One of the detriments of having unskippable 10 minute cutscene at the beginning of the game is that it makes starting over a slog and limit the child player from being able to enjoy their new 'toy'.

One of the positives of a 10 minute unskippable cutscene though is it makes it feel cinematic if you do a decent job of it. The turbulence private plane ride opener with peach, F.L.U.D.D. yapping about how horrible everything is, and Bowser tearing up with his bastard son makes it feel so unnecessarily cinematic it might as well be a movie for me.

Which it is, when people bring up the mario movie, this is all I'll think about and all I'll want to think about. Bless up F.L.U.D.D. I hope they are doing well. I miss the lil dude. They should stop dicking around and make a SM Sunshine 2 already.