Since this video is still being recommended to people, I thought I'd put it here that I made a sequel with discusses the best Shines in the game. ukposts.info/have/v-deo/rqhooK2WiGeEmnk.html If you enjoyed this one, I hope you enjoy that one just as much. ^^ Thanks a million for all the support.

I keep thinking that the next shine is the Red Coins on the lake.

Developers, making the watermelon grinding level: "Hey, you remember the durian lady? Let's make that worse."

"I'm a chuckster!" ~Chuckster, 2002

When I played this game I was so young I didn't even know how to rage yet.

Funny enough, I genuinely consider the Manta Ray goop fight as one of my favorite levels to play. Remember as a kid playing it more than once on every playthrough of Sunshine.

Replaying this since they released it on the switch, I have no fucking idea how I played this as a child.

It always astonishes me that no one does the manta fight while under the huts. If you go underneath, the mantas can't touch you, they wander away from you, and you're close to the fountains for water. The piantas even say that they were safe under the huts

I've been replaying it after such a long time, and I'm disappointed. There's too many moments where I'm just like "...bruh" and have to restart levels constantly.

Nintendo was ahead of the curve: Other games are only now getting to “gambling in video games” when Sunshine’s Pachinko machine has been making me slit my wrists for years.

I refuse to believe anyone at Nintendo actually play tested any of the levels in this game before releasing it. That or they didn’t play test it enough.

You forgot about that casino level, where you have to get to 777s, one of them totally random, the other can be manipulated with floodd, then you have to put together a shit puzzle where you think that you have already reached the sprite after 10-15 minutes, just to get a pipe to a relatively difficult secret area. I did it with 1 life back then and was really frustrated when I failed and had to do the whole casino routine again.

Mans trying to stand upside down "Will be slipping at the mere notion of a slightly curved surface"

The lily pad shine is the most Infuriating shine in the whole game. I've only completed it once. If I tried it again I would lose my sanity

I see a suspicious lack of yoshi's fruit adventure

Sunshine was easily the most experimental of the 3D Marios. I think it resulted in some of the best mechanics, but a lot of the gimmicks it tried did not stick. And it tried a lot of gimmicks. Galaxy seems to have taken notes from Sunshine, cause Galaxy has its fair share of gimmicks like the ball or the Ray surfing, but they feel much more fun to use.

I *instantly* became anxious just at the first glance of Sand Bird

The worst in my opinion is cleaning the eel’s teeth or just the underwater levels in general

When I was a kid I used to play Sunshine with my friend and I specifically remember the mission where you have to pop balloons on the rollercoaster. We tried that mission for what felt like hours and still couldn't do it. Now, as an adult, I did that mission on my first try.

Honestly, going back and playing the game in 3D All Stars, one of the more frustrating shines was Shine 8 in the Harbor with Yoshi. For whatever reason the fish you shoot with juice to make platforms never worked as they should and would go up as they became platforms and Yoshi would hover just shy of them. That one shine took hours of frustration

Here’s a tip I’ve learned throughout the years regarding the #1 shine, if you take Yoshi into the tunnel by the Bianco statue, you so a spin jump out of that manhole and you can glide all the way to the platform with the banana. It makes it SO much easier and less tedious

Mysterious Hotel Delfino is actually my favorite shine in the game. Probably because I just like Hotel Delfino, but you did make some good points against it.

Weird, I loved Mysterious Hotel Delfino. One of the most fun and satisfying shines to figure out as a kid.

I thought that Sandbird Shine was fine. I never got to it as a kid so when I started playing sunshine on the 3D allstars collection I was dreading it. I then proceeded to beat the stage on my second try. I had more trouble with the first hidden platforming shine in biano hills.

I didn’t realize this game was gonna make me rage lol

Mario sunshine make me feel sad because I want to love it but it’s filled with a lot of broken and frankly unfinished bullshit in this game. And I just with that Nintendo remade the game from the ground up so that it could truly shine (pun not intended).

Definitely disagreed with some of these. The hotel shine I found pretty fun, I’m a big fan of puzzle oriented Mario levels, so I thought it was cool having to figure out a path through the hotel, even if it is linear. It’s closer to Luigi’s Mansion than Mario, but that helps spice things up. I also found that the sand bird was hardly any trouble. It only took me a few attempts, way fewer than most “secret of _____” shines. Manta Ray I disagree with but I can definitely see why some dislike it. Chucksters, that one “secret” shine, pachinko, and lily pad though... yeah I didn’t bother with any I didn’t need to. The trek to the lily pads is what really cements it as the worst Mario level. Not just in Sunshine, the worst Mario level period.

To me, Hotel Delfino is the embodiment of "great idea, poor execution." In fact, I like the idea so much that I didn't even hate any of the shines you have to collect in it. It was the blue coins that finally made me realize just how much I actually hate navigating the place.

Agree with you on the rest of these, but Manta Storm is one of my favorite Shines. It forces the player to think on their toes and alternate between kiting the boss and clearing goop away as they fight it. The 64 tiny mantas at the end becomes so chaotic, it feels like Mario is really up against an army and incredibly satisfying.

This game is my childhood. I used to have a huge bucket of Legos and would build scenes from this game with them. Excellent content btw bro. Keep it going!

THE the thing about sunshine is that it has so many good levels, but also a lot of bad and boring levels. I’m glad they improved in galaxy!

The "last" blue coin shines. Those are the 10 worst.

[4:25] Watermelon Festival: The monsters on the beach can be killed by getting them to chase you and then watering the sprouts to pop up thus giving you the chance to stun the monsters and kill them.

I thought I had to throw the pineapple up through the attic hole until several years later

The manta ray boss is actually stupid easy when you learn charge shots

playing this game for the first time this year, Sunshine is probably the most frustating game of the 3D All-Stars

The Lily Pad one was created by a sadist. ESPECIALLY due to the trick pipe at the end.

I don’t find how the manta ray boss is hard... just lure it to the beach and spam your spin jump + fludd

Mysterious Hotel Delfino was probably my favorite shine. At some points I admit it was unintuitive and I got stuck but as a whole it was just so different and I loved it.

“Popping like a balloon if someone even looks at it wrong!” Hahaha 🍉

Playing this game when I was young, I took one glance with some specific levels like Pachinko and the Lily pad and noped after the first few tries.

Mysterious Hotel Delfino was one of my favorites as a kid. It was so cool exploring the hotel it was like a maze. Not counting that fruit wall clip that takes the fun out of it 😤

My list: 10. Mysterious Hotel Delfino: This mission is just boring to me. Hence why I always use the Flippity-Do-Da 9. The Red Coin Fish: The physics of underwater suit always get on my nerves. 8. Secret of Ricco Tower: I feel like the slopes are fine but like Mysterious Hotel Defino, this level is just extremely boring 7. The Goopy Inferno: The path underneath the village is just plain uninteresting and the fact that there's little to no enemies and the fact that you can essentially skip this level by pulling water out of the river makes this level extremely easy once you know what to do. 6. Watermelon Festival: Fuck Cataquacks 5. Eely Mouth's Dentist: Take the boringness of Secret of Ricco Tower and combine it with the terrible physics of the underwater suit and you get what is by far the worst boss level in the game 4. The Shell's Secret: If you can't make super precise jumps, you're gonna have a bad time 3. Pachinko: Do I need to say anything else? 2. Secret of the Village Underside: *I'M A CHUCKSTER!* 1. The Death River: Okay sure, the Pachinko level has terrible physics but at least the area isn't *INSTANT-DEATH!*

That shine course with the red coins, lily pad and toxic water isn’t that bad..Just stock up on lives, and don’t jump into the pipe at the end if you miss a red coin/s. If you jump or fall into the toxic water it resets to the start of the course rather than sending you back to the island (where you gotta go through all the yoshi boat hopping stuff again).

Even though Sunshine is my all time favorite Mario game, I can easily say that it's one of the most unforgiving. It took me YEARS to finally get that Pianta Village Fluff Festival shine.

For me the manta wasn't only tricky to battle but unsettling. That creeping shadow certainly leaves you spooked!

Fun fact Red Coins on the Water can go wrong another way. You can land in the dock and land on ANOTHER blooper. Likely leading to death.

7:08 *insert Chuggaaconroy screaming "MURDERER!!!"*

A way I came to outcome Pinna 8 was this method: You hold down the trigger just right before it clicks and then wait for the right time and press the trigger down fully and the rocket will shoot perfectly straight and speed runners do it. If I didn’t explain it well enough there is a tutorial on how to do it.

Surprised to see you didn't include the final Pico Harbout level in here. You need first to get yoshi for it, which requires jumping up onto the silos and ground pounding them in alternating orders to get the right fruit because the fruit they give you are randomised. You also need to make sure the space where the fruit lands is clean because otherwise subsequent fruits will bounce off of each other and fall into the nearby water. Then you will need to get yoshi over a platforming section involving spraying cheep cheeps just at the right time to create platforms which carry you up the pillars, the final one of which has goo on it only yoshi can remove. And logically every mistake in your platforming is punished in Sunshine manner because yoshi dissolves in the down-below sea water. It's one of those levels which perfectly highlights how Sunshine would have been better of without Yoshi completely. Fuck this level.

The Manta Ray was actually my favorite boss in Sunshine back when I played the game in my kid years. I remember actually imposing challenges on myself like never refilling FLUDD, never taking out Manta’s smallest forms until they all start beelining me, or never going out of my way to wash away the Plasma Sludge.

At least you can glitch into the Watermelon Festival Shine in Episode 1 and glitch Yoshi straight to the Lily Pad River pipe by glitching out of bounds and walking to the pipe, albeit jumping every other second lest you die, but you still can do it. The Chuckster Shine can burn in hell and Episode 6 of Noki Bay is an underrated hell that nobody seems to talk about.

The Legendary Sand Bird has this weird implication of deeper lore that just sticks with me.

That lily pad level is such a pain still to this day

Ey, ey, don't you dare bad mouth Mysterious Hotel Delfino, that stage is dope.

Fantastic video and one of the few of these type that I agree with every single point. Mario Sunshine is such a great game, I'd love to take a nice VR vacation in it, but these Shines are maddeningly difficult.

I feel like this a cry of pain against these specific levels after streaming this game

Mario sunshine is always good shit. Glad to see a video on it from you Opal boi

Wow you actually included many of my favorite stages :D - The Manta Storm is a super cool unique bossfight, and I love how chaotic it is that it splits into smaller parts, and it's really satisfying to shoot multiple small onces at once with the big jumpy splash or the spin spray move. - Mysterious Hotel Delfino was a fun explorative stage that reminded me of Paper Mario, including some hilarious dialogue from the people whose rooms you break into. - The Secret of Ricco Tower is pretty chill, I lvoe the wood texture on those platforms, and once you get the hang of it, it's really fun to run through it while everything is spinning under you. - The Roller Coaster Balloons is also a really fun one, once again I love how chaotic it is but you still have plenty of time to control what you're doing. You can target specific hard balloons early on or just go for the most and, there's many possible paths to getting them all, since a lot of them can actually be shot from almost anywhere.

PSA: stop pushing forward on the analogue stick when surfing blooper. You'll have more time to collect the red coins, and you *won't die if you collide*. It's counterintuitive, because the first blooper shine is for a race, where pushing forward is essential.

I mean- the pianto village shine with the inferno goop everywhere took me HOURS To finish- I nearly threw my controller at the wall

Dang this is a great video teal and I’m glad your making great content. Keep it up man and I can’t wait for your next stream opal!

I loved all of them. The easy red coin levels helped me relax between the rage inducing ones.

the mysterious hotel delphino was actually my favorite level as a kid, I was really eager to try and get inside all those rooms and I felt really proud for finding each next hidden pathway. To each his own I guess!

That ending was perfect. That was hilarious. I remember being infuriated with that Shine on GameCube. I'm probably just going to skip it, beat Bowser, and call it a day on Switch.

I was there for red coins on the water on stream, I felt it all

Yoo .. I completely agree with you. I can relate because Super Mario Sunshine is one of my most favorite games. Thank you so much .. for telling me the top 2 or 1 shine sprites , I haven't even gotten those yet and thanks to you telling me , now I gotta go look for those shine sprites on Isle Delfino since I have the game on my yellow nintendo switch lite. I've watched your game vidoes often , but it's been such .. a very .. long .. time.

A few observations from my very first play-through a few weeks ago: 1) Pachinko machine: got it in 3 tries so was very surprised by its infamy. Didn't feel as luck either 2) Watermelon and balloon level: also within 3 - 5 attempts so no frustration. 3) Manta ray - actually fun! Though it helped massively that I had seen at a gdq that "sprinkler" attack works great to cover a large area. 4) More annoying were indeed the sandbird, ghost hotel search, chucksters and blooper race. But nothing game breaking. 5) Very frustrated by getting to lillypad level, level itself was meh (like 10-15 tries). 6) HATED some of the secret levels and the wonky physics of slopes, cubes and perspective. Cost me way too many deaths. 7) Although no one mentions it I really struggled cleaning the teeth of the eel; I just couldn't position myself well above the exact tooth. Anything involving the underside of Pianta village was also a pain. But nonetheless, still happy with my 120 shines :)

#1 should have been "the final blue coin shine."

7:43 that level is going to be like hell because my joy con controllers walking to the left automatically 😳

As someone who is new to the Sunshine series, I am nervous af about some of these levels. I managed to finish the pachinko machine and the ricco tower stage.. but that SAND BIRD scares me.

number 7. i actually remember watching this about 4 months ago back in January you were talking about this level, I couldn't figure it out and wanted to do it myself, but if it makes a top ten worst levels list, I don't feel so defeated anymore. it really does lack instruction, even remembering this video i had no clue what i was supposed to be doing, even after watching it i still don't know what to do, which just proves how unclear the game is being. sure the guy pointed out the leak but he could've said something like "I wonder what's causing it/what's above it" or "maybe there's a hole" or even if the camera was more movable we could see what's above us. this video definitely gets a like from me

Idk the watermelon mission was never that difficult imo. The cataquacks can just get sprayed so they don't break the watermelon and if you spray the watermelon on that small bridge it can move a bit easier than moving it with Mario.

I kinda love this game exactly because its difficult. It feels so rewarding when you finally got the shine you worked 20 minutes for. And the mechanics aren't so bad once you get used to them.

The Manta Storm is certainly hard, but you can use the huts for cover. Plus, my sister and I would always save the tiny raging ones for the hotel grounds since there's nearby water and sprayable coins. It's a lot easier with some patience if you don't want to use the wide spray feature. Blooper surfing is definitely hard, but that's why there's multiple colors for different handling. Also, you can survive a wall if you don't hit it straight on, and aren't going full speed from when you're pressing up. I know I struggled slightly with Ricco tower, but most of that is just learning to be patient instead of crazy jumps when you wouldn't even realistically be able to land on the spot. Watermelon festival is made easier by using dune buds to kill the lower tiered beach cataquacks. And then either carefully using the cliffside path for some distance or dazing the upper tiered cataquacks. Rollar Coaster is fun. But it's the same time limit as the mecha bowser fight, three laps. Sand Bird is certainly harder, but another level that just takes patience. But it was one where I came back to later instead of forcing myself to finish it immediately. Chucksters are again, a matter of patience. Pachinko was hard, but i never hated it. Water Lillies of Death certainly deserves top spot. But if you try your best to get as many coins on the first ride, you can inch your way back on the edges to jump to the rest and hover back to safety. Though that video footage looks completely media'd up to look like someone with absolutely no concept of boat physics.

The Manta Storm is my favourite boss in the game and one of my most memorable bosses in any game. I love letting them multiply to the point so that they massively outnumber me. I love the chaos and the feeling of powerfully beating those odds

3:08 really? Those were easy for me, especially when you find out to abuse the corners of any rotating platform.

I disagree with sooo much in this video. Some of the levels you mentioned, sure, but you also included some of my favorite levels in the whole game for me (roller coaster, squid racing and sandbird). Still, I love how Sunshine creates so much discussion still and that opinions are so divided. Sunshine is one of my favorite games of all time (I've been playing games since the Famicom days) but I can definitely see all the flaws in the game, but overall I just love this game and having an amazing time with the switch release. (Except the camera being switched and it is very very very difficult for me to get used to)

Yesterday I finished this game for the first time in my life, and indeed it had a lot of frustrating moments, the ones that I want to highlight more that were not mentioned in this video are: Corona Mountain, The Secret of the Dirty Lake, and The Caged Shine Sprite

Most of these Shines are not bad or the worst... just difficult. This looks more like a top 10 most difficult list. I agree that in some cases the difficulty is overbearing, the sliding mechanics are wonky, and that some are absolutely justified choices (the watermelon festival, pachinko), but the roller coaster balloons, the manta storm, and the Mysterious Hotel Delphino are all fun. I'm surprised the Corona Mountain level (particularly with the boat section) didn't make the list.

Stuck on all the "secret of" levels also i can't look at the sun for Noki bay 😭😭😭

I immediately disagree with the mantra ray level, that was an interesting and fun boss, even if it is a bit of a challenge

That lily pad level seriously had me questioning if I could 100% this game. Thank god I managed to do it, after god knows how many tries!

8:56 I can't imagine the hell of trying to get the Shine Sprite with the Joy-con drift... respects who did it

No 1 is so deserved. I hated it back in 2002. 😂 Now, I cleared it with quite ease. I cheesed with the Yoshi to the pipe glitching trough a wall and walked under water with a help from a guide. Thank god I never tried that pipe in the level. It wasn’t that tempting. I did not remember what it was for. But I indeed remember all the times I sneaked back on the sidewalls of the water canal to get a second and third attempt to get red coins. It was time consuming and nerv wreacking, but it worked. Anyhow, I was able to count out that purpose of that disturbing pipe without even trying it now in 2020. I learned a cheesy trick where you are able to walk under water in the water canal and pick most of the red coins. That was my strategy to clear this level. You had to ride it trough to the other side to reach this spot to jump under though. I kept dying while trying to get under the water correctly. I succeeded some times but died later on trying to get the coins without trigger the deadly water surface. Eventually I figured this level out. Instead of trying to stear the leaf that was nearly impossible, I just help it onward to bounce by the river walls! I succeeded to get all 8 red coins the intended way in one run for the first tine ever. 🙈😅🙏😱 Amazing!!

There’s a glitch in Mysterious Hotel Delfino that can just take you straight to the end of the course. This isn’t a joke. Speed runners use this glitch.

I did the same thing in the toxic water level. I used that pipe at the end of thinking it would take me to the start of the level and it didn't. I spent a good half hour just getting to that level and I only missed ONE RED COIN TO BE SENT BACK TO THE PLAZA.

Mysterious hotel delfino is a great one. I always felt like some kind of spy, sneaking through secret passages and figuring out the path for myself

Sand bird I was playing on my switch in Denny’s and i beat it, Thanks Dennys (:

Am i the only one who does "Red Coins on the Water" without getting on a blooper at all? I just find it easier and i have plenty of time to get all of them

#7 is in my opinion the BEST shine of the game. I've ever loved Mario Sunshine but the exploration of the hotel Delfino, with that relaxing ambiance, the cozy rooms, the mistery of having no idea of what to do, oh wow, I just had so fun doing it the first time.

Oh man that number one, is exactly what happened to me, I spent so long getting to it, I missed one red coin on my best run, survived to the end and jumped in the pipe expecting a restart. The worst part was I told myself I was going to 100% the game, my biggest gaming mistake because I had relatively fond memories of this game as a kid. :/

Pachinko is the only one I agree with, everything else on the list is easy

But the Real question is: why does he have flood in the "secret of" level ?

The Mysterious Hotel Delfino is actually one of my favourite shines. I love the concept, and the execution is near perfect. My list for the 10 worst Super Mario Sunshine Shines would be all 7 100-coin shines as 10-4 (not including Isle Delfino's, since I actually like that 100-coin shine. It's the only good 100-coin shine/star out of: Super Mario 64, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario 64 DS.). 3 as the Watermelon Festival. 2 as Underside. And 1, a shine I genuinely hate, the lilypad shine. Why make the level that takes ten years to reach, the hardest in the game?

Quality video! I love your scripting and timing makes my videos look like crap in comparison ha. I especially love that Parks and Recreation clip 👌😂😂😂. This is my first time watching your content and certainly not the last.

I finally beat the game after so many years, but man this the most fun and most frustrating Mario I have ever played. I really love this game, but I will forever hate the chuckster level.

I am playing on switch and I found that most of these are actually easy except for the mysterious shines. Freaking hate those

I know this is an unusual opinion but I think Yoshi's Fruit Adventure is the hardest and most frustrating shine in the game. Spraying the jumping fish with yoshi juice is super finicky. Hit the fish at the wrong height and you have to wait almost a minute for the platform to despawn and for the fish to swim back. And you have a time limit with Yoshi's juice slowly depleting, so you really can't mess up more than a single fish spray and expect to have enough time to make it to the shine with yoshi. And the worst part about the shine is that every time you fail, you have to swim all the way back to shore, climb up to the top, ground pound the fruit containers and pray that a durian comes out, kick it over to the yoshi egg, spray the first fish, and wait for the platform to move. It takes almost three minutes just to try again! I found this way harder than both the pachinko and lily pad shines. Does anyone else find this shine frustrating?

Actually, any secret stage just boots you to the beginning of the stage if you die in Sunshine. Which automatically makes them better than Winged Mario Over the Rainbow in 64, whose punishment is far more brutal than a lost life. Fun fact, I imagine Sunshine's secret stages being the reason why you keep all the 1-ups you've collected after you shut down the game, compared to everything else which resets you back to five lives.