Poison means nothing.

Next up on the Christmas Block 2025, Mr. Wheel gives me Super Mario Odyssey: Frozen Lands. Haven't played this since the 2024 Christmas mini Sub-A-Thon event. I believe last I left off, I was a little stuck trying to figure out where to go in Wooded.

Couldn't go much anyway at first here. I take 2 steps and my game freezes... what? Emulator? Psssh... no of course not!... so... anyways I try something... different... and this one works better. So I am working on finding the secret flower field. I can only go so far with an uproot before I seemingly find myself on a dead end. Taking the slingshot doesn't help besides just carry me to an earlier spot in the kingdom. Though when I do hit the bonus area with the rising water and those Fuzzies. I have to be careful too because that water is freezing cold. I missed the flooding pipeway ceiling secret moon here. 2 moons away from being able to get back into the odyssey. If I can just get out of this area first. Was I doing it the hard way? Yeah probably. Whether it was the water of the Fuzzies, I was taking 1 death too many. But I do get out... now where do I go? Well some help tells me exactly where I go. I don't know how I didn't see this last time... assuming I didn't see it last time. But I take a tank to bring down a wall and take a beanstalk to the Forest Charging Station!... not before getting the regional coins. I take the rocket up and collect the moon chips for the wandering in the fog moon. I thought there was a 2nd moon here too. And I was right. There is a nut hidden in the fog which gets me the last moon I need to fill up the odyssey up again to Metro Kingdom! Hah... jinx! We do a little cloud fighting with Bowser! The fight isn't as easy as usual. With icy clouds plus one of Bowser's landing spots a little elevated with ice. After a couple tries, I do take him down and send him back to his airship. Yeah Peach still forgets she can float. Still can't get to Metro just yet. The Odyssey crashes down into the Lost Kingdom. I try to do the speedrun strat where I triple jump off one of the trees and to that small platform with the regional coins. But that tree is so slippery. It's hard to do. However... something... weird I realize. As I try the jump, I find myself in the poison... the... frozen... over... poison... it may be bubbly... but I can run across it like it's nothing. Well this changes everything. I find myself on that 8 bit area. Right outside it I get the over fuzzies, above swamp moon. And then I hit up the 8-bit area where I get the avoiding fuzzies inside the wall moon.

Yes, the poison in the 8-bit area is also frozen. Can't really get out here so I warp to the Mountainside Platform checkpoint. And then I use the Tropical Wiggler to collect the moon chips... sort of forgetting I can just walk on the poison. It's a forced habit. As I try to find the last chip, I run into Captain Toad who gives me his moon. Where is that last chip though? Eventually I find it in the hole in the tree. How did I forget that? I climb my way up, collect some regional coins, and collect the Atop a Propeller Pillar moon on the rotating platform. I don't need any help collecting the Peeking Out from Under the Bridge moon since the poison is all frozen over. I find the moon in the stone cage. Speaking of cages. There's a moon in a cage up on a long stump. Just need a Trapeetle to take cappy and ram him into said cage... if only I can time my fucking jump correctly. Maybe I'll do better getting the Propeller Pillar's Secret moon. I remembered that one. I do eventually break down that cage and get that moon. When I get up to the Swamp Hill checkpoint, I realize something kind of funny. Klepto... poor little bird... Frozen over! HAH! Well I don't have to worry about it stealing my Cappy. And I can get the Tree in the Swamp moon! That's the last moon I need to be able to finally make it to Metro Kingdom! Home of Mayor Pauline! The snow violently falls here as I have a quest to set on. There's one moon I am able to get before my battle with the Mechawiggler. Swaying in the Breeze. 1 swinging metal bar contains said moon. I then find myself in the New Donk City Hall Interior as I scale it upward and get ready for my fight with the... mecha... wiggler? Uh... huh... it appears... that... it's frozen over. So... how do I save New Donk City? I try scaling the very top of the building and the ice chunks that surround it... that doesn't seem to work... so wait what do I... oh so apparently a random ass story moon was just put on the top of the tower. And uh... Mario's looking a little rotated... okay that's random. XD! But I guess I randomly defeated Mechawiggler. I collect the Secret Girder Tunnel moon and head down to the city. After a few failed slippery attempts I'm able to get the moon from jump roping. Just one is all I get. Just one is all I need.

Now it's up to me to save Pauline's band for the festival. The drummer is closest by so I recruit him for the band. The guitarist is in that little park lobby area. On the Commemorative Park contains the downed wiggler I... totally defeated. Plus the bassist. Finally, I meet up with the Trumpeter chilling on a high building. So the band is put together. But now I need to power up the city... not before controlling an RC car for a moon. Oh and getting the rotating maze moon... and the one outside it. Finally I head down to the underground power plant make my way to the power machine. I take down the 2 poison plants, collect the moon, reach the button on the machine itself, press it... and... uh... um... I mean I know I haven't played this game in a minute but isn't something supposed to... happen? I think so because Pauline says I'm forgetting something. Like a switch. And going back to City Hall, Pauline still says the power plant needs to be running. I do get the Sewer Treasure moon back in that area before plant access. But how do I activate it? It almost looks like it's already running. I think somehow this mod fucked up an action flag that says the plant is powered up. So what I do, I restart the game and unload the mod. And I tell you... it looks weird not seeing snow all around me. I was right about my theory that some sort of flag was fucked up with the mod as now I can activate the power plant to get the concert going. I thought maybe the reason why I couldn't do the festival with the mod was because it would be buggy or visually messy but... i mean it looked fine. Snow and all, I could still see where I was going. As I traversed the 8-bit section, took down Donkey Kong, and got the triple moon to end the stream!

And a little perfect timing collecting said triple moon with the music just for swag.