E3: Super Mario Sunshine/ E3: Wario World

The news that many of you have hoped for....Yes, you can ride Yoshi!


CNN showed some new footage of Mario on Moneyline, take a look, it will make your mouth water. You are going to need Real Player to view this video:
Mario Sunshine

Here are some pics from the video:








[ May 23, 2002, 05:20 AM: Message edited by: 2nd Opp ]

Cool, I was hoping that you can ride Yoshi!

Super Mario Sunshine was one of the premiere titles shown at today's Nintendo Pre-E3 Media Briefing. First we were treated to a promo real of various footage, and then Shigeru Miyamoto entered the room –from the rear—playing the game himself with a Wavebird. The game mechanics are essentially like Super Mario 64, but Miyamoto said they have added many new moves, and he showed a few of them. Mario’s spin jump from Super Mario World is back, but now he uses his water gun to help shoot him up in the air. The result is a very high jump with very fast spinning, and he comes back down pretty slowly. Mario can also jump on elastic-type ropes, which seem to be all over his tropical world. He can walk across them like tightropes, or jump up and down on them to get a super-high jump like on a trampoline. He can still do the diving, face-first long jump from Super Mario 64, but this move is now seemingly much more important since the world is covered with slippery surfaces, such as running water and sludge. Miyamoto did the diving jump into a large patch of mud and slid all over for several seconds, with full control and at a pretty good speed. As he did so, Mario became very muddy and in fact, he was slicked up enough to continue sliding even over clean patches of ground.

The other major new move we saw, and this one seems to be a major part of Sunshine’s gameplay, is the hover. Mario’s mysterious water pump appears to have (at least) two different modes: the one we’ve seen all along with water sprayed out over his head, and another in which two other nozzles point towards the ground. In the latter, Mario can shoot water directly at the ground to lift himself up into the air. At that point, he has full control and can tilt the nozzles around to change direction and move forward. It seems that the maximum altitude is fairly low, but Mario can continue hovering until his rather large water gauge runs out.

Spraying water, either over his head or at the ground, affects the environment in various ways. Water removes sludge from the ground or any other object, which is apparently one of the main goals of the game. We saw one place with giant mud-covered boulders rolling down a hill, which turned out to be detached Pirahna Plant heads when cleaned with water. Since Mario can’t wash himself with his water gun, when the older plumber gets too muddy (which may hurt him over time like a poison), he can jump into a river or pool and get all spic ‘n span once again. There are also lily pads in the water that Mario can use almost like boats. All he has to do is jump on top and shoot a stream of water…since the lily pad isn’t secured, simple laws of physics will propel it in the opposite direction.

By the way, we can now confirm that Mario rides on Yoshi.

The tropical environment obviously offers plenty of water to Sunshine’s environments, and it seems that Mario will be well equipped to move around in that water. When underwater, we didn’t see any breath meter; provided one isn’t added later, this would imply that Mario can be underwater indefinitely. There was also one brief scene in which Mario was surfing around on the water’s surface on top of an enemy, perhaps a Blooper (jellyfish). It was strangely reminiscent of riding Koopa shells in Super Mario 64…

We also learned that the story of Super Mario Sunshine has been revised somewhat since last reports. Mario is indeed on vacation at the tropical island, but no mention of Peach was made, and we didn’t hear anything about him being framed for any crime, which was heavily emphasized in our last story update.

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[Phenom]

Huzzah! Yoshi riding!

Super Mario Sunshine sounds like a 3D SMW to me

Story:

After all the previous adventures Wario's treasure room is full of jewels and riches. One of the jewels he has managed to pick up is a black jewel with the power to transform gems into monsters. The treasure room in the basement of Wario's castle begins to fill with monsters enclosing a strange parallel universe. Wario wakes up the next day to find the monsters instead of treasure and has to enter this new world to reclaim his collection.

From the movies and screenshots the gameplay looks similar to the Game Boy games but this time everything is in 3D. Wario can pick up large items and swing or throw them at enemies and be swept up into whirlwinds or be picked up by flying creatures. There are colorful balls that are floating or attached to surfaces such as walls. These are sticky and allow Wario to climb by jumping on each ball to reach higher areas.

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i dont know how anyone can come down on this game because of its name after seeing it.

The Wario pics don't work.

The Sunshine photos look good, although the graphics are not up to par with the other games. That's okay though, game play is more important on many levels.

Glad to hear you can ride Yoshi once again! Now I have someone to jump off of if I'm about to fall into a hole!

Later...

[Silvergun]

Being a fan of Warioland game boy games this new one for GC is a shocker! Over all I will buy it for sure hehe [img]smile.gif[/img] And for Super Mario Sunshine...ummm well from the videos i have seen i poo poo my pants for hella days!

I hope they'll still keep his invincibility or make it like Gunstar Heroes, where you had 100 default life points, but you could only die when those points ran out.