Mario Sunshine after Galaxy

Hi. I wanrt to start by assuring every reader that this isn't a flame war post of any kind. I skipped over the Gamecube, never owned one, but now I have a Wii. I just finished playing the heck out of Mario galaxy and loved every second of it. I've downloaded Mario 64 and think its okay, the controls are a little loose for my taste...though being like 15 years old makes that understandable.

My question is should I pick up Mario Sunshine. It gets a bad rap from lots of people, but I think it looks neat. I ask because my funds are very limited. Even the $25 for the older GC game is a lot right now, but thats money I saved exclusively for a new game to play. Mario galaxy was a christmas present. Is getting Sunshine a good idea?

I say DEFINITLY try Sunshine. It's not as good as SMG, but it WILL keep you entertained!

Where it fails, IMO, is that if you want to just beat it quickly, its easy. If you want to complete the dang thing by getting all the blue coins, all stars, and red coinsand not cheat...its WAY too brutal!

There are 120 blue coins I think, many hidden. And there is ZERO implication which world has them or which board. So if you are missing some, you pretty much have to visit EVERY board on EVERY world and search everwhere.

And sometimes you they are not simply 'hidden'. Sometimes you may have to spray a wall in a weird place or common place and 'viola!' you found one.

If it just told you that this level has a coin you haven't found, I'd be cool with that. But I cannot imagine anyone dedicated enough to search every board on every world and try everthing in hopes to get a coin.

And this game kicks your butt! Some of those Red Coin boards are TOUGH! However, the final boss is EASY. And there was a frame rate drops on it, unusual for a Nintendo made GC game.

I'd pay no more than $12 for it personally. But you will have fun!

Buy it!

It gets bad reputation because it's based on same vocation theme which means you won't find SMG's or Mario 64's variety here yet it's still an awesome platformer and a fitting Mario game to me.

I say DEFINITLY try Sunshine. It's not as good as SMG, but it WILL keep you entertained!

Where it fails, IMO, is that if you want to just beat it quickly, its easy. If you want to complete the dang thing by getting all the blue coins, all stars, and red coinsand not cheat...its WAY too brutal!

There are 120 blue coins I think, many hidden. And there is ZERO implication which world has them or which board. So if you are missing some, you pretty much have to visit EVERY board on EVERY world and search everwhere.

And sometimes you they are not simply 'hidden'. Sometimes you may have to spray a wall in a weird place or common place and 'viola!' you found one.

If it just told you that this level has a coin you haven't found, I'd be cool with that. But I cannot imagine anyone dedicated enough to search every board on every world and try everthing in hopes to get a coin.

And this game kicks your butt! Some of those Red Coin boards are TOUGH! However, the final boss is EASY. And there was a frame rate drops on it, unusual for a Nintendo made GC game.

I'd pay no more than $12 for it personally. But you will have fun!

flazzle

Actually, there is a list that tells you the blue coins you have collected in each world and being there a total of 30 per world, you can easily know where to look them for. You can see this list by pressing Z.

In the other hand, I really recommend you Sunshine if you like Mario games, I found it great, regardless of the general opinion of the game.

Super Mario Sunshine has a great amount of fun moments & the water-based-mechanics are cool, but lacks in variety & polish.

If you like platformers, play Psychonauts, it's better than Sunshine.

But what other types of games do you like? If you like action-adventure games and haven't played Resident Evil 4 before, I sugest you buy the Wii Edition. It's one of the best action-adventures of all time, and 30 bucks is really cheap considering the amount of lasting appeal the game has.

I was the guy who tried to get every blue coin, every "Shine Sprite" - and the game can really be fun at times. The graphics are gorgeous, and though those big Pianta people are annoying as hell, it's still a great game.

However... if you're funds are limited? I'd use it on something else. Sunshine's a great game... only because it's a Mario game. If there was another character in there, I don't think any of us would've enjoyed it.