Super Mario 3D World, if everything weren't cats, they removed the Wii U gamepad, and wasn't Super Mario 3D world

• The Level Designs are amazing. Most games with a persistent time-switching mechanic only have 2 versions of the same map that show the past and the future, and pressing a button transports you to one or the other, but this game lets you slowly see the polygons shift whilst giving you the feeling of manually seeking and rewinding time like it's a tape recorder. While most puzzles require you to only go back and forth between 2 points in time and freeze it, some puzzles [spoiler](like the rolling boulder or the falling log in level 3)[/spoiler] have you constantaneously scrub time and walk at the same time.
• It is technically unique cause it's not a First=person shooter. Since it's a platformer, they have emphasized more on exploration of tightly-constrained maps with really smart locations for the collectibles (much like INSIDE), where you're given a glace at the memory beforehand to peak your interest, but it's in an unattainable spot, so you're made to keep that in mind and continue along the path so that you'll eventually get to a puzzle with a secret 'backdoor' which lets you backtrack and get to it.
• In the level 'Solace', he moans like he just nut, everytime he jumps. That's a definite +rep to the voice actor.

• Locked Cameras. It gets the Super Mario 3D World syndrome with the locked cameras on a 3D platformer. You constantly misjudge the distance between cliffs, the height of a fall in the foreground, the height of a ledge in the background, and you end up jumping and missing the shots to end up with either a big stun or the old man drowning to his death. If not for the mild auto-aim on jumps onto thin logs and ledges, I would've literally cried. So there's atleast some assurance that your jump will land, so this is not a major con.
• Clipping into the ground/ hitboxes can be wonky while scrubbing time too fast. In the snow levels, where the height of the ground changes as you change time, gravity plays against it and sometimes you fall faster into the ground than the snow follows, so you just get thrown off the map. This is most prevalent only if you're in the process of falling while the ground is moving (ice, webs, space rocks), and not when you're standing still (flowers, lily pads), so still not a major con...
• GRAPPLING HOOK BUG. This honestly ruined my smooth-sailing experience with this game. I first faced it with the bees in the second level where holding X while the grappling prompt was active (with the circle locks on and lights up to a certain colour depending on the level) does not start the grapple-throwing animation and just kept making a clicking noise everytime I pressed the button. To continue, I had to die or restart checkpoint, and once I did that, the hook worked normally as intended, but when another grappling spot is available, the animation gets stuck on startup again. After this infuriating clicking experience, everytime there was a grappling spot, I clenched my fists, tried to adjust the positioning multiple times, anxiously hoped the bug wouldn't occur, and pushed my finger into the X button as hard as possible. If it worked, I would breathe a sigh of relief and continue on, but when it got stuck again, it again made me doubt if the next part is bugged too, hence removing any confidence I had in the game about it not making me anxious the more I played it. Small things like this can leave a bad taste in your mouth, cause it's literally a game-breaking bug, as in you cannot proceed without dying or restarting a couple of times. After I beat the game, and came back to the level 'Solace' to get some achievements, that's when it hit me hard in the back. Two mandatory grappling spots consecutively. After the first one works, there is no checkpoint in between to guarantee the second one to work, so you'll have to endure the disappointment you'll face everytime you spam X, multiple times, until you somehow get it to work. In no other video game I've played so far have I not gotten a more unsatisfying feedback loop for pressing a button than this game with this bug.