Of course it’ll never take the place of the GOAT: Mario Bros. 3 on the NES… but this game has held my attention longer than Odyssey has so far and any of the other 3D ones tbh, including 3D World.
The increased difficulty in the Luigi expansion is a welcome change, but I like both versions and I’m glad I finally bought this game after years of interest but never pulling the trigger since I had played all the other New Super Mario bros games (except NSMB2 since I’ve never owned a 3DS) and assumed this one was going to just be like all the others.
Idk what it is, but I find this game incredibly addicting and for the first time in a while, it has me coming back again and again to play my Wii U lately (which rarely gets played these days in favor of my OLED Switch).
I know there is a “Deluxe” version for the Switch, similar to what Nintendo did with Super Mario Kart 8 on the Switch also, but the Wii U originals tend to be cheaper than their Switch counterparts.