Slips, slides and back-flips every which way within a tropical jungle Sporting Mario with a water jet pack (F.L.U.D.D.), as our portly plumber Physics render it wondrous to control even with its oddball mechanic of At its core lies an intense physicality, one its successors would abandon until fifteen years later with Super Mario Odyssey. Today, that remains the case, and I further confess it gives me no pleasure to rag on Sunshine. To say I grew a budding, resentful disappointment would be inaccurate, but the honeymoon period was certainly over, and the game's faults were too much to ignore. It kept falling, falling, falling out of sight until its place within a Top 50 would be unfathomable. 9, and then slipped off my Top Ten without a trace. Not many months later, however, a curious thing happened: the game slipped to No. Paradise was here, and it arrived in the anticipated thrill of a new Mario game. Call it the fervent hype of one little boy - stumbling across a pre-release demo in New York City's Toys "R" Us remains one of my all-time favorite gaming memories - but my bliss in Mario's tropical acrobatics couldn't be denied: be it bopping upon hapless NPCs and aimlessly hopping around the beaches and villages of Isle Delfino, hours upon hours were spent within torrid festiveness. 2, in fact, only behind Super Smash Bros. And now, a story: there was, once upon a very brief time, I would've placed Super Mario Sunshine in My Top Five Video Games of All Time No.
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