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It's been on my backlog since 2002, so I'm glad to finally cross it off the list. Now only Galaxy 2 and Odyssey remain. I got 56 total shines. I can say it's definitely the weakest big Mario game, assuming Galaxy 2 and Odyssey are better (they must be).

Positives:
- FLUDDless levels are mostly fun, but they're totally unforgiving with having to restart if you die. The only outright bad one is the one where Delfinos toss you around.
- The hover module is kind of neat, I guess.
- I like the tropical setting, even if the visual style of the game aged poorly.

Negatives:
- Mario seems, I don't know, less precise than in other games? I feel like I'm in less control than in other big Mario games. He's more wiggly in a bad way.
- The voice acting is an atrocity. Bowser just sounds like a guy, Bowser Jr. is the worst, and Peach is even worse than that.
- Bowser here might be the most underwhelming final boss fight I've ever seen. I was expecting a second form or something.
- All of the FLUDD modules except the hover module are useless. I used the big jump one when absolutely necessary, but I never touched the one that lets you run faster. Hovering is clearly better than what they offer.
- The lives system here, yeesh. They must have known it was outdated even at the time.
- The levels tend to be really easy and simplistic. I remember all kinds of really complicated and awesome stars in Mario 64, there are only a handful like that here.
- The camera is inexplicably worse than many N64 games.
- The combat is nonexistent. I don't play Mario games for combat, but the non-boss enemies barely qualify as obstacles. I don't think I was threatened by one ever. And the bosses are really pathetic, the only one I had difficulty with was the eel, and only because the underwater controls are complete garbage.
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Started: July 6, 2005