I think one of my favourite things about the 3D Mario games is exploring the crazy biomes and diverse level designs they come up with for the different worlds. So it turns out when you make all the levels similar in theme, I lose interest pretty quick. Plus there are a LOT of needlessly annoying levels in this game, be it falling off the scaffolding in the docks level, trying to do janky stuff with the manta rays or the god-damned sandbird. Got about halfway through before realising nobody was forcing me to play this and then I stopped