This game is fantastic! It is challenging enough to make it interesting, and The story is actually decent for a Mario game. It is about Mario climbing up a staircase to enter another world called subcon and he has to save the habitants of subcon from wart! That’s right, bowser isn’t the villain of this story! I really love the levels. There may be only 20, but each of them are unique and introduce new obstacles as you progress. The bosses are also really good this time. Unlike most 2D Mario games where you face against the koopalings, Your facing a bomb throwing mouse (Mouser), a three headed snake (TryClyde), a fireball (Fryguy), and even a mask gate!
The only issue that I have with this game is the fact that you have limited continues. Why couldn’t we have infinite continues? Mario 1 had a cheat where you can have infinite continues, so why are they limited here? Also the levels in world 7 are garbage and unfair.
Other than that this game is amazing and is better than the first game imao. Definitely one of my favorite Mario games.