Game Debate #8: Super Mario Sunshine

[Tanooki | 4,929]

I'd go as far as saying the camera was a huge step backwards into the 32/64bit era... a time when cameras and controls battled each other and caused a lot of needless and senseless death, demotivation, and distress.  I don't hate the game, I hate the mechanics of the game they fouled up pretty badly so I just don't want to play it because I'll get mad at it and frustrated.  The general walk about stuff in the hub and in the stages in general that's fine. It's mostly broken in places with tighter turns/spaces in those, but mostly just a lot of the semi-on rail style non-FLUDD based platforming as it's like the physics and camera are busted so you just get a lot of misplaced death jumps and other weirdness.  It's a shame really, a lot of polish fixing that up, give it 30 days to clean it up and get it Mario 64 right as it would be the one to compare to then, it would have been stunning.

[OptOut | 8,881]

It's almost as though the camera in Mario Sunshine has too MUCH freedom, it's really hard to keep it under control when it's off doing it's own thing, and finding just the right angle for certain jumps can be very tricky.

It can be hilarious in some instances though, especially the hidden bonus levels, quite how far away the camera goes. You're looking at Mario off in the distance trying to control a tiny ant Mario, it's actually hilarious!

Edited October 25, 2020 by OptOut

[croagunk | 798]

This is my favorite Mario game of all time. Like the GameCube itself, this is mostly tied to my nostalgia. This game is just so fun and beautiful to me, but I agree sometimes the controls/camera can be a bit tricky.