I just put in Mario 64, and it has not aged well graphically. I'm sure I'll forget soon enough into the game.

This has to be the only Mario game that I did not try to find all of the secrets in because just lost interest. In some levels the camera was unbearable and for some reason the game did not seem intuitive at all (levels did not flow, sometimes it was confusing as to what to do next). Some levels in this game were excellent but others were terrible.

Anyway, I would still give it a 7.5 or an 8 out of 10 overall....still worth playing.

I love this game and don't understand the hate.

Good game, but not as great as Mario 64 or Galaxy. I would find myself having lots of fun with just the water pack.

fun game, but the most also the most frustrating mario game i've played. Some of the levels were really unforgiving, like taking forever to climb to a top and you make a wrong jump and you are basically back at the beginning of the level.

Especially annoying if you got into one of those awesome retro "secret/bonus" levels with the a capella Mario Bros theme, and you didnt bring enough lives, because some of those levels were hidden so far away that it took forever to get to them.

It's not a bad game by any means, but I think now, looking back, it is easily the most forgettable of all the Mario platformers 2d or 3d, on console or handheld.

here super mario sunshine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MPE_Vpd9lO8
copy and paste on the website bar

man forget how it cpmpares to other mario games! my second favourte GC behind WW fact

This game gets too much stick. It doesn't deserve to be treated as the ugly sibling of SMG and SM64. I loved this game.

Sunshine has the best camera of any 3d Mario game, and saying otherwise is just plain stupid.
In Super Mario 64 the camera stunk horribly, first there is always something in the way limiting how you can move the camera secondly, being stuck with c buttons instead of c stick ment you could only move the camera 90 degrees at a time. Compare that to super mario galaxy, you again are stuck with a variant of the c buttons, but this time the levels are bigger and more open compared to some of the levels in super mario 64. Also the camera has gone through some serious overhaul making it "smarter" and adjusting better compared to super mario 64.

To get back to super mario sunshine, the camera is yours to manipulate however you want to, full 360 degrees. Not to mention you can zoom so far out mario almost looks like a dot.

As for the secret levels the "classic" mario stages with the true platforming without the FLUDD, if i remember correctly i think there is a 1up mushroom if not 2 on each of those levels so as long as you get 1 atleast and then die it will be no problem. I thought those levels were the highlights of super mario sunshine.

I can understand that the location can be what some people dont like about it, i mean mario is mushroom kingdom. I however thought the paradise island theme was awesome, seeing as that snow themed places are my favorite game locations.