I just downloaded this game and I gotta say it's merely a simpler version of the Super Nintendo game. It's just the bare bones and Skeleton without any meat on it, let alone any new meat.
The newest "meat" that there could be would the slightly differentiated art style which is actually prettier but doesn't feel like it because there's less of it (again it's a simplified version of the original). The same applies to the music. They put a weirder more comical twist on it, but in such a simplistic way.
I've always been an avid defender of Nintendo because I feel like they are more concerned about making a timeless experience for a more universal audience, but this game is representative of their "new" software output like nsmbu where they've got the wrong impression that people want to go completely back to the way things were, entirely. Yes, people want to go back to that time, but only so much. Nintendo is taking their audience's intuition to go back to basics too literally and this is the result.
This game just doesn't feel special.







