It’s good overall and fun to just play whenever your out and about, but it feel like its saying the least out of all the 3D Mario games. It’s basic 2D Mario in 3D and that’s about it. This kind game would work best with Co-op like 3D World, but it doesn’t have that and gives it slightly less replay ability valve. The most prominent “”new”” power up is the leaf from Super Mario Bros. 3 and no actually new power-ups. At least 3D World, while very similar, had the new Cat Bell which actually was new. Also the camera can get a little wonky sometimes and the fact that 3D World is now on the switch and with new content sorta makes there not a lot of incentive to play this anymore. But it was still a 3D Mario game and it’s still a joy to play, but it’s just not a go-to one for me.

This is actually my first time ever fully playing though this game in its entirety and it's kinda good actually. It's very revolutionary and defined gaming for what it is today, but it's not without its flaws. For starters, I don't like how once you scroll through a segment of a level, you can't go back and it can get kind of frustrating if an enemy comes out of nowhere because of that. Also another thing is that if you get hit while you have the fire flower, you go back to being small Mario. I feel that's kind of unfair to the player and fortunately Nintendo did fixed that minor announce in later entries.

I think this game is like Snow White in a lot of ways. They both good, but flawed. But they both defined the mediums of gaming and animation and helped pathed the way for some of the greatest pieces of entertainment ever made, so I can't be too mad towards this.