It's probably the least creative of the series, but the level design is exactly what i want from a Mario. They even advertised it as being built on what makes a good Mario level, and they got closer than any game has since the first one (1985). In this 2013, i prefer to play NSMB2 over every game in the series except the first two. I wonder if it's a Mario 3 vs Mario World thing; the people that don't like this think that Mario World isn't boring and that Mario U isn't just a little disappointing.
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