[manasecret]

What was so great about the original? Because from the description of it, flying around freely as a weird jester in some kind of dreamworld, just doesn't sound like so much fun.

Ok I say weird jester in a dreamworld as exaggeration, because really the Mario world ain't any less weird. (Although this jester wardrobe this Nights character owns does look awfully creepy to me.) What really doesn't appeal to me is the "flying around freely" because, though on the surface it sounds great, that idea reminds me a lot of Ecco the Dolphin when that game turned 3D on Dreamcast. Yeah, the graphics looked great, but the free-form gameplay of going absolutely anywhere in all directions was too much for me -- that is, it made me nauseous. One of those games where the camera was so bad it made me nauseous (anyone else ever get that?).