this game is so frequently aggravating its negatives constantly threaten to overshadow its positives. the level design often veers into the annoyingly labyrinthine, your party members get in the way (not just in figurative disrupting-the-boss-battle ways - try watching for a white mushroom's next signal without donald or goofy blocking your view or grabbing all of the fruit on the jungle slider course without tarzan's polygonal loinclothed ass clipping through the screen directly into your face), item farming quickly grows tedious and needlessly complicated, the gummi shit is so confusing that even the in-game tutorials basically amount to "figure it out on your own". but in spite of all of this, when you walk away, you don't hear me say "please, oh baby, don't go" - simple and clean is the way that you're making me feel tonight