I decided to retry Super Mario Sunshine after giving up on ever beating it back when the Wii came out. And I remember exactly why I gave up. The camera is terrible, worse than the camera in Super Mario 64. It spazzes randomly. The wall jump is unresponsive in the levels where it is necessary, partly because the camera can't stop moving and partly because it just won't work on its own. Mario is way to twitchy and easily falls off of anything narrow. I was thinking maybe I was too harsh on the game because it was my first 3d platformer as a kid and tht after beating Galaxy, 64, and Odyssey it wouldn't be as hard, but if anything I was too soft on it. Sunshine is difficult because it's a partially unfinished mess that needed another 6 months of development time at a minimum. I'd call it overrated as it frequently appears on lists of the 'top 10 best Gamecube games' when it doesn't deserve to be.







