Also, if you were paying attention to the music—it makes my heart soar to hear the harmonic/textural template of Gusty Garden so securely established as the template signifying 3D Mario.
Holy fuck. They really went the sandbox route!! It looks incredible. I prefer the linear games more, but I feel like EAD Tokyo knows what they're doing at this point. Galaxy 1, 2 and 3D World were as perfect as could be imo.