I used to play this game a lot when I was younger. It’s an amazing game and I don’t know why people hate on it so much. The level design is amazing to me and the power ups are all fantastic and fun to use. It’s also not that hard (I’d say it’s medium) but that’s good because then you can kind of lay back and relax and just enjoy the game. The enemy selection is also good….buttttttt….. there’s the koopalings and they’re definitely very uninspired. But they’re still decently fun battles just not too creative. I’m not gonna go into to detail because of spoilers but the final boss is AMAZING. One thing I see people hate on a lot is the coins, they really aren’t that bad and they’re fun to collect. You also don’t have to collect them. There’s also the star coins which are coins hidden in tricky spots and those are really fun to get (make sure you get all of those because you need 99 or something to get into the special world) anyways, I give this game a solid 9/10