The Art of Super Mario Odyssey, an official artbook for the game, has revealed many interesting things to us from Nintendo’s version of Bowsette to scrapped outfits for Mario.

Today Super Mario fan @akfamilyhomeak shared some previously unseen concept artwork from the book. Let’s take a look at some of the more interesting artwork below:

Here’s concept art of Peach captured by Mario and a mammoth captured by Mario.

More early designs of Cappy:

Super Mario Bros. 2 / Doki Doki Panic style NPCs nearly made it into Tostarena.

Diddy Kong nearly became the face of Crazy Cap:

Nintendo played around with many ideas for the NPCs that live in New Donk City, from serious tall men wearing glasses to Chibi-like humans:

How the meat on Meat Plateau appeared:

Concept artwork for the Ruined Dragon boss. Look at the third image!

A Super Mario RPG 2 style Kingdom, which sadly didn’t make the cut.

And finally, some early key art for Super Mario Odyssey:

Purchase the Super Mario Odyssey artbook from Amazon Japan if you wanna take a look at more pictures!

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