 Hawker love Nintendo Super Mario Sunshine and Mario Galaxy I can play these games again I had no other way of doing it Mario 64 the classic the very first Mario 3d game that defines all other 3d platformers to this very day It's legacy as a near put name to some a perfect video game will echo throughout the ages Yeah looking back though the camera controls suck and the textures are so awfully blurry stretched across these polygons that it's often a hideous ugly mess Especially blown up in an unremastered HD version on the Nintendo Switch but hey still better than 95% of platformers releasing now inspired by this one In Mario 64 you can play as Mario Luigi Knuckles or Kirby Bowser is kidnapped Peach and you explore Peach's castle Jumping through secret walls and paintings to find hidden levels with challenges like beating bosses, falling off tracks, solving puzzles, gathering coins or falling off tracks Each level has multiple hidden stars for you to find and collect Finding one kicks you out of the level but then you're free to jump right back in and try and get the next one if you want Or go face plant another wall and find a star somewhere else Oh say can you say it's the freedom of being able to pick and choose which levels you go back to and what order you want to hunt down these tricky little stars That's the best part of the game and what makes it so addictive There are some areas that are locked behind having a certain amount of stars or needing a key so you know awake your inner Michael Phelps and go out there and gather as much gold as you can And if one star is proving too difficult just tell it to get stuffed and go get a different one instead That's the best part you don't need to get every star I mean unless your name is Gerard This beautifully emulated triple pack only hit stores a few days ago I mean heck the takedown lawsuit between Nintendo and Nintendo is still raging on as we speak So suffice it to say out of all three knockout titles crammed onto this Danny DeVito sized cartridge Mario 64 is the one I've spent the least amount of time in so far I played and emulated that game so many times since 1996 Heck recently I played it to play a co-op with my friend Bob over on Twitch So I wasn't gagging to restart it immediately It was sunshine and galaxy I was most excited to space some time out for and dive back into Space And galaxy and then duh Never mind I'm on vacation I wanted to have like a vacational drink with me Best I could find was a ultra fiesta blue monster energy Not a sponsor you'll have to forgive me Alright so cards on the table Mario Sunshine is my favourite one of the three Because I mean it's the best one This used to be me This man who has binged watched every single show He found even a slightly interesting on Netflix Yes You see with ExpressVPN he can easily expand his entertainment selection At the touch of a button Boom bam look at that Modern family doctor who often black Sons of anarchy how I met your mother red dwarf I love that show being an educated man like myself Not only does he have endless new content to binge on Now that he has ExpressVPN turned on All his browsing data is secure and private ExpressVPN keeps his internet service provider from being able to see his browsing history And none of us want that And that data isn't at risk of being stolen by internet hackers There's also some handy tricks you can do with ExpressVPN Like say buying games a day early or cheaper from another country So do what I did And get three months free by clicking the link in my description ExpressVPN.com forward slash beat em ups Look at him sophisticated educated handsome It's the power of ExpressVPN You see I love me some good old fashioned adventurer And Sunshine feels the most grounded as far as a Mario adventure game goes Let me explain Mario 64 is set in one castle Then you go off into the little mini painting worlds you know whatever Galaxy is set on a space station Where you do a similar thing you go off into the little mini galaxy like planet world things We'll get to that I'm on vacation But to me out of the three games only Sunshine has that more fully fleshed out world feeling The game is set on a large tropical vacation island resort Called the Isle of Del Fino I think I'm on vacation And yeah there is a lot of warping to other areas as well But many of them feel like an extension of the Isle with a similar aesthetic and level design I guess what I'm getting at is that Mario Sunshine feels like one big vacation getaway adventure Whereas the other two games kind of feel more like a various set of fun puzzles Just fine I like adventure Released way back in the dinosaur age of 2002 Nothing fulfilled my 12 year old weekends Like staying up all night trying to flip jump splash my way on top of a building or somewhere else I probably wasn't supposed to be I feel like the idea of Sunshine came around when Nintendo realized they could make water look really good on the GameCube So they decided they needed a game that was very wet They took Mario and they slapped a water pistol on the plumber's back And made sure at least 50% of every level was hydrated I remember thinking this game looked incredible at the time And for almost 20 long years later It's still dripping with style Even when scrouching its way into 4k on my TV through the Nintendo Switch dock I'm just drenched with joy and flushed with excitement as the beautiful visuals flood across my screen It just makes me moist Okay, no more water puns And who would have thought that a water gun would be such an enjoyable mechanic I mean nothing says fun like water jet propelled flight and smacking enemies in the face with a steady stream of H2O Well that's it, that's it for that one Let's dry off and blast off into some Mario Galaxy This is what the spaceship enterprise We're ready to blast off to Mario Galaxy Boop boop boop boop boop Beep boop boop Space the final frontier We are now talking about Mario Galaxy And I wore my Toy Story shirt because it said pizza planet And I thought you know it's perfect Probably the only shirt I have that's somewhat space themed And of course these guys have to go and have neon green faces I'm sure that's working perfectly on the green screen Nintendo gamers around the world were MAD when Nintendo announced this 3D All-Stars Mario pack Why so angry you might ask Well because they're Nintendo fans and I feel like we are all mad about something Nintendo does at least 4 times a day Nintendo makes me so mad But also because what the hell Nintendo What about Galaxy 2 People were so upset They started desperately hoping the sequel was hidden on the cartridge And that Nintendo was just keeping it secret until launch And not promoted to make some extra sales and get those fat Mario coins into the bank account That's so nice of Nintendo Typical Nintendo Giving us free things we didn't even ask for Oh wait Oh sorry it's fake Come on guys Of course when the game finally released and Galaxy 2 was nowhere to be seen Nintendo fans just settled for what was there and enjoyed these 3 games for what they are No I'm kidding it'll come later as free DLC I had not played Mario Galaxy since the week And I'm actually enjoying it a lot more this time around You know, motion sickness aside As I said I don't love the setup of the game With it feeling more like one home space base And a bunch of little mini puzzle planets you just kind of visit quickly But I now find myself really appreciating the creative variety of each world And also how at its core fun the platforming physics are in Galaxy This is definitely an aspect I overlooked and took for granted at the time Being able to full sprint long jump off the side of a planet And have the gravity pull you back in and flip you around to the reverse side That never gets old Or planet hopping from one to another Leaving the gravitational pull of one atmosphere and entering the next is so oddly satisfying Like watching those weird soap videos on YouTube I could do it all day So uh Bowser stole Peach again, you're a big surprise there But this time around you unlock whole galaxies as you collect stars and grand stars from the world There's even a new kind of currency which I don't care for much but it's fine Called Star Fragments I think actually I never double checked that after writing it in the script Which you can use in a lot of ways like feeding fat space creatures Or just throwing them in enemies by assaulting your switch touchscreen What I have come to appreciate most about Mario Galaxy Is that every inch of the game is crammed with something for you to do, explore or enjoy Even the cinematic transition between worlds as Mario flies through space It allows you to waggle your greasy little fingertips all over the switch screen To collect star fragments as you go The game is non-stop fun with no reason to ever get distracted Or look away from the screen or else you might miss something if you do Galaxy also polishes up really nicely Something that always manages to surprise me is seeing a Wii game in HD I often forget that the Wii is only like 10-ish years old So a lot of Wii games were developed in a HD era of gaming on PCs And then taken and slush squished onto the Wii's 480p resolution The amount of detail you can see on character models in Smash Bros Brawl Just by playing it in HD on an emulator is crazy when you're used to seeing it run on the Wii It's like the equivalent of trying to make out fine details on a TV Through somebody else's window without your prescription glasses on So just by flicking that high definition switch Uh, pun not intended Is all you need to see this game and it's full intended glory I mean just look at this furry little guy He looks incredible Little hairs on him, you can see every detail Also Rosalina, I mean come on P2, am I right? Yeah and I know So many of you came here just to hear me whine and complain about Nintendo You know that Nintendo had these three ROMs sitting around their office for the last 20 years And decided just to slap them onto a piece of plastic and shovel them out to shelves And charge us full price again for them But you know what, I kinda just, I don't care And I don't know why, I don't care, I'm just happy That Nintendo gave me these games again on my Switch Maybe it's that, or maybe it's the fact that these games are so great They really shouldn't be messed with in any way In fact Sunshine and Galaxy both look fantastic even now I don't need a HD remaster, you know Or maybe it's the fact that again I really just don't care But what I do know is, I had a good time today And this video is over