takes pieces from all mario franchises.
the animation of mario walking then gaining speed is so funny. he looks like he is running with his pants about to fall down.
the enemies like to dance to the level music even as im about to clobber them.
i guess i should state what kept it from being a 10.
the shake the controller move was used too many times. you use it to pick up items...to fly with the copter hat.. to do a spinning jump...to jump off of yoshi.
all those are ok but for the spinning jump maybe 1 and 2 pressed togther might have been better.
difficulty is hard. not that you use many continues because you get plenty lives but finding all the star coins and secret cannon paths take some thinking.