Mr. Mad Pat, how many moons does it take to get to New Dog City?

Let's find out.

One. find out. A one, a two, a three, a three, a three, a three, a three, a three. Twenty minutes later. Forty six.

46. 47.

48. 48.

48 sugary moons.

Now if you'll excuse me, I don't feel too well.

No. I'm going to go and Hello internet. Welcome to Game Theory, the funky mode to all of gaming's most complicated issues.

Today we're going to be strapping in and launching ourselves into Super Mario Odyssey, one of the most satisfying and confusing Mario worlds I've ever had to experience.

I mean, you have a kingdom of Rainbow Forks right next to Nintendo's version of Dark Souls.

Then, because of Mario's Canonoid of 5.1 inch, the people of Newdong City of game has to do with the very last location you go to.

The Moon, not because of the Dark Side stages or the Boss Rush,

but because when you actually sit down and do the math,

the Moon is proven to be the single biggest threat to Mario.

Nay, I say the entire mushroom kingdom.

Forget Bowser and his petty little schemes to marry Princess Peach.

That is nothing. This thing thing this thing right here is a threat

scarier than anything Nintendo has ever cooked up we're talking majoras mask levels of

planet-wide mood-based catastrophe here people

but to truly understand why this thing the moon is such a menace to Mario in this

game we're gonna have to do some math so get ready theorists let's crack open some formulas and break out the

TI 84s. Yeah 84s we got to bust out the big guns today because here we go off

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