And so ends my journey to play through the recent Mario titles I own but hadn't yet played/beaten. It took me a little while to get into it, but it's definitely the best example of Mario in that style up to that point. It took me a little over 16 hours, and I got all 120 stars (but didn't attempt any of the green ones because ain't no one got time for that).
The level design reminds me of a Kirby game, to be honest. Kirby Mass Attack specifically. One of the things I love about that game is that EVERY level feels really different from any other. Mario Galaxy 2's 48-ish Galaxies have a very similar effect of each stage trying to be very different from another, and it succeeds greatly. As a kind of prototype to Mario 3D World, I suppose, most levels only have 2 or maybe 3 stars as opposed to the 3+ so many in Mario Galaxy 1 had. Many new power ups involving both just Mario and the new Yoshi to diversify the levels even further. The difficulty curve is just right. The beginning of the game is a little too easy for my liking, but especially once you get to world 4 and 5 those levels are brutal. The comet levels especially are freaking insane in worlds 6 and 7. Granted not quite as hard as the first game, which had 2 stars I could never quite get. Perhaps I'm just better at games now than a decade ago when I was 11 The controls are top notch, as usual, and Mario controls very well. There was only one point where Yoshi didn't quite do his flutter jump even though I'd told him to, and occasionally wall jumping wouldn't quite cooperate with me how I wanted it to. There was also one level (Flipsville) where you go upside down frequently and the control during that is very unintuitive, I felt. Verdict: Very Recommended. If Mario 3D World didn't quite do it for you, then this is another fantastic dose of just about as good Mario platformy goodness. This is only single player though, so I do still have to recommend 3D World over this. It was definitely the top of Nintendo 3D platformers at the time though, to be sure.
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