This game is amazing, it really benefited from not being the only 3d Mario in the console, back then, people looked at it too harshly because of that, people were expecting something like Mario Galaxy, but this game isn’t trying to be like that, it tries to be its own thing, and it does it amazingly, the courses are the most fun out of any Mario game, my only complaint is that they shouldn’t have increased the movement speed of the characters, the stages really don’t feel designed with that much speed in mind.