Super Mario Sunshine Warms My Heart* | A Retrospective

Super Mario Sunshine is the perfect summertime game and one that I've come to adore for multiple reasons... but it's also Super Mario Sunshine, warts and all. Learn what I think about one of the strangest mainline Mario games in this retrospective!

Chapters:
0:00 - Introduction
4:00 - Development History
9:58 - A Sun-Drenched Tropical Paradise
32:09 - Movement & FLUDD
45:05 - Flawed Objectives
54:42 - Get Mario Sunshine'd
1:09:20 - Closing Thoughts

Bluesky: http://bsky.app/profile/pgreviews.bsk...
Backloggd: http://backloggd.com/u/PGR

Special thanks to ‪@Brian.Henken‬ for lending his voice acting talents!

Sources (in order of appearance):
Metacritic - https://www.metacritic.com/game/super...
IGN (DeaDD) - https://www.ign.com/articles/2000/08/...
IGN (Mario 128) - https://www.ign.com/articles/2002/12/...
shmuplations - https://shmuplations.com/mariosunshine/
RealKrispReal’s Sunshine review on Backloggd - https://backloggd.com/u/RealKrispReal...

Borrowed footage (in order of appearance):
NASA Climate Change -    • Global Warming from 1880 to 2022  
videogamedunkey -    • Super Mario Sunshine (dunkview)  
PeanutButterGamer -    • Top 10 Mario Games! - PBG  
Brian Henken -    • I Love Water Levels*  
GreenSuigi -    • [WORLD RECORD] Super Mario 64 16 star spee...  
sbeve gaming -    • [World Record] 120 Shines in 2:51:05 ~ Sup...  
Dutchj (Gelato Skip) -    • Super Mario Sunshine - How Backflip Gelato...  
Dutchj (Pinna 6 Early) -    • Pinna 6 Early Yoshi-Go-Round In-Depth Guid...  
The Super Gaming Bros. -    • SGB Play: Super Mario Sunshine - Part 8 | ...  
Squeex -    • I played Super Mario Sunshine to see if it...  
A+Start -    • Super Mario Sunshine Glitches - Son of a G...  

Super Mario Eclipse Mod:
https://gamebanana.com/mods/536309

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