Great presentation and a huge step up in production values. The art style is super charming and the soundtrack is very enjoyable. However, mechanicanically, most of the additions make the game worse.

There is no punishment for landing a wrong spin, so you just hold L2 or R2 all the time for free points and multipliers. The grabs are a little awkward to pull off since you have to move your thumb from the A button, which is constantly being used for landings, so you basically just end up using them when you are forced to. The wall rides combined with some weird physiscs are just a gamble in which angle you are going to land and come out.

It still is a very fun and satisfying game, but its just worse in almost every single way than the previous entries.