If you want to play this game do NOT get the remaster, just get the original. The updated models looked mostly horrible on everybody except Chloe, Rachel looked decent after episode 1. The lighting could be straight up horrible sometimes making the models/environments look much worse. TONS of glitches, especially on the version I played, some cutscenes were so glitchy that they gave me a headache. Some scenes Chloe would phase out of existence or sometimes her animations would not render and she would just T pose and mouth her lines. Just a complete mess and a waste of money IMO especially since the original is cheaper, as someone who LOVED the original playing this first would have definitely changed my opinion of the game as a whole

Loved the new art style, music, and gameplay innovations/additions, such as the new characters, animations, theme of the wonder bits, etc. I do have to say though that for a 2D Mario game it felt very weak on the multiplayer side of things. Playing by myself was often the best experience, or with a friend. Playing with 3 or 4 people was often a nightmare, especially with people that had never played before or didn't play very many games. The change in the way the camera was handled compared to previous Mario Bros titles (focusing on one player that can change when they die rather than a shared camera) really just made the whole thing a mess, and the wonder segments, while awesome alone/co op, were too much to handle with new players or 3/4 players. The camera change is the main reason I didn't give it 5 stars, along with some levels that were needlessly tedious to get through. Additionally, I personally did not like the talking flowers and they ended up serving no purpose throughout the entire game.

The story was a looooot to grasp but it did finally make enough sense by the end. Took me a little while to get into with being introduced so many ideas and characters and concepts all at once but once it got rolling it got rolling. I personally liked the RTS part of the game as well even though I’ve seen others haven’t. It wasn’t anything special but I thought it was entertaining, especially as a way to get new story beats other than the visual novel. The visual novel was very interesting but could get kind of tedious to work through all of the branches and all of the characters. Overall a well crafted and thought out story and definitely worth the low price tag.

The platforming was absolutely infuriating sometimes, it was hard to judge depth perception-wise. I also thought, after playing on normal difficulty, that the combat got a bit stale after a while, too easy I guess? I also thought that the support characters weren't all well rounded, like Mallow is kind of a bad support character compared to Peach, and Peach is the only one with a revive ability, so I didn't end up using Mallow much at all really. The story was entertaining and the writing was pretty entertaining, and the soundtrack was awesome. Playing on normal the playthrough took about 10 hours, which is a little short for the full $60 price tag in my opinion.

The story was very interesting and fast paced, which I like. Was not a huge fan about the fact that the story had some time jumps at first but I think it flowed pretty well all things considered. The voice acting was also decent, and the amount of choices and branching was cool to see. The main thing from this game that takes it down a good chunk is the art style. While the art itself is pretty, the mix of no animation with animation reallyyy does not look good. Especially when they animate hair flowing in the wind on stand still characters. If you get locked into the story enough, it becomes negligible, but otherwise it is really hard to look at and get into.