I'm honestly pretty disappointed with this game. I thought it was gonna be a lot more fun than it was. There's not very much complexity to the combat, and there were repeated instances of the game not giving any indication of where you actually need to go to backtrack after you get a new item. Overall I don't really see a reason to play this game at this point unless you're playing through the Shantae series.

this game is pretty clearly worse than nsmb2, i think it might be the worst mainline mario game?

I 100%ed this in 3 days. This game is great, and if these games weren't so perceived as "saturation" they would really be considered classics. A lot of the star coins I missed the first time amounted to "there is a hidden block that has no indication that it is there" which really sucked.