this version is definitely a lot cuter and has some really nice little details like story bits between stages with dialogue and all that. and even more so than the last game they give you way more free lives and you can just kinda get infinite lives if you just know the timing on the roulette for the coins, in general the game just gives the player a lot of agency over how many lives they want. some similarities to the nes version but there are enough tweaks that make the game feel like a sequel. i think the biggest problem with this game is that some of the game's platforming is so obnoxious. like yeah you pretty much get all the lives you need and the game has a good amount of checkpoints interspersed in levels but sometimes it just gets so tiring when you die to the same obstacle like 4 or 5 times to some stupid shit. the bosses are all pretty fair though, the jason one was a little bullshit but aside from that one by far theyre the best part of this game and i wish the quality for the platforming was as consistent as it was for the bosses