Here is my review of Super Mario 64! It was released in 1996.
First, This was the very first Mario Game that had a 3-D Element. And This Is The First Mario Game That Brought Use Of Mario's Voice.

Story: 9 The Story is Princess Peach invited Mario for some cake at the castle, seems nothing could go wrong right?
Well You are Wrong, Bowser comes and steals 105 of the castle's power stars while missing 15 of them in the castle and then kidnaps Princess Peach again (sigh). Then Mario comes and gos to collect the power stars bowser stole in 15 courses, and then the Secret Stars also.
Mario will have to fight bowser three times in the process.

Addictiveness: 9 This Game Is Very Fun To Play, But It is Very Long If You Don't Use Cheats or skip stars But It is very Addicting.

Sound: 7 The Game Now Has a sound track for each world which is surprisingly new in the Mario Series and the sound is very good but there are some tracks that I do Not Like Such As Jolly Roger's Bay. Also This Game Introduces The Mario Voice Straight At The Beginning  

Graphics: 10 Like I said before, Super Mario 64 has a 3-D Element and some graphics are just WAY better than the older ones.
But There is Courses Which It Is Very Hard To See In Like Jolly Roger's Bay and Tick Tock Clock because they have fog which covers some platforms and other things. 

Depth: 9 This Game Is Very Long To Beat, Even TAS's of this game are 2+ hours without cheats. You Only Need At Least 70 Stars To Beat the game, but if you Are Collecting All 120 Stars, This Game Is Probably Going To Take More Than One Day To Beat. Some New Moves Are Brought Into The Mario Series Like The Walk Kick and The Change Of The Camera Angles, That Is Right! The Game Screen Is A Camera Being Hold By A Lakitu, What? Also, Mario Back flip, Ground Pound, Punch, Kick. ETC. The Game Also Introduces New Enemies Such As Whomps, Fly Guys, Mr. I, Clams, Spin Drifts, and Many More. Then At The End Once You Get 120 Stars, You Can Use The Cannon Outside The Castle and Shoot To The Top of the Castle And You Can Talk To Yoshi And Then He Will Give You 100 Lives and a Star triple jump!
There Is Also The Wing Cap That Can Allow Mario to Fly, The Vanish Cap To Make Mario Transparent, and The Metal Cap To Make Mario Metal.

Difficulty: 5 The Game Is Not Too Difficult at all if you are Skipping some stars and the controls are not to hard to learn, but the camera angle sometimes changes at a bad time and causes you to die.

Well That Pretty Much Wraps Up My Review Of Super Mario 64, Overall It is a very good game and there is not too much else to say about it.
Overall Score: 8.1

I don't get why so many people say this was the first 3D styled Mario game. Super Mario RPG: Legend of the 7 Stars had 3D graphics before N64 did.