The Official Super Mario Sunshine Thread

[lithium]

I've fallen through the pirate ships twice now. Seems SMS has a lil hit detection glitch in it.

[Josh]

...and the water pack is stupid.

[rummy]

Originally posted by Mzo
Oh, and Mech, I found something that PISSED ME THE HELL OFF. In the Hub level, I did a spin jump with Yoshi up to a roof, only to fall through it and into the ground, to my doom. This has happened twice (once w/Yoshi-dog, one without, in two separate locations). This should NOT happen in a Nintendo game, I'm sorry (as bad as Peach's castle roof was in Mario 64).

I've fallen through things numerous times. My first attempt at the amusement park red coins I kept falling THROUGH the pirate ships. I managed to land on one once. Took 2 steps. Fell right through. I quit and came back the next day. Got the coins in a few minutes. Arr.

I've fallen through numerous solid objects on the challenge stages, too, and I can't think of a worse place for that to happen. Yet I didn't get all that angry. I'm not sure why. Waste 10 lives, finally two jumps away from that shine and I fall through a solid object...I should be smashing that Wavebird. But I just shrugged and finished the level on my next life. I don't get it. Any other game and I would've thrown the system in the trash. This game is too addicting.

[Clash!]

The obstacles always have at least 2 extra lives in them, so you can retry them to infinity with out losing a life.

Also Yoshis color determins what type of block the fish will turn into in Ricco Harbor. I find it really funny that you spary Yoshi puke, he can just hurl on a whim, very strange.

Anyone else catch the Luigis Mansion joke?

[Will]

Yeah I caught that Luigi's Mansion joke, heheh nice one.

[NeoZeedeater]

Yeah, the Luigi's Mansion joke was funny. I love it when games make reference to other games. Especially when it's done Duke Nukem-style and refers to other companies' games.

[Mzo]

Yeah, I saw that too.

I'd also like to add that swimming was done 10x better on Mario 64 than Sunshine... strange, considering how important water is in Sunshine.

And, since we've all made it as far as the first Pinna Island level...

*MAJOR STORY SPOILER COMING UP*













What the hell happened to the Koopa Kids?? Have they all been rolled into this one particular Koopa Kid? And why aren't Peach and Mario all like "Another one?? Where do they come from?"

How did Bowser Jr. get that "magic" brush, anyway? Did E. Gadd just "give" it to him, like he said? I'd say no. But what the hell does that have to do with the story? They never really go back to that. Weird.

[Rumpy]

I've gotten stuck on the mast of the pirate ships. Like mario will stand right next to it and get stuck, like his foot is caught or the mast is magnetic and he won't move.

That was one of my tips, damnit! Read my posts! The # of blue coins will appear on the bottom right-hand side of the screen. Can't miss it.

I was refering to your tip, I was looking for a more detailed location because when I looked at the "z" screen I didn't notice a blue coin counter.

[Wildcat]

Hm, I haven't fallen through anything yet. Weird. 77 shines so far...

*laughs at Mzo's all too true story bit, all too true*

[lithium]

On the (damn I can never remember any of the names) the port level with all the ships and cranes, when you go up into the tower and do the platforming level sans FLUDD with all the rotating blocks, I must have fallen both through the blocks and jumped up through the blocks 20 times.

SMS has problems detecting angled surfaces properly. It's pretty bad for a flagship Nintendo game.