It’s fun and gorgeous to look at, but this felt more like playing with a collection of pretty toys than progressing through a fantastic video game experience. I enjoyed my time with this but I wish I understood more of the acclaim of this being the best game of the franchise, or even of all time. There are plenty of more difficult Mario games and even other 3D platformer games I’ve had more fun with anyways, as the easy difficulty of this didn’t engage me very much.