It's a streamlined mario with a few mechanics that are interesting, but it's one main goal, attempting to join mario together with 4 player simultaneous co-operation, falls flat. On the one hand, it's confusing and chaotic to play with others. Still fun, but you could have more fun playing any other number of co-op games that feel right for the type of gameplay. And then if you go at it solo, it feels a bit bare-bones for a mario game. Too simplified to enjoy greatly since it doesn't have any of the really white-knuckled sections some other mario games can deliver while still being fairly accessible to all parties. It fed a strange mario maker 2 void before that was released, but felt worse as an overall 2D mario title than any other.