Awful port. The lack of online level sharing makes Super Mario Maker for Nintendo 3DS nearly useless. The story mode levels are enjoyable but aren't enough to make up for that. It would've been nice if they added them to Super Mario Maker on Wii U or Super Mario Maker 2 so they weren't doomed to obscurity. These are probably some of the least-played official Mario levels.

The challenge medal system feels disrespectful to the player's time. Both goals should be shown at the beginning instead of only showing the Bowser one after the first goal is achieved since it's often possible to get both in one run. Another annoying aspect is that it doesn't tell you if you've already failed to meet the criteria and need to restart.

I also disliked how they put an enormous amount of levels behind a set number of lives, but give you so many that they may as well have just removed lives entirely. Why even bother at that point? The system only serves to punish people who have a lot of difficulty with platformers. This also results in you needing to replay the courses in Coursebot to earn medals instead of completing them during the main campaign to avoid the risk of losing a lot of lives, which feels like padding.