I just had so much fuckin’ fun goofing around with stupid mechanics experiments and the game so frequently rewarded those experiments with humor, wonky success, and reactivity. Perhaps it helped that my wife was frequently playing next to me. This game is great with an audience!

Also cool that this game is so polarizing among people I respect. Feels, for better or worse, like the torch has truly been passed to a new generation of creative at Nintendo with different sensibilities than the people who founded these franchises.