Super Mario Odyssey is a Sonic the Hedgehog clone

The 16-bit console war may have ended in the ’90s, but Sega will rise again! And at this year’s influential Electronic Entertainment Expo tradeshow in Los Angeles, we saw that Mario finally admit that he should just “borrow” from Sonic the Hedgehog instead of trying to beat him.

Super Mario Odyssey is the next blockbuster game from Nintendo, and the publisher dedicated much of its E3 booth and its livestream from the show floor to this bizarre Switch platformer due out October 27. GamesBeat reporters Mike Minotti and Jeffrey Grubb also got their hands on Odyssey, and it didn’t take them long to notice that Nintendo’s squat Italian plumber has taken some notes from Sega’s speedy blue hedgehog.