the "huge innovation that is finally bringing 2d mario back from the grave!" in question:
sorry it's fine it's not a bad game at all but any time I think about going back to play more I just don't really want to do it, feels like sludge content. I guess for kids it's better sludge content than like Roblox or whatever but it feels like there's nothing to even latch on to here if this Isn't your first platformer ever. There's like 2 bottomless pits in this entire game like wtf. Absolutely nothing to mechanically engage with besides the inherent fun in controlling the character which is as good as it's always been, which is part of the problem if you have ever played literally any other 2d mario game. Sometimes there'll be like a really hard side level and usually those are a bit more fun but from the 4 or 5 worlds I played there wasn't like a single goldilocks level, on the normal world the hard levels are "you might die like 2 times" hard and the special world was Balls hard enough to feel way too jarring coming from the main levels and just feel annoying.
Flower gimmicks are neat but ultimately they are gimmicks and it doesn't take long for them to iterate on every idea they had for it and for them to start repeating and getting super played out. Why is there so much bloat between levels, I remember someone posting something about how like dying is quicker since you're not booted back to the map, but every time you enter a new world which happens like every 30 minutes you've gotta spam through a bunch of dialogue written for 8 year olds, why is there so much dialogue in a mario game literally all of them have the same story that can be explained in 2 seconds why are we doing this.
really, feels like the first mario game that i'm just too old for or whatever. feels incredibly bizarre to see heaps and heaps of praise and calls for GOTY on what is functionally just another new soup game with some bells and whistles added lol. extremely extremely safe game, i mean maybe im stupid for expecting even the slightest deviance otherwise from a big budget AAA mario game released a couple months after the movie but whatever
sorry it's fine it's not a bad game at all but any time I think about going back to play more I just don't really want to do it, feels like sludge content. I guess for kids it's better sludge content than like Roblox or whatever but it feels like there's nothing to even latch on to here if this Isn't your first platformer ever. There's like 2 bottomless pits in this entire game like wtf. Absolutely nothing to mechanically engage with besides the inherent fun in controlling the character which is as good as it's always been, which is part of the problem if you have ever played literally any other 2d mario game. Sometimes there'll be like a really hard side level and usually those are a bit more fun but from the 4 or 5 worlds I played there wasn't like a single goldilocks level, on the normal world the hard levels are "you might die like 2 times" hard and the special world was Balls hard enough to feel way too jarring coming from the main levels and just feel annoying.
Flower gimmicks are neat but ultimately they are gimmicks and it doesn't take long for them to iterate on every idea they had for it and for them to start repeating and getting super played out. Why is there so much bloat between levels, I remember someone posting something about how like dying is quicker since you're not booted back to the map, but every time you enter a new world which happens like every 30 minutes you've gotta spam through a bunch of dialogue written for 8 year olds, why is there so much dialogue in a mario game literally all of them have the same story that can be explained in 2 seconds why are we doing this.
really, feels like the first mario game that i'm just too old for or whatever. feels incredibly bizarre to see heaps and heaps of praise and calls for GOTY on what is functionally just another new soup game with some bells and whistles added lol. extremely extremely safe game, i mean maybe im stupid for expecting even the slightest deviance otherwise from a big budget AAA mario game released a couple months after the movie but whatever