Super Mario Sunshine: Difference between revisions

The game received the first lead directing role for Nintendo designer [[Yoshiaki Koizumi]] following a ten-year-long apprenticeship working on various other games.<ref name="Rolling Stone">{{Cite magazine |last=Walden |first=Matthew |date=August 18, 2017 |title=How 'Super Mario Odyssey' Was Shaped by One of Mario's Biggest Flops |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/super-mario-odyssey-was-shaped-by-marios-biggest-flops-w496166 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310073936/https://www.rollingstone.com/glixel/features/super-mario-odyssey-was-shaped-by-marios-biggest-flops-w496166 |archive-date=March 10, 2018}}</ref> Super Mario creators [[Shigeru Miyamoto]] and [[Takashi Tezuka]] served as producers. It was the first Nintendo first-party game after [[Satoru Iwata]] became president of Nintendo, succeeding [[Hiroshi Yamauchi]]. Developing a Mario game for the GameCube was the last request Yamauchi gave the team before resigning. In an interview about the development of ''Super Mario Sunshine'' with Koizumi, Kenta Usui, and Tezuka, it was mentioned that the game's development began after showing ''Super Mario 128'' and following the critical and commercial success of ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask]]'', when Koizumi conceived the idea of gameplay involving a water pump.<ref name="Interview">{{Cite web |date=2001 |title=Super Mario Sunshine Interview |url=https://www.gamecubicle.com/interview-super_mario_sunshine.htm |url-status=live |archive-date=January 3, 2018 |access-date= |website=gamecubicle |publisher= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180103031545/http://www.gamecubicle.com/interview-super_mario_sunshine.htm }}</ref> However, at first Koizumi, Miyamoto and Tezuka thought that the world was too daringly out of character with Mario. There were ten candidates for possible water nozzles, and F.L.U.D.D. was chosen because of fitting in the game's setting, though it was not one of the favorites.<ref name="Interview" /> They also stated that several Yoshi features were omitted, such as Yoshi vomiting water fed to him.<ref name="Interview" /> It was the first in the Mario series to include Peach’s panneria-like overskirt and ponytail and Toad’s different colored spots, and vests with yellow outlines.