Nintendo is starting to regain its' reputation to not have the best possible graphics, but having original gameplay that's fun and smooth. The music is great! I love the mysterious and remixed tunes that appears in the Shadow Mario scenes, plus the obstacle courses, though some of the sunny, bright music doesn't fit the mood even if it fits the setting. Mario must now use the new F.L.U.D.D.(Flash Liquid Ultra Dousing Device, watch for the bottom left corner of the screen when it analyzes Mario)water pumping backpack, which gameplay is based on, to defeat enemies, triumph over obstacles and solve the mystery of Who, Why and What happened? As he collects Shine Sprites from missions, Sunshine will return to the darkened island. He repeatedly steals Princess Peach away, just like a famous relative of his. The real culprit is someone who we all know, but has dressed up to look like Mario. Mario, Peach, and Toads head for a nice Hawaii plus Disney World vacation to Isle Delfino(watch for the inside joke on the GameCube's old working name "Dolphin") when Mario is accused for polluting the island with slimy graffiti, taking away Sunshine and the Shine Sprites, which have vanished, and making everywhere an unhealthy, dangerous, depressing-looking place. The boss fights are fun instead of frustrating, the levels create more and more challenge, and the controls, despite the Side Somersault, are easy to master. Super Mario Sunshine lives on the classic Mario, but takes it another level with even less side-scrolling than Super Mario 64, and a whole lot more sense of freedom. Graphics A Sound A Gameplay C Lasting Appeal B Had it not been for this, I would probably have stuck with SMS to the end, but I had to just be done with it once and for all, otherwise I would have chucked my Gamecube at the wall. Many levels and missions require precision manoeuvring and can often take several minutes of painstaking balance and ascension only for it all to be undone, as Mario plummets several hundred feet, by a tiny little flaw in your button-bashing. However, the designers have simply tried to cram in too many controls on the Gamecube pad and, as a result, it's a very hard game to control. The music, the graphics, the humor are all cute and colorful. It doesn't really have the same charm in the winter months however. It's one of those games that you can just keep on playing over the years and even put aside for a while before going back to it. So now it's up to him to clean it up across the various levels and worlds. Mario vacations in this sunny resort only to find it's covered in pollution when he arrives. The perfect blue skies, glorious sunshine and beautiful water effects make you just want to pass through the screen and into the Isle of Delfino in the game itself. SMS is definitely a gorgeous game to look at and a perfect game to get you in a summertime mood.
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