When I played Super Mario Odyssey in 2017, I thought, “This is great! I bet they’ll pull a Galaxy and release a direct sequel in a few years.” You never did that, but I kept waiting. At this point, it’s been nearly eight years since the last 3D Mario — the longest gap ever between mainline 3D Mario platformers — and you come to me,

Super Mario Odyssey is one of the best 3D platformers of all time – I'm not sure I'd find anyone who disagrees with that opinion if I tried. Naturally, with the advent of the Switch 2 fast approaching,

But is this just a palette swap? Maybe the developers wanted to make a new 3D platformer, but to mix it up they slotted in Donkey Kong instead of Mario. Effectively, is this the sequel to Mario Odyssey we’ve been waiting for?