Video game will never look this good

I dont know its missing a lot of that mario magic. The controls are simplistic to a fault too, the game uses three buttons, jump, hat attack and pound, and yet there are three more buttons that could be used but are just used as repeats for the same actions and it hurts the game. Example, to dive you need to jump, ground pound and then jump mid ground pound. Too complicated, needlessly so when you have three extra buttons being ignored. The worst is the dive jump, you need to jump, throw hat and hold throw button, then ground pound, let go of hat button to jump and then jump again as you land into the hat. The complexity becomes stupid, its like a bad mario 64, 64 was complex but controls were nice and responsive.

If you get the bare minimum and move on you miss out big time. All 3D Mario collectathons let you skip ahead leaving behind incomplete area's but none do it on the scale of Odyssey which makes rushing through a very skeletal experience.
You really gotta play it as one big scavenger hunt where you explore every nook and cranny of a world before moving onto the next, then come back later and find more. It's the hunt for moons where Odyssey shines, not in the platforming and combat.
It's different from the older formula where each Star / Shine is it's own 5min challenge to an upturn every rock affair. I feel it's very fun the first time but suffers in the replayability department. Outside of a few outliers, once you know the location of all the moons the challenge is mostly gone. In the old game the challenge wasn't in the hunt, it was in getting through whatever gauntlet the devs put between you and the Star / Shine.
I am glad Odyssey exists and love it but I would prefer if the next collectathon does not follow the same formula and instead returns to fewer collectables with more challenge to get them.

both sonic adventure games effortlessly dabbed on every mario """game""" ever made in terms of gameplay, lil zoom. mario was the original tlou by comparison.