Super Mario Sunshine

Remember when Mario actually just jumped on guys heads and tried to save Peach? This was before he started kicking soccer balls or beating the heck out of his fellow Nintendo characters. Yes, this was the good old times of the NES and Super NES. By the N64, he was already branching out into many different areas, making the platforming series just 1 of the many Mario series'. But now again, Mario puts on his jumping shoes in another epic adventure.

The story starts with Mario, Toadsworth, and Peach all going on a vacation to the tropical island full of sea, sun, and sand, Isle Delfino. But once they get to the Isle, they see that the island is covered in paint and grafitti, and thus, the sunny, sacred Shine Sprites of the island left to a less polluted place. When Mario arrives, he is taken on trial due to the belief that he has committed all these crimes. He is forced to clean up the entire island as punishment. Luckily he is not alone, with the help of his water...

What do you do when you create a 3D platform game that essentially redefines the genre? Nintendo managed something amazing when they created Super Mario 64. This wasn't just a successful transition from 2D for the plumber, it was an experience that shaped the perception of what a 3D platform adventure should be like. The problem then was how to follow it up. Sunshine not only develops the concepts pioneered in SM64 but adds its own twists to the gameplay.

From the moment you turn the game on the impressive graphical display hits you hard. Sunshine is beautiful. Light years ahead of its predecessor in that regard, Sunshine takes on the task of creating a fictional tropical island and accomplishes the task perfectly. The visuals are incredibly smooth and bright, offering a form of 3D cartoon-styled that is easily associated with the Mario series, but detailed enough to present all sorts of unique touches. This is perhaps the first 3D mario platformer where the ingame...

THE GOOD:
Engaging Storyline & Plot
Nice Graphics
Pleasurable Audio & Music
Many New Characters, as well as recurring ones.
Many Unique Challenges
A Wide Array of Different Worlds
Good Replay Value

THE BAD:
Bit hard at some points.
Some Ridiculously Difficult Episodes.

SUMMARY:
Here we have Super Mario Sunshine, another Mario game made by Nintendo. Super Mario Sunshine may look a tad boring by looking at the game cover, but behind that lies a game that will be remembered in the next generation. Super Mario Sunshine is the first 3D Mario game to emerge ever since Super Mario 64, and is much more pleasurable and entertaining than it sounds to be.

Super Mario Sunshine has many, many good qualities about it, and some of them include the storyline, new character introductions, as well as gameplay. The gameplay of Super Mario Sunshine is similar to Super Mario 64, although the character uses a new tool...

THE GOOD:
- Good Graphics.
- Good Music.
- Good Gameplay.
- The Use Of FLUDD.
- Playable Yoshi.
- Decent Story.
- Replay Value.

THE BAD:
- No Online Mode.
- No Easter Eggs.

SUMMARY:
Super Mario Sunshine is what we can call a "Classic" for the Game Cube. Like any Mario game, this one was made for the whole family. Children will enjoy it, so will the parents. Hardcore gamers will enjoy this game as much as casual gamers due to the quantity of secrets it has.

The Good;

Super Mario Sunshine is a game that has many good points to enchance the gamer's experience.

The graphics are very good and this game is probably using the whole Game Cube's capacity to generate them. All the characters are very detailed and very colorful; same with every environment you visit, and with each individual object you see. If you are the kind of people that requieres the game to...

THE GOOD:
+ So much exploration and freedom
+ FLUDD is a cool idea
+ Easy to learn controls
+ Boss battles are fun
+ The levels are awesome
+ Great graphics
+ 120 Shines to collect

THE BAD:
- Camera may screw up
- Some evil textures
- Bosses are a bit too easy
- Lag in final boss fight

SUMMARY:
Super Mario Sunshine was an unbalanced game. The vacation theme ruined it in some peoples eyes, and some people thought 64 was better. Honestly, I think SMS is a huge success for a launch title on the Cube. Great graphics, good control system and lots of freedom.

GRAPHICS

Mario Sunshine has some incredibly desgined worlds.

Super Mario Sunshine is a very pretty game. It puts the Gamecubes graphics to superb use, as all the worlds are filled...

THE GOOD:
+ FLUDD
+ A lot of unique levels
+ Mario's abilities

THE BAD:
- Most of the missions where too easy
- Some of the missions can be tedious
- Camera Angles can sometimes be a hassle

SUMMARY:
Super Mario Sunshine, definitely one of the best gamecube games made featuring excellent gameplay, graphics, as well as excelling in many other aspects of what makes a great game.

The story is really simple, and really easy to understand. What basically happened was Mario, Peach, Toadsworth, and a few toads were on vacation and arrived at Isle Delfino. Unfortunatly, Mario was mistaken for someone else and was arrested. Mario joins up with FLUDD, an invention of Professor Elvin Gadd, to help clear his name and find out who the real culprit is who has been painting graffiti all over the island.

The gameplay is one of the things that makes this game so addictive. Mario has a lot of new abilities because he can...

THE GOOD:
Music is extremely innovating. Best I have heard in almost any other video game.

Graphics are amazing. Everything is clear and bright.

Originality is fluid in this game. Although, similar to Super Mario 64, it is very different. It's hard to give Mario new moves from Mario 64, just so you can clarify the game as more original, but since his moves from Mario 64 are already near-perfect, giving him good control, it would be a shame to give him entirely different moves.

Blue coin collecting is very fun. It stretches the game out.

THE BAD:
Story line works, and is original, but, in general, an entirely different story line, which may or may not result in an entirely different game, could have made this game better.

There could have been a few more levels.

Some parts of the game are a little bit slow.

It's annoying when you're looking for something, for it can be quite...

Having played the import version of Sunshine for a day or two, before my import Cube decided to stop working, I pretty much knew what to expect from the North American version which showed up little more than a month later.

The release of a new Mario game has always been an event and I am proud to say that I've been around for all of them over the years. I won't rehash the past now, but it's safe to say that whenever a new Mario game was released it was understood by the people in my life that they wouldn't be seeing me for awhile. Now that I'm married with children that's a little harder to do, but I get by.

A quick synopsis of the story involves Mario being implicated in a grafitti scandal, while vacationing with Peach which culminates in our hero being sentenced to clean up Delphino Isle and it's surrounding resort areas. It would seem that the grafitti and sludge have caused the islands power source to shutdown due to all of the little "Shines" having...

THE GOOD:
Cutscenes (yay, they actually talk this time).
Graphics look pretty good.
Better gameplay.

THE BAD:
F.L.U.D.D looks pretty rubbish.
Not enough enemies and worlds.
The missions where you chase Shadow Mario are quite frustrating and boring.
Not many sidequests to look forward to.

SUMMARY:
Lastability: 4/10.
Not that long but there's a lot of shines. *acts sarcastically* Yay!
Graphics: 7/10.
Improvement from Super Mario 64. They look like good Gamecube Graphics (stay off XBox).
Sound: 2/10.
Okay, that's 500 shades of crap and repetitive. Not the sort of game I'd like.
Gameplay: 4/10.
Let's see here. You simply need to clean out the town and go through worlds to get these "shines" and then you need to (at the end) kill the "enemy".
Overall: 2.1/5.0
Good thing I didn't buy this piece of crap (rented it). It was really really boring and crap.

THE GOOD:
Do extremaly cool moves, backflips, triple jumps, somersaults...

Amazing, beautiful 3D enviroments.

Spray everithing you see with water!

Challenging Game.

120 Shine Sprites to get.

Yoshi, get different color Yoshis.

Gauntlets, impossible levels that are extremaly challenging.

Explore all the parts of Delfino Island.

THE BAD:
Absolutely NOTHING IS BAD IN THIS GAME!

SUMMARY:
This is fantastic! Get this if you have a GameCube and didn't! Explore worlds, learn awesome moves, get a water gun, play levels that seem impossible, and clean the Island of goop! Also this is like the sequel to Super Mario 64, Super Mario 64 had 120 stars, and Super Mario Sunshine has 120 Shine Sprites! The stars were replaced with moving suns! Collect coins, do intense levels, this game is DA BEST! The levels are LOOOOOONG type, that type that takes 10 minutes to complete. Even if you aren't a Mario Fan, i...