Why is super mario sunshine so hard
James Bradley
Published Feb 12, 2026
I’m currently replaying Super Sunshine and I’ve always found this game to be much harder than every other 3D Mario game. I mean Odyssey was pretty easy, Galaxy 1/2 had some hard levels but nothing too difficult and SM64 was okay too. Even in the earlier levels of sunshine, it can be pretty hard. Some of the early secret fluddless levels are …
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level 1. · 12 yr. ago. Frankly most of the hard difficulty is artificial – bad camera in a few sequences or having to climb up some damn structure a bajillion times because you missed a coin. The hotel delfino is brutally difficult and some levels are so abstract that I had to resort to a guide to beat them. But Mario controls like a dream and …
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And out of all Mario games, Super Mario sunshine has the worst. And I think the underlying problem with the level design is the dev team trying to keep continuity intact. What I mean by this is that Is that super Mario sunshine tries so hard to keep the levels logically consistent at the consequence of lowering the quality of the level.
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