One of the most memorable locations in Super Mario Odyssey was secretly a lot freakier than anyone realized, as the faces of the people in New Donk City have been revealed and they are pretty creepy in a Polar Express kind of way.
In Super Mario Odyssey, the player can visit Ne𓄧w Donk City in the Metro Kingdom, which is a thriving metropolis with lots of buildings for Mario to jump around on. The residents of New Donk City include humans with realistic proportions, making Mario's appearance stand out in the crowd.
If the player moves the camera too close to the faces of the New Donk City residents, they become transparent. But now, he Supper Mario Broth Twitter page has extracted the models from Super Mario Odyssey and given fans a close look at the citizens of New Donk City... and it appears that they escaped from the town of Greenvale from Deadly Premonition.
New Donk City is one of the busiest locations in Super Mario Odyssey in terms of the number of characters on screen at once. It's likely that the faces had such little detail in order to keep things running smoothly, and the transparency trick was used to stop players from catching on. It's not uncommon for developers to use tricks like thi🧸s in games, especially whenever a player moves further aw𒈔ay from another character model, as they will often degrade in detail and quality in order to keep the game running. As long as the player keeps moving, the drop in detail doesn't stick out.
Super Mario Odyssey is one of the best-looking games on the Nintendo Switch. The fact that the game is running on a console like the Switch just goes to show the amazing feats that Nintendo can pull off with the system. The fact that New Donk City is filled with PlayStation 2 characters does little to take away from how incredible it looks🐠.
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