I'm liking the game. It's different from and the same as the original in the right ways. Different in that it's nothing like a retread at all, the same in that it gives you plenty of buttons to push and rewards all your curiosity with cashmoney. Great stuff all over the place, I'm not disappointed at all.
I love all the cutscenes with Gadd talking to Luigi, or Luigi entering a new area for the first time, or spying on ghosts fooling around. I want to see animation this natural-feeling and detailed combined with how smooth and fluid it was was in the Galaxies. In a Mario game, I mean. Mario has the cartoonish potential for animation that, if they ever go for broke, could rival that in Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, which I would say with conviction has the best 3D character animation in any game I've ever played.