The fact that a game can release from a beta yet be more egregious abhorrent is quite the feat. The fact there are so many backwards decisions is quite insane. Like generally how the hell does this get through. The worst part is the lack of any substance whatsoever. Everything you liked is way worse, locking characters in the battle pass, making characters more expensive, locking characters out of training and local(fucking hell). Making the game slower and buggy as all hell. Getting killed at 20% cause this game does not understand smash at all. Well they also added this pve mode which requires amounts of grinding with boring ass minigames and difficulties that could be also quite bullshit. Also requiring characters or cosmetics that u don't own to play some(thanks game...) Also real telling when ur game crashes every 5 minutes or a game disconnects. Didn't have this issue last time, so why now. But hey we added free glemnuim in the pass, please forgive us. I refuse to believe this game was playtested at all, this game feels more like a mobile game than an actual game to put on the market for consoles/pc. It's truly baffling; how did warner think people were gonna react to his. I don't know how this game is gonna approve, if it does then good, but at this point of time. If the game failed me twice, I'm not hoping for a third times the charm.

Intricate, complex spaces where you are the only God. Mario's continued path of slaughter is now in conflict with his privileged "moment of conscience" he was allowed in the last game. Mario's perspective contrasts deeply with a rehearsal of his first mission, but instead of approaching it from a different angle, he chooses culling yet again. Once more, he destroys ecosystems for simply being in his way. Once more, he commits the colonial atrocities that he condemns the koopas for.
What's most disturbing about all of this, though, is that he is no longer seen as the brutal and grotesque machine of the state as he was before. His actions are framed as powerful and vindicating, as if he's carving a path for the better of everyone in spite of his clinging to his ideology of totalitarian violence. This violence is no longer critiqued, but exonerated. The fascist King Koopa versus the fascist koopas once more, this time in a manner considered satisfying.
The entertainment Super Mario Bros brings through its cycles of torture are disappointing after the direction Mario Bros took. Mario is now a monster in disguise, playing "hero" for puppeteers greater than him.