The reason the goop can't be spread is because of how the goop itself is generated. The game uses black and white PNGs (Goop Maps, in other words) to dictate where the goop can be placed within a level or scene. The black parts are where goop can be drawn but isn't immediately present, and the white parts are where goop is automatically drawn when the scene is loaded. These PNGs are of a finite size, so any goop brought outside of its range can't be drawn. In this case, the Goop Map surrounding the Pianta statue only covers the required area and nothing else. When Shadow Mario absconds with Peach, the game uses a different Goop Map for that scene that covers Shadow Mario's path and nothing else Fun fact: Every level and scene within that level has a Goop Map, even if the level itself has no goop anywhere. TCRF has a whole list of the unused ones, and some of them can be pretty funny
Great video! Just wanted to mention that if you drown the Pianta with mushrooms in the goop and then save him, he gives you the blue coin you normally can get later spraying his burning mushrooms. Yes, as a kid I also enjoyed drowning people in the goop lol
Daaamn, as a kid I did the same thing and I've always wondered if I had discovered an extra blue coin... Thanks for answering this decades old question of mine :D
A tidbit about FLUDD's tutorial: in the 3D All-Stars version, they somewhat awkwardly removed some of the button names from the voice acting. So for example: "Use the R Button" -> "Use the Button" "Use the Left Stick" -> "Use the Stick" I'm more amused by it than perhaps I should be.
So this is your next project...super cool! Are you aware of Particular Mushroom? He's a RUclipsr who was also breaking down each level in this game one by one in depth. Unfortunately his RUclips's been quiet for three years and the project seems to be left unfinished, but he did go through 5 of the levels. If you aren't aware of his content, I'd heavily recommend watching it yourself; it would undoubtedly help inform you of things you might otherwise miss in those levels, as they're quite the deep-dives. Honestly though, it's really nice to see somebody doing a breakdown of this game again, I always hoped PM would cover the rest of the game some day but seeing somebody else take on the challenge is just as good!
@@2CPhoenix No problem! :D PM's videos made me quite aware of how many little things can be broken down in this game (so many missable little details), so really eager to see what you find too!
The original gamecube version was actually built in 1080p and compressed to run on the gamecube in 480p. If you use dolphin to emulate it you can run it in 1080p and it may help read some of the illegible smaller text in it's original form.
Oh shoot I should look into that. I just had the thought while watching that I actually know how to read some japanese and might be able to help translate it, but I'm not good enough to make out the stuff from this screenshot alone. If I remember to do this, I'll let y'all know what I find.
that's not true. You're mixing up the fact that the original Gamecube version was built for *60fps* but in the end they decided to limit it to 30. Nothing was made in 1080p back in 2002, lmfao by the way, running the game in 1080p in Dolphin won't make the textures any higher resolution. It'll look cleaner but still very low resolution
Chromosome number unknown might be one of the oddest details in any mario game. I've never even considered the number of chromosomes mario has, but maybe I should??
Useful fact to know about the Goobles/Swooin' Stus: If you jump on them while being low on water, they will always drop a water bottle that refills your tank. This means you can never get into a scenario where you're surrounded by deadly goop with no way to clean it. (...except for the floodless missions I guess)
Oh MAN thank you for doing a series where you collect a bunch of fun and interesting Sunshine trivia to help more people appreciate it! It may be rushed, but it still had care put into it! I'm also a sucker for this kind of little stuff in Sunshine so I wanted to do as you ask and point out what I know for the places you didn't make a video on yet (as well as stuff from this intro). I'll leave out speedrun stuff since you can just watch one, but man are those tricks always fun: -You can see Mario standing in the Bianco part of the Welcome video. -60% of the game's data is the cutscenes. It's okay though; I love them too. -When Peach sees Shadow Mario on the water tower (?) in the Airstrip, he's surely floating in front of it instead of standing on it because Mario isn't that big when he's on it! -Speaking of Mario floating, the airstrip has a beach where Mario floats above the sand when standing there. -The Proto Piranha here doesn't flinch when you spray it. I guess to not waste time as a tutorial? -I always loved Mario's Twinkie pillow in jail. -The blue coin in the jail will still appear in the Shadow Mario statue cutscene even if you collected it. -Things like the Toads' worried expressions and other characters' animations stop when you're a certain distance away from them...but you can still see them. -Mario will always wipe sweat off of his brow in the shade...which you can abuse by repeatedly moving and stopping. Another funny little thing is that you can see Mario's blink speed coincide with his sidestep speed. -Some of the windows in Delfino Plaza aren't fully modeled, so you can see through gaps to see that building walls are invisible from the inside. -For Ricco Harbor: you can enter the portal to it by jumping up towards it under the pier. Speaking of, before you kill the Proto Piranha, you can see the sunken pianta under the pier. -There are dead bloopers in a boat which imply they get fished up. -If you spin jump into a grabbable fence, you can see Mario snap onto it. -All of the bloopers you ride have the same top speed if you hold forward, making Green the best thanks to its control. AverageTrey even made a whole video about it (as well as Blooperless, which you should show off)! -If you move the Mario Cam into the wall in the Blooper Surfing Safari, you can see it's in the Space Train area. -You can use the crane (or a good beyblade maneuver) to grab the grate from the bottom in Ricco 3 and skip going up top. -You can dismount your blooper in Ricco 6 by jumping on the umbrella at the start or running into the pianta with the duckie floatie (I swear there was a third way). -In 3D All Stars, you can see a Pianta fall from the sky during the intro cutscene for Ricco 8. -For Gelato Beach: you can turn the camera away from a growing tree and it'll stay small. -People say the juice bar looks like a Gamecube control stick. -Speaking of the bar, not sure if you're gonna cover Gelato Skip but I think it's at least worth noting that the shine in there is legitimate. -In Gelato 2, there's an invisible plane in the sky if you look in the mirror. Also the tops of the trees are missing in the shine cutscene. -In Gelato 3, something people might not know is that Wiggler has different faces for when he's flipped over and jumped on. Also steam comes out of his nose when he's jumped on. -When dealing the final blow to Wiggler, opening the Z menu will cause the music to either get super fast or super slow depending on how quickly you pressed it. -In Gelato 4, the Sand Bird actually loops back down. -In Gelato 6, the cheep cheeps can't eat you if you're holding a fruit. -For Sirena Beach: you probably know the Pahntamanta is probably a reference to The Shining and that the beach is shaped like a Gamecube controller, but just in case...! -The phantamantas can't go too far in the ocean, so what I did as a kid was get them purple, go out in the ocean, and just spray back and forth. -Piantas eyes are rendered over their glasses. -FLUDD's nozzles don't show up in mirrors. -In Sirena 4's secret, standing in one of the holes in the wall will eventually kill you. -You can run under King Boo to reset his slots. -Also King Boo's explosion color when he explodes corresponds with the fruit that killed him. My theory is that King Boo is so off-model because he's another Paintbrush creation, and Bowser Jr. gave him slots because King Boo perhaps likes to gamble (he had card suit theming in Luigi's Mansion). Maybe him and Bowser go out to the casino... -AverageTrey has a cool video about King Boo's slots if you didn't already check out all of his Sunshine videos. -Sirena 6's goop is shaped like a boo. Also you might know but the percentage of goop you need to clean varies in the Japanese version. -For Noki Bay: you probably already knew but the platforms in the water are actually cute little houses. -I'm also sure you already have the book in Noki 3 ready to talk about, but just in case...! -In Noki 4, you can bump into Eely Mouth's bubbles to get air. -Only Eely's corner teeth get a reaction out of them. -Noki 8 never had an official English title and was called Deep Sea of Mare until 3D All Stars gave it one: Noki Depths. -For Pianta Village, the village is presumably on a giant toadstool on the big tree in the center of the level. Neat! -You can see the Chain Chomplets' heads under the level after they're dunked. -If you're facing the lady at the end of the Il Piantissimo race, she'll say his line instead of him. -The ways I know how to clear the Goopy Inferno are: the Nintended way by going under the town, using the fence/slither of land on the left to climb the big tree, splashing enough water out from the pond to spin jump over, and using the Wind Spirit to get enough invincibility frames to jump and land on the fence straight ahead. -In Pianta 4, the Chain Chomp will avoid you so you can just lead it to the pool. You can also jump in before it lands to get inside it (and safely jump out through the teeth). -In Pianta 8, you can't see Bianco. Weird! Also I'm pretty sure for the beehive coin you're supposed to get Yoshi to eat them but I always just knocked it down and ran around them. -When Delfino gets flooded, repeatedly trying to surface under a log will let you walk underwater which is fun. It also lets you see some quirks about that version of Delfino Plaza, like the manholes. -Speaking of, you should totally cover all of the different types of Delfino Plaza that get swapped in at certain points of the game and their differences. -Everyone thinks Bowser is bathing in goop at the end, but based on the fact that NPCs say the Delfino flood water is warm and that it came out of nowhere, my theory is that the flood water is from Bowser's hot tub and he just dumped it out. The reason it's green is because of bath salts (common in Japan), and it's just goopy because they couldn't program splashing water. -When Delfino gets flooded, it's actually just lowered into the ocean to create that illusion. You can see this if you take a comparison shot from out in the ocean. -If you throw a fruit in the water right as it's about to expire, it'll respawn invisible. -The fruit in the fountains was added in the US version. If you spray them they'll disappear. -The area with the blue coin above the police station has building textures inside it (and isn't shaded during the flood). -In Corona, you can use the invincibility frames from hitting a fish to be able to swim under the lava's killplane. And speaking of the fish, they have cool pupils! -Bowser's roar in the cutscene where you disturb his family vacation is Sound Ideas, MONSTER - ROAR, ANIMAL 05. -And of course...getting up to the Pianta Village pipe early...but based on 21:48 I'm sure you'll cover that later. If RUclips lets me post all this it'll be a miracle. I omitted cool little glitches and exploits not used in speedruns (like clipping into the Turbo Gate Shine/Police Station/the Sirena Pipe, or entering Bianco while the Ricco unlock cutscene is playing), as well as stuff like the invisible barrel/crane in Ricco, because it seemed like you weren't covering that stuff, but I can gladly write about those too. And I'm sure you can find other interesting stuff on TheCuttingRoomFloor now that I think about it. Keep up the series!
the Japanese version has a different take of the prosecution's voice lines during the courtroom cutscene. there's quite a few errors in it too: "Expert *Shrine* scholars have determined that this darkness has arisen because *of* all of our guardians, the *Shrine* Sprites, have vanished from their gathering spot at the *Shrine* Gate."
To me it sounds like one of the first takes in that session, then in that same session they corrected him and asked to say "shine" instead and use that version in intl releases.
That wasn't in the original. I'm willing to bet it was part of the AI upscaling. People rightly roast the GTA collection for its piss-poor AI upscaling but let this one slide...
@@alaeriia01 The weird eye earrings are in the original. What probably happened is some tired developer on their 16th cup of coffee accidentally set Peach's earrings to use the wrong texture for a few scenes.
I love this video series! This game is a very intense special interest for me lol, I'll always love learning the nitty gritty about it. Immediate subscribe, can't wait to see the other secrets/easter eggs/fun facts to discover in this game. One more thing, though - I'm pretty sure that in the Japanese version of the game, the corrupt prosecutor mispronounces a few terms. I think they edited his clips (or had him re-record them) for the later versions of the game. I think I remember he used to pronounce the game's main collectible as "SHRINE sprite," rather than "Shine Sprite." For another fact about Delfino Airstrip, I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure it is the only locale in the entire game where it is impossible to use exploits to walk underwater. I have tried so many different tricks to try to walk underwater, and the only thing that has worked for me is an Action Replay code that makes Mario ignore his swimming function and fall through water like a rock. There are methods to walk underwater in every other world, though.
Also the M graffiti on the windmill shouldn't be there if they're seemingly old screenshots in the promo. Also the dirty bells in the Delphino Plaza shot combined with the shine in the shine gate facing the wrong way
I'm really glad I stumbled on this channel! I've been binging your Mario Sunshine videos (A little out of order, whoops!) and you do such an amazing job at breaking down everything and showing off things that I never noticed in this game! Keep up the great work! Just as an aside, I'm not sure if you've ever watched him, but an older channel by the name of Particular Mushroom had a similar series nearly 5 years ago and you've managed to fill that Mario Sunshine shapped hole that has been missing since he left lol
Oh hey, a game I've actually played being covered! I think that "island shaped island" right at the start might actually be shaped like a Sunfish, there's even a pokemon based on it, Alomomola.
Extraordinary video! It's such a fascinating dive into an intro level that could be otherwise a bit overshadowed by the rest of the game. I NEVER realized that the Airstrip Music was a reprise of the Underground theme. And I've listened to this music a LOT
I think there real culprit of Mario sunshine's linearity is that you only need to get the first 7 shines in every world, and everything else is superfluous. In SM64 all the secret shrines can go towards your necessary 70 stars, but the secret shines in sunshine only contribute to 100%
I believe if you hack Sunshine and beat every shadow Mario mission you can beat the game so really you need 7 shines or 8 counting the one on the airstrip Yeah I don't think Nintendo thought that out.
It's blurry, so I cannot be certain, but I'm almost sure that in the detailed overhead shot of Isle Delfino from the opening cutscene, the ferris wheel seems to be visible and is miscolored red, which leads me to believe that this cutscene and the cutscene after you defeat Bowser were worked on simultaneously, or at least in very close time to one another, as it's also miscolored to be red in that scene, but is more noticeable. Just something I never noticed before. (Or it could in fact just be the building upon which the wheel rests, but I like to imagine the former)
An interesting detail is is you look under the airstrip, you can see the goop massed up as a big ball. And when you defeat the polluted pirahna it has new models as it disappears
13:28 that fanfare sounds extremely similar to the song that plays in Super Mario 64 when you get the final 121st star from Bowser in Bowser in the Sky that plays when you use the wing cap to fly around the boss arena and back down to the front of the castle.
These shots of Peach looking at the water tower at 8:10 always made child me believe that her eyesight wasn’t great and she’d need glasses. Looking at it now it’s probably just the heat waves
03:35 I haven't watched this series so you probably mention it later on, but those "unused" voice clips from the demo reel may be the different voice clips mario uses when low on health and jumping near a ledge
It seemed like every gaming RUclips er used this song for epic moments circa 2014 or around that time lol . I remember most notably Game grumps did it lots
I have watched this video series about 5 times over so far. I love your take on the Mario sunshine universe. This game has some strange choke hold on me. I really just wanted to say these videos have gave me some kind of joy I can’t explain, Thank you!!❤️
Oh boy, thank you for addressing the fact that shadow Mario's idle animation is the same as el piantissmo. It is very distinctive to me and bothers me that nobody talks about it. After you're done with all the levels, you should do a recap for all the facts you missed from comments!
This extends past this game specifically, but it does tie into it in an interesting way. Remember the line about the Pianta remarking that the pollution tastes like candy? Well, you might recall that Mario Party 8 utilizes candies as items, and some of those things transform you in a manner similar to how Mario is transported into different levels, as seen near the end of this video. Some people have used this information to theorize that the candy in MP8 is actually made of the same material as the goop from Mario Sunshine! Again, not really a Sunshine specific thing but I just thought it was interesting.
I just realized why the Piantas are so ready to send Mario to jail. They're panicking because the Shine Sprites are gone. And them being plants, they're probably weak from lack of sun, making their brains not function properly.
The part I struggled with for the Airstrip openning cutscene is that as presented in game and in the establishing shot of the Airstrip, there was not nearly enough runway to come to a sudden stop like they did to avoid the icky paint-like goop that's moving. Actually, there may not even be enough runway in general. Even a smaller jet like that needs a lot of space to both take-off and land, and I'm not so sure that amount cuts it.
This series got me to play Mario Sunshine on 3D all stars. I really did enjoy it. Some levels like Pianta village I never even heard of and it was so cool playing a Mario level blindfolded. However, I have one issue: some of these episodes in the game are mine numbingly vague. I had to use IGN for 3 shines just because I spent 30 minutes on the level having no clue what to do. Otherwise, it’s as you said, a “classic” game and I came out of it appreciating the series you’ve made as it is so far.
I remember seeing the term "Galaxy Goos" to refer to the Goobles in some guide I read as a kid, and that just forever became what they are in my brain lol. I love the name too much to call them anything other than Galaxy Goos.
11:08! I had this game since Christmas of 2002, and I never noticed that was supposed to be Mario's face. This is the first console game I have ever owned!
A fact of the building in the airstrip. The interior was going to have a higher quality interior that would load in the same way for the box breaking interior and the boat house interior loads in. However it was scrapped and we're left with a low quality darken version of interior. Remant of it it still exists However. If you come back to airstrip when it's unlocked after you beat the game with a rocket nozzle and perform the rocket storage glitch to launch mario up to insane heights you'll be able to land in a invisible room high above the building. This was the scrapped room for the building mario would've been teleported to when entering the building there even a couple of flying stu's there as well.
The use of an SMB1 underwater arrangement for the title screen and attract mode also happens in SMB2 (USA), Super Mario All-Stars, and the Super Mario Advance series, and I have a hunch it was inspired by the former two of those. As someone whose first real engagement with the series was All-Stars, the tune still has strong "overture" associations for me.
i dont think you pointed out that the crates around the island have a mushroom icon on it seems isle delfino imports most of its goods from the mushroom kingdom
Hey cool first episoe, but I think you should have included Airstrip post game and as a suggestion maybe make a round-up episode at the end where you mention everything that came up and you missed :)
3:32 i just realized, maybe it's because i haven't played the game in such a long time but is there even a dark purple pianta outside of this intro cutscene in the game? For some reason i don't remember ever seeing one.
I think the first Delfino plaza goop, the one locking Bianco Hills, might be a Sanbo head giving a little foreshadowing to the main inhabitants of that area.
at 8:17 you said peach's earrings become small during a shot but to me it looks like they aren't even there and she has holes in her hair and we see the blue sky in the background like with bowser's eye in the end cutscene
Unsure if anyone else has really mentioned it but that music that plays on gcn when you go idle is the trailer music from the spaceworld 2000 trailer for sms
I'm not sure if this was said in the comments already but. in the trial cutscene, the jp version, the pianta refers to shines as "shrines" and "shrine gate"
6:31 best version GameCube version I love the track they play here and I wish there was a longer version that is stored somewhere 7:21 wtf I never knew this was a texture until now, I thought it was the weird way a camera zooms in on a super rendered far shot of the airstrip
I think that the "bird shaped island" is some sort of angelfish and the "island shaped island" is a sunfish
Beat me to it glad someone mentioned it
I thought it was a sting ray
I’m confident that it’s definitely a sunfish.
100% a sunfish, I came to the comments to say the same thing
And the "little fish shaped island" is more like a sea cucumber
The reason the goop can't be spread is because of how the goop itself is generated. The game uses black and white PNGs (Goop Maps, in other words) to dictate where the goop can be placed within a level or scene. The black parts are where goop can be drawn but isn't immediately present, and the white parts are where goop is automatically drawn when the scene is loaded. These PNGs are of a finite size, so any goop brought outside of its range can't be drawn. In this case, the Goop Map surrounding the Pianta statue only covers the required area and nothing else. When Shadow Mario absconds with Peach, the game uses a different Goop Map for that scene that covers Shadow Mario's path and nothing else
Fun fact: Every level and scene within that level has a Goop Map, even if the level itself has no goop anywhere. TCRF has a whole list of the unused ones, and some of them can be pretty funny
Great video!
Just wanted to mention that if you drown the Pianta with mushrooms in the goop and then save him, he gives you the blue coin you normally can get later spraying his burning mushrooms.
Yes, as a kid I also enjoyed drowning people in the goop lol
Daaamn, as a kid I did the same thing and I've always wondered if I had discovered an extra blue coin... Thanks for answering this decades old question of mine :D
16:56 most fair Japanese trial
A tidbit about FLUDD's tutorial: in the 3D All-Stars version, they somewhat awkwardly removed some of the button names from the voice acting. So for example:
"Use the R Button" -> "Use the Button"
"Use the Left Stick" -> "Use the Stick"
I'm more amused by it than perhaps I should be.
It's the conspicuous gaps in the delivery that really make it imo
something I've slowly learned to appreciate is the voice acting of F.L.U.D.D. The way they articulate with that robotic voice sounds perfect.
So this is your next project...super cool!
Are you aware of Particular Mushroom? He's a RUclipsr who was also breaking down each level in this game one by one in depth. Unfortunately his RUclips's been quiet for three years and the project seems to be left unfinished, but he did go through 5 of the levels. If you aren't aware of his content, I'd heavily recommend watching it yourself; it would undoubtedly help inform you of things you might otherwise miss in those levels, as they're quite the deep-dives.
Honestly though, it's really nice to see somebody doing a breakdown of this game again, I always hoped PM would cover the rest of the game some day but seeing somebody else take on the challenge is just as good!
I saw one of his videos years ago, but didn’t remember him! Thank you for the reminder, his videos will be a huge help!
@@2CPhoenix No problem! :D PM's videos made me quite aware of how many little things can be broken down in this game (so many missable little details), so really eager to see what you find too!
Ah yes, Particular Mushroom. Gone but not forgotten. :'(
I almost forgot about the opening line. Particular mushroom!!!! Man I have to rewatch those
PM still is around! He's got a discord, and actively chats there
The original gamecube version was actually built in 1080p and compressed to run on the gamecube in 480p. If you use dolphin to emulate it you can run it in 1080p and it may help read some of the illegible smaller text in it's original form.
Oh shoot I should look into that. I just had the thought while watching that I actually know how to read some japanese and might be able to help translate it, but I'm not good enough to make out the stuff from this screenshot alone. If I remember to do this, I'll let y'all know what I find.
Bro did not remember💀💀
@@v4n1tyy 😭whoops I've been busy
that's not true. You're mixing up the fact that the original Gamecube version was built for *60fps* but in the end they decided to limit it to 30.
Nothing was made in 1080p back in 2002, lmfao
by the way, running the game in 1080p in Dolphin won't make the textures any higher resolution. It'll look cleaner but still very low resolution
Okay but I ADORE that soft "what" from Peach when Shadow Mario appears
I like this kind of video format, it's like a middle ground between a video essay and a lets play.
That was the goal!
@@2CPhoenixThen you sir scored! Hold on the Pun Police are at my door again.
@@An_IanYou really left yourself wide-open for that one. Maybe that was the point?
Chromosome number unknown might be one of the oddest details in any mario game. I've never even considered the number of chromosomes mario has, but maybe I should??
These run-downs are a cut above the usual RUclips video game retrospective, good job!
Useful fact to know about the Goobles/Swooin' Stus: If you jump on them while being low on water, they will always drop a water bottle that refills your tank. This means you can never get into a scenario where you're surrounded by deadly goop with no way to clean it. (...except for the floodless missions I guess)
Specifically, you have to be at half a tank or less, so you don't have to be critically low to get the bottle drop!
Oh MAN thank you for doing a series where you collect a bunch of fun and interesting Sunshine trivia to help more people appreciate it! It may be rushed, but it still had care put into it! I'm also a sucker for this kind of little stuff in Sunshine so I wanted to do as you ask and point out what I know for the places you didn't make a video on yet (as well as stuff from this intro). I'll leave out speedrun stuff since you can just watch one, but man are those tricks always fun:
-You can see Mario standing in the Bianco part of the Welcome video.
-60% of the game's data is the cutscenes. It's okay though; I love them too.
-When Peach sees Shadow Mario on the water tower (?) in the Airstrip, he's surely floating in front of it instead of standing on it because Mario isn't that big when he's on it!
-Speaking of Mario floating, the airstrip has a beach where Mario floats above the sand when standing there.
-The Proto Piranha here doesn't flinch when you spray it. I guess to not waste time as a tutorial?
-I always loved Mario's Twinkie pillow in jail.
-The blue coin in the jail will still appear in the Shadow Mario statue cutscene even if you collected it.
-Things like the Toads' worried expressions and other characters' animations stop when you're a certain distance away from them...but you can still see them.
-Mario will always wipe sweat off of his brow in the shade...which you can abuse by repeatedly moving and stopping. Another funny little thing is that you can see Mario's blink speed coincide with his sidestep speed.
-Some of the windows in Delfino Plaza aren't fully modeled, so you can see through gaps to see that building walls are invisible from the inside.
-For Ricco Harbor: you can enter the portal to it by jumping up towards it under the pier. Speaking of, before you kill the Proto Piranha, you can see the sunken pianta under the pier.
-There are dead bloopers in a boat which imply they get fished up.
-If you spin jump into a grabbable fence, you can see Mario snap onto it.
-All of the bloopers you ride have the same top speed if you hold forward, making Green the best thanks to its control. AverageTrey even made a whole video about it (as well as Blooperless, which you should show off)!
-If you move the Mario Cam into the wall in the Blooper Surfing Safari, you can see it's in the Space Train area.
-You can use the crane (or a good beyblade maneuver) to grab the grate from the bottom in Ricco 3 and skip going up top.
-You can dismount your blooper in Ricco 6 by jumping on the umbrella at the start or running into the pianta with the duckie floatie (I swear there was a third way).
-In 3D All Stars, you can see a Pianta fall from the sky during the intro cutscene for Ricco 8.
-For Gelato Beach: you can turn the camera away from a growing tree and it'll stay small.
-People say the juice bar looks like a Gamecube control stick.
-Speaking of the bar, not sure if you're gonna cover Gelato Skip but I think it's at least worth noting that the shine in there is legitimate.
-In Gelato 2, there's an invisible plane in the sky if you look in the mirror. Also the tops of the trees are missing in the shine cutscene.
-In Gelato 3, something people might not know is that Wiggler has different faces for when he's flipped over and jumped on. Also steam comes out of his nose when he's jumped on.
-When dealing the final blow to Wiggler, opening the Z menu will cause the music to either get super fast or super slow depending on how quickly you pressed it.
-In Gelato 4, the Sand Bird actually loops back down.
-In Gelato 6, the cheep cheeps can't eat you if you're holding a fruit.
-For Sirena Beach: you probably know the Pahntamanta is probably a reference to The Shining and that the beach is shaped like a Gamecube controller, but just in case...!
-The phantamantas can't go too far in the ocean, so what I did as a kid was get them purple, go out in the ocean, and just spray back and forth.
-Piantas eyes are rendered over their glasses.
-FLUDD's nozzles don't show up in mirrors.
-In Sirena 4's secret, standing in one of the holes in the wall will eventually kill you.
-You can run under King Boo to reset his slots.
-Also King Boo's explosion color when he explodes corresponds with the fruit that killed him. My theory is that King Boo is so off-model because he's another Paintbrush creation, and Bowser Jr. gave him slots because King Boo perhaps likes to gamble (he had card suit theming in Luigi's Mansion). Maybe him and Bowser go out to the casino...
-AverageTrey has a cool video about King Boo's slots if you didn't already check out all of his Sunshine videos.
-Sirena 6's goop is shaped like a boo. Also you might know but the percentage of goop you need to clean varies in the Japanese version.
-For Noki Bay: you probably already knew but the platforms in the water are actually cute little houses.
-I'm also sure you already have the book in Noki 3 ready to talk about, but just in case...!
-In Noki 4, you can bump into Eely Mouth's bubbles to get air.
-Only Eely's corner teeth get a reaction out of them.
-Noki 8 never had an official English title and was called Deep Sea of Mare until 3D All Stars gave it one: Noki Depths.
-For Pianta Village, the village is presumably on a giant toadstool on the big tree in the center of the level. Neat!
-You can see the Chain Chomplets' heads under the level after they're dunked.
-If you're facing the lady at the end of the Il Piantissimo race, she'll say his line instead of him.
-The ways I know how to clear the Goopy Inferno are: the Nintended way by going under the town, using the fence/slither of land on the left to climb the big tree, splashing enough water out from the pond to spin jump over, and using the Wind Spirit to get enough invincibility frames to jump and land on the fence straight ahead.
-In Pianta 4, the Chain Chomp will avoid you so you can just lead it to the pool. You can also jump in before it lands to get inside it (and safely jump out through the teeth).
-In Pianta 8, you can't see Bianco. Weird! Also I'm pretty sure for the beehive coin you're supposed to get Yoshi to eat them but I always just knocked it down and ran around them.
-When Delfino gets flooded, repeatedly trying to surface under a log will let you walk underwater which is fun. It also lets you see some quirks about that version of Delfino Plaza, like the manholes.
-Speaking of, you should totally cover all of the different types of Delfino Plaza that get swapped in at certain points of the game and their differences.
-Everyone thinks Bowser is bathing in goop at the end, but based on the fact that NPCs say the Delfino flood water is warm and that it came out of nowhere, my theory is that the flood water is from Bowser's hot tub and he just dumped it out. The reason it's green is because of bath salts (common in Japan), and it's just goopy because they couldn't program splashing water.
-When Delfino gets flooded, it's actually just lowered into the ocean to create that illusion. You can see this if you take a comparison shot from out in the ocean.
-If you throw a fruit in the water right as it's about to expire, it'll respawn invisible.
-The fruit in the fountains was added in the US version. If you spray them they'll disappear.
-The area with the blue coin above the police station has building textures inside it (and isn't shaded during the flood).
-In Corona, you can use the invincibility frames from hitting a fish to be able to swim under the lava's killplane. And speaking of the fish, they have cool pupils!
-Bowser's roar in the cutscene where you disturb his family vacation is Sound Ideas, MONSTER - ROAR, ANIMAL 05.
-And of course...getting up to the Pianta Village pipe early...but based on 21:48 I'm sure you'll cover that later.
If RUclips lets me post all this it'll be a miracle. I omitted cool little glitches and exploits not used in speedruns (like clipping into the Turbo Gate Shine/Police Station/the Sirena Pipe, or entering Bianco while the Ricco unlock cutscene is playing), as well as stuff like the invisible barrel/crane in Ricco, because it seemed like you weren't covering that stuff, but I can gladly write about those too. And I'm sure you can find other interesting stuff on TheCuttingRoomFloor now that I think about it. Keep up the series!
There are a few gems in here I wasn’t aware of, thank you!
So, colored bath salts in water is like the Japanese equivalent of bubble soap for depicting a comfortable warm bath? Fascinating!
In all my years passing this game I've never noticed that the goop at the beginning looked like Mario.
I been playing this game for almost 18 years and I never even noticed that the goop was in the shape of Mario’s face🤯🤦🏽♂️
You've got a real knack for this thing. Great VO, tight editing, and unique content. Hell yeah dude
I’ve played this game so many more times than I can count and I somehow never noticed the paint in this level was a portrait of Mario’s face, wow
Me neither I’m so mind blown about that
I think my favourite thing about the intro cutscene is you can see Mario in the background with fludd while they’re showing Bianco hills. 3:45
the Japanese version has a different take of the prosecution's voice lines during the courtroom cutscene. there's quite a few errors in it too:
"Expert *Shrine* scholars have determined that this darkness has arisen because *of* all of our guardians, the *Shrine* Sprites, have vanished from their gathering spot at the *Shrine* Gate."
Zelda?
To me it sounds like one of the first takes in that session, then in that same session they corrected him and asked to say "shine" instead and use that version in intl releases.
oh my god I can't unsee the peach eye earrings now
That wasn't in the original. I'm willing to bet it was part of the AI upscaling.
People rightly roast the GTA collection for its piss-poor AI upscaling but let this one slide...
@@alaeriia01 The weird eye earrings are in the original. What probably happened is some tired developer on their 16th cup of coffee accidentally set Peach's earrings to use the wrong texture for a few scenes.
@@Skelington pfff....
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Mario kirt.
The goop painting is so funny, great video!
I love this video series! This game is a very intense special interest for me lol, I'll always love learning the nitty gritty about it. Immediate subscribe, can't wait to see the other secrets/easter eggs/fun facts to discover in this game.
One more thing, though - I'm pretty sure that in the Japanese version of the game, the corrupt prosecutor mispronounces a few terms. I think they edited his clips (or had him re-record them) for the later versions of the game. I think I remember he used to pronounce the game's main collectible as "SHRINE sprite," rather than "Shine Sprite."
For another fact about Delfino Airstrip, I could be wrong about this, but I'm pretty sure it is the only locale in the entire game where it is impossible to use exploits to walk underwater. I have tried so many different tricks to try to walk underwater, and the only thing that has worked for me is an Action Replay code that makes Mario ignore his swimming function and fall through water like a rock. There are methods to walk underwater in every other world, though.
Peach noticing shadow mario is analog horror
3:45 The screenshot of Bianco Hills from this promotional video features Mario clearly standing in the lower-right corner.
Also the M graffiti on the windmill shouldn't be there if they're seemingly old screenshots in the promo. Also the dirty bells in the Delphino Plaza shot combined with the shine in the shine gate facing the wrong way
I'm really glad I stumbled on this channel! I've been binging your Mario Sunshine videos (A little out of order, whoops!) and you do such an amazing job at breaking down everything and showing off things that I never noticed in this game! Keep up the great work!
Just as an aside, I'm not sure if you've ever watched him, but an older channel by the name of Particular Mushroom had a similar series nearly 5 years ago and you've managed to fill that Mario Sunshine shapped hole that has been missing since he left lol
You are such a delightful chaos gremlin and I can't wait to see this series unfold! Seriously, I'm smiling so hard that it hurts right now
Oh hey, a game I've actually played being covered!
I think that "island shaped island" right at the start might actually be shaped like a Sunfish, there's even a pokemon based on it, Alomomola.
This series is a great idea for your channel, awesome quality
I love super mario sunshine so much!
This is great. I loved this game so much as a kid, and seeing stuff like being able to drown folks on the airstrip is just genuinely so cool.
Extraordinary video! It's such a fascinating dive into an intro level that could be otherwise a bit overshadowed by the rest of the game. I NEVER realized that the Airstrip Music was a reprise of the Underground theme. And I've listened to this music a LOT
17:05 i like to imagine all these characters are just incredibly nearsighted
I think there real culprit of Mario sunshine's linearity is that you only need to get the first 7 shines in every world, and everything else is superfluous. In SM64 all the secret shrines can go towards your necessary 70 stars, but the secret shines in sunshine only contribute to 100%
I believe if you hack Sunshine and beat every shadow Mario mission you can beat the game so really you need 7 shines or 8 counting the one on the airstrip
Yeah I don't think Nintendo thought that out.
It's blurry, so I cannot be certain, but I'm almost sure that in the detailed overhead shot of Isle Delfino from the opening cutscene, the ferris wheel seems to be visible and is miscolored red, which leads me to believe that this cutscene and the cutscene after you defeat Bowser were worked on simultaneously, or at least in very close time to one another, as it's also miscolored to be red in that scene, but is more noticeable. Just something I never noticed before. (Or it could in fact just be the building upon which the wheel rests, but I like to imagine the former)
An interesting detail is is you look under the airstrip, you can see the goop massed up as a big ball. And when you defeat the polluted pirahna it has new models as it disappears
13:28 that fanfare sounds extremely similar to the song that plays in Super Mario 64 when you get the final 121st star from Bowser in Bowser in the Sky that plays when you use the wing cap to fly around the boss arena and back down to the front of the castle.
I've never gotten the chance to play this game so I'm glad you're making a Game Break down on this game!
Oh wow you're doing the entire game, I absolutely love this series already. Thanks for doing this!
14:38 Glad i’m not the only one to do this :D i've spent so much time as a kid trying to submerge npcs in goop lol
These shots of Peach looking at the water tower at 8:10 always made child me believe that her eyesight wasn’t great and she’d need glasses. Looking at it now it’s probably just the heat waves
I always loved how even during the "landing" cutscene, you can see the yellow Pianta in the back losing his mind.
03:35 I haven't watched this series so you probably mention it later on, but those "unused" voice clips from the demo reel may be the different voice clips mario uses when low on health and jumping near a ledge
Your channel and especially this series makes me so comfortable and cosy. Thank you 💕
15:40 that IS a lot of patience lmao
You are great at what you do my friend. I love this game and your style and how thorough you are. Well done, keep it going dude!
20:43 wasn't expecting a Nightwish jumpscare!
It seemed like every gaming RUclips er used this song for epic moments circa 2014 or around that time lol . I remember most notably Game grumps did it lots
I’ve noticed some RUclipsr using it. But to be fair, Ghost Love Score is an epic song
Im surprised how few views this video has. It deserves way more.
These are so great! Definitely following for more!
I don't think I have ever seen that title screen reel demo or ever heard the Sunshine styled Water Level theme. Incredible haha love it!
Found my new series to watch. My favorite 3D Mario game too. Good work Cheif
7:19 I swear I never noticed that back then! So cool.
Fantastic video, wonderfully read and executed! ❤
I have watched this video series about 5 times over so far. I love your take on the Mario sunshine universe. This game has some strange choke hold on me. I really just wanted to say these videos have gave me some kind of joy I can’t explain, Thank you!!❤️
Oh boy, thank you for addressing the fact that shadow Mario's idle animation is the same as el piantissmo. It is very distinctive to me and bothers me that nobody talks about it.
After you're done with all the levels, you should do a recap for all the facts you missed from comments!
I never noticed the texture bgs in the cutscenes before, I wonder how hard it is to notice in the original on a crt
This extends past this game specifically, but it does tie into it in an interesting way. Remember the line about the Pianta remarking that the pollution tastes like candy? Well, you might recall that Mario Party 8 utilizes candies as items, and some of those things transform you in a manner similar to how Mario is transported into different levels, as seen near the end of this video. Some people have used this information to theorize that the candy in MP8 is actually made of the same material as the goop from Mario Sunshine!
Again, not really a Sunshine specific thing but I just thought it was interesting.
I just realized why the Piantas are so ready to send Mario to jail. They're panicking because the Shine Sprites are gone. And them being plants, they're probably weak from lack of sun, making their brains not function properly.
Dude, you are way underrated
You are my favorite sunshine warrior holy moly amazing series
What a high value video from one of my favourite video games, subscribed!
This is an awesome series I stumble upon. Kudos for referencing max pre-peach% banana ramp trick
The part I struggled with for the Airstrip openning cutscene is that as presented in game and in the establishing shot of the Airstrip, there was not nearly enough runway to come to a sudden stop like they did to avoid the icky paint-like goop that's moving.
Actually, there may not even be enough runway in general. Even a smaller jet like that needs a lot of space to both take-off and land, and I'm not so sure that amount cuts it.
But they did.
Amazing, from Sly 2 to one of my favourite Nintendo games
That fluffy bit was a funny catch
This series got me to play Mario Sunshine on 3D all stars. I really did enjoy it. Some levels like Pianta village I never even heard of and it was so cool playing a Mario level blindfolded.
However, I have one issue: some of these episodes in the game are mine numbingly vague. I had to use IGN for 3 shines just because I spent 30 minutes on the level having no clue what to do.
Otherwise, it’s as you said, a “classic” game and I came out of it appreciating the series you’ve made as it is so far.
Those 5 Toads are the origin of the Toad Brigade: in a very disconnected way, Toad Treasure Tracker is a sequel to Sunshine
Your videos are great man! So glad I stumbled across your channel
This was the first videogame I ever owned that came packed with my GameCube that I got for Christmas as a kid...I have never noticed THIS much detail!
I remember seeing the term "Galaxy Goos" to refer to the Goobles in some guide I read as a kid, and that just forever became what they are in my brain lol. I love the name too much to call them anything other than Galaxy Goos.
8:15 He's just standing there... menacingly!
20:20 that piano music has no right going this hard.
11:08! I had this game since Christmas of 2002, and I never noticed that was supposed to be Mario's face. This is the first console game I have ever owned!
Toadsworth still appeared in the mario and luigi series, so he was around on the ds and 3ds
HOW MANY CHROMOSOMES DOES MARIO HAVE, NINTENDO?
UNKNOWN
At least 7
A fact of the building in the airstrip. The interior was going to have a higher quality interior that would load in the same way for the box breaking interior and the boat house interior loads in.
However it was scrapped and we're left with a low quality darken version of interior.
Remant of it it still exists However. If you come back to airstrip when it's unlocked after you beat the game with a rocket nozzle and perform the rocket storage glitch to launch mario up to insane heights you'll be able to land in a invisible room high above the building. This was the scrapped room for the building mario would've been teleported to when entering the building there even a couple of flying stu's there as well.
I can't believe I never noticed Peach's earrings
This is a very good twist on a let's play
The use of an SMB1 underwater arrangement for the title screen and attract mode also happens in SMB2 (USA), Super Mario All-Stars, and the Super Mario Advance series, and I have a hunch it was inspired by the former two of those. As someone whose first real engagement with the series was All-Stars, the tune still has strong "overture" associations for me.
"What kind of court has a judge that can just unilaterally proclaim guilt?"
Man... that hits way too hard right now.......
9:16 you can do the sideways somersault from a complete standstill, which only seems to be a thing in this game.
i dont think you pointed out that the crates around the island have a mushroom icon on it
seems isle delfino imports most of its goods from the mushroom kingdom
Peach is seriously rockin that ponytail
Hey cool first episoe, but I think you should have included Airstrip post game and as a suggestion maybe make a round-up episode at the end where you mention everything that came up and you missed :)
“I find the defendant guilty as charged” LMAO
wait i love this series, I just watched the Noki Bay one and i'm hooked. And you did Sly 2??? do this series forever i beg you
Yessss I loved this game as a kid! I’m so excited for the breakdowns. Sly 2 and now Super Mario Sunshine, I’m personally being spoilt
always love a freash take on my favorite game
I love the court scene. Everytime I play this game I can’t wait to see the most BS court in history.
As a kid I didn't know english so fludd's voice and piano music got me thinking sunshine had some kind of sad tragedy going on
As a kid, the scene of Mario being in the jail cell made me so sad. He doesnt desrve to be in there bro 😢
really love this series
3:32 i just realized, maybe it's because i haven't played the game in such a long time but is there even a dark purple pianta outside of this intro cutscene in the game? For some reason i don't remember ever seeing one.
I think the first Delfino plaza goop, the one locking Bianco Hills, might be a Sanbo head giving a little foreshadowing to the main inhabitants of that area.
"Looks like-a Mario's gonna have to find a job!" feels *so wrong*, I can see why they cut it!
I am loving this series, though I somehow watched like 5 episodes before realizing this was meant to be the first one lol.
at 8:17 you said peach's earrings become small during a shot but to me it looks like they aren't even there and she has holes in her hair and we see the blue sky in the background like with bowser's eye in the end cutscene
Do more of these 🙏
Unsure if anyone else has really mentioned it but that music that plays on gcn when you go idle is the trailer music from the spaceworld 2000 trailer for sms
I'm not sure if this was said in the comments already but. in the trial cutscene, the jp version, the pianta refers to shines as "shrines" and "shrine gate"
6:31 best version GameCube version I love the track they play here and I wish there was a longer version that is stored somewhere
7:21 wtf I never knew this was a texture until now, I thought it was the weird way a camera zooms in on a super rendered far shot of the airstrip