Probably beating a dead horse by bringing this up, but in all fairness the one thing that separates Mario maker levels from true traditional Mario levels (Excluding SMB & Lost Levels) is Slopes or sloped terrain, so a preference of mine would be to finally have this inclusion within the game, might just open up a lot more possibilities and ideas.

With that cat out of this bulgy bag I'll probably only half empty for length's sake. Perhaps my favourite out of the SMB3 levels were the desert stages and I'd most certainly enjoy building levels with that theme within Mario Maker. Other themes such as the Beach, Snow lands, Jungle/Swamps etc, have wormed their way into the Newer Mario games and it is a shame they aren't present as of yet. All those colourful backdrops and pleasant upbeat music..ahhh.

Speaking of Music, I find the lack of an Athletic theme...quite disturbing. They were used actively within 3 and beyond and those wacky tunes really added a sense of speed to a level. Not to mention a lot of the other great musical tracks that just aren't present in Mario Maker, it'd be nice to have some more options in that area.

Now I could go on about further gameplay elements, Ooh the missing Mario 3 power ups, the P-Balloon, the Ice Flower! But honestly most of all, I want them to keep surprising us! The last update was actually quite phenomenal, the bumper eh opened up some nice Mario-only door and adding further bouncing elements, the P-door makes a nice lock and key sort of deal been in previous games but all the same nice to have around. Now the Fire Clown Cart... you have to admit this Element really gave birth to a whole new breed of Mario levels and that's the thing, 'New'. Sure it's nice to get things we've seen in previous titles to integrate into our stages but even there we're working off something that was there before, you know what it does, what it's capable of already and sure you might find a fun creative way of doing something different with it and that's blooming brilliant! Yet Mario has always been about discovery, yeah sure the story always the same but it's been about the story but the Journey, discovering new and exciting things and working your around them or finding ways to use them in a bid to proceed. Learning them, toying with them before finally mastering them that's where I feel Mario truly shines.

So, to keep this from being...any longer then it is already! All in all, while we might make our lists of features from old titles, but me personally... I want something new, something unexpected, something that's never been seen in a Mario title before that 'we' as wannabe level designers have to truly figure out the Ins and out's for ourselves!

Oh and P.S. because I get really aesthetic with my levels, yeah I hit the block limit a tad too often with interior levels so... a raise in the max number or just excluding coins and tracks from it would... be rather nice as well!