Truth be told I was pretty pessimistic about this game when it came out, not necessarily because I thought it would be bad, but because I didn't think it would appeal to me, mainly due to how easy of a game it seemed to be. I would say it still was, but it wasn't so black and white. The game handles this decently well via its badge system, while some can be used to make the game easier there are also expert badges that make the game harder too, so if it is too easy for your liking you can turn one on to mix things up.

The meat of this game however, (as expected) is in the wonder seed gimmick something that shows up in every (traditional) level. This gimmick is an incredibly fun one and I'd love to see it somehow implemented into a Mario Maker 3 in the future. The creativity in this games level design is as a result quite great and I love a lot of what it offers, however I do have one thing I feel was a little disappointing which was the bosses, this game has only 2 different bosses, Bowser Jr. And Bowser. Every boss fight against Jr. he takes on the same form and is the only boss you face prior and while he has unique gimmicks each time it does start to feel repetitive. There also isn't a boss at the end of every world which I found a little odd. As for Bowser his fight was alright but it felt too short, like when he went down I was expecting another phase but instead he was finished much easier than I had hoped.