In short, aged like milk. The controls are stiff, some mechanics lacks balance and some decisions are weird, like the infinite and separated pool of items for the NPC's, outside the fact that half of them are re-skins of the banana peel, some are waaaay too powerful (The star and specially the poison mushroom), But in the flip side, it's the first game of the series, so mistakes are to expect and for the time of release, this game was impressive and one of the best to play with friends. Still not worth playing nowadays but an important title nonetheless