it. Especially when it comes to TV or video games, the main focus is feeling and if the track fits the mood, and if does a great job at doing it. Music is supposed to make you feel. For example, when you’re in the little jolly town of seals in Snow Kingdom, you hear a happy fiddle tune playing. I can’t think of a better way to show off their village. Or, in the Lake Kingdom, the music gives off a very mystic vibe, I mean, they’re mermaids, and the beautiful water you have to swim through goes well with the music. I hope I made my point clear enough. I want people to look at music more closely. I love Odyssey’s ost.
A little late here, but the proposed motion control alternative wouldn’t work. If pushing Y twice would trigger a homing cap throw, then the dive-to-cap-bounce combo would be impossible. Plus, if the spin throw were so easy to perform, it would trivialize most combat encounters.
The motion controls are annoying to perform while in handheld mode, but the most important moves are always easy to perform with buttons. I also think the easier-to-perform moves are what make the game more fluid and fun; not the weird cap throws that really all do the same thing, capturing and attaching enemies. All capture-specific motion controls only ask that you shake the controller in a non-specific way, so it’s always easy and comfortable to do, assuming you have the motion control sensitivity option toggled to fit your current gaming situation. I understand the surface level criticism of motion controls for the mere fact that they aren’t always accessible to everybody, but I think objectively, the motion controls do nothing to hamper any aspect of the game in even a small significant way.
they do
What if the X button was used to throw Cappy upwards and A to throw him downwards (who even uses A and X for standard controls anyway)?
I think that this would be the perfect solution for at least those 2 moves. You could even do this in 2 player mode!
Oh my god thank you! I thought I was the only person that actually wants some sort of story motivation from a mario game. So many people trash me for having that thought process,
Niceri98 if a game doesn’t have a sliver of a story, it makes the game a tiny bit worse, but when they have a story, even when that story is online on UA-cam and stuff, I tend to like them a lot
It is still a super generic mario story....bowser gets peach....go get her back....but at least the road on the way is really cool and interesting....I JUST HATE THE MOONS!!! 😂😂😂😂
Sunshine is my favorite 3D Mario just for the interconnected areas and story driven quest
And odyssey also has a story driven quest but everything is disconnected plus the game is really on the easy side
@@mistertazington1014 Sunshine is my favorite as well. I see you have good taste
6:49 I LOVED that ending!!! My favorite part was the music that played, it plastered this cheesy grin on my face for the whole duration of the end sequence. You should check out the cover I did of that song if you get a minute: ua-cam.com/video/zj93Imivr54/v-deo.html
YES! I love that track so much!
Are you talking about that Splatoon-esk music? :D
Yeah, like Splatoon meets Sonic Adventure
"A million moons?" I thought there was only 999.
He's exaggerating
There are 880 to be exact
There are only 880 placed, but you can buy moons up to 999
when I got the game I had a broken arm and it just recently healed
BOY WAS I MISSING OUT
Arlo-“I haven’t got all of the moons so there may be a tedious one in the future”
Me:”Ahem ahem beach volleyball and jump rope ahem ahem”
Me: *Have to do a project for school do at midnight.*
Arlo: Hey look I uploaded the long awaited Super Mario Odyssey Review!
Me: ...Well, f-
Arlo: Also, there isn't much in terms of visuals in this video so you should be fine hearing the video without watching it.
Me: ...antastic, thanks Arlo!
Edit: Watched the whole thing anyway, have a hour left to complete a 3 page paper. Going balls deep.
Nope; economics. Managed to complete it with 30 minutes to spare.
I think that Odyssey is one of the best 3d platformers, and arguably the best mario game, and I'd say that it's at least the best 3d mario, so a sequel that improves the minor issues like the galaxy games... My god I think I'll cry
Im still waiting for the botw review.
Thank you! I’ve been waiting since March
Never gonna happen. Just like game explains analysis.
Really? It's almost a 2 year old game...
@@lawrencefuller8841 serious mistake I made is purchasing that $60 overpriced short Kirby game when I could've bought many more better games or BOTW
Well, wait no longer
46 minutes... you could say odyssey flips Mario 64s formula on its head...
Thomas Liardon I don't know whether to like this comment or not...
Arlo: there have been no long levels where messing up meant starting all over.
Me: laughs in darker side.
I just realised I’ve watched this for 30 mins didn’t feel that long because of the video quality but still surprising
8:08 How dare you not mention the overuse of Grass.jpg though.
Lol
Wdym
Thank you for your eloquent, thoughtful and well-articulated review. I've yet to see a better Odyssey review in fact. Subscribed!
"pride and accomplishment" -Arlo
if you find all the moons it gives you a sense of pride and accomplishment
(or you can just buy them)
"Imagine the first area of a mario game"
_snaps fingers_ grass and s%!#
Odyssey be like: “3 foot chubby Italian uses shapeshifting cap takes control of local wildlife including Tyrannosaurus rex to help in saving girlfriend from being forced to marry a giant reptile kidnapper”
23:57 Arlos love collecting and buying stuff
There's more than one Arlo???
Also Arlo you got a minor fact wrong at 34:37 (fine since you don't even own the game) but in ARMS you can curve your punches using standard controls, you just cannot curve 2 arms in different directions.
One of Arlo's lines is, "______ is vitamins for Arlos."
Damn i only realized the video was 46 min long *after* i'd already watched the whole thing
Ok time to get myself a life
I don't get why people complain about a "lack of a hub world" either. All of the large kingdoms are even larger in scope than the old hub worlds and you literally get a new version of Peach's castle.
I'm more into level-oriented gameplay because I'm such an old fart so I never really liked collect-a-thon style platformers (and I'm awful at 3D platforming in general). It speaks to just how incredible Odyssey is that I absolutely love it.
Three things:
-Sentences that start with "Arlos love..." from this channel, have yet to not apply to this Arlo. Bravo ;)
-I don't think it's fair to review this game without talking about New Dunk City.
-Considering how much you say about the motion controls, I'm surprised to hear nothing about the camera controls. The motion controls are bad, but mostly just annoying. The difficulty in making the camera obey me has lead to over 30 deaths already, and I'm only at around 250 moons.
That's an interesting third point... Personally, I never had any problem with the camera while playing Singleplayer. Playing 2-players coop with only 2 joycons, though... that's when the camera controls get outright awful. Thank goodness you have Cappy obliterating everything on-screen to be able to move it around without stress, but I had resign from ever doing the linear platforming challenges when I'm playing with somebody else because of it.
Else in singleplayer... I always felt the game made it clear when you had free camera movement and when it was fixed. And other than that, maybe it was because I grew up with much worse thanks to the N64 era, but I never died because of wonky camera while playing on my own.
Inverse it? Change the speed? I thought it was insufferably slow so I turned it up. Now I still don't like how it kinda bobbles when you stop moving it, but it works. My girlfriend plays inverted both horizontal and vertical and she set the speed to lower for her motion sickness. It's pretty much trial and error until you figure out the options you like.
I have 70+ hours on the game and have yet to have a single issue with the camera. Do you have it at default speed?
Change the speed. It's set as slow of default
Arlo Mates "New Dunk City"
Sounds like a basletball movie