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Small improvement to Super Mario Odyssey's HUD

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This game is very beautiful and sometimes I just want to take in the sights and admire its visuals. I think it's a shame that the HUD (heads-up display for anyone that doesn't know) for coins and health and everything is covering up a part of the screen at all times. It would be nice to have some options in this regard.

Either you could have the option to remove it completely so you'd have to open the map or pause the game to see your coins and such. This would be the most immersive option to me. Or you could make the HUD disappear whenever you are not interacting with any objects that affect the numbers on there, and reappear when you are (in a seemless and non-cluttering way, of course. Just fade in/fade out). Have a dedicated button that isn't used for anything particular (like X or one of the D-pad buttons) to bring up the HUD whenever you want. I'm sure there's a lot more options that I can't think of.

I'm pretty sure many old school 3D platformers and collectathons used to do this and it seems like it would fit Odyssey well. This is such a small nitpick in an otherwise incredible game so it's not a big deal, but it's also a simple way to immerse players that care about this even more into the game.

Posted Oct 28, 2017, 9:29 AM UTC

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