I love this as a potential sort of a soft launch of a new era of Mario games. Shedding off the legacy of the NSMB games and understanding what made them pretty solid games while also embracing a new art style, new sound, new vibe was just a good move as a whole.

I love that every level is mostly all the fun gimmick levels especially with the badge system encouraging you to kind of break them. It feels easier to balance for when there's this much chaos often happening. I'm also surprised just how many damn levels there are including secret levels.

I think the biggest fault is the power ups are just not that interesting and bosses are extremely whatever. It's a solid fine offering, but nothing that inspires much.