These romhacks are generally released as patches, and as long as they aren’t directly distributing Nintendo-made assets, they tend to be okay. Super Mario 64 has hundreds of romhacks that add new music and levels to the game, and what we’ve witnessed in the last few years (as people kind of “came around” on Super Mario Sunshine and started claiming it as an underrated classic) is the dawn of a new romhacking scene for Super Mario Sunshine. It’s really one of the best 3D platformers out there.Romhacking is very much a well established thing. I recommend this game to anyone who likes platformers, specially 3D platformers. Just as in every Mario game, the story is just an excuse to get you to go out and jump on everything in your path. Princess Peach has been kidnapped by Bowser and it’s up to Mario to save the day.

The story for this game is the same as every Super Mario game’s. The soundtrack is also varied and well made, although BGM is often reused. Enemies often have different sounds they make, helping you to differentiate a chain chomp from a piranha plant. The sound for this game is very varied! Mario has different footstep sounds for different grounds and he has various different voice clips. A lot of characters’ textures are very pixellated, a standard for DS graphics. You can tell what everything is, and you can control the camera around when you need to. The graphics for this game are slightly improved from the original. You could always try using the touch screen for directional input, but that’s more trouble than it’s worth. It’s a bit inaccurate but easy to get used to. The biggest thing that hurts this game, gameplay-wise, is that you’re no controlling these characters in a 360 degree space with a D-pad, allowing you to “point” in eight directions.

They’re like what you’d get for smartphones. There’s also a bunch of little mini games which are all fun, but there’s not much to say about them. Each time you get one, you get thrown back to the “overworld”. Instead of your powerup determining how close to losing, the characters have a life meter (which again doubles as their oxygen meter).Įach “stage” is a hunt for the Power Stars, which plays the role of objectives, and getting a lot of them opens up other worlds. The winged cap is still in this game, and I think only Mario can use it, but I’m not to sure on that.Īgain, enemies can be defeated by jumping on them or by fist-fighting them to oblivion.

Yoshi can eat enemies, skitter jump, and turn into the other three characters Mario can blow up like a balloon and float Luigi can vanish and skitter jump and Wario can break bricks and turn into metal. That is, aside from Mario, Yoshi, Luigi, and Wario are also playable and each have unique abilities.

The biggest difference that there is between this game and its original is the inclusion of multiple playable characters. This is a port/remake of that game, with certain added goodies and remixed objectives. Super Mario 64 was one of the best reasons you could have for owning an N64, next to the two Zelda games and others.

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