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Is that a silhouette in the trees?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 12 / 15
Date: August 29, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After spending eight, unfortunately, hours on this game, I have to agree: Superb! I recommend this game to any platform-game lover, and to anyone that enjoys figuring out many, yet easy puzzles whilst you explore a massive world of incredible gameplay, graphics, and sound. If you are a fan of the 6 year old game Mario64, then you'll love this Nintendo Gamecube title. For those of you who are new to the Mario platformer world; prepare for a wonderful adventure of incredible depth.

Hmmph... Okay

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 15 / 21
Date: June 05, 2003
Author: Amazon User

This game is a great Mario game, but does still suffer a few flaws. Here's my great ol' review for this red fella's happy adventure.

Story: 6/10 Okay storyline, but abit pointless. They say that the Shine sprites were captured, and you try to take them back. But you find that some of the residents of Delfino island actually HAVE THE sprites. So what they are looking for, the have it????!!!!! Also, its abit too happy. Other games like eternal darkness is more dark and serious. This game is just abit TOO happy.

Gameplay 6/10 Fun and challenging gameplay, with many moves and twists. The camera angles are a bit bad, though, even with the C stick. The game also gets quite boring when you're stuck. THere is not much options left....[Bowser] is vey easy to beat in the end of the game.

Controls: 9/10 Well made, every control is easy to use. Good enough.

Graphics: 7/10 Good enough. VERY GOOD WATER GRAPHICS, AS REALISTIC AS POSSIBLE. Some courses are not well done.

Sound: 5/10 Very annoying music. Water sounds, and environment sounds are good enough, just the music.

Value: 7/10 You can go for sprites again and again. It's just gets abit boring. You can also go for secret stars, and go for all 120.

Overall 6.5/10 A good enough Mario game for its type, but just doesn't deliver enough. A bit boring, but still a worth it game for all Mario fans. Buy it.

A fun and challenging game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: January 07, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Super Mario Sunshine is the first Mario game for Nintendo Gamecube, and it is also the first on my list of cool games. It starts when Mario, Peach, Toadsworth, and some toads set out for Isle Delfino, a tropical paradise in the shape of a dolphin. However, once they arrive, they find out that a person fitting Mario's description has been spreading graffitti all over the island, and that the island source of energy, Shine Sprites, have mysteriously dissapeared. Fortunately, FLUDD, a water spewing device is here to help Mario clean up the mess and find out whose realyy causing the mess. Mario must collect the 120 Shines scaterred throughout the island, and defeat a mysterious villan spreading the graffiti.

Graphics: Some of the best I've seen. The water looks very realistic. When you blast off with FLUDD's rocket nozzle, it looks just like a real rocket launch. Just two examples of many great graphics. However, you can sometimes see through the walls, which I find strange. Much better than Super Mario 64. 9/10

Controls: Excellent. It is very easy to remember what each button makes Mario do. Gamecube's controller really shows why it's the best in this game. 10/10

Gameplay: Similar to Super Mario 64. You go around collecting shines to beat the game. It's challenging, and talking to the islands inhabitants really help you find the Shines. Activities range from clearing up messes with FLUDD, spweing water into the mouth's of Pirahnas, hustling your way through obstacle courses, and shooting a meca bowser with rockets from a roller coaster(very fun). 10/10.

There it is. Super Mario Sunshine is a great game for all ages, which any Gamecube owner should play. Happy Gaming!

Awesome Game! ^_-

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 8 / 8
Date: December 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

This games absolutely rocks! I still love to play it, even though I got this game about 2 years ago, and I got lots of new games. Back then I was still... new to gaming. I got my first game in the Christmas of 2002, which was a Pokemon game. Then I got interested in Mario Games, with Mario Kart Double Dash being my first Gamecube game. (I did have previous GBA games for Mario) Mario Double Dash rocked, and so I decided to get more GC games, and I got Super Mario Sunshine. I just love this game! Very challenging, and awesome graphics! The water loooks so real. xD Anyway, I got the real review down there a bit.

Graphics: 11/10

The graphics are amazing!!! All I can say. Everything is perfect and looking totally real if Isle Delfino was in real life. Really makes you get into the game.

Sound: 10/10

The sound of the water rippling... The lava gunk making a "firey lava sound"... and even hearing a flag blowing in the breeze? I went searching for anything that they didn't add to make it perfectly real, and I found nothing! Also making the normal gunk sounding so... real. Also it has a wide range of music that goes perfectly with the place. Awesoooome!

Difficulty: 10/10

Impossibly difficult. A new gamer might not have a chance. Even many top notch gamers will be impressed and challenged with this game. It's one thing to get 50 Shine Sprites and beat Bowser... but it's totally another getting all the 120 Shine Sprites! From jogging on the cogs, to jumping from platforms to platforms over water with Yoshi, and hovering over peaks! Really... really... REALLY challenging!

Replayablity: 10/10

Sure! Go ahead and give Bowser and Bowser JR. the good ol' Ground Pound as many times you like... WE DON'T CARE! Play it over and over again! Even after thinking it's super easy to beat Bowser, try my way! After feeling confident, try this: Beat Bowser with ONE life, AKA not dying. Then go on a "Beating Bowser With One Life Streak". Then try beating Corona Mountain with one life and beating Bowser with one life. Then extend it to not losing a health segment in Bowser's Battle, ect. You can also try beating your race times with El Piantissimo and in the secret areas.

Fun Level: 10/10

Awesomely fun! ^_- Do experiments with Mario's moves and create something neat. And if you like being suicidle, jump off a cliff in Noki Bay. xD You can also go to the highest point in Noki Bay you can find and sky dive down into the water!!! It's really fun! Fool around with the Watermelons in Gelato Beach, try pounding all the Snooza Koopas in the beach on Stage 4 in the same place, so the Sunflowers grow in the same place. xD THEN try finding some insane places for Mario to snooze! (To make him snooze... just do nothing! He'll go to sleep, unless you're on water... but that doesn't mean he can't sleep with the fishes...) Here are some suggestions of where to have him to to sleep: Pull all the arms off the Gooper Blooper and THEN go to sleep. Sleep RIGHT next to the Huge Electrokoopa. Sleep on a nice comfy bed in Serena Beach Hotel! It's also pretty fun to try having Mario go up somewhere really high (Like a wire pole or a tower in Noki Bay) and then sleep. Having Mario sleep next to the big Chain Chomp and on the tiny Mushroom Cloud in Corona Mountain is fun as well.

Overall: 10/10!!!

Can't be better! You go Nintendo! I hope they make some sort of sequel. Anywayz, for now, Super Mario Sunshine Rules!!!

Ray of sunshine!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 9 / 10
Date: July 30, 2004
Author: Amazon User

If you like bright, colorful graphics and a story line with a sunny disposition then this is the game for you! Mario makes his return to the Nintendo console in this cheery game which pits Mario against an enemy who looks an awful like Mario himself!

Mario and the Princess are only looking for a little rest and relaxation (and a lot of food in Mario's case), when suddenly after they land on Island Delfino Mario is arrested and put in jail for apparently defiling the beautiful island paradise. But lo and behold Mario hasn't done anything wrong! What's a hero to do? Well, go out and clean up the mess while trying to figure out who has framed him!

The gameplay takes Mario to many different areas of the island all with their own difficulties and obstacles. Mario's goal throughout the game is to find the sunshine sprites which have scattered due to the uncleanliness of the island.

This game provides quite a few hours of fun and enjoyment although there were times when the game ceased to hold my attention due to what I felt were repeats of challenges for Mario. Overall however, a great game and essential one for your Gamecube collection.

The REAL truth about this game!!!! MUST READ!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 21 / 36
Date: July 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Mario has been a classic and famous character since the begining of Nintendo Corp. I have played all games of him since the launch of the NES and I simply love him (his games). Finally the Gamecube version will arrive, and its looking good. Check all of its features below:

- It is the first Mario game in which you won't have to save the Princess.
- It takes place on a tropical island, far from the mushroom kingdom.
- Mario decides to take a well deserve vacation after being held as a painting in Luigi's Mansion. But unfortunately, his vacation will turn out to be a new adventure for him to kick some butt.
- Mario uses an H2o machine on his back to spray water, throw bubbles, use water pression to float in the sky like a jet-pack, and much more.
- For the first time, Mario will be able to do his famous tornado (seen in Super Smash Bros. Melee)
- Also for the first time, Bowser won't bother you!... maybe (believe it or not, there is a possiblity for a Bowser appearance. Can it be true?)
- Collect Sunshine coins
- Triple jump, jump, swim, bounce of walls, butt-stomp enemies, and more.
- NO KOOPAS ARE SHOWN IN THE GAME!!!!!! (I am just clearing something that another reviewer wrote)
- Solve lots of puzzles.

Overall the title seems worth it. If you put me to choose between this game and Star Fox Adventures, I would prefer Star Fox for just a bit, but come on, pre-order them both. Pre-order it NOW!!... or wait for Fox Mcloud to hit the cube!

ATTENTION ALL NINTENDO FANS!!!!!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 25 / 47
Date: June 01, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Look, I'm just a simple kid who spends his simple life playing simple Video Games. For the last 10 years, I have played nothing but Nintendo Games available on Nintendo game systems. Can you guess which character I have my fondest of approvals of? Mario, of course. This will be the hippest, coolest, and hottest MARIO game ever to hit the shelves of video game stores. As a professional tester, I proudly give this game 5 stars. If I could, I would give it more than 5 stars. This game has the lovable Nintendo characters you have known for your life in a beautiful created, Game-Cube proccesed, atmosphere. Play this game to the fullest with the many stages you venture through as Mario. I would reserve a copy now! I am sure that you will be proud that you made the right choice by your selection, MARIO SUNSHINE! I am positive this game will meet your expectations.

A bit of a let down

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 10 / 13
Date: November 02, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Super Mario 64 was, in my view, an absolute masterpiece.

It set the standard for 3D platformers, spawning many clones including the highly enjoyable Banjo-Kazooie & Donkey Kong 64.

With the step up to Gamecube technology, I would have expected Super Mario Sunshine to be as much of a leap as Mario 64 was from Super Mario World on the SNES.

Sadly, that hasn't happened here, and Mario Sunshine is basically the same game, but in a different setting. Now, that needn't matter as long as the game is actually good.

Graphically, the game is highly impressive; the landscapes are well drawn (particularly in the level of detail, even as the camera pans out), and the water effects are the best I've ever seen on a home system.

The underlying story's good too, with some amusing FMV sequences interspersing the action as the game progresses. My biggest, however, grumble is with the gameplay - basically, this game is too difficult, and frustrating to boot!

As opposed to Mario 64, where the challenge stemmed from its numerous puzzles, Mario Sunshine's difficulty manifests itself in solely one area - awkward, fiddly jumps.

No sooner had I got past my first five or six shrines, I quickly realised that this is what the game is really all about, and, unlike Mario 64, you can't actually progress on a world until you've completed the immediate task, rather than continuing with another and coming back later.

Each level seems entirely based on obstacle courses, many of which are nigh-on impossible to traverse, requiring the patience of a saint. One small slip, naturally, means you have to go all the way back to the start.

Matters aren't helped much by the rather dodgy camera system, which, although apparently controllable, seems to have a mind of its own. There's one point in Pinna Park, for example, where you have to judge a jump without actually being able to see Mario at all, as the camera gets trapped behind an element of scenery!

Still worse, the game suffers from sloppy programming!

There have been times I've fallen through seemingly solid objects (such as the Pinna Park Galleons), or been 'stuck' next to an object, unable to move, as if it were magnetic (the centre pillar in the Hotel lobby).

If they are going to ramp up the difficulty, they should at least make it fair for the player - and unfair is how I would describe much of the game.

I'm hugely disappointed by this, and it has led to hours of frustrating gameplay - it's clearly been designed with an experienced gamer in mind, cos' beginners just wouldn't stand a chance.

Games are supposed to be fun, this isn't.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 13 / 20
Date: August 30, 2002
Author: Amazon User

After waiting 5 years for a new Super Mario game, I had high expectations. In fairness I just started playing this one, but from what I've seen, I don't think I'll have the motivation to play much more. The graphics are great, the music is great, the characters are classic, but the plot is awful, and it is very hard to get motivated when instead of being the hero, you are doing community service. I'm sorry, political correctness doesn't belong in the world of video games, to this extent anyway. I don't like cleaning up graffiti, I liked bouncing on Koopas, and collecting stars, and saving princess Peaches. There was a formula for a reason. Maybe I'll change my mind as I play it more, but I doubt it. Disapointing.

Is it For Kids?

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 6 / 6
Date: November 11, 2005
Author: Amazon User

Yes it is for kids .. and adults. THis is a great game for everyone. There is tons of fun and colorful action. The best part is it is always creative. Other companies learning to make a platformer play this game and take notes. Your games do not have the creative juices flowing through it nearly as much as the big Plumber.

Bottom Line: Is it fun? One of the most fun titles on the gamecube. Will I keep it? Until I beat it. Is it for kids? You bet.

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