It reminds me of all the things I loved about previous SimCity games while adding lots of new elements and overhauling the graphics. (macgamerhq.com)
But the team took that as a challenge: to keep things both varied and easy to understand as we added lots of new elements.» (gap4.com)
With that dreamworld - setting, they could easily combine the exploration - style collection gameplay of super mario 64 & sunshine with some lineair obstacle courses and gravity - based gameplay from galaxy, while adding a lot of new elements that match this dreamworld setting. (nintendotoday.com)