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FLOWER-COVERED MOONS

 

Super Mario Odyssey - https://youtu.be/kHHW0ARtlMo

 

The Wooded Kingdom is a large kingdom with a whole lot of moons to find!

 

There are a more small kingdoms than large ones in Odyssey, so we probably won't have too many times like this where I spend the entire stream in a single kingdom. But it will happen again, especially as the kingdoms get harder. I imagine Luncheon will take up quite a bit of time.

 

Since there's no story anymore, we're getting into territory where I don't have a lot to say. This will happen with every game, of course, especially when I'm going for near-completion. The main item on my mind for today is that mid-air cap jump. That's the first time I've ever pulled one off, and the button combo is probably why! Mentally, I expected the combo to be:

• B (jump)
• Y (cap: hold the button)
• ZR (ground pound)
• B (jump)

However, that's not actually how the combo works, and it's complicated by the fact that I need to do a long jump. Instead, you just have to press these in very quick succession:

•  ZR (crouch)
• B (long jump)
• Y (cap)
• ZR (ground pound)
• Y (jump?!)

The Y button is working overtime in Odyssey. Another thing it does is the Roll command:

• ZR (crouch)
• Y (roll) 
• Y (mash to roll faster) / B (long jump)

 

Really, that Y button is more of a context action; it's also used to grab and throw objects. One of the tricks that I've alluded to, but not explained, is the "nut jump." This is only possible on the first couple of versions of the game (since it's a glitch; the patch prevents you from repeating the action) and is critical for the Minimum Captures speedrun, and it also uses the Y jump. The seeds that I grabbed a lot of for vines today also appear in Bowser's Kingdom, and the nut jump is when you jump, throw the seed, ground pound, Y jump and grab the seed again. When you grab the seed, it lets you gain a little height and do another Y jump. In total, then, the trick's button presses are:

• B (jump)
• Y (throw seed)
• ZR (ground pound)
• Y (jump)
• Y (throw seed)
• ZR (ground pound)
• Y (jump)
• etc.

Doing this repeatedly lets you gain infinite height. At the very top of Bowser's Kingdom, to skip the wire capture that gets you up to where Bowser's face is, speedrunners have to do the nut jump (if I recall correctly) eighty times in a row! While "ZR Y Y" isn't the hardest button combo to input repeatedly, it's still hard to do it that many times with virtually no lag on the inputs. Because if you fall at all doing this, you'll miss the ledge at the top. It's the perfect angle to get up there.