Top 10 Hardest Super Mario Odyssey Power Moons

while a large majority of the power moons and Mario Odyssey are relatively easy to get there's definitely a few challenging goals in terms of difficulty I've decided to not include any hard-to-find one simply because the challenge is just finding it and not so much collecting it so these power moons take a considerate amount of skill to collect and with that said let's ago alright ladies and gents the sand kingdom is home to the largest amount of power moves out of all the other kingdoms well the Mushroom Kingdom technically has more but half of those are just talking to toadette so that doesn't really count of the 89 moons one of them barely cracked this list hah beyond this gray pipe leads you to some sinking ruins on your left you'll find a spark pylon that you'll use to zap yourself to the main course of the stage wait this thing is called a spark pylon huh anyway when you arrive the floor will immediately start falling so right off the bat you're under a lot of pressure to get moving and what better way to go fast than to use the rocket flower now using this is already in itself a bit challenging running around with it is manageable but take some practice you'll have to make a couple of jumps to grab the least one more of these flowers otherwise you won't make it to the end of this tilted mace yeah you have to run up the side of this maze while blazing full throttle if you miss a flower and run out of boost well say hello to the poison it's not too bad if you've gotten the hang of it but if you want the harder moon in this course you have to grab a key the key just so happens to be across a narrow path with openings on the sides I can't tell you how many times I've missed grabbing the key it's the most infuriating thing when you do grab it you'll simply make your way to the top and finish the course this one isn't gonna make you pull your hair out of your scrotum but it feels very well how do I say this uncomfortable to collect the lake kingdom man who doesn't love this one that soft peaceful music brings a calm sooth to my mind the water is fun to swim around in thanks to the cheep cheeps and to top it off there's a section where you use of Frog to hop over waves of poison well that escalated quickly I'm sure some of you are gonna disagree with me on this one I mean heck there's clips of people doing this without the Frog but with or without froggy this moon is kind of nasty to collect the platform's are given to jump on are so puny there's not much room for error you can't hit the poison once with the Frog and live but don't expect to be around much longer than that there's two main sections to clear and when you think it's all over there just so happens to be another power moon in the horizon what makes this one so hard is that the waves are coming towards you instead of on the side that forces you to make harder and quicker jumps which isn't the easiest to do since the Frog jumps like is on the goddamn moon like I said some people may have an easier time with a star without the Frog but I still struggle with this every time and I also don't like how the game teases you with all these gold rings and coins on the platform's that's just not nice try and distract me like Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 there's a boss Russian Odyssey that really grinds on the gears the first power moon and the dark side is number eight on this list and what you'll have to do is defeat all four of the brutal z' and finish by annihilating the giant Robo brutes suit all in one go that's right you get three hit points for five boss fights now might not sound that bad considering the brutal Zarn tat challenging but making just one mistake and getting hit once makes it all the harder to get through thankfully the game was nice to offer you one heart before the fifth and final boss but it's just that one extra hit point I find myself struggling the most with topper because the hats he throws are spammed all over the field and on top of that he'll spin around on the ground with all the hats on if you get too close since he's the first boss you take on getting hit even once really stresses you out since you know how many bosses you have to take out with no way of refilling your health and I don't really like that there's moon gravity when fighting them either because the timing is a little bit different for hitting the brutal the head when you've already gotten used to fighting them without the gravity screw this moon in its obsession with bunnies Hey look we're at the dark side again and trust me we won't really be leaving this kingdom much since it's one of the last ones you unlock looking under this rock you'll find some platforms in a blue door that requires a hat for you to enter I always hate the levels where you aren't allowed to use your head it makes me feel so useless it's the same feeling when you enter a secret stage at Mario Sunshine but at least you get that head bobbing music so here we have to run across a bunch of invisible platforms while Piranha Plants are spitting poison at you go figure I guess the nice thing about the poison is you can kind of see where the platforms are or at least get an idea of their scope but it's too bad for you you don't have your head to clear the poison away your only option is to pick up some rocks and throw them into Piranha Plants mouth so they choke to death and then you kick them in the face so hard their head explodes what makes this challenging is you need to throw the rocks fast and quickly otherwise the entire stage will just be a poison party and again you can't clear any of the poison from your path you have the long jump and dive over everything and at the end you had a smack up three giant piranha planes to finish this moon doesn't make me mad because of its difficulty I just don't like how I can't clear out the poisoned mess it just feels dirty and wrong you knew this was coming the infamous jump rope girls from the Metro Kingdom to get the harder power boat you need to jump rope 100 times in a row that might not sound too bad but every 5 jumps the rope speeds up until 50 at the top speed you're practically jumping with frame-perfect inputs to make it by even the slightest change in your jump will throw off everything and you can easily lose doing so this one is a bit higher on the list because I can usually find a groove after a few tries to get the moon I need but even with that I have to put 110% of my focus into jumping because you can't mess up anything I'm aware that by throwing your hat at the pair in a certain way and glitching out the camera you can get unlimited jumps by just standing above the rope but come on that's cheating I'm not gonna let that affect this list outcome like seriously be a man and do this without breaking the rules if you cheat I'll see you I see everything what a shocker we're at the dark side again at this point we might as well just head over to Darth Vader's house and have some coffee terrible Star Wars joke out of the way a hole in the rock leads to a door where you once again aren't allowed to use your cap following this a terrifying rush to get from one road to the next you'll step on p-switches which brings up long stretches of road you have to briskly get across without making mistakes the best option is of course to roll but a lot of the time you'll be forced to dive up platforms to maintain a fast speed bonking is your worst nightmare if you do bonk near the beginning of hitting a p-switch just head on back and wait to repeat the cycle because the amount of time your allotted is incredibly little you have to always be moving or the roads gonna disappear on you the ticking timer doesn't help matters either it makes me feel more stressed to get to the end which leads me to more likely make mistakes the paranoid you have to get is near the end across a bunch of platforms that fall when you touch them which is even harder to get through it's not even at the jumps themselves are that challenging it's just doing them quickly without bonking is the real challenge in a way you're basically forced to be a speed runner whether you like that or not oh god I whimper and feel dread when thinking about this moon and Mari is 64 there were these little slide levels where Mario slides down his butt really fast and it was really fun well odyssey's version has he playing as a bouncy marshmallow which only moves by jumping if you push jump as he hits the ground he'll get a speed boost yeah it's as awkward as it sounds some people have really grown to like this style of racing but honestly I really despise it no matter how much I play this and try to use to the controls I just don't enjoy it at all there's a few courses of this in the game and this is definitely the hardest one there's lots of hills and slopes and jumping in the wrong spot can cause you to lose a lot of your speed the class s race in particular doesn't allow for much of any mistakes if you aren't going fast the whole time then someone will pass you often times I can't even get into first and Tom on the second or third lap and to make matters worse there's some snow that'll slow you down if you don't touch it I just hope that the inevitable Odyssey 2 doesn't have this of racing in it because I honestly hate it and here's another power moon that you knew would crack this list the darker side was made to function similar to the perfect running galaxy - or champion throw to Mario 3d World in some ways it does and in some ways it doesn't like those stages the entire level breaks down into several sections with no checkpoints you'll start by taking out this alien spaceship called UFO well if you want to you're jumping over lava - turning into lava bubbles and it goes on and on and on if there's one thing to say this is one of the longest mario levels of all time it just never ends and you might be wondering why isn't this number one well the answer to that is simple the game is nice to you if you do decide to take out UFO he gives you a life apart talking to the sphinx can give you one - so basically you'll always have six hit points and that's not all there's quite a few hearts to refill your life bar along the way even though you probably get hit by some things here and there you're given so much extra health that it almost doesn't even matter but like I said this level is still challenging it's just easier than I would have expected I know where the glide and you can cheat and fly all the way to the very end with Bowser and skip the hardest section in the game but you aren't supposed to do that I guess if you don't consider that cheating since it is easy to do that's fine but this list is based off the intended route you're supposed to take moving on this section with all these clouds and Rainbow porcupines and fire circles are the bane of my existence you're given the small platform that moves incredibly slow and you basically have to avoid / kill all these guys while avoiding the fire circles and that's a lot easier said than done on my first playthrough and even the ones after I always find myself struggling with this section it gets so intense near the end because there's like a million things you have to avoid if you weren't given health at all for the stage then this section alone will put this at number one and the last thing you'll tackle is this part with Bowser which honestly isn't that bad you just scratch up some rocks and you know there's some rolling towards you and they're easy to avoid it's whatever and you're freaking given health at the beginning of that too so yeah darker side should have just been called lighter side even though it can't kick my butt if you thought jump-roping was annoying wait until you try the volleyball yes in the seaside Kingdom there's this volleyball game where you have to volleyball 100 times in a row what makes this one so grueling is how long it takes the ball moves and a snail's pace at first like seriously it takes like 5 years before it picks up speed but before you know it the ball moves at the speed of light and you basically have to throw your hat to hit the ball so the game turns into throwing your hat accurately with no mistakes I've heard people try a trick where they only use the hat and move mario off the field but I don't really find that much easier and when you mess up starting over just drags on because it takes forever for the ball to pick up speed again so not only is that one of the hardest moons to get in the game but also one of the longest and most hideous now if you play through this entire game and I've gotten all the power moons you probably have a good idea what number one is home sweet home darkside breakdown Road actually makes you want to break down and cry like a lot of the other power moons in this game you aren't given access to your hat making platforming a lot trickier what you'll need to do is run to the end jump down below wait for the bonds I built to notice you and then you'll long jump across these teeny tiny platforms consecutively till the end my god did they really space out these platforms this almost feels like I Kai's a level like I'm not even kidding your long jumps really do need to be framed perfect from start to finish most of the time I'll jump too early and bog or I'll fall off the platform because I waited too long to jump since you don't have your hat there's no opportunity to correct yourself and you can't capture the Banzai bill and if you wait too long the Banzai bill will just hit you I seriously hate this power mode like it's not even worth my time but I'm the guy that has a hundred percent every Mario game why do I do this to myself but with all that said guys make sure to LIKE and subscribe if you enjoyed this and let me know in the comments what you think the hardest parents are and why thanks so much for watching and I hope you have a great day you

Channel: Nathaniel Bandy

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Length: 12min 21sec (741 seconds)

Published: Thu Dec 21 2017

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That power moon in the Sand Kingdom is really easy (I'm serious).