i think they shouldve fixed it by removing the water jets and having a 40 minute realtime scene of mario giving himself an enema every time his rectum runs out of water

“Collision isn’t real. Just because something looks physical doesn’t mean it is.” -Super Mario Sunshine

Criticizing Mario is dangerously Bowser-coded :/ ...Good video even if it made me more evil

Ovandal: I won't be comparing Sunshine to any of the newer games because those haven't been invented yet. Also Ovandal: Even Galaxy did non-linear progression better!

i love how vigorously divided the opinion is on super mario sunshine

As a long-time Sunshine defender who's made a whole 30-minute video about it also I had to click on this immediately lmao. And, like, I agree with you! Your points are all solid and well-argued and there's some stuff I've never heard heard before, like the punishing verticality of the levels being a result of FLUDD otherwise making things too easy. That was a super cool point. The only thing is that I definitely disagree about the quality of Mario's movement. I think he's incredibly satisfying to move and can have a lot of fun just aimlessly jumping around Delfino Plaza. But I see why the slipperiness of Mario in this game can be off-putting as well. In general what are for you game-breaking flaws are for me minor imperfections that can be ignored. I don't have much much problem looking past the very real problems, and my absolute favorite parts of the game are to you small footnotes to a mostly negative experience. Idk this game still remains a strong example of how slight differences in taste, perception, and tolerance for bullshit can produce such wildly different opinions, and I'll never get tired of listening to people shit on it even though I know I'll replay it every couple years til I die. (A bit disappointed you didn't circle back to the claim that it would be as remembered as Billy Hatcher without Mario as that was a big claim lol. The art direction alone elevates it above those games imo)

I played 64 and odyssey before sunshine, and MAN that game was clanky and unpleasant to play

Personally I fucking love this game

The water mechanism could’ve been used like that one scene from Scooby-Doo 2 where Scooby takes the fire hydrant and used it to turn that liquid based monster into ice and skated on it. I’ve always imagined there could be a game like that where you’d go around collecting water to shoot out and freeze to skate/surf on.

In my opinion, the absolute most confusing level in the game is *Secret of the Village Underside…* oh wow this stage. Not only does it completely miss the point of the flood-less stages, but it also is a HUGE slap in the face when considering how much missed potential there was. How it misses the point: The entire point of the FLUDDLESS stages is to test your skill of platforming without FLUDD, so why are we only talking to chucksters to throw us to other platforms, without actually doing any platforming? And that’s not even considering how janky they are, or the fact that when a chuckster throws you WITH FLUDD in other parts of the game, you can’t use FLUDD mid-air. All around, it makes no sense. The Missed Potential: Yoshi is required to access this stage, using his fruit juice ability. WHY WOULDN’T THEY USE HIM AS THE STAGES BASE?! Not only does Yoshi have cool enhancements to Mario’s move-set, his abilities could have also made for a nice change of pace from the other FLUDDLESS stages and a great capper to said stages.

this game irritates me to no end, good video. keep being a hater

Sunshine is one of those games where I look back on playing it as a child warmly, but have no desire to play it again because I know I'll hate it lmao

The argument about "wasting the player's time" is interesting. I've been thinking about this a lot. I think quite often it's not necessarily just about prolonging the experience but also about how the time with the game is not considered valuable by the player in the first place. So any delay or setback is considered as a bad trade. Sunshine was my first Mario 3D game and I love it. Sure I'm not super happy about being sent back to the beginning of a big level when I screw up. But also, I'm having a blast with the game so I don't mind spending time with it. The time doesn't feel wasted. I love the vibes. I like the complicated controls. It feels awesome to me to pull of a tricky jump that involves some weird backwards wall jump into a hover onto a platform. I got the same collection on the Switch recently and I found myself being drawn to Sunshine from all of the three games. Games are weird like that. The perceived value of them can fluctuate wildly. Deal-breakers can flip over into beloved quirks depending on context and overall attitude. Not to take away from your criticism, I think you made your case very well. Just wanted to present an alternate viewpoint. Keep it up, Ovandal. Love your work.

You've glossed over the movements that combine fludd and Mario in this Game, like for me the movement shines brightest with these in mind, and seeing you not impliment them when talking about the level design makes me feel like we played a diferent Mario sunshine

I didn't expect people to hate this game so much lol

The amount of red coin missions and goo piranha plant fights is ridiculous. Literally every level has the same missions on repeat, “secret level”, multiple red coin, and Shadow Mario fight. There are unique missions on each level, but there are a lot of red coin missions like Jesus. I also do not like the flud, it was literally made to make 3d platforming more easier for people, I think they should have just made more level to accommodate difficulty rather than add a pretty pointless mechanic to Mario. You can already move Mario mid air while jumping, don’t need a mechanic just for over correcting mistakes.

why'd you gotta bring billy hatcher into this...

All the good things about this game feel like drops of water next to the issues the game has. I stuck with Sunshine as a kid because it was exciting to have a jetpack and all, but I haven't had the courage to beat it a second time ever since. Even though I'm much better at Mario games than I was back then and would blow through it's most annoying missions in fewer tries. It's just not that fun.

This game had so much potential but sadly the production was too rushed and they didn't manage to give the game tye heart and soul it needed...the final boss level says it all. I was so disappointed with this game because I wanted to love it sm but there are just too many flaws.

As a GameCube virgin myself, I can agree the lack of choosing a mission is a hassle. I usually do 5 episodes or 4 to progress but in different levels, it’s a good thing I got into Galaxy’s level and progression style more often. Not to mention those secrets missions are a pain to go through. Moral: if you cater a E rated game to ONLY hardcore gamers, the limitations will be exposed.

this game was the worst, it was just annoying and hard, I know that hard games are normal and I love them but this one was just hard because of how not consistent it is and doesn’t really give you a good direction where to go, mario 64 perfected this by letting you collect almost any star in any level in whatever order but sunshine is such a setback by giving you no real hint other than the name hint and making you do every episode in order

I recently got around to playing sunshine in a personal quest to play all* the main mario series, and your advice about only going for main objectives and never side content rings really true. Like, I went through it once, and I was like "Man, all those people on youtube are full of shit, this game's fun as hell, I'm looking forward to 100%" And then I started hunting for blue coins and doing extra shines and.... hoo boy.

Good points, but it doesn't make the game trash. In fact it's arguably better than M64 on several aspects. To me the level design is on the contrary one of its strengths. Sure you fall from higher, but thanks to the water spray you move more quickly, especially after unlocking the vertical boost. There are way more level mechanics, often physics-based such as the ropes and yet working surprisingly well. The gameplay is overall way more polished in this game. Even hovering by using the water spray adds a layer of complexity, despite making the distance measurement less tight. And the objectives are way more varied, although admittedly some of them are annoyingly difficult. As for the bosses, they've always been repetitive and uninteresting in the Mario series before Galaxy, but here it was a small step forward. I may be wrong, but I think you would have seen things differently if you hadn't played the Galaxy games before, which are simply masterpieces. Although some people already didn't like it at the time for some of those reasons, so I don't know. Anyway, pretty interesting takes.

Generally when I watch these kinds of rant-y videos where someone rips apart a game that I also dislike, I’ll usually have a list of things that I also disagree with despite agreeing with the overall point, but no. You’ve hit the nail on the head so hard that it flew through the other side of the board and hit the neighbors cat. The only thing that I can _maybe_ disagree on is that I personally prefer Odyssey’s movement to 64s, and even then I totally get why you say otherwise. Sunshine is not only the worst 3D Mario, its the worst mainline Mario game period, and I’m tired of people pretending that its this masterpiece based on this twisted sense of openness and movement.

one of my friends made a video where he copied a meme that got more views than your top video, why is youtube like this please someone get this man some attention

It's certainly no Sonic Heroes :)

I honestly think this game isn't as great as most people remember it being. I played it for the first time as an adult and was not impressed at all. Super jank controls made it a chore to play

Turns out that after the Persona video, you've become one of my "fuck yeah, a new video, gotta watch this right away" channels.

It's not that it's hard. It's that it's BULLSHIT hard. Some levels you have to platform with bad controls and no FLUDD and that gimmick is also underpowered as hell. Super Mario Bros. Lost Levels is bullshit too but at least it's fun bullshit.

These criticisms are pretty fair. Personally, not including mods and romhacks, this is my favorite mario game and I 100% it pretty frequently. There's something about the weird, janky level design that's really interesting to me and is fun to mess around in. I think FLUDD adds a level of depth to the movement which makes it engaging and a lot of the annoying bits can be skipped if you know what you are doing (admittedly with glitches and unintended strategies.) I get why people don't like it and there's a lot of wasted time, but something about it feels so different and encapsulating. (That being said, SM64 has better movement, some of if not the best movement in ANY game imo, it's just I don't like the levels very much.)

Thnaks for putting into words what i couldn't articulate properly about this game. I grew up with 64 and never played sunshine until i was an adult. I was so excited to try it, before turning it off and playing galaxy 2 hours later

21:00 This EXACT thing makes Sunshine teeter on the edge of being a janky mid 2000s Sonic game. It's fucking weird and makes jump planning extremely hard when it really doesn't need to be.

even tho, this game is flawed yet nostalgia for me and alot of people were hype since 3D all stars was announced because of sunshine. also, the water visuals is so pretty for a Gamecube game

comparing super mario sunshine to tak is an insult to tak

I wanted to love this game. I tried repeatedly to play it. I just couldn't, and I couldn't pinpoint why. But this video basically sums up everything that left me unimpressed and unable to finish it.

I used to hate Sunshine as a kid, but once I became a teen and a bit more confident in my abilities, I played and loved everything about Sunshine. But I certainly agree with pretty much everything. I want to draw attention to the point of "not having open level design" more as "Sunshine is a lot more restrictive than 64" as there's so many moving parts to the stages making Sunshine's levels too linear to complete, which is certainly annoying. Good example: secret levels being locked off for no reason (or even made into their own missions), or missions such as the Electric Koopas or Gooper Blooper not being available until their own mission. I'm especially happy about the point that the movement is often too floaty, too quick, and FLUDD was a patch that didn't fix all the level or movement issues. I could go on, but all of this is to say: the game is an experiment, and it certainly has plenty of flaws so I don't fault (and rarely disagree) any other's opinion on it. But I love it, and can certainly appreciate how it laid the groundwork for Odyssey and game evolution in general. Getting rid of lives, making levels full of more interactive/open, and making the moving/changing parts of the levels flow into one another is what Sunshine couldn't do, and which subsequent games learned from. A shame it took Odyssey another 15 years, though.

When 3D All Stars came out I played Mario 64 for the first time and genuinely loved it. And when I played Sunshine it felt worse in every way somehow.

Mario sunshine is a linear game desguised as a collectothon. Having blue coins in levels does not make it a collectothon as other mario games like galaxy have open levels like beach bowel and galaxy 2 has star medals in the middle of levels. Sunshine is closer to galaxy than it is to 64 if you think about it. The only difference is that Galaxy has better execution im my opionion as it knows what is wants be. I still enjoy Sunshine, but I do not replay it as much as other Mario games.

I haven't really played this. Aside from maybe one session at a friends house thinking that it's boring. Thought it's because I was an impatient child and did not understand the intricacy of this classic and that I need to give it another try... someday. Glad to know that there is actually a lot that validates child me's feelings and now I don't have to play this.

A pyramid was a good choice because it's tall, boring, generic, & awkward to stand on.

I 100%ed this game in the recent switch collection and I could say with absolute certainty you are correct. An absolute mess.

This game is better than 64. There I said it, it's true. 64 is an awkward mess with bad camera controls and most of the levels are generic and uninspired.

im glad that as the wii generation is starting to become adults they have started calling out the flaws of the gamecube and its games despite their endless praise online. the same thing happened when the gamecube generation grew up and started pointing out how a lot of N64 games werent as good as people say, and in a decade or so the wii u generation will likely start calling out the wii games that are now getting attention.

This vid was great. I like when you just use absurd memes or the rantsona thing-y (it's in that "oddly appealing high school doodle"-territory to make certain points stick. It also (to me) gives it more of a feel that makes it fun to watch late at night

Being honest with you, a lot of the stuff you said is true, but on the other hand a lot of the footage showed a clear case of skill issue, so you are sending mixed signals.

Just recently got back into playing sunshine and my five game overs on secret levels feel so validated right now

Just letting you know Super Mario 64 also sucks. It has aged terribly. If you think Mario controlled well in SM64 you're on drugs, like REALLY debilitating drugs. Couple that with a terrible camera, and horrid level design and it's just as bad (if not more so) than Sunshine.

I thought the controls in Mario 64 were way worse than Sunshine lol. The movement you can pull off though was better in 64.

As much as a I like this game, it has a lot of problems, and I agree with you!

my first play of it on 3D all stars genuinely shocked me with how frustrating it was after hearing for years about how great its controls were

I saw a pretty good breakdown on this game that explained how doing the shines in the order you're forced to allows the levels to naturally evolve in a way that you wouldn't be able to see otherwise. Not just in terms of level design, but also the people that inhabit this world. Alternatively, I haven't played the game yet, but the way they presented it made so much sense that I can't help but feel like I don't want to play it the fixed way that Sunburn does by shoving as many shines into the same episodes.

It's messy but fun in my opinion It just got stuck inbetween 2 great games (64, galaxy)

I KNOW you didn't just slander Tak and the Power of Juju

I am totally in disagree with this video.

i was streaming all the marios and uploading the vods to youtube, when i reached this i played 2 hours and killed all my motivation, even after 25+ years, mario 64, mario rpg, even old marios are fun to play, this game though.... absolute garbage, it feels like i'm doing homework, also there is no motivation or goal, some jackass ruined an island and I HAVE TO CLEAN UP HIS MESS? wtf, there is no reward, no motivation, i could just leave and go to a different vacation, also... i just feel like a janitor fking cleaning everywhere around, no fun, no meaning, just cleaning around. I hated this game, and i usually like even bad games

There is one thing that makes me very mad about this game: They could have fixed the controls and Blue coins with the 3D All Stars Version, but they didn’t

this is my favorite 3D mario game lol

Yes absolutely ovandal your game opinions are correct as always and never, ever misinformed.

It's not the worst when games like Hotel Mario and Paper Mario: Sticker Star exist.

I don't *hate* Mario Sunshine, but that's 10,000% only because of Super Mario Sunburn (A rom hack, I recommend anyone reading this google it, it's pretty cool), and really only because of one thing: The stupid idiotic stupid dumb way you unlock Corona Mountain. Who the actual hell thought it was okay to make it "do every shadow mario stage in each world" and not 70/80 shines like in the other 3D Mario games?? It singlehandedly makes me not ever want to play it because I know every shine besides the 7th one and *every* secret stage is completely pointless (I'm particularly salty about this because on my first playthrough I spent hours doing the pachinko stage before realizing it doesn't affect anything). In Sunburn it's 70 shines. Thank god. I still agree with a lot of your points but at the very least that's not a problem anymore

Just came to say the title is wrong, don't really want to watch the video

I heard people dump on this game, but having grown up with a ps2, not a GameCube, I thought they were exaggerating. After all, 64 was amazing, Galaxy was top notch. So I got it on GameCube and boy… This is without a doubt the worst Mario game I’ve ever played. It’s absolutely horrible. In fact, the only thing it gets right is the atmosphere. That’s it. The concept is pretty fun and all, but the controls are a HUGE problem. I don’t even want to get into the flood less stages. Rubbish

As someone who just got all 120 stars on Super Mario Sunshine... I agree with pretty much everything Ovandal has said. Do not try at home.

My fondest memory of this game is being drenched in sweat, teary eyed and starting to pray to god as a relatively non religious 7 years old because of that red coin collecting episode in the harbour stage.

It's good peak Mario, y'all gotta stop complaining it has some glitches and stuff. Dark souls 1 has a lot of glitches unfinished areas but people still call it a masterpiece. With the hardware Nintendo had and resources at the time super Mario Sunshine was fantastic. People gotta stop comparing the polish of the game like Odyssey but the unique mechanics introduced in sunshine gave a backbone for so many games after. So please stop hating my favorite game so much.

well, i never grew up with Nintendo home consoles. I could never play 3D Mario games when they came out, so 3D all-stars was perfect for me to finally catch up. 64 felt a little archaic in some areas, but still very well put together and easy to get used to. Galaxy was just well-made in every area. Sunshine... you explained it better, it was just frustrating. The game is wonderful to look at and has some very high highlights, but all the padding and frustrating physics really made me wish to be done with it asap, so i could finally play Galaxy. Sunshine is a good game, but saying it aged poorly would be an understatement

Once in the shine were you battle the piranha pianta for the second time in bianco hills, a goop spawned out of nowhere meters before the shine and I was 1 hit away from death. Guess what, that little shit killed me without prior warning and had to do it all over again

I remember long ago when I first played SMS after it just came out, I wanted so badly for a game that was similar to JUST the secret levels of Sunshine. It wasn’t until I was older that I gained a real appreciation for Sunshine for everything it had to offer. It was surprising to myself after downloading Super Mario 3D Allstars that… I was pretty consistently enjoying Sunshine. Weird how things stay the same, but our experiences can entirely change overtime. When I was a teen, I would have agreed with this video. Now, my opinion has changed dramatically.

sunshine is my favorite 3d mario game... but ff8 is my absolute favorite final fantasy game (followed closely by 15), so i'm willing to accept that my brain is just bunkum

I don't think Mario Sunshine is a bad game, it just needs to be polished more. I hope Nintendo Made a remake of this Game.

It's funny, because while a lot of these points are valid, it's annoying that Mario Odyssey has many of the same issues but no one ever criticizes that game.

The consistent aesthetic of all the levels is really charming to me and I had a lot of fun exploring the world. But my god, there’s so many parts of it that made me want to pull my hair out, and a lot of it is because of janky controls or unnecessarily frustrating level design, and the linear structure prevents you from being able to skip some of them like you would in 64 or Odyssey. It’s just such a game killer, by the end of it I was holding so much resentment towards the game. Def the weakest of the 3D games.

A lot of good points. But Mario’s movement and the camera are definitely better in Sunshine than in Mario 64.

I agree with some of the criticisms of SMS but because I grew up playing this game I have a bit of a bias and I want these ideas to be further explored; for example I don't think you even touched on how limiting the spin jump is when it comes to positioning Mario in the air or how you can skip some Shines (Maybe not worth mentioning?? I have no idea), I opened up SMS on Dolphin to test out you're criticisms and I see where you are coming from and I've encountered times where Mario does feel a little bit more slippery but I feel like I've played this game long enough to know when to stop near a ledge but small thin platforms feel awkward to briefly traverse sometimes so I see that "greasy movement" critique. (9:55) What do you do when the player is comfortable with the hover ability? I'd say encourage the player to break the level like in Bianco Hills where you can skip Shine 1 and wall jump off certain segments of the windmill to get to the 2nd Shine quicker. Wall jump into hover to reach that one goodie you couldn't get, time attack mode, Shadow Mario could give a demonstration to the player organically while you are chasing him if he had some sort of similar ink jet-pack to Mario; this is from me getting ideas from games like Cruelty Squad where it lets you break the game however you like but also gives you a rank for how fast you complete the mission. My ideas are too long winded to share in a comment section where nobody would probably care but I feel like this video could have done a bit better or provided more solutions to problems while working within the frame work of SM64 and SMS, like you never really said anything about possible unlockables, how severely under utilized the Jet Nozzle is, or how the levels could be built more around this weird movement to compensate for the weird tractionless Mario or tweak it to be more akin to Super Meat Boy but 3D but then you'd have to make the level around that movement system and that game didn't exist during that time so uuh who give a fuck I guess.... I really like this video due to it opening more possibilities for solutions to the problems you point out and the ideas I presented probably work better somewhere else with more polish that isn't Mario, I hope I said anything of value that's better than "lol ur vid bad."

I mean, it is really really beautiful.

Sunshine feels like summertime. Mosquito bites and sunburn. But at it's core, I still have fun with it. The soundtrack and fun visuals honestly placebos the pain away for me. It's flawed but not entirely awful.

it's funny how I consider Mario Sunshine one of the best Mario games of all time and consider playing Mario 64 to feel like inserting a baseball bat covered in nails and soaked in hotsauce up your anus and then going for a vigorous jog, but others think 64 is the best and Sunshine sucks people are weird

This game is like the Dark Souls of Super Mario Games. It`s incredible difficult compared to the other Series Games.

Mario sunshine is the best game in the franchise

Movement has pretty much the same problem Melee does: clunky and dumb, really slippery, unless you wanna put in the time and effort for better movement. Spinjumping in this game sucks, until you learn to do the Buffered ones. Dive recovers for speed feel worse than in 64... Until you learn how to Waterslide. Mario is slippery in Sunshine, but as a person who has played 64 and Sunshine for the first time this year (going for 120 shines currently), I think it took me longer to control Mario in the former than in the latter. I am just used to the slipperiness because I play platformer games, and oh boy is Bandage Girl slippery. It's just a matter of gauging, and FLUDD is a great mechanic even if too over-used. I had more fun skipping over the Hover Nozzle, true, but the sideflip into hover to skip many platforming sections is really satisfying, more when you discover it by yourself. In short, I would say that Mario is slippery, but is a lot more rewarding to learn how to control him here than in 64. It's just in another plane. As for the rest, yeah, Sunshine's not perfect. 64 has Lethal Lava Land, Rainbow Ride, Wet Dry World and Shifting Sand Land to name a few annoying levels. Sure, Sunshine's may be more bothersome and linear, but they didn't kill me unfairly 90% of the time. They were my own mistakes, in 64 I felt like I was being cheated. And until Render96 released I just could not play, I needed the analog camera because my god does it kill the game hard-- Edit: After one month of on and off play, I got 120 Shines on Sunshine! The hardest shines for me, the only ones where I've Game Overed, are Ricco 2 (didn't know squids had different handling, I just kept picking the pink one until I used the green one by accident. This is the shine that killed me the most), Bianco 3 Red Coins (I legit died so many times in this), Sirena 6 (I got close with spin spraying, but I got told how to spam spray) and the Final Boss Fight (because playing with 60 FPS patch on Dolphin will crash the game). I also learnt the map shows you how many Blue Coins you've collected in a stage, so that's wonderful. The rest of the game was not that hard. I died thrice in Pachinko due to not using the Rocket Nozzle properly, twice in Chucksters (and none on secret Chucksters) because I quickly understood how to shoot in a straight line (align spray Fludd's head to their noses) and nine times in Lillypad (I kept picking up the 1-UP, and I cheesed it by picking up 6 red coins, getting to the end, walking on the side for the 7th coin in the air using the Hover Nozzle, landed, and came back to the end).

I hope one day Nintendo releases a truly horrendous Mario game so Mario fans realize what it's like to have a real shitty game in there series

One thing I dont think anyone in their right mind van argue against. Sunshine still to this day has the best controls of any mario game period, if not any platformer. Even mario odyssey doesnt come close to matching how good movement feels in this game.

Trivia: Charles Martinet considers Super Mario Sunshine to be an underrated game.

12:54 OH NO

Literally no idea why I was recommended this but I think your ability to criticize things might be worse than your ability to play video games.

I’m only watching this because super Mario sunshine is my favorite game of all time and need to wrap my head around why people hate it once and for all

So, I absolutely love this game. I grew up on it. I come back to this game quite frequently, and that's been going on for a good 20 years now. I think because I got this game as a kid at release, the controls, physics and glitches are all suoernormal to me, and I've adjusted to them all those years ago. Now as an adult I use all the exploits, Mario's movement and all tricks in the book to beat the game. I think I can 100% the game in about 12 hours now (nowhere near the WR tho!). I think I've 100 percented the game about 15 to 20 times in all those years. I love it. I think the fact that this was my favorite game as a kid really helps me to enjoy the game, whereas others maybe don't. Maybe it's just me. But I wanted to explain my side a little bit, as an absolute Mario Sunshine lover.

I don't hate Mario Sunshine, it's just that I'm a completionist, and because the blue coins suck @#$!, I just opt out of playing the game. I completed it one time when it first came out and remember thinking "welp, that sucked" lol. If they added two or three more worlds to the game and removed the blue coins (basically, if the game wasnt rushed), I would've enjoyed it a lot more.

Idk if it was just me, but i had more fun playing 3D land instead of Sunshine

Idk these are the same claims I have with galaxy and just being snack sized. The real criticism I’ll give to sunshine is that the peaks and valley go deep. Even with that just comparing it to 64 and not the whole system 3d platformers is more flaw because it more has banjo qualities with level design and world building

I just want to 100% the game so I can never play it again

15:20 those wind enemies are really good at knocking down bad players such as yourself. Not a real issue if you have at least some sort of awareness

I don't think I've ever been so angry at a game as I was with Mario sunshine I also 100%'d the game some probably insane to some degree

I can't believe Griffith from Berserk doesn't like one of my favorite Mario games

This game is incredible. One of the best in the entire Mario series

It would've been much better if the Blue Coins were used to purchase those secret stages. I would've collected 'em all!

The game dose not make sense like how do you die by getting hit while riding on a blooper, yep they need to fix this game

Mario Sunshine feels like a lot of 3D Sonic games to me. Besides its issues owing to a rushed dev cycle, it just compels me to like it in spite of its issues. Like admiring the breezy coastal vibes of Emerald Coast as Sonic noclips through a hunk of land on the intended path, this game's charms have always redeemed its innate messiness.

For some reason I love this game. The atmosphere is unlike any other in the franchise, it wasn’t afraid to beat the living shit out of you, and the graphics were pretty alright for the time. But most of all this game dared to take risks and be unique, and that’s something at least I can respect.

wtf is wrong with billy hatcher????!