Nostalgia is not a great thing. I hate this game more than ever. I enjoy the feelings I felt as a kid and learning this new realm of video games, but I have been playing this on a pro controller on the switch in the 3d all star pack, and oh man, I did not remember Mario handling like an a-hole all the time. Making the smallest turns and movements turns into absolute chaos when placement is the difference between falling off a cliff and starting the level over and getting the star you have been working towards for over an hour. I'm half way through it as I dont think I finished as a kid, but im up to 6x stars currently. I just plan to get all 6 main stars and what 100 coin stars I can get and the secret stars and then be done with it and move onto Sunshine.

This is one of those games that you just sit down and play, and play and play because there's a lot of controls and inputs to remember.
It becomes addicting to learn more the longer you play. I found myself just playing to get better. I'm not good at the game, I do ok, I have 1/3? of some sort of medal in vr missions, ive beat the game 3 official times, twice on normal and once on hard. I tried very hard and didnt make it out of the first area. My goal with most games like this is to get as much of the collectables as I can and keep enjoying the game and become absolutely overpowered. I started to wain on the game a little as it would take some time to get the rest of the weapon upgrades, already maxxed most of them out so I started the blade wolf campaign. The idea is to play through the DLC campaigns then take a break from it.