Developereo
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1) If successful we would be the first nation in the whole world to land on mars on its maiden flight . Even the likes of Russia and USA couldn't do it .
Setting aside the question of landing, please remember that the Indian mission is built upon the knowledge and experience gained by other countries.
This is not to deny the Indian accomplishment, but a little humility and reality is also in order.
Completely depends upon the parameters and what one wishes to achieve, a soft landing would be required if one intends to take a significant amount of payload (sensitive payload, specially any secondary probes or something akin to a rover) onto the surface otherwise an impact probe (it is still a controlled landing albeit far more rougher on the instruments, ergo the said instruments require hardening) will suffice.
There is a saying amongst pilots, "any landing from which can you can walk away is a good landing".
More seriously, if a spacecraft's instruments are operational and performing as intended, then it's a good landing, regardless of how the instruments arrived on the surface of the planet.