... So I went down to Woollies and got myself a GameCube complete with Super Mario Sunshine. I rushed home, set it up and switched it on.
There he was, back in my living room and I was happy again...... sad isn't it :oP
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Six years. Six long years we've had to wait for a new Mario game and finally it's here. ... more
And even considering the ridiculously unfair expectations,Super Mario Sunshineis almost entirely as good as you'd hope and expect.The premise of the game is that Mario's tropical holiday is ruined when he's stitched up by an evil lookalike for daubing graffiti all over the island. Rather conveniently there's an extremely useful water pump waiting for him to use, which not only washes away the mess but also doubles as a handy jet pack. The jet pack aspect means that whenever you fall off something you have the chance to immediately recover yourself; this built-in safety net means the game can afford to be far more ambitious in its level designs than ever before, with massive levels filled with trampolines, tightropes, water-powered windmills, huge coral reefs and mountains and mountains of platforms.The whole thing looks amazing, too, with the most realistic water ever seen in a video game and a near infinite draw distance. And that's without evening mentioning the rideable, fruit juice-spewing Yoshis, the extra water nozzles, the super-hardcore platform levels where Shadow Mario nicks your jet pack, or the goop-generating bosses who seem to live to make Princess Peach's laundry a nightmare.After the sweet but rather short pleasures ofLuigi's MansionandPikmin, you need have no fear thatMario Sunshineis of a similarly brief nature. There are a total of 120 shines to collect--the same number of stars as inSuper Mario 64--and the game world is at least as large and far more interactive. This is without question the best game on the GameCube yet; that may be no more than you'd expect from a Mario game, but it's certainly more than most of us mere mortals deserve. --David Jenkins
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Six years. Six long years we've had to wait for a new Mario game and finally it's here. ... more
And even considering the ridiculously unfair expectations,Super Mario Sunshineis almost entirely as good as you'd hope and expect.The premise of the game is that Mario's tropical holiday is ruined when he's stitched up by an evil lookalike for daubing graffiti all over the island. Rather conveniently there's an extremely useful water pump waiting for him to use, which not only washes away the mess but also doubles as a handy jet pack. Thejet pack aspect means that whenever you fall off something you have the chance to immediately recover yourself; this built-in safety net means the game can afford to be far more ambitious in its level designs than ever before, with massive levels filled with trampolines, tightropes, water-powered windmills, huge coral reefs and mountains and mountains of platforms.The whole thing looks amazing, too, with the most realistic water ever seen in a video game and a near infinite draw distance. And that's without evening mentioning the rideable, fruit juice-spewing Yoshis, the extra water nozzles, the super-hardcore platform levels where Shadow Mario nicks your jet pack, or the goop-generating bosses who seem to live to make Princess Peach's laundry a nightmare.After the sweet but rather short pleasures ofLuigi's MansionandPikmin, you need have no fear thatMario Sunshineis of a similarly brief nature. There are a total of 120 shines to collect--the same number of stars as inSuper Mario 64--and the game world is at least as large and far more interactive. This is without question the best game on the GameCube yet; that may be no more than you'd expect from a Mario game, but it's certainly more than most of us mere mortals deserve. --David Jenkins
Postage & Packaging:£1.94 Availability:Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days...
Advantages: I get to spend time with a short dark stranger Disadvantages: He ignores me
...myself a GameCube complete with Super Mario Sunshine. I rushed home, set it up and switched it on.
There he was, back in my living room and I was happy again...... sad isn't it :oP
Now you have discovered what a sad person I really am, I better tell you a bit about the actual game rather than just my Mario fixation!
The Game itself.......
It is your basic run around, solve puzzles and collect ... ...Peach is off on her hols with Mario and her usual entourage of royal attendants. They fly into a beautiful sunlit tropical paradise called Isle Delfino, only to find that someone that looks like Mario has been leaving graffiti and gloop everywhere. This slightly spoils the holiday plans as Mario is thrown in jail!
Mario promises to help clean up the mess with the help of Fludd, a strange water squirter robot, that can talk and looks ... more
A little while ago my sons mate Ian lent us his GameCube and I fell in love....
........with a short dumpy Italian with a strange moustache!
But he belongs to another, some daft girlie looking Princess called Peach, that always seems to get in trouble by being constantly kidnapped! I don't know exactly what is going on between these two but I am jealous :oP
I spent ages with Mario, much more than she does! Finding coins, squirting baddies with water, cleaning up the places we go to and even rescuing her but do I get a thank you off this strange little bloke? You bet I don't! Not so much as a word has passed his lips... mind you he could be mumbling something under that gigantic moustache but I never hear anything... apart from the occasional "OUCH!" when things go wrong. But still I have to spend time with him, in the never ending quest for him to stop chasing after the Princess and just notice me!
The boys went off to their Dads for Easter and what was I doing... was I out on the tiles? NO! I was sitting in playing as much as I could before Mario was taken away from me! Eating pizza to keep me in the Italian mood :oP
Then the day I had been dreading came.... Ian took his GameCube back and I had to go without my daily dose. After trying to take my mind off Mario, by playing a different Mario game on my sons Nintendo 64, I found I just couldn't cope. So what could I do? I couldn't borrow Ian's again, as his Mum had dropped it down the stairs! (Don't ask!) And the one on the N64 just wasn't the same. So I went down to Woollies and got myself a GameCube complete with Super Mario Sunshine. I rushed home, set it up and switched it on.
There he was, back in my living room and I was happy again...... sad isn't it :oP
Now you have discovered what a sad person I really am, I better tell you a bit about the actual game rather than just my Mario fixation!
The Game itself.......
It is your basic run around, solve puzzles and collect things game!
There is a story. Princess Peach is off on her hols with Mario and her usual entourage of royal attendants. They fly into a beautiful sunlit tropical paradise called Isle Delfino, only to find that someone that looks like Mario has been leaving graffiti and gloop everywhere. This slightly spoils the holiday plans as Mario is thrown in jail!
Mario promises to help clean up the mess with the help of Fludd, a strange water squirter robot, that can talk and looks a bit like a duck! This stays on Mario's back throughout the game, apart from when it is stolen by the wanna be baddie see-through Mario on certain levels, (who's identity will be revealed later in the game, so I am saying nothing about who the Baddie really is) :oP
The reason the locals are so cross about the gloop that is everywhere, is that the shine sprites that keep the isle so sunny have all gone away, as they don't like the pollution (a message there if ever I heard one). So not only must Mario clean up, he must also find all the shine sprites and make the place all sunny again.
There are different area's to visit, but only after you have collect the right amount of sprites can you visit them. You start in Delfino Plaza after Mario has been let out jail. By squirting the Graffiti on the main monument you get to go to Bianco Hills. All the gateways to the different area's you visit are somewhere in the Plaza.
There are different puzzles and tasks in each area. Some harder than others, but they can be worked out eventually. For each level solved you receive a shine sprite and a bit more of the Isle gets brighter. And of course the more sprite you have the more areas you can visit :o)
Besides the puzzles and tasks there is the basic collecting coins thing:
gold coins, they are all over the place, 50 give you an extra life, 100 give you a shine sprite. blue coins, these aren't so easy to find, 10 give you a shine sprite. red coins, this is one of the tasks in each area, 8 give you a sprite.
You also have to clear up big gloopy messes of what looks like chocolate mouse, but I am sure they aren't, as they hurt when you get covered in them! The baddies leave these messes all over the place and if you make Mario step on it he slips over, gets all dirty and has to clean himself off with some water.
The baddies come in all shapes and forms. Some spit out the gloop, some just attack my hero for no apparent reason and some do both!
If you find a giant egg you can feed this fruit (which is either found on the ground or up trees) and this will turn into Yoshi and you can move Mario around alot quicker when he rides it.
You have a life monitor so you can see how badly Mario is doing, but coins will help top this up to full when you are running out.
You can climb trees.... and fly using the Fludds jet stream mode, so this often helps you get out of trouble, as well as letting you reach those impossibly placed coins!
Also you can swim, and often need to pop in the water just to fill up Fludd as the water supply does run out, as well as cleaning Mario off when he has got glooped!
There are sub tasks for coins on each level which can be easily missed if you just barge through and do just the task in hand and even special nozzle attachments for Fludd to make it do different things.
There are underwater things to do and underground places, that can all be reached easily but aren't always obvious, so it is best to keep an eye out for things.
I think I have covered everything!
In my opinion it is a great game to play (and I am not just saying that as I have a Mario fixation)! Even though there are some quite complex puzzles it is still suitable for all ages, with a bit of help every now and then. I can see me coming back to play this game until I have completed every single little task and then starting again once I have. Well I have to keep playing 'til he actually notices me don't I!?!
The controls are easy to master and the booklet that comes with it has clear pictures of what the buttons do and how everything works.
A highly enjoyable game, that I am so glad I got addicted too :o)
Advantages: Bright, vibrant game play with lots of puzzles Disadvantages: To many obstacle courss - not enough bosses
...Country on the SNES and Super Mario on the N64. It therefore seemed logical to get me a Game Cube, as this was the only way I would get to play any new DK or Mario games when released. Super Mario Sunshine was released in the autumn of 2002, and was heralded as the greatest Mario game yet. Following the phenomenally successful Luigi's
Mansion, Super Mario Sunshine was the first platform encounter that Mario had starred in for the Game Cube, and ... ...OVERVIEW
The story behind Super Mario Sunshine contains all the traditional elements that one might expect from a Mario game. Our hero is escorting the lovely Princess Peach to the Holiday Island of Isle Delfino, but when the party arrives they find that a mystery villain has polluted the island, and that everything is covered in a foul slime. Quickly taking up arms with a
water-propelling jetpack called FLUDD, Mario sets about cleaning up the ...
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Advantages: Rewarding | Nice graphics | Fun Disadvantages: Very tough
...the plumber has appeared in Super Smash Brothers, Mario Party and Paper Mario to name a few titles but he hasn’t had a proper outing since the N64 was launched. So it is fair to assume that Super Mario Sunshine is under a lot of pressure to deliver a good game. It is, after all, a Mario game and it’s the game that Nintendo hope will boost sales of the GameCube. A lot has happened since Mario 64 as 3D platformers are now all over the place but Mario ... ...lot to eclipse.
Super Mario Sunshine begins with Mario taking a well-earned holiday after saving Princess Toadstool time after time. Choosing the tropical paradise that is Isle Delfino everything seems to be perfect. That is, until, their plane skids over some rather ominous but colourful goop on the runway. It turns out that this slimy substance is all over Isle Delfino, not only that, but the weather has turned all cloudy thanks to Isle Delfino’s ...
3rdRockSatan 18.11.2002
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Advantages: Bright and colourful; great fun Disadvantages: Irritating camera; sometimes too difficult
When Super Mario was released on the N64 six long years ago it was instantly proclaimed a classic by everyone. The transition from 2D to 3D platformer had been flawlessly implemented: now you could guide the illustrious Italian plumber through dozens of stunning 3-dimensional worlds, doing wall-jump after wall-jump and completing countless puzzles. As time passed numerous developers tried to replicate the winning formula and, while most failed miserably, ... ...Mario 64 again. Enter Super Mario Sunshine, the long awaited sequel to the original 3D platformer…
When I saw the first screenshots of Super Mario Sunshine (hereafter referred to as SMS) I was far from impressed. Compared to most current games the visuals seemed to lack depth and detail - it just looked like an updated Mario 64. Bur it was when I found out that the game involved cleaning up graffiti that I really started to worry. My friends, all ...
CC2000 10.11.2002
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Advantages: Beautiful graphics, Mario Disadvantages: Annoying camera, not quite as polished as it could be
When I first saw mario with a waterpak on his back I was thinking the same thing every one else was probably thinking "Luigis Mansion 2". But truth be told the game plays nothing like LM, it is infact much MUCH better. I, like many others, was turned off by the screenshots which displayed questionable character models with low poly counts. But when this game is in motion, there is no denying that it looks astounding! The effects are dazzling and ... ...colors, and above average textures combine quite well to make this game a feast for the eyes. In adition to all this SMS sports the best water effects of recent memory. And rightfully so, seeing as how a major component of the game is water. The water that sprays from the nozzle hoisted on marios back distorts everything you can see through it. And when the water hits the ground you can see subtle reflections. The little touches like these are what ...
Dark-Cloudz 29.11.2002
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Advantages: Its a Nintendo Classic Disadvantages: The only bad point is that the camera can get a little fiddly and awkward at times
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Gameplay Super Mario Sunshine can be summed up very easily. It is Super Mario 64 evolved. It's one part thrilling gameplay from the N64, one part all-new water cannon, and a heaping helping of that secret Nintendo sauce. Super Mario Sunshine isn't perfect, but it's highly entertaining, and what you'd expect a tightly wound 3D platformer to be. So, generally speaking, fans of the Mario franchise will know what to expect.
Let's start at ... ...complicated things. Super Mario Sunshine is a defining 3D platform title from the development wizards at Nintendo's thriving internal team Entertainment Analysis and Development (EAD), all under the supervision of legendary creator Shigeru Miyamoto. It takes everything the company has learned about making games fun, plainly and obviously, and puts it into this long-in-development flagship title. It's so similar to Super Mario 64 that I've no doubt ...
Fuzzt 11.09.2002
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