By contrast, Super Mario Galaxy and Odyssey were free-flowing adventures that included levels of all shapes, sizes, and themes.
The restriction turned Super Mario Sunshine into a vibrant platformer that tried to be more than Super Mario 64. Everything in the game grew out of the water pistol, including its theme, individual levels, game mechanics, and ways to challenge the player. Nintendo built the sunny 3D platformer from the ground up by limiting what Mario could do in order to build gameplay mechanics around a central idea. It’s a prime example of creative limitation in use. That hot island would eventually become Isle Delfino, with its theme park, docks, haunted hotel rooms, and tropical beaches. Isn’t it great to play with water on a hot island?” “The water pistol gameplay reminded me of summer and then I came to think about a tropical island. “It was the water pistol that came to my mind first,” Koizumi said. They even tried Mario spewing water out of his mouth.
At one point, they had Yoshi as a nozzle cap shooting water. Koizumi and the rest of the development team working on Super Mario Sunshine went through a number of ideas before creating the Flash Liquidizer Ultra Dousing Device, or FLUDD, for short.
But despite being overshadowed, Sunshine contains perhaps the purest example of Nintendo’s design philosophy, specifically that limitations-whether self-imposed or technological-can lead to focus and creativity. The game sold well enough and garnered positive reviews upon release, but it’s never been held in the same light as Super Mario Galaxy or Super Mario Odyssey.
Super Mario Sunshine is the black sheep of classic 3D Mario platformers.
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