Out of the Uchikoshi games I've played, unfortunately by default my current least favourite just because I find the cast of the AI games super fun and I just vibed with them more. Though this game easily contains the best story out of the three I've played, hands down, with a pretty out of left field twist that works really well. Junpei is a really great protagonist too, he's funny, he's smart, and he's really socially awkward in a funny way. I do sorta wish I played this on DS like intended but I don't think I'd have it in me to play every single room multiple times

This game is hilarious to me because despite the controls being gimped compared to the original, this version has more content, more worlds, the silly ass minigames that I somehow always come back to, and Luigi, who lets me completely skip the parts of the original I flat out dislike. I also always got a laugh at every star that was modified/added to accommodate Wario, because he's such a half-assed addition to this game his stars are always either "break a black brick" or "use the metal cap with Wario" and that is it. Genuinely would be the definitive version of 64 to me if it was on a home console