Super Mario Sunshine

This is one of the best mario games i have ever played. The graphics are amazing, the levels are long, & the game its self is long.This game is also diffrent from the regular marios, in this game instead of getting mushrooms & other things like that you have waterguns, It might sound wierd but trust me its very fun. If you are a mario fan or if your just looking 2 buy a mario game defenatly check this one out.

I'm glad 2 see that people have still been reviewing this game recently. I'm always a system behind, but I always buy Nintendo. I just bought a gamecube & this game.

Let me tell you this. Super Mario Sunshine is one of the most frustrating creations I've ever been invited 2 partake in. At times it seems like the game was designed 2 make me break my controller & buy a new one. If I hadn't grown up on Mario, & if this were the first video game I'd ever played, I would never want 2 play another one 4 the rest of my life.

I concur with everything the other reviewers have said about the controls & the camera. You're constantly fighting the buttons 2 get where you already know you need 2 be. It's sometimes tedious, often mind numbingly repetitive, & almost always keeping your blood at a steady boil.

That may very well be the genius in the game. You CAN NOT put this thing down. It's brilliant, funny, creative, & fun. It's also evil, sadistic, & more than willing 2 make you spend 3 hours on a level that will take you 3 minutes 2 complete in the long run.

I don't know how a game 4 children ended up this difficult, but I begrudgingly give it 4 stars. It's completely brilliant, & it's also the most frustrating game I've ever played in my life. What can ya do?

I purchased this game when I bought the Wii & it works really well especially with a Gamecube controller. The plot of the game is that you (Mario) are visiting a distant land, when you are confronted by the citizens who accuse you of polluting their countryside. Mario is sentenced 2 using a water canon 2 go around & clean everything that was ruined. You soon find out that there is a Mario lookalike (sort of a blue, watery looking Mario) running around with a paintbrush polluting everything. Your water pack has the ability 2 be a fire hose, jet pack, rocket pack & motorboat.

Now that the description is out of the way "Here we go!". The graphics are good 4 a game of its time. It has the overall feeling of Mario 64 but doesn't quite live up 2 the rep of a Mario game. The puzzles have the potential 2 be fun, but also incredibly frustrating. The variety of game play is also pretty abundant. However, this game has the absolute worst camera angles of any game I've ever played. Add that 2 the poor shadowing & you have a formula 4 a game where the player will constantly have 2 restart missions & climb sequences from falling off cliffs, not making the jump, falling into the water, falling from not being able 2 gauge distances, missing landings while using the je pack option, etc. Even Devil May Cry had better camera angles than this game & you can't control the cameras in that game. I even find it pretty annoying that I can't adjust camera controls, I'm very used 2 non inverted controls & this game is all about control inversion.

Anyway, that is my overall of the game. I'm not sure if this game is worth the $17 or $18 you'll pay in total from Amazon. But if you are a dedicated Mario fan go 4 it. I say just spend the money on Mario 64 & Super Mario World downloads 4 the Wii & play those. I think you'll derive much more enjoyment & the less frustration playing those games.

I do not understand anyone who would rate this game badly. This game enthralled me 4 hours. It was so much fun, that I have played it through two times. The graphics are not as good as Galaxy, of course, but I thought that from the neat worlds down 2 the music was fantastic. Some of the stars were difficult & frustrating, but I think they were better planned out than the simpler ones found in Galaxy, though Galaxy did have a few hard ones to. This game took me longer than Galaxy, about the same amount of time it took me 2 beat Mario 64. Galaxy was good, Mario 64 was better, Sunshine was the best. (Don't get me wrong, Galaxy was a lot of fun, but not tops on my list.) It was a lot of fun defending a hotel from a manta ray attack & running along the rooftops of Delfino Plaza, I highly recommend this game.

I bought this game 2 play on the Wii after having played Super Mario Galaxy 2 the bone & getting all 121 stars, which were indeed difficult & stressful 2 get but not at all compared 2 Super Mario Sunshine.

The game seems rushed & not well-finished at all. Surely Mario does look much better than the precarious Super Mario 64 design but the game looks like a testing beta version of itself. The graphics aren't great, the music is... just there, & the gameplay ranges from funnily easy 2 insanely difficult. Plus the cameras are almost manual & only turn by themselves when you're in tight situations, usually making you die.

Okay, lots of people like difficult stuff - as I do - but the difficulty of Mario Sunshine is gratuitously difficult. It is just difficult, nothing else. There's no respectful elaboration at all. The controls are very badly-programmed & let you down MANY MANY times during difficult levels when you need them 2 work the most.

It sounds as if Nintendo was trying 2 impress & forgot that a quality game indeed is very hard, yes, but has matching controlling resources that gives the player a chance 2 shine & well-elaborated hard levels. 'Cause please, don't give me that "experiment with the camera" babble 'cause that's just a lame excuse not 2 programme it properly! 'Cause, seriously, it's very easy 2 pick any same hard level, then give you 1 min 2 complete it & call it a new great level 2 test your ability. But where should we turn 2 when the controls doesn't reflect what you're doing on them onscreen? Where should we turn 2 if the camera keeps going behind an obstacle that leaves the screen with loads of very unhelpful question marks? They even say "Good Luck" during the hardest levels. And they should, 'cause only random luck gets you 2 the end.

If you want a real great game, go 4 Super Mario Galaxy. Mario Sunshine is a complete letdown 4 me. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Mario fan-player 4 a decade now, never had any grudges whatsoever with any of the games. But this one... it would be easy 2 criticise it if I was a frustrated player who's just angry 'cause he can't finish the game. But I'm not. I did finish it but under amounts of stress, frustration & deception I never ever experienced in my life... so far.

Avoid this game if you're seeking real entertainment. For those of you who seek difficult stuff, at least make sure the controls are well-developed & do what you request of them.

Super Mario Sunshine takes Mario & Peach 2 beautiful Sunshine Island, 4 a much-needed vacation-- until a graffiti artist dressed like Mario goes around vandalizing the place!

Six years. Six long years we’ve had 2 wait 4 a new Mario game, & finally it’s here. And even considering the ridiculously unfair expectations, Super Mario Sunshine is almost entirely as good as you’d hope & expect.

The premise of the game is that Mario’s tropical holiday is ruined when he’s stitched up by an evil look-alike 4 daubing graffiti all over the island. Rather conveniently, there’s a water pump waiting 4 him 2 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 2 immediately recover. This built-in safety net means the game can afford 2 be far more ambitious in its level design than ever before, with massive levels filled with trampolines, tightropes, water-powered windmills, huge coral reefs, & mountains & mountains of platforms.

The whole thing looks amazing, too, with the most realistic water ever seen in a video game, & a near-infinite draw distance. On top of all this are rideable, fruit-juice-spewing Yoshis, extra water nozzles, super-hardcore platform levels where Shadow Mario nicks your jet pack, & goop-generating bosses who seem 2 live 2 make Princess Peach’s laundry a nightmare.

After the sweet but rather short pleasures of Luigi’s Mansion & Pikmin, you need have no fear that Mario Sunshine is of a similarly brief nature. There are a total of 120 shines 2 collect--the same number of stars as in Super Mario 64--and the game world is at least as large & 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