The 18 weirdest things I saw in Nintendo's big new Mario game that's about to launch

I never thought I'd see a shirtless Mario running along the beach, nipples and all, but here we are.

This is emblematic of the supreme silliness of "Super Mario Odyssey," the next big game coming to Nintendo's Switch. If you remember "Super Mario 64," "Super Mario Odyssey" is basically that, but bigger, better looking - and way weirder.

I got a chance to play the game recently, and during that session I found a bunch of things that are at least as strange as the image above.

Here, for example, is another real image from the game, which I captured while playing it:

"Super Mario Odyssey" is quite a game. Let's dive in!