Controls

We've documented 4 accessibility features for Controls in Super Mario Odyssey which deal with how you control the game, different options for alternative inputs and whether you can remap these settings to suit your needs.

Motion

Games that can be played with different sorts of motion controllers.

Motion Aiming: Can use small movements of the gamepad to fine-tune aiming or as the main aiming mechanism. This is sometimes known as Gyro-Aiming. This usually provides the ability to calibrate these controls to taste.

Motion Gesture: Can motion with the controller to direct an in-game action. This can be a one-to-one motion for analogue sword or camera movement. It can also be a simple shake to trigger a one-off action. This is sometimes known as Waggle or Shake controls, as popularised by the Wii.

Controller Vibration

Vibration Optional: Controller vibration not used in the game or you can disable it.

Informative Vibration: Controller vibration indicates events or interactions in the game, echoing visual and audio cues. This can provide additional information about progress, approaching enemies or hitting a target.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Controls

If you want to play Super Mario Odyssey, but it doesn't offer the Controls accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Controls accessibility:

• Tchia (11 Controls Features)
• Wavetale (9 Controls Features)
• Sackboy: A Big Adventure (9 Controls Features)
• New Super Lucky's Tale (9 Controls Features)

Getting Started

We've documented 5 accessibility features for Getting Started in Super Mario Odyssey which deal with what support is offered to get started with the game. This includes customising the experience when you first open the game via any onboarding processes it provides as well as tutorials and other assistance when you first start playing.

Assistance Getting Starting

These features aid your play of the game in terms of cognitive load on learning controls, dealing with pressure and coping with the environment and challenges.

Tutorials: There are helpful tutorials and instructions on how to play. Information is provided in a timely manner, with appropriate level of detail.

Practice Area: You can practice freely without opponents or time pressures. This can be a specific practice option, or the ability to play levels with the easiest opponents to improve understanding and skill.

Assistance With Controls: The game can automatically assist with aiming, steering, reloading, jumping, running etc. This reduces the challenge of certain aspects of play to remove barriers and make control of characters more accessible.

Assistance For Progressing

These features aid your progress through the game offering different ways of maintaining your progression.

Assisted Progress With Hints: The game notices if you get stuck (or you can press a button) and provides information to help you progress. This can offer hints or tutorials popping up during play. This includes hints after you have died, where it can suggest strategies or difficulty settings to adjust or offer to skip past problematic levels.

Save Progress Anytime: The game automatically saves progress or you can save any time. This doesn’t mean you never lose progress, but it does mean you can stop whenever you want (without having to get to a save point) without losing progress.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Getting Started

If you want to play Super Mario Odyssey, but it doesn't offer the Getting Started accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Getting Started accessibility:

• Mail Time (7 Getting Started Features)
• Disney Illusion Island (7 Getting Started Features)
• Kirby and the Forgotten Land (7 Getting Started Features)
• Tchia (7 Getting Started Features)

Navigation

We've documented 2 accessibility features for Navigation in Super Mario Odyssey which deal with how the game provides guidance and assistance to navigate its worlds. These are only for games that have traversal and exploration in 2D and 3D spaces.

Head-Up Display

Head-Up Display Navigation: Indication of where to go next with overlaid arrows, minimaps and waypoint markers. This supplements in-game visual and audible cues with additional guidance about where you are and where you need to go.

Game Map: View a map of the game world during play, with the landscape, points of interest and missions highlighted throughout the entire game. This enables the orientation of the player and the world, confirming a direction of movement and the location of destinations or points of exploration.

Similar Games With More Accessibility Features for Navigation

If you want to play Super Mario Odyssey, but it doesn't offer the Navigation accessibility features you require, these similar games extend the Navigation accessibility:

• Splatty's Adventure (7 Navigation Features)
• Ruffy and the Riverside (6 Navigation Features)
• Mario vs. Donkey Kong (5 Navigation Features)
• Tchia (5 Navigation Features)

Audio

We haven’t documented any accessibility features for Audio in Super Mario Odyssey which deal with how you can adjust the audio of the game and whether audio cues compensate for aspects of the game that are hard to see. The following games are similar to Super Mario Odyssey, and offer accessibility features for Audio:

• Disney Illusion Island (3 Audio Features)
• Splatty's Adventure (3 Audio Features)
• Balan Wonderworld (3 Audio Features)
• The Smurfs 2 - The Prisoner of the Green Stone (2 Audio Features)