The titular essential 2D platformer that most people who play any sort of Nintendo game know of with great praise. It definitely holds up to most of the scrutiny vs. other 2d platformers done by the Nintendo EAD team but nonetheless it is still marred in very limited level design of the era. While Mario is fun to control and utilize and holds a lot of depth of traversal especially with the new Super Leaf, certain worlds like Ice and Sky land especially have very boring level structures involving anywhere from autoscrollers to moving around the same level finding the pipe that allows you to exit. Not to mention that the Super Leaf in of itself invalidates a lot of the levels you're able to use it in. It still holds the charm of what it was in the year it came out in, and honestly speedrunning the game still withholds a lot of value. Otherwise though I'd say it's a very middling experience. (6/10)