Super Mario Odyssey

Super Mario Odyssey is an upcoming open-world, platform game for the Nintendo Switch set to release Holiday 2017. It is the sixteenth title in the Super Mario series, the seventh original 3D Mario title, the eighth 3D Mario title overall, and the sixth 3D Mario title on a home console after Super Mario 3D World. The game takes place in the Mushroom Kingdom and other worlds in an open world-like setting, like Super Mario 64 and Super Mario Sunshine. Mario will be wearing a different hat in this game and it has eyes. A new mechanic in the game allows Mario to throw this hat as if it were a boomerang and he can also jump off of the hat in midair like a platform. Judging by posters seen in the announcement trailer, it seems that the game's story will involve, at least in part, Mario preventing a forced marriage of Princess Peach to Bowser.

Characters

 * Mario

Supporting

 * Princess Peach
 * Mario's Cap
 * A golden lion sculpture Mario can ride on

Villains

 * Bowser
 * A quartet of rabbit characters in formal clothing

Non-playable characters

 * Humans
 * Fork creatures in chef attire
 * Skull-headed coco-like creatures in ponchos and sombreros
 * Rabbits

Enemies

 * Goombas wearing hard hats
 * Piranha Plants
 * Spinies
 * Bullet Bills and Bill Blasters
 * Hammer Bros wearing chef hats that throw frying pans
 * Flower pots with stretching bramble legs
 * Small purple creatures with star eyes
 * Small tanks wearing top hats that spit bullets
 * Sentry Beam- or Ring Burner-like robots
 * A robotic caterpillar

Other

 * A pink Wingo-like bird in chef attire
 * Yellow, spinning machines which are watering plants.
 * Cars

Items

 * Purple triangular collectibles
 * Purple circular collectibles
 * Boom Boxes
 * Beanstalks
 * Checkpoint Flags
 * Coins
 * Coin Rings
 * Crates
 * Doors
 * ? Blocks
 * P Switches
 * Treasure Chests
 * Warp Pipes

Locations

 * New Donk City, a city with many references to the Donkey Kong series
 * A desert
 * A colorful town inhabited by the skull characters
 * Ruins where the golden lion is found
 * An area with an upside-down floating pyramid
 * A forest
 * A waterfall and stream
 * An area with a lake and metallic structures
 * A circular area with flowers where one of the rabbit characters is fought
 * A reddish mettalic tower
 * A colorful area filled with crystal-like food and produce inhabited by the fork creatures

World Map

 * A globe appears on the balcony of Mario's transportation ship. This may be the map of the game. The globe shows a planet earth-like, but the continents are different. This adds to the idea of Mario's world trotting adventure.

References to other games

 * Donkey Kong: The location New Donk City looks to be a throwback to Mario's early origins as Jumpman. There are steel girders that resemble the ones seen in this game, and the taxi cabs have license plates reading "1981-ND", referencing the year Mario and Donkey Kong made their debut. The name New Donk City is also a reference to New York City as well as Donkey Kong himself.
 * Donkey Kong Country: Characters' names from this game appear as street signs all over New Donk City.