It set quite a few standards for the Super Mario series, and actually introduced quite a few relevant characters! Sunshine is also known for its versatile movement and jumps, as well as its somewhat-frustrating difficulty. Let’s talk a bit about the actual game, though. Meaning it’s currently the only legal way to play the game without paying a ton of money for the Gamecube version. And hey, this is the first time Sunshine has ever been re-released. The cutscenes have been upscaled, too, but the left and right sides have been cut off a bit (the entire cutscene has been zoomed in to fit the Switch’s widescreen display). Sunshine’s textures have also been upscaled, which is a welcome change! The original game’s textures looked a bit crusty at times, so they’ve been nicely cleaned up for the Switch re-release. This means Super Mario 64 is the only game that doesn’t run in widescreen, but we’ll talk about that another time. Compared to the original version, Super Mario 3D All-Starsmakes a few interesting changes.įirst, the game now runs in widescreen. Super Mario Sunshine was released in July 2002, making it almost twenty years old! Mario and Peach head to Isle Delfino to take a vacation, only to find that a Mario imposter has trashed the entire island! Delfino’s locals assume Mario is the one at fault, and task him with cleaning the place up with a portable water-hose thing called F.L.U.D.D. Sure, smacking question mark blocks and stomping enemies is bizarre, but Sunshine’s overall aesthetic takes it to a new level. The game has sort of a bizarre essence about it, and it’s one I don’t think the Super Mario series has been able to fully capture since.
Still, going into Sunshine mostly blind was really interesting. You often hear about 64 and Galaxy, but you hear about Sunshine much less - in my experience, at least. As you might expect, I didn’t get very far!
I owned it as a kid on the Wii, but never made the connection that you needed a Gamecube Memory Card to save progress. We’ve been really busy fleshing out our amiibo training guides, so it’s been a whole month since we’ve typed up an unrelated essay! Back in September, we covered the Super Mario 3D All-Stars version of Super Mario Galaxy.Now we’re moving backward a step and covering Super Mario Sunshine on Nintendo Switch! Out of Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine, and Super Mario Galaxy, Sunshine is the one I’ve personally had less experience with.
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