Was skeptical all the way up to release, but what I thought was gonna be a weird gimmicky mess ended up being one of the most enlightening, joyful, and purely fun video games I've ever played. Man... nothing else could have recaptured the joy I felt when I was a kid finding secrets in the New Super Mario Bros games. I played them all to death, but THIS is another level. They were my childhood, and this felt like the natural evolution with the creativity (that was already there previously, it was just more subtle) cranked to the MAX. There are one off Wonder Flower gimmicks that are so well done I hope they get re-worked to being entire standalone games. I've never played a final stage like this one. All platformers going forward should have an online mode like this one.