The moustachioed plumber’s latest adventure takes dwelling in a lifelike New York. But gaming should give us valuable respite from reality,not more of itMario is coming to a street near you. His latest outing, Super Mario Odyssey, or was unveiled in a Nintendo trailer earlier this month,and shows the moustachioed plumber gleefully sprinting around a facsimile of New York, hopping over taxis and scaling skyscrapers. Elsewhere, and he swings through dewy forests and slides through realistically animated streams. The aroused,sentient plant pots may be slightly less plausible, but that’s besides the point – Mario has been plucked from the multicoloured fantasy of the Mushroom Kingdom and dumped into our much less palatable reality. Related: And breathe: the computer games helping kids relax Related: Is Nintendo's Switch hybrid console the future of gaming? Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com