Super Mario Sunshine is loyal to it´s predecessor, but due to the lack of fresh meat, this can be a double-edged smord.
Super Mario Sunshine Shares both feelings when you play it, at first one haves the idea that you are having a state-of-the-art masterpiece in your hands, while after you advance a little more in the game, you feel that it was a huge letdown. But after you replay it throughout the years, you think, “It is a good game, and it was worth the price”
The game consists on Mario, Princess Peach, Toadsworth and a bunch of toads flying to a touristic, dolphin-shaped island called “Isle Delfino”, but they make an emergency landing on the airstrip because of a paint puddle on the middle of the landing track. Soon after you begin to control Mario, you find FLUDD, the flash liquidizer ultra-dousing device, that would help you squirting goop and float through ledges later in the game. When he defeats the piranha plant hidden in the puddle, some natives threw him up to jail with an unfair judgement. It appears that an impostor dressed-up like Mario began to graffiti all the island, and indirectly causing all the sunshine to disappear. Mario´s sentence is to clean the island and recover all the missing shine sprites; a sun-shaped item which guarded Delfino island´s sunlight.
The game consists in a main level, 7 worlds and a boss stage. You must gather all the 11 shines found on each world, plus some hidden shines on the main level, Delfino plaza, and some blue coins which can be exchanged for Shine Sprites. Once you´ve achieved a special objective, such as collecting a set number of shines or unlock some item, a new level is opened.
To help you gather all the shines, you must use FLUDD to hover through obstacles, squirt paint to open paths, blast off to the sky, or propel yourself through the level at a blinding speed, which allows you to brake through special doors. The last two features must be unlocked before using them.
Yoshi is back! Before you can mount him, you must unlock him by defeating Shadow Mario, The culprit of Isle Delfino´s recent pollution. To ride him, you must give him the fruit he wants, only them, he will hatch and adopt one of the three available colors, which depend on which fruit you give him. They can squirt juice from his mouth, which turns enemies into temporary platforms. He jumps higher and farther than Mario, but can´t hover as him. His juice can also dissolve special butter-like paint water can´t dissolve.
After you started the game, you´ll notice that the objectives get very repetitive, in fact, each seventh episodes are exactly the same; chase Shadow Mario through the level. But those unique episodes are really inventive and funny.
The last boss of the game is very lame and easy, but inventive. But other bosses are numerous and challenging.
Super Mario Sunshine´s controls are perfect, and they become second-nature after a few minutes of game-play, but the camera is not so good, it tends to look at Mario with something in the middle, only displaying his shadow, and everything else as a ? mark, but you can always adjust it with the c stick o the L bottom. Its soundtrack is very nice and vivid, but too repetitive, and it´s visuals are fantastic.
If you like Mario games, you ought to play Super Mario Sunshine, it is an entertaining game with good graphics and game-play. If you are not sure to buy it, you should give it a go and rent it first