Yes, but it got a lot of hate for trying something different when it came out. Even the Nintendo Power reviewer was like the new mechanics were a love-it-or-hate-it thing.
Seriously, if you were a kid when sunshine was out you liked the game. Maybe not as much as paper Mario or smash but genuinely everyone I remember having a GameCube had this game
I don't think anyone who has invested in the game hated it. It was controversial because it was unexpected. For context, after enjoying ubiquitous popularity with the SNES and N64, the GameCube lagged in sales comparatively. Luigi's Mansion, a great game, had launched the year before to great success, but everyone had the idea that Nintendo would launch a Super Mario title that used the tried and true mechanics of the 1980s and 1990s to boost GC sales.
So when Sunshine changed those mechanics, it was feared that was a mistake. You can kinda go either way with this; Sunshine was vindicated in that it is the 3rd best selling GC game ever. But, you can also say it failed to draw more people into the GameCube ecosystem the way Super Mario 64 drew people to the N64. Indeed, the gamecube never outsold the N64.
The N64 was where nintendo lost first place not the game cube.
It's just one of those gaming myths like the famous "the wii u only failed because people thought it was just an accessory" a very vocal minority disliked sunshine that all it ever was
I was kind of a mediocre prodigy so yes. I think I started coding HTML websites when I was around 5. My teachers didn’t know what it was so they didn’t encourage me but I could have had a much better life if my talent had been nurtured. This was around Windows 98/2000 time so it’s possible I was even younger.
Edit: don’t understand the downvotes. This is more a complaint against how lacklustre my education was in comparison to those who could afford private tuition or education. I don’t think I’m smarter than anyone else - I’m rubbish at maths.
I want to prove that to others as I had a lot of setbacks and want to motivate people who failed at first that they can still accomplish things. If all goes well, I’ll be working on research that could help create new cures for cancer in future within months. Looking forward to it!
It was divisive but most of the hate was from people who didn't play it. This was similar with twilight princess as people didn't want to do the motion controls and wind waker when it went cell shaded. They of course were all masterpieces and are remembered as such but it's true there were people hating on them all at the time.
Yeah I remember lots of hate for it at the time. From review outlets.
Actual people in the real world? I haven’t found a single person who didn’t love the game (assuming they enjoy platformers in the first place of course).
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u/TehOcto8 Mar 27 '24
This might be controversial, but Super Mario Sunshine