The 120 Shines TAS actually manages to defeat Mecha-Bowser _and_ leave before the sprinkler, but it takes a shot at the very beginning which I think is frame-perfect. In Ricco 6, you don't have to use the blooper as soon as the red coins spawn, so you could just go for the mid-air one without touching water, then get the blooper for the other ones, leading to only one water touch. It might be possible to get all the coins without blooper or touching water, but the timer will probably make it tricky. When spawning on the plaza, you don't control Mario until he lands if you're coming out of a main level, but you can control him if you're coming from the title screen. Just save and quit after Noki 7, reload the save file, and you can hover to safety!

I'm gonna imagine Mario accidentally brought his clothes that were dry clean only. And that's why he doesn't want to touch water

I would say the boooper touching the water doesn't count as it's essentially a moving platform, and you don't count any platform that's touching the water

"By succeeding, I successfully beat Super Mario Sunshine" I too am incredibly poetic

9:37 with that logic standing on a boat or the platforms from earlier also count as touching the water. I would count the blooper as if it were a small speedboat thats independant of mario instead of a part of mario in that sense.

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Pinna Park entry cutscene be like "A water touch is a water touch, you can't say it's only half a water touch."

If I remember correctly, one of the boxes on the left side of Sirena Beach should have a 1up in it, which would give you a single use refill during the Manta battle.

Petition to name the speedrun category for this concept Dehydration%

If you're allowed to pickup a nozzle to refill your water, then surely you are also allowed to pickup bottles of water? You're not touching the water itself.

Really amazing video! I like how you actually took the heart of the challenge seriously instead of just giving up because of Fludd or something. Really clever strategies throughout the run.

10:54 “Next up is Pinna Park!” Mario: “Ah, So you’ve chosen death” ☠️

Just so you know, jumping through the leaky bathroom in Sirena 3 is not required. There's actually a tile in the entrance area to the pool that you can ground pound to take you to the room below it, where the leaky bathroom would normally take you. I don't know why they thought to put that there, especially given how hard it is to find the tile (so I can't believe kid me found that before the leaky floor jump), but you could have used that as an alternative to banana clip.

I would actually exclude the roller coaster water based on the cutscene rule. You don't have control over the coaster, and the coaster is what forces you into water, not Mario, so I would count that under the same principle as cutscene water. However, if you were to do the fight too slowly and touched the water a second time on the coaster, I would count that, because that water touch would be due to a failing of Mario's, not the coaster.

I love how you y-turned after most shines so Mario shows off his shines to IDK who

I really appreciate this video! I always hate it in those "If I touch x it changes to the next game" videos where one game is just completely skipped because of some dump technicality. Like, touching the *puddles* made by FLUDD, ok, I could see counting that, trying to avoid your own puddles could be an interesting challenge, but the water particles from the spraying animation while Mario is standing still on dry land!?!? Bruh!! It was a long time since I saw that video, but I remember being SO disappointed! I remember wondering about Sunshine leading up to it. There's so much water everywhere, you need to be in water to refill FLUDD's tank, and then he just goes "Nope! Not doing this game! Water particles!" Like dude what!?

Awesome! I’d love to see a 100% run with these rules, or everything possible without touching water

Did you know that during the Manta fight if you stand under the umbrellas where the coins are, you are completely safe from the mantas and the goop? They're projected from the sky like beams of light, so they can't go under anything. You could have just stood under one of those umbrellas taking potshots.

this was a really funny idea, since water makes up a lot of sunshines identity

Mario definitely stayed dry while surfing on the blooper. I would say he only got wet 11 times.

Cool video! Really loving these challenge type videos! Can't wait to see more! Personally, I'd say only 4 instances of touching the water should count. 1. The Mecha Bowser sprinkler. 2. The Noki Bay Waterfall 3. The Noki Bay Bottle 4. Entering Flooded Isle Delfino The bloopers shouldn't count. Following the logic that Mario is standing on the blooper that's in the water, anytime you touched a boat or other platform sitting in the water would also count. Just because it's thinner than everything else doesn't mean it should count. I don't think Pina Park should count either. Though, I can at least understand why someone would count it, being in water during gameplay and all. However, you enter it via an unavoidable cutscene. The act of initiating the touch wasn't really a part of the gameplay. Not to mention, touching it there doesn't really do anything for you? It doesn't refill the water tank or give you another path. The reason I count the Noki Bay bottle and Flooded Isle Delfino is that you're required to move through the water. You need to swim through the water in flooded Isle Delfino to get anywhere remotely safe, so even though you had no choice of landing there, you still needed to touch it. Same thing applies with the bottle in Noki Bay, you're actively moving through the water. Pina Park is a bit different as I would imagine you could jump out of the water and hover away without needing to walk forward through the water first.

Great video! I love these silly little self-imposed challenges but not everyone who does them are as thorough or as consistent as I would like. For example they might come up with a lot of arbitrary exceptions to their own rules just so that they can technically complete the challenge, or they might gloss over large parts of the challenge that they don't deem interesting enough to show even though it's not obvious why they wouldn't be interesting to a regular viewer, so as a viewer you're just left feeling like the video is incomplete. However, your video was excellent imo, as you clearly established the rules you were playing with from the start, and took the time to discuss any iffy edge-cases (like cutscenes that drop you into water before gameplay) so that viewers can make their own judgement. I also appreciate that you included at least short segments of shines that weren't really a problem but still required some different thinking from a regular playthrough, like the water path at the beginning of Bianco Hills. I understand that this video was just about beating the game, but I'd also be curious about the possibility of a full 120 Shine run without touching water. If you'd be interested in making such a video then I'd definitely be interested in watching it!

Riding a blooper is definitely not touching water. I think that's true for the cutscene drops and the Bowser sprinkler (while the death animating is playing). But touching frozen water is still touching water. Lol

Play without touching grass - Don't go outside Play without touching water - Don't bathe Step by step, we're approaching true gamer status.

They discovered arbitrary code execution that requiees you to get unlock noki and get to eel fight only. To do that you need to unlock pinna park (i dont think you have to go in it but if you do thats one water touch). Then you toich water twice in noki to get to eel then preform arbitrary code excecition that warps you to vowser and beats bowser in just one ground pound. So that should only be 2 touches (3 if you need to go into pinna park). This is tas only tho, if you do it using human methods you can skip pinna 5 reducing one water touch.

The defeat animation is a cutscene and thus touching water during it doesn't count (to me). Sure, you can move where you're looking, but you don't actually have any meaningful control. 13:45 14:27 (and many more during that level) 16:46 18:10 You touched Fludd Water (obviously possible without doing that so not a huge deal just felt like mentioning) noki bay more like stinki bay >=( 22:52 Oh, wait, do you agree with my first point? Because there were 2 water touches in Noki Bay. Or is the bottle a cutscene drop? 22:55 love the use of the invisible delfino glitch for this epic visual

8:29 Actually, if you ask me, I wouldn't have even counted using the bloopers as touching water, since you/Mario aren't directly touching the water at all, just the Blooper is. But props for the dedication! Nevermind, you just acknowledge that seconds later, lol

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You can also skip one of the Pinna Park water touches at the start of the level by doing the early yoshi-go-round (EYG) skip. You can only skip one level with it though since you have to have episode 4 completed and it gets you the sixth shine

One could debate that moments where you spray water onto the ground and immediately march through it, or hover backwards so the streams of water touch your heels, could count as water touches. But I'm pretty sure every moment of those you showed could be circumvented just by being really slow and careful, so I'll allow it.

Poor Mario dehydrated and dry as heck throughout this run.

For the pina park bowser fight: the 100% TAS actually skips touching that sprinkler! You can grab the rockets early by spraying water at them, allowing you to kill bowser before the sprinkler. Then they exit course during the loadout to skip the cutscene. So in theory that's one less water touch you need to make! kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ebKYdsJ-xK-ohaM.html

I really appreciate the transparency with riding the blooper, especially telling us that it needs to touch the water twice. I wouldn't count it, but the fact that you thought to include it speaks volumes about your integrity, and I'll definitely be subscribing.

Blooper doesn't count sure, but you constantly stepping in your own puddles does :)

Awesome vid, really liked all the considerations and workarounds

you should be able to skip 1 pinna park entrance water touch if you do the yoshi go round early skip, which skips episode 5.

yesss new mandatorypixel video. love ur commentary on the challenges, very interesting to watch (:

(Looks at the water) That's it, I gotta replay Sunshine

It's been on year since I've watched your Paper Mario video and you're still making these videos. Impressive, keep it up my guy! :D

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Yo your channel is awesome. I hope you keep doing challenges. I'm not even much a fan of sunshine but your video was so well made I didn't even need any prior knowledge to enjoy it.

What a cool mix of glitches and platforming! Great job!

there's only 3 of the instances i'd count as unobtainable, where you get put into the bottle, where you're dropped off at the beach and where to have to jump into the waterfall.

Great concept for a video, an dyou executed it perfectly. Great stuff, my man.

Riding on the Blooper doesn't count in my opinion, otherwise standing on a boat which is touching the water would count for the same reason.

Great video! Hope to see more!

Bowser trolled you with that water remark.

this was super entertaining I love seeing Sunshine get cool challenge videos too its a great game

Intersting take, deciding to ban water bottles but still allowing other refills from nozzles and 1ups. I feel that from a mechanical standpoint, they ought to be treated the same.

Interesting video. Especially considering I've never played this game, but I've always been curious about it. Well done.

Well, that's certainly not how I played it as a kid. I used an action replay for UNLIMITED WATER!

All these video are great work man

9:40 maybe you can get that coin with mario and then come back for blooper in time also, in pinna park, you can use EYG (Egg Yoshi Glitch i think) in the shine 5, which consists on managing to enter the subarea for the shine 6 in the level 5, skipping the level 6 and so skipping 1 water touch of the very start

Water you doing! Thay is liquidily improbable!

It's impressive that you managed to beat this game!

Great video! I'm extremely surprised you don't have more subs

GREAT VIDEO! Interested to see what else you make man!

At 13:00 you mention that you enter the course seven times. But Pinna Park is the third course in the game besides Bianco Hills and Gelato Beach that allows you to skip a shine. You only need to enter six times. The skip is called "Early Yoshi-Go-Round" or EYG for short.

4:00 The Peety piranha thing is fine, its in his body at that point. It's bodily fluids that hit mario, not water. 😂

This challenge was really fun to watch you should do more mario challenges and even expand onto other games such as the sonic franchise for example

good video! i want to see more challenges from you!

You should do a without killing an enemy challenge for the new Super Mario Bros. Wonder game

drinking game: take a sip of water each time you hear "water" stay hydrated

I'll be honest, the end stats were really cool. Only 2 actual touches seems crazy

So a sprinkler a bottle and a waterfall...

Fludd holding water definitely doesn’t count as touching it. I love Nathaniel’s videos, but he can be very strict with what he counts as touching something. He’s counted being in front of something in the background as touching a color.

nice to see interesting challenge videos from you

This was a very fun challenge to watch

Idk how i got here, didnt even search it, nor do i speedrun this game....but here i am all about it

Touching bowsers bath water deals damage because of the anguish knowing you'll be called a simp

Underrated channel!

underrated channel tbh, seems like you don't get enough subs considering the effort, so ima help fix that

I would think the bottle should count regardless since you are forced to play in water, rather than having the option to immediately leave

For the manta in Sirena Beach, isn’t there a box on the immediate left side of the level you can ground pound that gives you a 1-up, which gives you an extra refill for your tank? It might’ve made the fight easier

I never knew that you could just use i-frames to get across the lava in The Goopy Inferno. I personally always used the skip route of following the river, but that's not exactly applicable in this run.

Just a comment I'm making before the video begins: You may have never noticed this, but touching a 1up or grabbing another FLUDD nozzle (even the same one) also refills your water. Edit: Oh, good, you mentioned both of these techniques!

you're probably one of the best youtubers there are pls continue youtube

Freaking love that you used gelato skip 🎉 goated video my friend

1:03 I didn't;t even know that move existed, lol.

Mario must be the most dehydrated person on this island.

Oh man this sounds crazy, and cool

This is amazing

The gelato beach glitch did look like you touched floods water, but maybe im wrong :D I would not count the squidsurfing before as touching though

Since the human is mostly made out of water, it is impossible to complete Mario Sunshine without touching water.

On the big shock turtle mission at pinna park, you can dive through the fast-spinning Ferris wheel from the top. So you don’t have to do any of the obstacle course.

If I remember correctly, in the shine with the out of control ferris wheel, the ferris wheel has no collision so you can climb the scaffolding thing near the ferris wheel and hover through the wheel to defeat the electrokoopa and get the shine.

Awesome video!!!!

11:25 Call it half a water touch.

Iirc there’s a 1-up in a crate near on the beach at Sirena Beach and 1-ups refill your tank without touching any water

12:00 it is actually possible to skip the cutscene if you menu at the right time. It's a mostly useless glitch, shaving a few seconds off of a run at most but it stops Mario from touching the sprinkler if you do it well

I've played this game so much but I never knew King Boo shot bubbles at you.

Something I've learnt is that 1ups give water when collected. I think one of the boxes in sirena beach has one so it can make that mission easier

Dude, still.... Congrats on rank 300 on a HIGHLY competitive game!! I mean like highly contested.... 👍🤝

you mentioned at the start that water from the flood doesn't count but the water used to fill up piranha was water from the flood

My head cannon: Mario has a water allergy and didn't know he did before

New drinking game idea: take a shot every time Pixel says the word "water". On second thought, don't because you'd probably get sent to the hospital for obvious reasons.

the defeat animation of mecha bowser in pina park is skipable with a certain glitch, where you quit the game at a certain point during his "death animation" not sure if you can get to that point in time, but just throwing it out there

I want one of these game challenge "can you beat this Mario game without this or that" videos but it's just a one second clip of the game with the narrator saying "no!"

0:11 NATHANIEL SCUTTLEBUG BRANDY EVERY FRICKEN TIME!

Imagine if there was a soda river and fludd blows up