An incredible game that absolutely deserves the 5 star treatment.
Hyrule truly feels like a world you live in instead of a set piece for your heroics and the world building is really cool with the whole Sheikah-tech.
It does, however, have some cons: it rains to much, making traversal completely tedious; the weapons breaking is not as bad as some people make it seem but it gets kind of annoying especially when you don't have a blacksmith option to repare your favourite weapons; the narrative (which is incredible, btw) is mainly optional and you have to go out of your way to collect all of Link's memories which make the story and world 100% more interesting and memorable.

Overall the negatives are nitpics, it truly is a beautiful game, maybe a bit to open and sand-box for me but still an incredible achievement for the franchise

Everyone has that one game they slowly learn to love. At first they enjoy it but don’t find that much to love about it, they just think ‘yeah that was ok’ and leave it at that. For me, that was my relationship with Super Mario Odyssey. It began with me enjoying it at first, and slowly but surely, it’s probably became one of my favourite games of all time.

The game begins like any other Mario game: peach gets taken by bowser and it’s up to Mario to rescue her and save the day. Pretty simple but trust me, it really isn’t about the plot of this game, but we’ll get to that later. As Mario we meet our partner for the game: cappy and that’s where our gimmick for the game comes in. Previous games we’ve had FLUDD which was able to perform many different abilities using water, and we’ve had the baby luma who gave Mario the ability to spin and destroy objects. But now, we have the ability to take over different enemies and oh man this adds quite the layer to it. We can take over the classic enemies: goombas, hammer bros, etc. but also other things such as tanks, a bouncy polar bear, or a flying lizard.

There are also many different kingdoms in the game. The most adorable thing is the themes they have for each, these include: desert, sea, lunch, city (based on New York), and a beach. Whilst these seem simple, trust me they are a lot better than you think. Each is just expanded so brilliantly and it all works so well.

I have been avoiding something so far and I may as well get it out the way. Why did I give this 5 stars? Well, it’s mainly because of how much I keep coming back to it. It’s a game that becomes quite addictive after a while. It has many different things that just make me keep wanting to come back to it. Balloon world, the 2 extra unlockable kingdoms, and getting over 9999 moons. It all becomes a recipe for a masterpiece.

So, is it on the same level as galaxy? definitely
Does it match games like super Mario 64? Yes
And could it quite possibly be, the best 3D Mario game of all time? Certainly

Great story, addictive gameplay, excellent design, could be one of the best 3D platformers, the dinosaur was put in to scare a new generation and I’m all here for it

A solid 7.5-8/10 in my book. I feel like it really removed all the issues I had with the previous game but there are some issues. The biggest issue I had is something that ruined my attachment to the story. The memory system is back but they tell a linear story though flashbacks instead of them being mostly self contained like the original but in this game I had a death scene ruined for me because I apparently didn’t find the glyphs in the right order. Scattering random bits of a story around the map in an open world game that has twists to it is just asking for it to be viewed incorrectly. An issue did persist from botw in my opinion and that’s the content bloat. People often praise this game for how much you can do but I have a hard time finding enjoyment out of a lot of it especially the new underground which feels very rushed. There aren’t really many glaring / game ruining negatives here for me and I do wonder where the series is going next but I do worry that the open world style of Zelda could get very stale