Mario, you crossed into our world at the worst time – it’s no game over here | Emily Reynolds
by Emily Reynolds from Technology | The Guardian on (#2AEFT)
The moustachioed plumber's latest adventure takes place in a lifelike New York. But gaming should give us valuable respite from reality, not more of it
Mario is coming to a street near you. His latest outing, Super Mario Odyssey, was unveiled in a Nintendo trailer earlier this month, and shows the moustachioed plumber gleefully sprinting around a facsimile of New York, hopping over taxis and scaling skyscrapers. Elsewhere, he swings through dewy forests and slides through realistically animated streams. The angry, sentient plant pots may be slightly less believable, but that's besides the point - Mario has been plucked from the multicoloured fantasy of the Mushroom Kingdom and dumped into our much less palatable reality.
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