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Work's great on the Wii

3 Rating: 3, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: August 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I purchased this game when I bought the Wii and 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 to using a water canon to go around and 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 to be a fire hose, jet pack, rocket pack and motorboat.

Now that the description is out of the way "Here we go!". The graphics are good for a game of its time. It has the overall feeling of Mario 64 but doesn't quite live up to the rep of a Mario game. The puzzles have the potential to 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 to the poor shadowing and you have a formula for a game where the player will constantly have to restart missions and climb sequences from falling off cliffs, not making the jump, falling into the water, falling from not being able to gauge distances, missing landings while using the je pack option, etc. Even Devil May Cry had better camera angles than this game and 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 to non inverted controls and 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 for it. I say just spend the money on Mario 64 and Super Mario World downloads for the Wii and play those. I think you'll derive much more enjoyment and the less frustration playing those games.

Best of the Series!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: July 28, 2008
Author: Amazon User

I do not understand anyone who would rate this game badly. This game enthralled me for 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 to the music was fantastic. Some of the stars were difficult and 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 to 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 and running along the rooftops of Delfino Plaza, I highly recommend this game.

If you seek real entertainment, avoid this.

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: June 22, 2008
Author: Amazon User

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

The game seems rushed and 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, and the gameplay ranges from funnily easy to insanely difficult. Plus the cameras are almost manual and 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 and let you down MANY MANY times during difficult levels when you need them to work the most.

It sounds as if Nintendo was trying to impress & forgot that a quality game indeed is very hard, yes, but has matching controlling resources that gives the player a chance to shine and well-elaborated hard levels. 'Cause please, don't give me that "experiment with the camera" babble 'cause that's just a lame excuse not to programme it properly! 'Cause, seriously, it's very easy to pick any same hard level, then give you 1 min to complete it & call it a new great level to test your ability. But where should we turn to when the controls doesn't reflect what you're doing on them onscreen? Where should we turn to 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 to the end.

If you want a real great game, go for Super Mario Galaxy. Mario Sunshine is a complete letdown for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm a Mario fan-player for a decade now, never had any grudges whatsoever with any of the games. But this one... it would be easy to 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 and 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 and do what you request of them.

MARIO TO THE MAX MEET F.L.O.O.D.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: May 04, 2008
Author: Amazon User

THE BEST GAME OF 2002 AND I GOT REVIEW 629. THIS GAME IS AWSOME I STILL LOVE IT AFTER I HAD IT FOR 4 YEARS. IT IS ALSO THE BEST GAME FOR THE
GAMECUBE BESIDES SUPER SMASH BROS.MELEE. THIS GAME IS THE DEBUT OF
BOWSER JR. AND F.L.O.O.D. . F.L.O.O.D. IS A WATER THING BEHIND MARIOS
BACK THAT SPRAYS WATER IN ALL DIRECTIONS. THE OBJECT OF THE GAME IS TO
CLEAN UP DEFLINO PLAZA BECAUSE THE CLONE MARIO [WHICH IS BOWSER JR.]
MESSES IT WITH SLIME AND YOU HAVE TO VS. SLIME MONSTERS

great game

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: April 26, 2008
Author: Amazon User

this game was fun and great a nice sunshines game gamecube always bring games that are really fun and great no matter what game it is but this game was fun real bright well its called sunshine nice game like always on gamecube its a fun system with alot of really fun games like this one great game

A good attempt at trying to bring some change to the series.

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: March 30, 2008
Author: Amazon User

Now a lot of people think this game doesn't live up to the Mario name, well I disagree. The platforming and level design aren't the best in the series, but they're not the worst either. In my opinion, the platforming and level design are actually better than most other plat-formers out there. Now, for years the Mario series has been merely running and jumping, but now they tried to throw in something new, a little water cannon backpack. Some may argue that it is annoying to use and detracts from the game-play, but in my opinion if you take the time to get used to it, it ends up adding something new and somewhat refreshing to the mix. If you are desperate to go back to the basics there are a few neat levels with weird visuals and zany music in which you simply try to get through the level in time, and with no water cannon backpack. I thought these were a good addition and mixed it up a bit. The difficulty was pretty hard at times. I know there were some levels that took me a long time to finish. The soundtrack is nothing to get excited about, but I guess its not really bad either. The visuals look pretty good, but some people will argue that its not "realistic" enough, I think that the day Mario starts looking realistic is the day I stop buying Mario games. The water effects in particular are surprisingly good, and the water reacts to your movement. Overall I'd say give it a try, you can probably get it for cheap now anyway.

Another hit for Mario!

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 0 / 0
Date: January 03, 2008
Author: Amazon User

This game was a welcome relief from the MarioKart's, and MarioParty's! Woohoo! Another adventure! I relished on the play-ability and even the toughest challenges in the mini-games. Thank you Nintendo, for getting away from the Kart and Party series, serious gamers like the adventures! When you have to save and shut down til the next night, it's a gratifying annoyance to have the game stuck in your mind all day, until you can plug in again, and try all the things you've thought up. What's going to be next for Mario? Please keep the Gamecube games coming, not all of us want a Wii. I don't even have the urge for one, I'd rather sit in my easychair and sip my drink. I'll never move furniture for a game.

The very first Mario Bros. Game for Gamecube

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: December 18, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This was the very first Mario game on Gamecube. I've gotton all 120 star things which took like 3 years. This was an action normal video game unrelated to the Mario saga. It was kind of violent.

Courses:
Airstrip
Delfino Plaza
Bianco Hills
Ricco Harbor
Gelato Beach
Pinna Park
Noki Bay
Pianta Village
Sirena Beach

Sirena Beach has a hotel from parts 2 - 8 of Sirena Beach. You enter Noki bay by going to the cylender peice of light that is produced later in the game press Y and look staright inot the sun. The others are simple and there is one on top of the shine gate. There are 240 blue coins in the game and you can by a shine sprite fior 10 blue coins. Red coins are found in certain levels, twice in Bianco hills and can be used after you complete a mini-game. The cheats in this game are kind of hard to master, and if you can't get over 70 shine sprites, you should find blue coins to buy shines and you need ten blue coins to buy a shine sprite and there are 240 in the whole game and there are 120 shine sprites in the whole game and episodes in each of these episodes get harder but I have beat all 120 shine sprites so I never really play this game anymore.

Grade: A

Much Better Than Many Say It Is!

5 Rating: 5, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: November 27, 2007
Author: Amazon User

This game has been picked on for so long that I just HAD to step in and defend it! This was the first big Mario adventure since Super Mario 64, and I thought that it delivered everything that it should have and more! I had such a wonderful time playing this game. Spraying the jetpack, riding Yoshi, collecting coins and shine sprites etc. And that cool, tropical music...ahh! Everyone keeps saying that this wasn't as good as Super Mario 64, but I thought it was way better! Super Mario 64 didn't even have Yoshi, except as a brief cameo appearence on top of Peach's castle. No, Yoshi isn't the only reason I think Sunshine is better than Mario 64, it's just ONE of the reasons. Spraying all the goo off of thing's with the FLUDD jetpack is much funner than it sounds! And this game also gave Mario's arch enemy Bowser a voice for the first time ever! And Peach? What can I say, she's as cute as alway's. I guess that's why Bowser keeps kidnapping her again and again! ^,^
The bottom line is, don't let anyone tell you that this game sucks, because it's totally awesome! If you missed out on this game, then you missed out on a HUGE moment in the Super Mario Series! It will alway's remain a classic.

Another Great Mario Game

4 Rating: 4, Useful: 1 / 1
Date: October 13, 2007
Author: Amazon User

Mario Sunshine is great. The worlds and graphics are beautiful. Although tis game is awesome, it's not as great as Mario 64. It's not to easy and it's not to hard, and it's not that easy. FLUDD is really fun to control. I have to admit, the story to this game is weird, but it is creative. The detailed worlds are probably the best part of this game. Definetly worth buying.

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