Pros: It's the Super Mario World we all know and love, with some real quality new additions and QOL improvements. For one, collecting Yoshi coins goes towards percentage, and it along with the rest of level stats are kept track of on a sub-screen menu, which is very helpful for chronicling your completion of the game. Another great new addition is Luigi! He plays entirely differently, like jumping higher, more slippery traction, and bursting every coin out of a coinbox all at once. Luigi even changes the way Yoshi plays when riding him, such as holding enemies in his mouth with the ability to spit them back out. I particularly love the intro story to the game, giving context to the adventure, and the intro even has an extended ending upon beating the game. Very charming, lovely music to it too. Other little changes to the game are also quite welcome, like Peach's new sprite, and in most cases, the lighter color palette is easy on the eyes.

Cons: In most cases, in some cases, the lighter color palette can make the game look a bit more washed out than the more vibrant appearance of the SNES original. And outside of the changes I mentioned above, there really isn't much else new to this version of the game, which, feels less substantial than the other "Super Mario Advance" games, which added quite a lot to the original games.

What it means to me: The SNES original is already my favorite 2D Mario, and a portable version was such an easy win for me, played the hell out of it, just as I did the SNES game. And playing as Luigi made it different enough to feel worth another go. I don't have any stories attached to this one, but I do remember having it in my GBA quite often.