Full disclosure: I played this on the Switch emulator with rewind function.

I really enjoyed this game. If I had played it back when the game had first come out, I think I would have loved it. That said, it is weird even for a Mario game. The unusual choice in enemy sprites and locations makes me believe that the game was either once intended to be a completely different game, or that they reused assets from another project to cut down on development costs and time.

That said, it was fun to play and I feel it holds up relatively well.