Anyone else think Sunshine was better?

I liked it better for how open Sunshine was, its hub world was incredible, while Galaxy's was virtually non existent. I also liked that they made a decent, though very simple, story for a Mario game, where as Galaxy just didn't even bother. On the other hand, Sunshine had some horrible camera bugs and its level design feels lazy in comparison to Galaxy's.meetroid8

mario 64 was better than both of them

dingo1339

The levels were lacking in Sunshine when compared to the amazing design of Galaxy.

I really liked Sunshine. I'd say the big 3D (or 4) Mario Games are a tough choice for a favorite

I absolutely loved Sunshine, but I think both Galaxies are far better in my opinion.

Maybe it's just me, but I find Mario games to work best when they're simple, limited in terms of where you can go and all action-focused:

start the level, try to reach the end, maybe re-enter it at a later time to find a hidden treasure, and that's it.

That's what you get in the 2D Marios, but the more free-roaming style of both Mario 64 and Sunshine is better suited

to the RPG Mario games, IMHO, not the action ones.

It's like they tried to do too much: it's a Mario game, it's supposed to be simple, it's not Zelda!

Nintendo did the right move to bring the focus back on the action with Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros, I think.

There were some things that i liked in sunshine more than Galaxy, but overall Galaxy is the better game.

Maybe it's just me, but I find Mario games to work best when they're simple, limited in terms of where you can go and all action-focused:

start the level, try to reach the end, maybe re-enter it at a later time to find a hidden treasure, and that's it.

That's what you get in the 2D Marios, but the more free-roaming style of both Mario 64 and Sunshine is better suited

to the RPG Mario games, IMHO, not the action ones.

It's like they tried to do too much: it's a Mario game, it's supposed to be simple, it's not Zelda!

Nintendo did the right move to bring the focus back on the action with Galaxy and New Super Mario Bros, I think.

djcalotta

Nintendo never stopped focusing on the simple platforming game concept that first delivered Mario, they just decided to make the series a little more diverse, with Paper Mario. Imagine if they only stuck to platforming and never came up with Mario Kart, what a great game we'd be missing!

I was weird for not liking SM64. Sunshine droped off the map for me as Gamecube was the only nintendo system I skipped out on and it seemed the same for my circle of friends. I'm weird again it seems for strongly disliking SMG. Out of them all the only one I could find any enjoyment out of was SMG2 but it still wasn't enough for me to continue on past 20%.

I don't find personally those 3d mario games to be "platforming" but more of a an adventure type game in which case I like playing games like Zelda and Okami. The linearness in the 3d mario games just eats away at my soul.

I haven't completed SMG2 yet, but I think Sunshine had the perfect atmosphere. All the levels were awesome, and designed perfectly. A very hard game, and the atmosphere is what I loved so much. All I ask for in a game is a good atmosphere, and Galaxy 2 kind of...failed. D:

I liked the overall atmoshere of Sunshine better than Galaxy. Galaxy just didn't feel very Marioy

Galaxy just didn't feel very MarioyFunRat

I love mario but sunshine was one of the most boring games I had ever played. I went from being excited, then disapointed to boring to hating this game very quickly. I had to force myself to play this to 40 stars until I just turned off at how unfun this game was.

Mario 64 > Galaxy's 1 and 2 > sunshine.

Mario 64 wins just because the impact and overal design and feeling of the game was better then galaxy's. The galaxy's were good if not just as good but it just didnt have too many memorable areas and such. Also the planetoid idea was good but got repetative.

I never played sunshine but i doubt that its better than SMG

Sunshine was a good game, but not better than Super Mario Galaxy 1 and 2. I liked the tropical environments, a few of the boss battles, and the platforming levels that took place in an alternate dimension, but those blue coins were annoying to find. The only improvement it had over SMG was the hub world, but that's about it. I would like to play it again sometime, though, because it's been a year or two since I last played it.

Sunshine was a helluva lot harder than Galaxy that's for sure. I haven't gotten far into Galaxy 2 to comment on that.

They were both very good and very different. Not really sure which I liked more.

In my opinion its:

1. Galaxy 2

2. Galaxy

3. Sunshine

64 was better than all of them though :D

The linearness in the 3d mario games just eats away at my soul.

knuckl3head

No its not. Mario Galaxy series is the 3d Mario game that I always wanted. And not a Action/Adventure like Sunshine and Mario 64.

I thought that Super Mario Sunshine was tons better than Galaxy...and maybe a bit better than Galaxy 2.
I didn't mind the blue coins at all, and I think that's why a lot of people disliked it.
I think the levels were always really fun and had the perfect challenge to all of them.
On the other hand Galaxy 1 & 2 were really easy IMO

wiicube64

talk about repetitive topics...

personally i liked the galaxies a bit more than sunshine. but im not saying sunshine was a bad game, it wa prett good.

Sunshine Pro's

1. Open hub world

2. Bigger open areas

3. Obstacle course levels

Sunhine Con's

1. FLUDD

2. Tropical theme gets old quick

3. Boss battles

Galaxy (1/2) Pro's

1. Excellent level design

2. Huge variety

3. Does virtually everything right. There really isn't a bad level.

Galaxy (1/2) Con's

1. Big area levels are lacking

2. No TRUE hub world to explore.

That said, Galaxy is undoubtedly the better game.

FLUDD just messed it all up for me. That's pretty much it.RandoIph

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The linearness in the 3d mario games just eats away at my soul.

meetroid8

Every Mario game before Mario 64 where linear. I guess people where expecting the Galaxy games to be a lot like Marioi 64 instead of a 2d Mario platformer in 3d.

I liked Sunshine, probably more than Galaxy 1, pretty even with Galaxy 2. Super Mario 64 is the best 3D mario.

The Galaxy maps are all very linear, the maps in Mario 64 was much more open could be explored and played in many different styles.

I'm just hoping that the next 3D mario is like that, large classic Mushroom Kingdom worlds that lets you explore and play it the way you want to.