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Guess I'll make one of these for my backlog cleanup.
First game I've played is Super Mario Sunshine (from Super Mario 3D All Stars).
Never played this game due to not having a GameCube. Also never played Super Mario Galaxy due to not having a Wii. Decided to play this one first however.
Interesting start... was not expecting to see Mario go to court and jail lol
The opening bit at the airstrip was fairly straightforward. I get to spray water at stuff =3
Explored Delfino Square for a bit and entered a pipe with a slide that goes to a shine. After rummaging through the sewers afterward as well and acquiring some blue coins I then continued the story. Doesn't seem like I can do much more here atm.
Peach gets kidnapped by Shadow/Paint Mario or whatever it's called and after a short chase I follow it through a painted portal to another area.
Road to the Big Windmill
Navigated the area and got the shine and a bunch of blue coins. Spotted a couple more red X marks the spot thingies, but dunno what to do with those yet. Got booted out of the area after collecting the shine so went straight back in and went to go beat Petey Piranha. One more shine collected =3
Back at Delfino Plaza, I free the boathouse and exchange blue coins for a shine. I then hop in the magical wall paint towards Ricco Harbor afterward.
Not an overly difficult area to navigate though I did fall into the ink goop at one point and almost died to it due to not being able to get out for a while lol
Pretty brutal boss fight... not hard or anything though, just... ripping off the poor squid's tentacles 1 by 1? Ouch.
I get booted to Delfino Plaza again... I just hop right back into the portal =3
Time for some... Blooper surfing, apparently? =O
I takes me a couple tries to finish the course and I get told to come back when I'm ready to clear the kiddie pool rofl.
Shaved off 10 seconds on my return for a 42 second time and got the shine =D
I hop back into the portal again just to see how many shines are here... another one.
After some clumsy platforming with the new Rocket nozzle for the blue coins here I eventually get the new shine lol
... and back in... might as well try and see how deep the rabbit hole goes =3
Ricco Harbor Episode 4, ah that gate on the tower is now open. I first grab two blue coins I missed from M graffiti and then head into the tower. My water sprayer gets nabbed from me and I have to do a level without it. Rotating beam jumps... took me a couple tries but got there =D
And back in again =D
Gooper Booper Returns... Boss rematch?
Died twice.. once to the black goop underneath the boss fight, while trying to get the Rocket nozzle, which hits stupidly hard for some reason now. Once during the fight scoping out for new attacks.
Episode 6... Red Coins. Kinda wanna go to a new area already, but I insist on seeing how many episodes each areas has =P
Gamed Over while doing this race... why is losing a race costing me lives? -.-'
Episode 7 Shadow Mario Revisited. Lost sight of it fairly fast, but ended up just looping on the metal beams overhead. Pretty easy.... and back in lol
Episode 8 Yoshi's Fruit Adventure. oh... searched for a while, but need to meet Yoshi elsewhere first lol
Guess I'll go back to the windmill area for some shines then.
Bianco Hills Episode 3: The Hillside Cave Secret. Another water-less parkour huh. Game overed once due to missing the second rotating star jump multiple times smh.
Episode 4... Red coins. Couple tumbles, but nothing too difficult.
Episode 5... Petey Piranha rematch. Died once due to not being able to find one of those inflatable enemies to toss at it... they ran out? =O Not a very difficult boss though.
Episode 6... Secret of the Dirty lake... another parkour without water? Yep...
... ugh this one took a while, if not for the free 1-up after the initial alternating/switching blue/red platform jumps I'd have game overed multiple times D=
Which I'll take as my cue to leave this area for now and continue on with some main story I guess? =P
I cleanse the goo at the lighthouse and open a portal to a new area.
Gelato Beach Episode 1. I first explore the new area for blue coins then press on for the shine. Another no water platform section. This one's pretty easy, did it first try.
Episode 2 - pretty fun. nothing too bad.
Episode 3 - Angry wiggler boss. Easiest boss fight yet though lol
Episode 4 - Well... kinda annoying that I had to wait for the sandbird to loop multiple times due to being unable to get back on it on time after getting pretty much every blue coin. When it went sideways things got pretty perilous too.
Episode 5 - A Race against the clock and another person... easy one, first try lol
Episode 6 - Red Coins - Easy as well, though 1 of them kept diving into the sand so it took me a couple attempts to get.
Episode 7 - Lost sight of it once again... it kept looping though. Not hard at all.
Episode 8 - Watermelon rolling. Grabbed one nearby, which was bigger than the ones the other 3 people brought. Got called tiny. Figured a bigger one would be further away so went up the hill. Yep.
Gah this was infuriating. If the Cataquacks didn't get in the way and demolished either the watermelon or fling chained me up into the air infinitely I'd overdo it and smash the watermelon into something myself... eventually got lucky, or so it feels.
Episode... oh? was 8 the last one? Oh well.
Explored around town a bit, found a secret entrance to a giant pinball machine in the sky... and gameovered on it rofl.
Ignored it after that, grabbed some pineapples and bananas for the townfolks for some blue coins. Wasn't sure where to get Durians in that area and couldn't get the ones on the other side across as Mario can't hold them and only kicks them which sends them flying uncontrollably far. Also went into the boatshack and exchanged a bunch of blue coins for 4 star shines. Went into the crate destroying thingy. Another shine. I pay a guy on a rooftop a coin and he lobs me into a house with another shine.
Time to go to the ship... and apparently I need to get shot out of a cannon now. oh well.
Pinna Park, Episode 1. I try to explore the area, but end up triggering the boss fight.
One rollercoaster of a boss fight later I have another shine. Was a pretty fun one.
Episode 2. I use the incoming rockets to blow up all the crates on the beach for a whole bunch of blue coins. Then I fight the 'boss' of sorts and hop into the cannon afterward. Another waterless platform level huh. Pretty easy one this time thankfully.
Supposedly this area is where I meet Yoshi so I'm just gonna try and keep going =D
Episode 3. Red coins again. First I look around the park and grab the blue coins I got robbed of by the boss fight first time around =P And then... I fail a collect coins within a timer thing. Doesn't seem like I can reset it without leaving. Oh well.
The red coins were kind of annoying, I kept falling off and glitching through the swaying boats. Also lunged off of stuff to collect blue coins while doing this and would have to climb back up again. No real way to die though. Kinda chill.
I go back for the coin timer thingy... collect them all but no reward for it... so I just grab the life at the back of the park and leave =P
Episode 4. Saw Yoshi eggs, but turned out to be an enemy... easy level. Upon returning to town shadow/goop Mario is there however and I chase him down for a Yoshi egg. I somehow feed the egg bananas and it hatches lol
I go back to Ricco Harbor for Episode 8. Can't take Yoshi with me it seems. Found an egg here though, wants a Durian.
Scoped out the course for fruits, but can't seem to find any... it showed the 'fruits' tanks in an intro though... Ground pounding the valve doesn't work as I just bounce off. Ground pounding the top maybe?
Something comes out, but wrong fruit. Other one perhaps? Durian.... and I end up kicking it off the platform lol
Arrow pointing off into the water. I try to eat fishies, nope. Spray them... they become moving platforms? =O
Got stuck here for a while... apparently I need to jump off to the side and feed Yoshi a different fruit for a different platform effect. My first Yoshi disap00fed. Somehow managed to wall jump my dumb butt off while on the final platform with the shine with the second one lmao
Shadow mario again upon return... holding a Turbo Nozzle apparently. I get a new yoshi to hatch and eat a giant pineapple on a rooftop.
Sirena Beach - Episode 1. Pretty chaotic, but a good boss fight =3
Shadow Mario again? meh, pass. Back in I go.
Episode 2. Ghost platform parkour in the hotel lobby and it's... waterless platforming again.
Ugh nearly 1st tried this... mistimed my jump on the spinning thing near the end. Third try.. fell into a hole in the sand pile at the end lol
I lost count of the attempts, but I eventually got the shine... egads that final area... lucky there were 2 hidden 1-ups so I couldn't really gameover =D
I'm taking that as my cue to go elsewhere lol
Back to the dock to double check if the Yoshi episode was the last one... seems so. Back out.
I grab a couple blue coins in town and get a shine. I observe the local boat behavior for a bit as I remembered a pipe on an island here that was blocked. I find a lady who wants coconuts. Seems like a hassle to deal with that now.
I get to the pipe eventually. Red coins waterslide... with insta kill water, oh great.
Had 17 lives going into this.. somehow managed to clutch it on my very last life lmao
There was a 1up on the course, but it was very easy to miss =\
If you missed even 1 coin, you couldn't go back for it and had to die. =\
I use the Boost module to grab 1 more blue coin afterward in the central town area. I grab the 2 1-ups I know of in this area and go back to gather the coconuts for the lady.
I jump back into the Bianco Hills portal.
Episode 7 is a Shadow Mario chase. Easy.
Episode 8 is a red coin balance beam of sorts. Not that hard. Got some Blue Coins I missed. There was a Yoshi at the start though... wth is it for? I see no purpose for it as I had no need for it for anything at all lol
Back in town Shadow Mario shows up again. Rocket nozzle unlocked.
I clean one of the bells and get a shine. I clean the goop off of the big shine statue underneath the pipe the game highlighted some time ago. Another shine. I leave the pipe above be for now, back to the amusement park.
Pinna Park - Episode 5. Puzzley Parkour to the top of the Ferris wheel. Pretty chill level. Also 3 more blue coins. There's a Yoshi at the beach, but dunno what to do with it, or where the food it wants is.
Episode 6. Took me a bit to find the yoshi. Aaaand... another water-less level... ugh. Somehow managed that one first try... =D
Episode 7. Shadow Mario. Easy once again.
Episode 8. Balloon Popping roller-coaster ride. Pretty fun level. got 19/20 in 2 laps and only 1 left on lap 3 =3
Back to Sirena Beach. Episode 3. A Yoshi egg in the hotel, but after exploring for a bit no pineapple to be found. Pretty much just started ground pounding and jumping in random places and found a chain of secret rooms/entrances.
First Yoshi runs out. Second Yoshi... I get it stuck in a room that I can't leave without ditching it while hunting blue coins. Had to wait out the timer for it to respawn. Third Yoshi's the charm, I guess. Fun level though, once you realize it's pretty much just a ghost house and you gotta find hidden passages.
Episode 4. A casino. After exploring I use the nozzle to spray the slots onto 777 and the curtain opens. Takes me a while to get the picture flip right... so finicky. Oh no... a water-less level after all that finicky stuff? T^T
Only 2 lives lost? Both on the beams that slide in and out section due to Mario refusing to actually jump lol
Episode 5.. boss fight ? Yeah, bit of a weird one though. Threw a bunch of food at King Boo and the pepper set it on fire.. extinguishing it didn't do anything.. threw other food at it instead which seemed to work.
Episode 6. Literally just cleaning up the goop huh? Failed it first time... didn't realize I could toss those barrels and that there was water in them. Got it second try, with 6 seconds left. Somehow counted it complete with a smudge still left over. Cleaned it anyway =P
Episode 7. Shadow Mario... is level 7 always shadow Mario? =O
Lost track of it multiple times, but not a hard stage. the blue coin in the lobby was a far bigger pain, took me way too long to get D=
Episode 8. Not that hard, just need to know where the red coins are. Ran out of time once and got it on the second try.
In town I turn in 40 blue coins for 4 shines =3
60 shines total now. time to go to the glowy portal thing I guess. Well ground pound doesn't work. Rocket nozzle doesn't either. Yoshi doesn't either. How do I interact with this?
I spy some Yoshi goop on a rooftop as I head to the high up pipe. Turns out to just be a blue coin. Oh well.
Into the pipe I go.
Pianta Village - Episode 1. Pretty easy, though I didn't immediately know where to send the chomps after pulling their tails. Got like 8 blue coins here as well.
Episode 2. Lost the race grabbing the blue coin near the finish lol
Beat it fairly easy second try.
Episode 3. No water level again... Just followed the path around right and then did the underneath bit. Fell a couple times down there, but overall not a very hard level.
Episode 4. Fun and easy level. Just block the path and douse the Chain chomp and then pull it into the bath when near.
Episode 5. A precarious hop over to the no water area with Yoshi, but the no water area was pretty easy, albeit gimmicky. Aligning the chuckers was not always easy. Was a split in the path at the end. I just went toward the shine.
Episode 6. Save 10 villagers from the goop in... 3 minutes? Saved all with 30 something seconds to spare first try. Got 8 blue coins off of them to.
Episode 7. Shadow Mario once more. Easy again.
Episode 8. All in all a fun level, except for that 1 red coin in the under area. Missed it first time round. Was all the way at the top with 7 coins, saw clouds in the distance that I could get to by riding the fluff. No red coin there and no way out D=
Found the final red coin next attempt, but lost a couple lives making it back topside.
Well still no idea how to work that light portal thingy. Guess I'll have to look it up.
I spy a bell tower I didn't ungoop though. One more shine =3
And I'll turn in 20 blue coins while at it for 2 more shines. Grabbed a couple lives to.
Apparently I need to stand in the light and look up at the sun... by pressing down on right stick and then looking up with left... why the heck does the game not tell me that's even a mechanic when it's necessary to progress... ffs
Sure they keep emphasizing people are looking up, but I never pressed the right stick at any point so how am I supposed to know this is even a thing? xD
Anyway... Noki Bay - Episode 1.
Navigated up a bunch of hills, grabbed a couple blue coins and uncorked a waterfall
Pretty chill stage.
Episode 2. After exploring all the tunnels I can find on the left side for blue coins I eventually go to where I'm supposed to go and brutalize another squid. I spray the urns in the room for some blue coins and suddenly another shine shows up? =O
Well the path here was pretty easy.. I'll go get that one first then, already know how to get there as I explored that area earlier on =3
I spy a blue coin I missed on my way over though... well I can probably only get 1 shine per time so I'll do it next time.
Episode 2, again. I grab the rocket nozzle for a shortcut and brutalize the gooper again. I grab the blue coin I missed in the area underneath outside. I find another one lower down. I swap nozzles and head back to the eastern cliff side.
I spray some more murals and find another blue coin. I notice I can swim without damage near the waterfall base, so I dive down for a blue coin and then use the boat to get the far out blue coin on the water... or not. can't quite seem to get the boat over, such a pain to steer. Oh well I'll just go get the shine =P
Episode 3. Red coin hunt. Pretty original one. Miniaturized into a bottle. Pretty easy one though, just awkward controls for this.
Episode 4. I take the rope shortcut and go see the old geezer, and then plunge down and dive. Brushing an eel's teeth? Well that's pretty original for a boss fight lol
Episode 5. Another race. With the water now clean I grab that blue coin I couldn't get to earlier first. Then the race. Bonked early on and took a weird path, but beat it in 27 seconds? Easy, I guess.
Episode 6. Secret. Ugh another water-less level huh. Two new linked blue coins first. One I manage to get via boat, but the other is way too tight. It seems to be impossible this way so I look up what to do and apparently there's a turbo nozzle. Managed the water-less in 1 go somehow... heart pounding. Such a precarious one. I dislike these sections, this game's controls are far too inconsistent and they are usually pretty lengthy. Throw a Glaceon a checkpoint will ya.
Episode 7. Shadow Mario. A bit of fumbling while jumping around, but not that hard.
Upon returning to Delfino the gate behind the big shine statue becomes unlocked. Guess I had to defeat al the shadow marios for it or something? Anyway, it tosses me all the way back down... you know I'm doing Episode 8 first! Wait... can I even get back? Delfino is flooded.
Well into the cave I go. Corona Mountain...guess I better put on a mask then...
One death to the finnicky boat controls. Another death grabbing blue coins as the boat sank with 3 left and I just jumped out to grab one and took the death =P
A checkpoint at the boat would've been nice, but it's not that hard to get back. Wreck the boat once more. Such a pain in the butt to direct. Only one blue coin left though =D
Bowser fight. I die once figuring out what to do. Glitch through the debris on the second attempt,because there isn't enough buggyness already, let's put it in a boss fight as well. sigh.
Beat it third try. Not a bad boss fight, just wish you couldn't glitch through the debris ass you break off the edges.
I've seen that icon before though.. at the lighthouse. Gonna go back there and try ground pounding it after the fight =3
And... credits roll. Guess that was the final boss =O
After the credits I go ground pound the lighthouse top for a shine. I then use up some more blue coins and head back to Noki Bay - Episode 8.
Red coins. I dash around the high up outskirts first for blue coins on the pillars. I go and do the durian kick into the basket thing for a blue coin which lets me buy 1 more shine =3
I go back to try the pinball in the sky some more. Watching someone else do it makes it seems easy as when I tried this it seemed like a pain in the neck. Only 2 deaths.... I gameovered on this before lol
I spy a Turbo Nozzle gate as I'm looking around for a way back to the airport. Another secret level. Got it first try though I just barely grabbed onto the ledge at the end lol
I end up looking up how to get back and find the guy at the docks. I fetch some coins and have him take me to the airport.
I first climb up stuff with the Rocket Nozzle I brought. Nothing. Red coin switch at the start though. I just follow the coin path and complete this one easily. I go back once more and find a blue coin within the Turbo nozzle gates... but that seems to be it. He wont take me back to the plaza? lol
Guess I'll do the red coins again. Wait what. Another shine spawns in as I collect coins? Is there shines for collecting 100 coins in an area or something? Guess that other extra shine might've been one too.
I'll check Corona Mountain first to see if it has a new episode... nope.
Ah yes... I think it was, looking at the totals screen.
Well then back to the other stages for coins. Pianta Village. Tried episode 8. No dice. Tried episode 1. Got it =3
I get Bianco Hills done next. And it's on to Gelato Beach. Took me a while but ended up with 105 coins and I also nabbed a whole bunch of missing blue coins =D
I find a hidden shine while at it by spraying a wall while collecting coins and go back to collect it.
Then I look up if there's any more in this level and I see there's a red coin one in one of the formerly water-less levels. Ah so much easier now. So I guess I'll be double checking all those levels with 'secret' in the name.
Anyway, Ricco Harbor 100 coins shine is my next target. Took a while, but managed to find an episode to pull it off in.
Redid the blooper race and got another shine. Grabbed a few missing blue coins while here too. Now to go to the stage with 'secret' in the name and do one of those formerly water-less sections with water now =3
Well that drained like 10 lives... made it though =D
Back to Bianco Hills. 2 stages with 'secret' in the name. 2 red coin challenges. Kind of challenging, but I only lost 4-5 lives on each.
To Pinna Park then. 100 coins... easy. And while spraying the beach with water for coins I found fruits. Guess I know how to use that Yoshi now =3
First the stages with 'secret in the name though'. The cannon secret. 1 second off from the last coin on the second try... stingy. Fourth attempt, got it. Now for the other one, Yoshi-Go-Round Secret.
I die 5 times... 3 times due to being too rushed, twice to not knowing where the last red coin was. Only to eventually see it way up high lol
Back for Yoshi... after messing about for quite a while... apparently there's a couple blue coins in the butterflies...
Sirena Beach. Hotel Lobby's secret. Third attempt... got to the end with 7 coins first time. Died finding the final red coin on the second attempt. The Casino secret next. Not too bad, but that final red coin is kinda evil. Getting a backflip on that turning log and then hope you can hover high enough... anyway 100 coins time.
After trying a couple episodes I get it =3
Pianta Village... already did the 100 coins. One level with 'secret' in the name. Dang that drained a lot of lives... 8 deaths. Saw a villager on fire in there too, might have a blue coin? Didn't have time to put him out though.
Guess I'm looking up where the second one is... yeah, never would've found that lol
At least it's not that hard to get there.
That leaves Noki Bay's secret shines. Only one level with secret in the name again. Went in with a Rocket Nuzzle to get into the secret area easier.. forgot you keep the nozzle in there... but managed to do it with the Rocket Nozzle =D
Looking this one up again I guess. Hosing down a golden birb... did see that birb... never tried to hose it lol
Looking up how many total shines there are... 120? Where the heck am I getting 10 more? Well 9 more, I got enough blue coins for 1 more... I can't have missed that many blue coins, can I ? Looking up blue coin totals I guess...
30 per level... 20 in Delfino and 10 in Corona Mountain. Got the Corona Mountain ones. Missing 3 in Delfino Plaza =O
10 in Bianco hills... 6 in Ricco Harbor... 10 in Gelato Beach... got everything in Sirena Beach. Pinna Park missing 6.
Noki Bay missing 2. Pianta Village missing 7. Got 16 on me. 60 total if I find em all and turn them in. So I still need 4 more shines after that huh... oh well.
Blue coin hunt, I guess. Grabbing a guide though. Some are pretty obscure. One is just in a missed spot I could've gotten... the other one though.. probably wouldn't have found that without scouring every bit of the map lol
On to Pinna Park. Two random spots in the sand hide a blue coin and a blue bird at the entrance... that's half my missing coins already lol. Another blue bird and one hidden in a shell on the carousel or whatever it's called. And another blue butterfly and I'm done... makes me wonder if there's blue butterflies in Delfino... or maybe blue birds.
Well... Ricco Harbor is first. Apparently I had to kill some spiders, spray a random spot on a wall and some random fish barrell... lol
Well whatever.. at 30 blue coins now and right next to the exchange shack. Might as well turn these in now.
I start in front of the Bianco Hills portal, might as well go there next.
Had to spin a random windmill with water... missed one underwater, actually do blame myself for that one =\
Missed one on the lone pillar next to the windmill... weird... could've sworn I checked there... but might've been without spraying water I guess lol
Random enemy on top of the windmill for the 4th.. another at the place where the piranha plant napped on it's rematch. Never actually tried to get over there tbh lol
I eat a blue butterfly and a bunch of bees and missed another invisible one on some random balcony... up to a high up pole to spray a blue bird... one left and the dude has 1 left in the video too. Nope that ain't it... dang.
Figured I'd need to rewatch, but a helpful comment states the blue coin in a tree only appears if you spray the tree.
Turns out to be the missing one. Phew.
On to Gelato Beach. One missed in the water... just vibing out... totally could've and should've found that one. One from spraying a random spot on the beach... make that two. Jump on the Red Cataquack for another, followed by spraying another random beach spot.
I insert a random fruit into the blender on the hut and get another. I spray another random spot on the beach for the 7th one. I decline to check the sandbird area for now. I found a bunch in there.. dunno if it was all 4.
I get another blue coin by eating a blue cataquack napping in a tree with Yoshi. I wait around near some poles and spray 2 blue birds over and over for the final 2 coins. No need to double check the Sandbird area, good =D
Back to Pianta Village, 7 left here. One hidden under the goop in goopy inferno. I put out a dude that's on fire for the second one. Back out for the 'secret' level. I knew it, it's gonna be the on fire dude that was in the red coin area. I shoot water at the moon while standing on the gold shroom first. Magic blue coin. Just... how are you supposed to find that naturally? -.-
I eat a group of blue butterflies for another. Oh... he doesn't go to the secret area... guess I won't either then. Maybe it's just a 1up instead.
I spray a sign for a blue coin. I spray a blue bird for another and find the final one at the side of a palm tree at the edge of the map.
Delfino Plaza. I missed one in a nook in the sewers apparently. Sprayed a blue bird for the 2nd. And the last one is another blue bird, ofc.
I turn the coins in for 3 more shines.
As far as I can tell I'm missing 4 shines in Delfino Plaza. Everything else seems to add up.
And the first missing one is 'spray a random spot on the beach'... again...
Apparently there's a second version of the box smashing game... second missing shine obtained.
I spray down a Golden birb for the 3rd missing one.
A hidden pipe with the final one... an area with tall grass and red coins. Doubt I'd ever have found this place lol
I see a red bird so I hose it down. The rest are fairly obvious, except for one that's down a hole. But I saw the watermelon next to the hole and went down it hoping for the best lol
And done. 120 shines. All blue coins. Credits rolled long ago =P
All in all an enjoyable game. I disliked the no-water levels quite strongly, they were pretty hard. Seemed to be getting easier in later levels, but perhaps I was just starting to adjust to the difficulty, idk.
That Watermelon rolling level was by far the most infuriating one though. There were more enjoyable levels than bad/hard ones though.
Some of the hidden shines and blue coins were way too dang obscure though. I looked them up and am not ashamed of it either, a whole bunch of them would be almost impossible to find naturally.
The game was a bit glitchy/buggy at times, like glitching through things. Pretty old game though, to be expected I guess.
I found the camera very annoying at times. It clips to surfaces far too easily and then it won't budge for a good while and regaining control of it becomes a challenge. Though perhaps pressing the stick could solve that. Didn't learn about the first person camera until pretty late into the game though.
Welp, that became rather lengthy
First game I've played is Super Mario Sunshine (from Super Mario 3D All Stars).
Never played this game due to not having a GameCube. Also never played Super Mario Galaxy due to not having a Wii. Decided to play this one first however.
Interesting start... was not expecting to see Mario go to court and jail lol
The opening bit at the airstrip was fairly straightforward. I get to spray water at stuff =3
Explored Delfino Square for a bit and entered a pipe with a slide that goes to a shine. After rummaging through the sewers afterward as well and acquiring some blue coins I then continued the story. Doesn't seem like I can do much more here atm.
Peach gets kidnapped by Shadow/Paint Mario or whatever it's called and after a short chase I follow it through a painted portal to another area.
Road to the Big Windmill
Navigated the area and got the shine and a bunch of blue coins. Spotted a couple more red X marks the spot thingies, but dunno what to do with those yet. Got booted out of the area after collecting the shine so went straight back in and went to go beat Petey Piranha. One more shine collected =3
Back at Delfino Plaza, I free the boathouse and exchange blue coins for a shine. I then hop in the magical wall paint towards Ricco Harbor afterward.
Not an overly difficult area to navigate though I did fall into the ink goop at one point and almost died to it due to not being able to get out for a while lol
Pretty brutal boss fight... not hard or anything though, just... ripping off the poor squid's tentacles 1 by 1? Ouch.
I get booted to Delfino Plaza again... I just hop right back into the portal =3
Time for some... Blooper surfing, apparently? =O
I takes me a couple tries to finish the course and I get told to come back when I'm ready to clear the kiddie pool rofl.
Shaved off 10 seconds on my return for a 42 second time and got the shine =D
I hop back into the portal again just to see how many shines are here... another one.
After some clumsy platforming with the new Rocket nozzle for the blue coins here I eventually get the new shine lol
... and back in... might as well try and see how deep the rabbit hole goes =3
Ricco Harbor Episode 4, ah that gate on the tower is now open. I first grab two blue coins I missed from M graffiti and then head into the tower. My water sprayer gets nabbed from me and I have to do a level without it. Rotating beam jumps... took me a couple tries but got there =D
And back in again =D
Gooper Booper Returns... Boss rematch?
Died twice.. once to the black goop underneath the boss fight, while trying to get the Rocket nozzle, which hits stupidly hard for some reason now. Once during the fight scoping out for new attacks.
Episode 6... Red Coins. Kinda wanna go to a new area already, but I insist on seeing how many episodes each areas has =P
Gamed Over while doing this race... why is losing a race costing me lives? -.-'
Episode 7 Shadow Mario Revisited. Lost sight of it fairly fast, but ended up just looping on the metal beams overhead. Pretty easy.... and back in lol
Episode 8 Yoshi's Fruit Adventure. oh... searched for a while, but need to meet Yoshi elsewhere first lol
Guess I'll go back to the windmill area for some shines then.
Bianco Hills Episode 3: The Hillside Cave Secret. Another water-less parkour huh. Game overed once due to missing the second rotating star jump multiple times smh.
Episode 4... Red coins. Couple tumbles, but nothing too difficult.
Episode 5... Petey Piranha rematch. Died once due to not being able to find one of those inflatable enemies to toss at it... they ran out? =O Not a very difficult boss though.
Episode 6... Secret of the Dirty lake... another parkour without water? Yep...
... ugh this one took a while, if not for the free 1-up after the initial alternating/switching blue/red platform jumps I'd have game overed multiple times D=
Which I'll take as my cue to leave this area for now and continue on with some main story I guess? =P
I cleanse the goo at the lighthouse and open a portal to a new area.
Gelato Beach Episode 1. I first explore the new area for blue coins then press on for the shine. Another no water platform section. This one's pretty easy, did it first try.
Episode 2 - pretty fun. nothing too bad.
Episode 3 - Angry wiggler boss. Easiest boss fight yet though lol
Episode 4 - Well... kinda annoying that I had to wait for the sandbird to loop multiple times due to being unable to get back on it on time after getting pretty much every blue coin. When it went sideways things got pretty perilous too.
Episode 5 - A Race against the clock and another person... easy one, first try lol
Episode 6 - Red Coins - Easy as well, though 1 of them kept diving into the sand so it took me a couple attempts to get.
Episode 7 - Lost sight of it once again... it kept looping though. Not hard at all.
Episode 8 - Watermelon rolling. Grabbed one nearby, which was bigger than the ones the other 3 people brought. Got called tiny. Figured a bigger one would be further away so went up the hill. Yep.
Gah this was infuriating. If the Cataquacks didn't get in the way and demolished either the watermelon or fling chained me up into the air infinitely I'd overdo it and smash the watermelon into something myself... eventually got lucky, or so it feels.
Episode... oh? was 8 the last one? Oh well.
Explored around town a bit, found a secret entrance to a giant pinball machine in the sky... and gameovered on it rofl.
Ignored it after that, grabbed some pineapples and bananas for the townfolks for some blue coins. Wasn't sure where to get Durians in that area and couldn't get the ones on the other side across as Mario can't hold them and only kicks them which sends them flying uncontrollably far. Also went into the boatshack and exchanged a bunch of blue coins for 4 star shines. Went into the crate destroying thingy. Another shine. I pay a guy on a rooftop a coin and he lobs me into a house with another shine.
Time to go to the ship... and apparently I need to get shot out of a cannon now. oh well.
Pinna Park, Episode 1. I try to explore the area, but end up triggering the boss fight.
One rollercoaster of a boss fight later I have another shine. Was a pretty fun one.
Episode 2. I use the incoming rockets to blow up all the crates on the beach for a whole bunch of blue coins. Then I fight the 'boss' of sorts and hop into the cannon afterward. Another waterless platform level huh. Pretty easy one this time thankfully.
Supposedly this area is where I meet Yoshi so I'm just gonna try and keep going =D
Episode 3. Red coins again. First I look around the park and grab the blue coins I got robbed of by the boss fight first time around =P And then... I fail a collect coins within a timer thing. Doesn't seem like I can reset it without leaving. Oh well.
The red coins were kind of annoying, I kept falling off and glitching through the swaying boats. Also lunged off of stuff to collect blue coins while doing this and would have to climb back up again. No real way to die though. Kinda chill.
I go back for the coin timer thingy... collect them all but no reward for it... so I just grab the life at the back of the park and leave =P
Episode 4. Saw Yoshi eggs, but turned out to be an enemy... easy level. Upon returning to town shadow/goop Mario is there however and I chase him down for a Yoshi egg. I somehow feed the egg bananas and it hatches lol
I go back to Ricco Harbor for Episode 8. Can't take Yoshi with me it seems. Found an egg here though, wants a Durian.
Scoped out the course for fruits, but can't seem to find any... it showed the 'fruits' tanks in an intro though... Ground pounding the valve doesn't work as I just bounce off. Ground pounding the top maybe?
Something comes out, but wrong fruit. Other one perhaps? Durian.... and I end up kicking it off the platform lol
Arrow pointing off into the water. I try to eat fishies, nope. Spray them... they become moving platforms? =O
Got stuck here for a while... apparently I need to jump off to the side and feed Yoshi a different fruit for a different platform effect. My first Yoshi disap00fed. Somehow managed to wall jump my dumb butt off while on the final platform with the shine with the second one lmao
Shadow mario again upon return... holding a Turbo Nozzle apparently. I get a new yoshi to hatch and eat a giant pineapple on a rooftop.
Sirena Beach - Episode 1. Pretty chaotic, but a good boss fight =3
Shadow Mario again? meh, pass. Back in I go.
Episode 2. Ghost platform parkour in the hotel lobby and it's... waterless platforming again.
Ugh nearly 1st tried this... mistimed my jump on the spinning thing near the end. Third try.. fell into a hole in the sand pile at the end lol
I lost count of the attempts, but I eventually got the shine... egads that final area... lucky there were 2 hidden 1-ups so I couldn't really gameover =D
I'm taking that as my cue to go elsewhere lol
Back to the dock to double check if the Yoshi episode was the last one... seems so. Back out.
I grab a couple blue coins in town and get a shine. I observe the local boat behavior for a bit as I remembered a pipe on an island here that was blocked. I find a lady who wants coconuts. Seems like a hassle to deal with that now.
I get to the pipe eventually. Red coins waterslide... with insta kill water, oh great.
Had 17 lives going into this.. somehow managed to clutch it on my very last life lmao
There was a 1up on the course, but it was very easy to miss =\
If you missed even 1 coin, you couldn't go back for it and had to die. =\
I use the Boost module to grab 1 more blue coin afterward in the central town area. I grab the 2 1-ups I know of in this area and go back to gather the coconuts for the lady.
I jump back into the Bianco Hills portal.
Episode 7 is a Shadow Mario chase. Easy.
Episode 8 is a red coin balance beam of sorts. Not that hard. Got some Blue Coins I missed. There was a Yoshi at the start though... wth is it for? I see no purpose for it as I had no need for it for anything at all lol
Back in town Shadow Mario shows up again. Rocket nozzle unlocked.
I clean one of the bells and get a shine. I clean the goop off of the big shine statue underneath the pipe the game highlighted some time ago. Another shine. I leave the pipe above be for now, back to the amusement park.
Pinna Park - Episode 5. Puzzley Parkour to the top of the Ferris wheel. Pretty chill level. Also 3 more blue coins. There's a Yoshi at the beach, but dunno what to do with it, or where the food it wants is.
Episode 6. Took me a bit to find the yoshi. Aaaand... another water-less level... ugh. Somehow managed that one first try... =D
Episode 7. Shadow Mario. Easy once again.
Episode 8. Balloon Popping roller-coaster ride. Pretty fun level. got 19/20 in 2 laps and only 1 left on lap 3 =3
Back to Sirena Beach. Episode 3. A Yoshi egg in the hotel, but after exploring for a bit no pineapple to be found. Pretty much just started ground pounding and jumping in random places and found a chain of secret rooms/entrances.
First Yoshi runs out. Second Yoshi... I get it stuck in a room that I can't leave without ditching it while hunting blue coins. Had to wait out the timer for it to respawn. Third Yoshi's the charm, I guess. Fun level though, once you realize it's pretty much just a ghost house and you gotta find hidden passages.
Episode 4. A casino. After exploring I use the nozzle to spray the slots onto 777 and the curtain opens. Takes me a while to get the picture flip right... so finicky. Oh no... a water-less level after all that finicky stuff? T^T
Only 2 lives lost? Both on the beams that slide in and out section due to Mario refusing to actually jump lol
Episode 5.. boss fight ? Yeah, bit of a weird one though. Threw a bunch of food at King Boo and the pepper set it on fire.. extinguishing it didn't do anything.. threw other food at it instead which seemed to work.
Episode 6. Literally just cleaning up the goop huh? Failed it first time... didn't realize I could toss those barrels and that there was water in them. Got it second try, with 6 seconds left. Somehow counted it complete with a smudge still left over. Cleaned it anyway =P
Episode 7. Shadow Mario... is level 7 always shadow Mario? =O
Lost track of it multiple times, but not a hard stage. the blue coin in the lobby was a far bigger pain, took me way too long to get D=
Episode 8. Not that hard, just need to know where the red coins are. Ran out of time once and got it on the second try.
In town I turn in 40 blue coins for 4 shines =3
60 shines total now. time to go to the glowy portal thing I guess. Well ground pound doesn't work. Rocket nozzle doesn't either. Yoshi doesn't either. How do I interact with this?
I spy some Yoshi goop on a rooftop as I head to the high up pipe. Turns out to just be a blue coin. Oh well.
Into the pipe I go.
Pianta Village - Episode 1. Pretty easy, though I didn't immediately know where to send the chomps after pulling their tails. Got like 8 blue coins here as well.
Episode 2. Lost the race grabbing the blue coin near the finish lol
Beat it fairly easy second try.
Episode 3. No water level again... Just followed the path around right and then did the underneath bit. Fell a couple times down there, but overall not a very hard level.
Episode 4. Fun and easy level. Just block the path and douse the Chain chomp and then pull it into the bath when near.
Episode 5. A precarious hop over to the no water area with Yoshi, but the no water area was pretty easy, albeit gimmicky. Aligning the chuckers was not always easy. Was a split in the path at the end. I just went toward the shine.
Episode 6. Save 10 villagers from the goop in... 3 minutes? Saved all with 30 something seconds to spare first try. Got 8 blue coins off of them to.
Episode 7. Shadow Mario once more. Easy again.
Episode 8. All in all a fun level, except for that 1 red coin in the under area. Missed it first time round. Was all the way at the top with 7 coins, saw clouds in the distance that I could get to by riding the fluff. No red coin there and no way out D=
Found the final red coin next attempt, but lost a couple lives making it back topside.
Well still no idea how to work that light portal thingy. Guess I'll have to look it up.
I spy a bell tower I didn't ungoop though. One more shine =3
And I'll turn in 20 blue coins while at it for 2 more shines. Grabbed a couple lives to.
Apparently I need to stand in the light and look up at the sun... by pressing down on right stick and then looking up with left... why the heck does the game not tell me that's even a mechanic when it's necessary to progress... ffs
Sure they keep emphasizing people are looking up, but I never pressed the right stick at any point so how am I supposed to know this is even a thing? xD
Anyway... Noki Bay - Episode 1.
Navigated up a bunch of hills, grabbed a couple blue coins and uncorked a waterfall
Pretty chill stage.
Episode 2. After exploring all the tunnels I can find on the left side for blue coins I eventually go to where I'm supposed to go and brutalize another squid. I spray the urns in the room for some blue coins and suddenly another shine shows up? =O
Well the path here was pretty easy.. I'll go get that one first then, already know how to get there as I explored that area earlier on =3
I spy a blue coin I missed on my way over though... well I can probably only get 1 shine per time so I'll do it next time.
Episode 2, again. I grab the rocket nozzle for a shortcut and brutalize the gooper again. I grab the blue coin I missed in the area underneath outside. I find another one lower down. I swap nozzles and head back to the eastern cliff side.
I spray some more murals and find another blue coin. I notice I can swim without damage near the waterfall base, so I dive down for a blue coin and then use the boat to get the far out blue coin on the water... or not. can't quite seem to get the boat over, such a pain to steer. Oh well I'll just go get the shine =P
Episode 3. Red coin hunt. Pretty original one. Miniaturized into a bottle. Pretty easy one though, just awkward controls for this.
Episode 4. I take the rope shortcut and go see the old geezer, and then plunge down and dive. Brushing an eel's teeth? Well that's pretty original for a boss fight lol
Episode 5. Another race. With the water now clean I grab that blue coin I couldn't get to earlier first. Then the race. Bonked early on and took a weird path, but beat it in 27 seconds? Easy, I guess.
Episode 6. Secret. Ugh another water-less level huh. Two new linked blue coins first. One I manage to get via boat, but the other is way too tight. It seems to be impossible this way so I look up what to do and apparently there's a turbo nozzle. Managed the water-less in 1 go somehow... heart pounding. Such a precarious one. I dislike these sections, this game's controls are far too inconsistent and they are usually pretty lengthy. Throw a Glaceon a checkpoint will ya.
Episode 7. Shadow Mario. A bit of fumbling while jumping around, but not that hard.
Upon returning to Delfino the gate behind the big shine statue becomes unlocked. Guess I had to defeat al the shadow marios for it or something? Anyway, it tosses me all the way back down... you know I'm doing Episode 8 first! Wait... can I even get back? Delfino is flooded.
Well into the cave I go. Corona Mountain...
One death to the finnicky boat controls. Another death grabbing blue coins as the boat sank with 3 left and I just jumped out to grab one and took the death =P
A checkpoint at the boat would've been nice, but it's not that hard to get back. Wreck the boat once more. Such a pain in the butt to direct. Only one blue coin left though =D
Bowser fight. I die once figuring out what to do. Glitch through the debris on the second attempt,
Beat it third try. Not a bad boss fight, just wish you couldn't glitch through the debris ass you break off the edges.
I've seen that icon before though.. at the lighthouse. Gonna go back there and try ground pounding it after the fight =3
And... credits roll. Guess that was the final boss =O
After the credits I go ground pound the lighthouse top for a shine. I then use up some more blue coins and head back to Noki Bay - Episode 8.
Red coins. I dash around the high up outskirts first for blue coins on the pillars. I go and do the durian kick into the basket thing for a blue coin which lets me buy 1 more shine =3
I go back to try the pinball in the sky some more. Watching someone else do it makes it seems easy as when I tried this it seemed like a pain in the neck. Only 2 deaths.... I gameovered on this before lol
I spy a Turbo Nozzle gate as I'm looking around for a way back to the airport. Another secret level. Got it first try though I just barely grabbed onto the ledge at the end lol
I end up looking up how to get back and find the guy at the docks. I fetch some coins and have him take me to the airport.
I first climb up stuff with the Rocket Nozzle I brought. Nothing. Red coin switch at the start though. I just follow the coin path and complete this one easily. I go back once more and find a blue coin within the Turbo nozzle gates... but that seems to be it. He wont take me back to the plaza? lol
Guess I'll do the red coins again. Wait what. Another shine spawns in as I collect coins? Is there shines for collecting 100 coins in an area or something? Guess that other extra shine might've been one too.
I'll check Corona Mountain first to see if it has a new episode... nope.
Ah yes... I think it was, looking at the totals screen.
Well then back to the other stages for coins. Pianta Village. Tried episode 8. No dice. Tried episode 1. Got it =3
I get Bianco Hills done next. And it's on to Gelato Beach. Took me a while but ended up with 105 coins and I also nabbed a whole bunch of missing blue coins =D
I find a hidden shine while at it by spraying a wall while collecting coins and go back to collect it.
Then I look up if there's any more in this level and I see there's a red coin one in one of the formerly water-less levels. Ah so much easier now. So I guess I'll be double checking all those levels with 'secret' in the name.
Anyway, Ricco Harbor 100 coins shine is my next target. Took a while, but managed to find an episode to pull it off in.
Redid the blooper race and got another shine. Grabbed a few missing blue coins while here too. Now to go to the stage with 'secret' in the name and do one of those formerly water-less sections with water now =3
Well that drained like 10 lives... made it though =D
Back to Bianco Hills. 2 stages with 'secret' in the name. 2 red coin challenges. Kind of challenging, but I only lost 4-5 lives on each.
To Pinna Park then. 100 coins... easy. And while spraying the beach with water for coins I found fruits. Guess I know how to use that Yoshi now =3
First the stages with 'secret in the name though'. The cannon secret. 1 second off from the last coin on the second try... stingy. Fourth attempt, got it. Now for the other one, Yoshi-Go-Round Secret.
I die 5 times... 3 times due to being too rushed, twice to not knowing where the last red coin was. Only to eventually see it way up high lol
Back for Yoshi... after messing about for quite a while... apparently there's a couple blue coins in the butterflies...
Sirena Beach. Hotel Lobby's secret. Third attempt... got to the end with 7 coins first time. Died finding the final red coin on the second attempt. The Casino secret next. Not too bad, but that final red coin is kinda evil. Getting a backflip on that turning log and then hope you can hover high enough... anyway 100 coins time.
After trying a couple episodes I get it =3
Pianta Village... already did the 100 coins. One level with 'secret' in the name. Dang that drained a lot of lives... 8 deaths. Saw a villager on fire in there too, might have a blue coin? Didn't have time to put him out though.
Guess I'm looking up where the second one is... yeah, never would've found that lol
At least it's not that hard to get there.
That leaves Noki Bay's secret shines. Only one level with secret in the name again. Went in with a Rocket Nuzzle to get into the secret area easier.. forgot you keep the nozzle in there... but managed to do it with the Rocket Nozzle =D
Looking this one up again I guess. Hosing down a golden birb... did see that birb... never tried to hose it lol
Looking up how many total shines there are... 120? Where the heck am I getting 10 more? Well 9 more, I got enough blue coins for 1 more... I can't have missed that many blue coins, can I ? Looking up blue coin totals I guess...
30 per level... 20 in Delfino and 10 in Corona Mountain. Got the Corona Mountain ones. Missing 3 in Delfino Plaza =O
10 in Bianco hills... 6 in Ricco Harbor... 10 in Gelato Beach... got everything in Sirena Beach. Pinna Park missing 6.
Noki Bay missing 2. Pianta Village missing 7. Got 16 on me. 60 total if I find em all and turn them in. So I still need 4 more shines after that huh... oh well.
Blue coin hunt, I guess. Grabbing a guide though. Some are pretty obscure. One is just in a missed spot I could've gotten... the other one though.. probably wouldn't have found that without scouring every bit of the map lol
On to Pinna Park. Two random spots in the sand hide a blue coin and a blue bird at the entrance... that's half my missing coins already lol. Another blue bird and one hidden in a shell on the carousel or whatever it's called. And another blue butterfly and I'm done... makes me wonder if there's blue butterflies in Delfino... or maybe blue birds.
Well... Ricco Harbor is first. Apparently I had to kill some spiders, spray a random spot on a wall and some random fish barrell... lol
Well whatever.. at 30 blue coins now and right next to the exchange shack. Might as well turn these in now.
I start in front of the Bianco Hills portal, might as well go there next.
Had to spin a random windmill with water... missed one underwater, actually do blame myself for that one =\
Missed one on the lone pillar next to the windmill... weird... could've sworn I checked there... but might've been without spraying water I guess lol
Random enemy on top of the windmill for the 4th.. another at the place where the piranha plant napped on it's rematch. Never actually tried to get over there tbh lol
I eat a blue butterfly and a bunch of bees and missed another invisible one on some random balcony... up to a high up pole to spray a blue bird... one left and the dude has 1 left in the video too. Nope that ain't it... dang.
Figured I'd need to rewatch, but a helpful comment states the blue coin in a tree only appears if you spray the tree.
Turns out to be the missing one. Phew.
On to Gelato Beach. One missed in the water... just vibing out... totally could've and should've found that one. One from spraying a random spot on the beach... make that two. Jump on the Red Cataquack for another, followed by spraying another random beach spot.
I insert a random fruit into the blender on the hut and get another. I spray another random spot on the beach for the 7th one. I decline to check the sandbird area for now. I found a bunch in there.. dunno if it was all 4.
I get another blue coin by eating a blue cataquack napping in a tree with Yoshi. I wait around near some poles and spray 2 blue birds over and over for the final 2 coins. No need to double check the Sandbird area, good =D
Back to Pianta Village, 7 left here. One hidden under the goop in goopy inferno. I put out a dude that's on fire for the second one. Back out for the 'secret' level. I knew it, it's gonna be the on fire dude that was in the red coin area. I shoot water at the moon while standing on the gold shroom first. Magic blue coin. Just... how are you supposed to find that naturally? -.-
I eat a group of blue butterflies for another. Oh... he doesn't go to the secret area... guess I won't either then. Maybe it's just a 1up instead.
I spray a sign for a blue coin. I spray a blue bird for another and find the final one at the side of a palm tree at the edge of the map.
Delfino Plaza. I missed one in a nook in the sewers apparently. Sprayed a blue bird for the 2nd. And the last one is another blue bird, ofc.
I turn the coins in for 3 more shines.
As far as I can tell I'm missing 4 shines in Delfino Plaza. Everything else seems to add up.
And the first missing one is 'spray a random spot on the beach'... again...
Apparently there's a second version of the box smashing game... second missing shine obtained.
I spray down a Golden birb for the 3rd missing one.
A hidden pipe with the final one... an area with tall grass and red coins. Doubt I'd ever have found this place lol
I see a red bird so I hose it down. The rest are fairly obvious, except for one that's down a hole. But I saw the watermelon next to the hole and went down it hoping for the best lol
And done. 120 shines. All blue coins. Credits rolled long ago =P
All in all an enjoyable game. I disliked the no-water levels quite strongly, they were pretty hard. Seemed to be getting easier in later levels, but perhaps I was just starting to adjust to the difficulty, idk.
That Watermelon rolling level was by far the most infuriating one though. There were more enjoyable levels than bad/hard ones though.
Some of the hidden shines and blue coins were way too dang obscure though. I looked them up and am not ashamed of it either, a whole bunch of them would be almost impossible to find naturally.
The game was a bit glitchy/buggy at times, like glitching through things. Pretty old game though, to be expected I guess.
I found the camera very annoying at times. It clips to surfaces far too easily and then it won't budge for a good while and regaining control of it becomes a challenge. Though perhaps pressing the stick could solve that. Didn't learn about the first person camera until pretty late into the game though.
Welp, that became rather lengthy
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