Besides the fun game play I was just mesmerized by the unique physics the gamemakers had set up. For instance, on some of the tinier planetoids you can take a running jump and actually go into a slowly degrading orbit as the trajectory of your fall is affected by the gravity and you can make it around several times before you land again.

I was glad to see that they’d stuck mostly with the Mario 64 play controls, with a couple exceptions. That play system was so solid for this sort of game it didn’t need any improvements.