To finally have played the first 3d Mario was a curious experiment, with controls and camera issues aside, it still holds ups pretty well, of course i'll never have the nostalgia as other people do, but you can see playing all that inspired many of my favorite 3d platformers years to come, the ground zero for such genre (and somewhat for collectatons) couldn't have been better. It was a mostly pleasant time, and now i can understand why people liked it so much.