I was pretty disappointed with my 3DS at first, as this was the first game I got for it. I actually ended up selling it partially due to this game and then rebuying one a couple years later LOL.

It's not committed enough to any particular style/objective. It feels very vanilla and "scrubbed clean of any personality" to describe it in a very specific and confusing way.

It obviously does things right in some regard, it is a "mainline" Mario game - but it just doesn't do it for me. I find this style pretty boring.