Super Mario Sunshine (do read if you are mr freako-politico)

i played it in target the other day and got a boner.*

(*these two things might not be related.)

*thse two things might be related.

The light refracts through the water, streaming through the pump-pack.!!!!!!!!!!!!!!111

oh man i really want to play this game.

it's the boner thing, isn't it.

well duh

This reminds me of a story:

An evil female friend of mine was teasing a girl in one of her classes (this was eighth grade) and asking her if she had a boner. The victim, being fairly innocent, said, "A boner? What's that?" My friend immediately responded, "Oh, it's just something that happens to girls sometimes," and walked away.

Several days later, the victim walked up to my friend and whispered, "Umm, don't tell anyone, but I think I've got a boner." My friend immediately ran down the hall shouting, "_______'s got a boner! _______'s got a boner!" The victim ran after shouting, "DON'T TELL EVERYBODY! SHHH! SHHH!"

For the rest of the year, the phrase "I think I've got a boner" was high comedy.

(a) I still think "Mr. Freako-Politico" sounds like a particularly awful Red Hot Chili Peppers song, and ask that it die a quiet death.

(b) I don't even have a post-N64 console -- it's just that two of my friends are game animators, so I get to keep up through them. I played about an hour's worth of Sunshine a few weeks back, and loved it so much that I quit: no way did I want to immerse myself in something so good and then not be able to take it home with me.

i'm the same, i deliberately haven't bought a copy because i know i have things that need doing. in november.

mario64 took me three months to complete, can't quite afford to spend that amount of time on anything just yet. december is a different story though.

looks great though, doesn't it.

andy

League of substitue Andrews!

Although I do love my platformers, I'd played a lot of them on the PlayStation before I got to M64, and it didn't impress me. I liked Banjo-Kazooie more. I understand that I may be crime.

I can well imagine playing the living bejeezus out of this, though. In the pantheon on Nintendo Big Names, I'm looking forward to it less than Zelda, and much much more than Metroid.

I'm a sucker for Collect Everything games, so whenever I break down and get a GameCube, I'll have Luigi's Mansion and Starfox Adventures to look forward to as well. And they'll probably hit a reasonable price level first.

I got a GameCube mainly so I could play Mario Sunshine and I am very disappointed. It's a lot like Mario 64, except he's got the gay water pack thing. Whoo. Super Smash Bros Melee on the other hand is fly.

Nitsubishi (arf) - have you completed one player Halo yet? And the AI = best ever. My friend and I (this is the BEST mplayer game ever) played it on HEROIC almost all the way through. The second level is best: waves of gnostic-capitalist space-soldiers (I can just TELL, ok) beaten down by suppressing fire, lob a plasma grenade on their chahonkter and watch them squirm like a machonginis (pro. ma-CHONG-guiniss). And when you fall apon the last world war a couple levels on, pitched battles between marines and the gnomic, yeah I didn't mean gnostic, OK!, soldiers. It is swayzey.

Also, SUPER (ahem!) mario is great and so r all of u ;P

god!

AND OH MY GOD, I'M BEING SWALLOWED WHOLE BY A NAKED MOLE RAT: MR GAME & WATCH!!!!!LL PANCAKES!!!i!!i

SARAH - the new Zelda (CUBEFLASH! - Ocarina of Time is out in Japan on the Gamecube, a conversion) the NEW Zelda, Celda, "Zelda - Winds of Takuto" is out soon! If I win the lottery, I promise you*

*note: who actually plays the lottery? do you voluntarily incur inheritance tax too?

I haf not played one-player Halo. I don't own a console beyond the N64! I just have friends who are game developers, so when more than 3 people are in their homes it is multi-player action-extravaganza time.

Multiplayer Halo is so fantastic that we've been playing it for almost a full year. And new things keep happening. The other day on "Sidewinder" I watched someone fly a Ghost up one of the side ramps to take out a guy on the ridge: he made it up, but the guy up there rocket-launched him as he approached. The Ghost crashed forward into the ground, killing the guy that had rocket-launched it and then sliding off of the edge of the ridge and falling all the way down on top of me. Also the other day I shot the overshield down from the little overhead passage where it's tucked on "Rat Race," but someone else was closing in to grab it before I did! So I shot it out of the way with my pistol!

Note to non-Halo players: both of those things are actually way cool.

Damn N!tsuh, you're the last person I would have thought would be into video games. (yes and HALO rox ok)

tell that boner story again, that was hilarious.

oh wait, i'll just go back and read it again, duh.

I got it! It's really good. I thought the problem with Super Mario 64 was the camera trying to kill you all the time, and I didn't really have that problem here, although that might be because I got used to the camera on SM64. On reflection, probably not.

I also love the "Old School!" levels, the ones with the really primitive pretty shapes. Some of them are hair-pullingly hard, but I'm a veteran of Crash 1, me.

What I didn't like is that each of the shines is in it's own scenario, during which the other shines are unavailable (apart from the 100 coins and the blue coins). So you're stuck in a fixed progression. In SM64, if the current star was gicing you the gyp, you could almost always go look at that intering bit over there, or search for the red coins, and get your star that way.

how did they manage to get this game so wrong?

Who can say. Did they try to Americanise it with that water gun? That was the piss off.