My dark secret is that I'm a Mario fan who's never previously played the Gameboy Mario Land games and this is my first play of one. I was pretty impressed! Tight levels with smart concepts throughout. While I think the minigames themselves are pretty garbage (especially the 999 coin one), spending coins on things in-game seems like a better use of them than just 1-ups. Visually, this is surprisingly expressive and unique, the scrolling pipe animations caught me off guard.

I know that none of the Land games are anything like each other but I'm looking forward to playing them soon! (Side note: It's crazy that we've had GB on NSO for over 6 months and still no Land 1. Not sure why Nintendo is doing that.)