8 Things We Learned After Playing Super Mario Odyssey

Everyone's favorite mustachioed plumber has ventured far beyond the Mushroom Kingdom to save Princess Peach over the years, traversing lava-covered landscapes, haunted mansions and scorching deserts. But his next full-fledged adventure, dubbed Super Mario Odyssey and due on the Nintendo Switch October 27, will be unlike any yet seen in several ways.

For starters, it's the first open-world Mario series installment since Super Mario Sunshine arrived on the GameCube in 2002.