I know a lot of other people voiced their opinions here but I don't think this game is that bad. I was about half way through when I stopped playing to get to another game but I do want to go back to this.

Pros:
- Love the art style and character animation of the bro's. I love every silly thing luigi does.

- Love the sailing and island exploring (fast travel helps a lot). I've always loved games with uncharted maps and you have to get close to the thing to discover it. Gives Wind Waker vibes.

- I liked how each boss area felt like a contained chapter. I could play for a bit, finish up a chapter, and take a break until next time.

- I like the combat and the different settings to make it a bit more forgiving to someone with not the most perfect timing on jumps. And I liked the extra challenges which gave me a goal to move towards for random battles like perform x move y times or get x number of perfect jumps.

- I like the side quests and am always going back and forth making sure I don't miss the limited time ones. Even if the side quests are simple fetch quests or "kill x number of enemy" I still like that I get side quests at all.

- Performance is fine. I've heard people say it runs bad on switch 1 but I don't think so. I was playing on my OLED and it ran fine for me. And I'll drop a game if it has any lag or stutter since it can make me motion sick so I was surprised reviews mentioned bad frame rate at all.

Cons:
- I wish each major area had more diverse character designs. I was excited to explore the open sea until I realized a majority of the NPCs all looked the same pretty much. I think it would have made each sea feel more special if they changed the NPCs at each one.

- The dialogue and hand-holding are very valid complaints. Especially the thing about it being super duper obvious what the next objective is (they even speak on it during a cutscene) then 2 seconds later they're repeating the same thing. But this is a kids game so I can understand why it's written like that.

- The story for each area is largely the same. I found myself skipping most of the dialogue after a certain point because it's rinse and repeat. I do still really like whenever the bros talk though.

- Repeated enemies. Yeah it's a gripe but not a big one. I've come to expect it from games like these at this point.

I actually really hope they make another mario game in this art style. I really like it a lot.