controls are abysmal, new characters either break the level design in a boring way (luigi) or just feel miserable to play as (yoshi, wario), new content generally does not add much of anything to the game. fails to understand anything about why the original was so good and just feels like some glorified tech demo rather than a remake that needed to happen.

carried hard by nostalgia, convinced that anyone who thinks this is better than the original booted up 64 for like 15 minutes and then never touched it again. there's very much a reason why the speedrunning scene for this game is completely dwarfed by the original.

pretty miserable game, only redeemed by the fact that it's still mario 64 (ableit a much shittier version of it)