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Mario's GBA Luigi Team-Up, Sunshine Revisited

Posted by simoniker on from the best-buddies-forever dept.

Thanks to GamerFeed for their impressions of Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga for GameBoy Advance, as they explore the November-due turn-based handheld RPG, suggesting: "Anyone who has played Super Mario RPG or Paper Mario should find themselves right at home with Mario & Luigi", and claiming it's "shaping up to be one of the best RPGs on a Nintendo console to date." Nintendophiles also have hands-on impressions of Mario & Luigi, but also take the opportunity to look back on Super Mario Sunshine, over a year after release. Opinions on this GameCube flagship title range from "Mario Sunshine will not be remembered like other Mario titles on past Nintendo systems", to "It took everything Mario 64 did, and went one step further with it" - but overall, they conclude it's not a 'classic'.

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  1. Re:I know opinions are subjective and all. . . by NanoGator · · Score: 3, Insightful

    " But this guy's Sunshine retrospective took a huge credibility dive when he called Yoshi's Island ridiculous with no other explanation than the graphical style, then followed it up with a lame disclaimer about how he doesn't have anything against kiddy games."

    Seems like he's entirely missed the point of both games. I didn't really appreciate Yoshi's Island until I got it for my GBA. What made that game fun was that it constantly threw new challenges at you that you really kind of had to think your way through. Not so much puzzle type of challenges, but challenges that tested your control over the game. Yoshi's Island was brilliant for that.

    And you know what? Mario Sunshine was too. It was so much richer in so many ways. Was Sunshine to Mario 64 the same as Mario 64 to SMW? No. Still exciting none the less. (I do agree with his comments about the camera in SMS causing problems, ran into that myself.)

    If somebody's in a bad mood, I could see ripping Sunshine apart. But for somebody who sits down waiting to enjoy themselves, it really does pack quite a bit of fun in there. The addition of the water pump was brilliant. You really have to think to beat some of those challenges.

    Okay, I'm done defending Sunshine. Not sure why I posted this. I usually get negative responses where people have oversimplified the game and try to tell me it's just like M64.

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