The Official Super Mario Sunshine Thread

Odd, I thought I heard some people complaining about the water pack being a gimmick yet the game I played relied heavily on it for it's game mechanics to work perfectly. In all honesty I haven't controled a character in a platformer like this in a long time. Mario is a dream to control, the last thing I did was the second fight with the Petey where we battle it out in the village and all I can say is "WOW". This game far surpasses my expectations, I mean one of the things that dissapointed me in Mario 64 were the boss fights yet here I am not even 12 shines in and I've had to fight three awesome bosses with great patterns.

On a last note I'd just like to mention how fun it is to run straight shooting water in front of me and then hitting the B button to slide in the puddle I just made. It's a dream to control.

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I got mine yesterday! It has been too long since we've seen a 3D platformer with level design this good. I'm totally hooked & smiling all the way through. I loved the sand castle level.

I've got 13 shines so far & I'm quite pleased with the difficulty. I can hardly imagine getting everything on the Sand bird level.

JM

I spent two hours on the Harbor hub alone when I first started playing. I picked up about five shines before even entering the first level. The best is when I had to kick the durian (the spiky soccer ball fruit) to the lady with the basket. Really, really fun.

I played through about 2 hours so far, and am pleased. However, I must mention some complaints- because complaints are more interesting than praise :)

1) Fewer moves for Mario- the removal of a crouch removed some of my favorite SM64 moves: the butt slide, the sweep kick, and the crawl. The removal of the punches and kicks also disappointed me.

2) Textures- this is a common complaint. I think many of these textures look too low-res. They seem too N64 for my tastes.


* complaint mode: OFF *

*still waiting for his Sunshine to ship from Nintendo* :)

OMG this game is sweet. I am SOOO thankful I didn't ditch my Gamecube. I knew I had to see what Mario would bring. And now I think I've gaurenteed myself a Gamecube for the next 5 months, seeing as how thats probably how long my brothers will be playing it.

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Originally posted by dyomides
It's a dream to control.

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So far I'm not experiencing that. I think the controls will take some getting used to. I have no idea why but my mind keeps wanting to use the C-stick to control the water pump. So far I think I'd have to say I prefer the N64's C buttons for camera control over the C-stick.

And what's with the B to flip vertical gates, A to flip horizontal gates from below and butt stomping to flip them from above? Seems overly complex, especially coming from Miyamoto. The second level (with the squids) is taking some getting used to as well.

Once the control becomes second nature, I'm pretty sure I'll be loving this game.

I had some weird gate-flippy problems as well. Nothing chaps my ass like getting really, really, reeeeeeeeeeally high up climbing a gate, and then pushing the wrong button to flip and dropping aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaall the way down.

I hate that. Beware the "Shine in a Cage" level.

Yeah, after the third time through that damn level & falling a third time I had to give it up & go to bed last night.

JM

Funny, I didn't have any problems controlling him. As for the gates problem I didn't have any problem adjusting since it was never done in 3D before I wasn't used to doing it a certain way. I know the reason why it's the B button to flip a cage vertically is so you can also use the A button to jump away to a crane or platform, all makes sense so far. Then when your upside down it's similar to hanging off a ledge or a rope and B is used to let go so they used A instead since you can't jump for anything when your hanging horizontally. As for the butt stomp it made sense to me since you butt stomp to go down the warp.

Don't know, maybe I'm the only one not having any problems. And I like the camera system in Sunshine more cause it takes me less then a second to reajust exactly where I want it compared to Mario 64 I needed a few button presses before it was where I wanted it.

I mean in the second stage I was wall jumping for coins on the thin platform way up high without falling down once. If I fell it was due to my poor judgement or wrong nozzle on the pump.

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