Super Mario Sunshine/YMMV: Difference between revisions

** FLUDD has even been accused of ruining Mario in ''[[Super Smash Bros Brawl]]''.

* [[Crowning Music of Awesome]]: Some of the best tropical music in any video game. Also, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCwZPn2sJg0 "Platforms A Plenty!"], aka "Warp Zone Theme", AKA "Extremely Kick-Ass A Capella Rendition of the Mario Theme", AKA "The awesome theme that drives gamers mad due to the [[That One Level|insanely hard levels]] they appear on".

* [[Epileptic Trees]]: What kind of goop tastes like an ice cream flavor? Are we sure we're cleaning off pollution or a little kid's favorite 31 flavors? {{spoiler|For reference, when the Pianta statue is submerged, a Toad can be found stuck in the goop; clean him off, and he talks about what the goop tastes like.}}

** Because the precise details of the transaction are only cryptically alluded to, the revelation that {{spoiler|the Paintbrush was an invention of Professor E. Gadd's}} has led fans to come up with many an [[Alternate Character Interpretation]] for him.

** For a game with so many beautiful water features to swim in, swimming beneath the surface with finesse is a lot more difficult than it was in ''Super Mario 64''.

* [[So Okay It's Average]]: Many fans consider it to be weaker than most Mario games, but a good game nonetheless.

* [[Squick]]: Yeah, Bowser's a [[Blatant Lies|big liar]], but the mere concept of Peach being {{spoiler|Bowser Jr's mother}} is beyond gross.

** {{spoiler|That is, until it is revealed that Peach really isn't Bowser Jr's mother. [[Fanon Discontinuity|Not that all of the fans believe this]]}}.

* [[That One Level]]: Corona Mountain. We're looking at you, annoying boat puzzle.

** The third mission of Pianta Village. Full stop. The entire village is covered in ''flaming'' goop, and worse, Shadow Mario swipes FLUDD as you enter. {{spoiler|You do get it back... right before you get the Shine Sprite.}} There are a number of different ways of dealing with the situation, all of which have their difficulties. The intended solution involves taking a long roundabout route underneath the village; however, it's really easy to lose your bearings trying to navigate through the maze of platforms, and those catwalks are really easy to fall from. A quicker path is to swim up the river into the pond and then repeatedly jump out of it, splashing water out to clean a path to the mayor's house. However, while you're trying to do this, Swoopin' Stus and that bird flying overhead keep trying to splash goop on you, and even if you can clear out enough of a path, you still have to do a perfect spin jump to the right spot to make it count. Finally, you can tiptoe around the left side of the village and climb to the top of the tree and then spin jump to the center of the village. However, this particular route leaves you absolutely no margin for error; slip up just a tiny little bit and you're screwed. (You'll either fall from the tree and plummet to your death, or you'll land smack in the goop and won't have time to extricate yourself before you die.)

*** YMMV for me. If you kill the Cataquacks ahead of time using the dune buds, the most difficult part of the whole level is getting the watermelon across the bridge, which isn't that difficult.

** "Yoshi's Fruit Adventure", where you have to squirt juice onto jumping fish to reach a series of platforms, is so frustrating that one online FAQ simply states, "I dunno, haven't finished this level."