


You will find a few flowers in most of the big kingdoms. Hit the flower with Cappy and it will produce a moon for you to snag. After a bit, come back to the plant and look for a gold flower bud at the top. You need to give the flower a few minutes to grow, so head off and find some other Power Moons while you’re waiting. That will start a flower growing in the pot. Find one and bring it back to one of the flower pots, then toss it in. If you find some, start keeping an eye out for large golden acorn-looking seeds. As you walk around, look for several flower pots scattered around a given area. One of the less-obvious recurring puzzles in many kingdoms involves a little gardening. Jump into the birds when they’re low enough, or tag them with Cappy, to get them to drop what they are carrying. Watch them fly around a bit and you will notice that they make a big loop, often coming close to the ground in a couple of places where you can intercept them. Like the rabbits and other puzzles in which you need to catch something to snag a moon, birds always move on predictable, if far-reaching, paths. That is an indication the bird is carrying a Power Moon and you need to catch it to get it. But if you’re keen-eyed, you will notice that there is usually at least one bird in every kingdom that glows with a rainbow hue. Catching birdsįor most of the game, there’s not much reason to keep an eye on the birds soaring overhead in Super Mario Odyssey, who seem mostly to be there for the sake of looking nice. If you’re hurting for moons to unlock your next kingdom, stop by the shop and drop some coins. Cap shops will even sell them in batches of 10. In fact, it turns out that you can keep buying moons from shops if you so choose. You find that each shop will sell you a Power Moon for 100 gold coins, giving you a quick way to snag a moon without a ton of effort. Each of the Cap shops has two vendors, with one accepting regular gold coins and the other taking purple coins specific to each kingdom. Buying the moonĭrop by the Crazy Cap shop in any given kingdom and you find a quick and easy way to nab (at least one) moon. You can keep racing after that for better times - Mario Odyssey includes online leaderboards - but you won’t win any more moons. Beat him and you get your second moon for the event. With one win under your belt, you are invited to a tougher race with a golden Koopa who is an even more formidable opponent. You can earn two Power Moons from each Koopa race. That usually means you can get pretty creative about your race route, especially if you’re good at some of Mario’s more skill-intensive jump moves. The race requires you to be the first competitor to get to a specific place in the kingdom, but how you get there is up to you. Talk to him and he invites you to a parkour-style race across the kingdom with four other Koopas. racesĪfter you beat Bowser, most of the big kingdoms will have a Koopa character that you can find waiting for you. In any event, try to shorten the distance between you and him until you can touch the rabbit. That is not always a viable option depending on where you find him, though in the Snow Kingdom, for instance, you find the rabbit on the side of a hill, which makes hitting him with Cappy pretty tough. The best way to deal with him is to bop him with Cappy when you can get a clear throw, which will daze the rabbit and slow him down. He’s faster than Mario, so catching the rabbit is about strategy. If you can grab the rabbit, you get a Power Moon, but it’s hard to snag him. The rabbit will generally hop in a particular pattern, but it’s quick and pretty hard to stop. The little rabbit will hop around in various places, and when you approach it, it darts off and runs you on a chase. Hoppy rabbitĪnother animal that pops up in a lot of kingdoms is a small rabbit that wears a top hat. Look for small hills and mounds, as those are the spots where you usually find buried items. If the first thing he finds isn’t a Power Moon, keep looking the dog will follow you around the area until he smells something else, so explore around and see if he tracks anything down. Follow him when he goes, as he always sniffs the ground until he finds something buried, and then digs it up. If you approach the dog, he usually rears back on his hind legs before wandering off somewhere nearby. He is usually near where the Odyssey sets down, but sometimes you can find him in other places - in the Metro Kingdom, for instance, he hangs out in a small park not far from where you find Pauline. Look around most kingdoms for a little dog wearing a hat hanging around.
