Beating Mario Sunshine The Way Nintendo Intended

With a 2002 Prima Strategy Guide in hand, I will beat Super Mario Sunshine the Nintended Way.
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Timestamps:
0:00 - Airstrip
3:12 - Bianco Hills
15:08 - Ricco Harbor
21:57 - Gelato Beach
29:28 - Pinna Park
38:51 - Sirena Beach
47:54 - Noki Bay
56:51 - Pianta Village
1:01:34 - Finale
#Mario #Sunshine #GuardianTales

[@Makoprima]

I love how nearly every level in which you lose FLUDD is ranked as "INSANE" which is pretty accurate to how some of them felt in my childhood.

[@4203105]

To be fair, the controls in Sunshine aren't very tight and you have to compensate a lot with flood because of it. All other Mario games, including 64, have way better controls. Always amazes me how well speedrunners move in Sunshine.

[@MOORE4U2]

@@4203105 If you grew up with it, you get used to it. I think Mario is nerfed a bit from SM64 to encourage more FLUDD use.

[@4203105]

@@MOORE4U2 I don't think nerfed is the right word here. That would be right if Mario couldn't jump as far or high or was missing moves. But that's not the case. The problem is that he doesn't react to your inputs as snappy as he does in other games. The controls don't feel tight, more floaty. You can probably compensate for that by doing your inputs way in advance, but it's not fun gameplay.

[@jasonlobo2350]

@@4203105 game its designed with flood on mind son giving Mario a super mobility will make flood useless which is in fact the gimmick of this game

[@FriskyD.]

@@MOORE4U2 I grew up with it, this game is hell in digital form.

[@kryptoid398]

As a kid, I used to use Mario's belly slide move to spread the goop around and try to make a bigger mess in Delfino Plaza. Definitely what Nintendo intended :)

[@keithbellic2629]

I enjoyed making all the NPCS I could reach drown in the goop.

[@alexwalker8460]

I did that too lol

[@d3adxb0yxwalk1ng]

@@keithbellic2629 absolute menace

[@ValorKnight]

Nintended

[@Emberilliance]

What I enjoyed most was spraying the male residents of Isle Delfino, because the way they yelled "Noooo!" always cracked me up.

[@velvetbutterfly]

So even the villagers on the airstrip believe Mario is the one who caused all the damage with the paint, and still trust him to clean it up by telling him to take the one magical pump that can save the island. That's like, if you heard someone stole a car last night, you met someone who looked exactly like the culprit, and you gave them the keys to keep your car safe for you

[@boooksareamazing]

When you put it like that, it sounds really stupid. Like giving the bank vault code to a known bank robber.

[@squiddler7731]

Given how many of them hoard shine sprites themselves, I doubt any of them would've actually used fludd to clean anything anyway, lol

[@sodakuwun0707]

maybe they knew he didnt do it and just didnt want to deal with the mess themselves

[@RisingRevengeance]

I felt really bad about pulling the squid's arms off as a kid. It's such a weirdly cruel way to do a boss.

[@jasonemmanuel1031]

Same. I also felt bad about the way you kill the poes in twilight princess

[@Loki-]

I remember only getting all Shines because I asked a friend to help me get the missing ones, and by memory, the same day, he did it for me and I was amazed. That was my Prima guide or youtube guide lol. An actual in-person guide.

[@colinbrown7947]

Mario sunshine shaman

[@SolDizZo]

That’s literally how I got rune plate armor and scimitar, and later a dragon dagger in Runescape but I used my brother- I actually completely understand Nintendo games, but PC medieval MMO’s are just really unintuitive. Don’t get me started about Tibia

[@sarthak-ti]

I loved the editing showing what you were doing as described did it

[@magical86]

The color discrepancy probably comes from the fact that whoever played the game to write the book probably did so on a CRT. Crazy how good these games still look today just by being played in 1080p

[@evice]

It's more likely that either the guy was colorblind or the tv color settings were a bit off.

[@Hunted0LessShirt]

@@evice But if their tv settings were messed up, how come the pictures have the right colours? :P

[@MattHew-rq8zw]

@@evice as someone who is colorblind, I can confirm that the one groundpound activation at the hotel is purple (Tritanomalous eyes here). :/

[@sodakuwun0707]

@@Hunted0LessShirt probably a different person would have taken the pictures lol. doubt theyd get the guy with a messed up tv to take the pictures, if you think about it.

[@sodakuwun0707]

@@MattHew-rq8zw theres different kinds of color blindness:) they were likely red-green colorblind if they were at all!

[@den-of-gamez9218]

20:55 You know how much time I've spent playing this game and never known that wheel behind the fruit spawner was a trampoline this whole time

[@BigHailFan]

it isnt. it's a valve. wtf does it bounce?!

[@emdivine]

@@BigHailFan Feels like it's a mistake. Reusing a trampoline because it's round and reskinning it as a valve, but not removing its launching property. Or accidentally adding bounce to it while editing the level

[@wulfywulfynrir1296]

31:32 As a kid I thought this was the actual shine sprite for episode 2 and i thought my game was glitched....it took me YEARS to figure out how to get past monty mole .....even when i had no problem with the monty mole in noki bay ☠️

[@HighSchoolOtaku]

Rip, but I remember when I was a kid my mom would let me play her save and she was on that Episode at the time. Could not, for the life of me, understand what tf I was supposed to do. So I feel your pain, just much more briefly

[@WillieJasinski]

I had that exact guide book😂 I missed one blue coin in the whole game…it haunted my childhood😂😂

[@davideisenberg4735]

The editing of keeping the webcam but changing the gameplay was a nice touch. It looks good while doing it

[@BlazeItYo]

One of my favorite games, but that Ricco harbor level where you have to use Yoshi to get to the platforms was a nightmare for me😂

[@HarmfulDesign]

Yeah, that one was rough. For me, the hardest one was in Delfino Isle where you have to ride the Yoshi on top of some boats to reach a small island with that wiggly-spounge material that requires fruit juice to clear. The challenge it self was hard enough, but just getting to it was just as bad, if not worse.

[@sparklingrose6603]

@@HarmfulDesign Yeah but the thing is, that hard intention was pretty 😍 broken easily. It isn't that hard to get there through a glitch trick but mainly I see Average Trey pull off everything. Even a Hoverless run, Any%, 100% in under 3 hours and just the Yoshi glitch under the water 💧 to get to the island and getting the coins in 1 go.

[@HarmfulDesign]

@@sparklingrose6603 I only got 100% on the original version way back in the day, but it was completely glitchless.

[@sparklingrose6603]

@@HarmfulDesign I feel you but I like watching glitches speedruns and various but I'm not much good at performing them. Except a few times with Miss Mouse for Flavio on TTYD but for fun, it took me way longer to accomplish it all successfully compared to the runner Almo I was watching.

[@sparklingrose6603]

@@HarmfulDesign I also had a couple times I think it was I played for all the shines but some like lake river hardest and the slot machine in Delfino Plaza I had tons of lives and kept going back and dying on depending on what nozzle I was using. I tried to be better like Speedrunners or Let's Players but sometimes no matter how hard I try at things, they are very difficult for me to achieve. I think I only got all the shines twice but for the sun 🌞 next to the profile I moved on and like watching but not playing it since my past much anymore mainly because on the credits unless you are some pro Chuggaconroy says as much headache and frustration as the game causes, he still thinks it is a good game.

[@cosmicbrambleclawv2]

I remember as a kid watching my uncle play I was always just like "If evil Mario stole the Fludd, why would he give it back?" At the end of Fludd-less levels

[@danielle_6]

It almost seems like more of a challenge to follow the Prima Guide with some of the strategies that they tell you to use throughout the game.

[@TheUltimateRare]

yeah it was way too early on. the creators of the guide clearly would have missed a lot of secret strats.

[@sportsjefe]

@@TheUltimateRare the guides tended to be released when the games were back then.

[@_Teej_264]

I love all the moments of "why would I do that?" then sincerely learning something new immediately

[@jaimeborjasmolina9544]

I really enjoy Linkus' longer videos

[@pokedude900]

Funny thing about the Chusksters. The Nintendo Power guide recommends using the smaller one by talking to him when he's at the edge of the platform.

[@cjhacker8367]

That's guide he should have been using.

[@MrFF7FF7]

I had this strategy guide as a kid! I also had the Wind Waker one which was really good.

[@jebroiroij2176]

Didn’t the wind Waker one come with a bunch of stickers? Loved that guide as a kid

[@WannabeMarysue]

I owned that one as a kid. I still have at least one of the free postcards which were included. I used it to cover a stain on my desk, and its still there.

[@Dominik356]

The writer is actually red-green color blind. I checked the color chart and purple appears as just blue. Btw, most people are just red-green color impaired and can see color mostly normal. They just have trouble with fine color differences. E.g. very dark blue looks like black. Total color blindness is very rare.

[@VickyViolet]

Red green color blindness is also a significantly more common occurrence for men.

[@emdivine]

@@VickyViolet and also the most common form of colour blindness over all :)

[@frootloopthechatot9766]

@@emdivine what other kinds of color blindness are there?

[@emdivine]

​@@frootloopthechatot9766 there's blue-yellow. Also much more rarely and often with other issues in addition, complete colour blindness - monochromacy. And looking it up I learned red-green colour blindness can come from a few different anomalies that express differently. I didn't consider protanomaly and deuteranomaly would both be red-green just not in the same way. Deuteranomaly is the one that's most common.

[@frootloopthechatot9766]

@@emdivine i noticed ive always struggled with yellow to orange, blue to purple, and pink to purple. Whatever color i see (orange for traffic lights for ex.), everyone around me says something different. Ive not met anyone who sees the same colors i do so i thought i might be some form of colorblind. Which one would my experiences fall under? 😅

[@HannaLivingston]

Ironic that one of the few times it mentions belly hopping/sliding is on the bridge in Pianta Village, where that can very easily cause you to glitch through and fall into the chasm. I learned and relearned this the hard way as a kid. And as an adult when I revisited it.

[@oniryuuko]

36:35 "They don't even give you instructions, they just tell you to use your eyes..." 36:40 *doesn't use his eyes*

[@Abs0lut3Cyner]

Turns out I have the biggest soft spot for speed running videos that are hours long, I'll fall asleep to this then wake up in the morning, rewind to where I last remember then keep watching. I usually don't have enough of an attention span for even tiktoks but hour+ long speedruns? Absolutely!!!

[@sodakuwun0707]

adhd moment

[@garretlizotte6288]

I remember growing up using those guide books. From Ocarina of Time to Pokemon Sapphire... They were well loved. 😅

[@PiNkSuGaRx2Alicia]

where r they now

[@garretlizotte6288]

@@PiNkSuGaRx2Alicia I still have ocarina (a nice looking copy), but the Pokemon books are gone.

[@PiNkSuGaRx2Alicia]

@@garretlizotte6288 awww what happened to them?

[@wolfiemuse]

I wish I still had my Ocarina guide. I liked it so much I would just bring it everywhere lol

[@RadiantSharaShaymin]

Nintendo guides are always interesting... and quite hilarious! This was great!

[@sparklingrose6603]

The levels where you lose Fludd were never my favorites but even when I kept Fludd for others, some in Delfino Plaza were not the easiest.

[@DukeCyrus]

I really like the text on the cover that says "All Blue Coins EXPOSED" and imagining it's some youtuber drama or something

[@ShuckleShellAnemia]

I’m about 20 minutes in and it sounds like a pretty good guide so far

[@0PercentImagination]

The way I always did Goopy Inferno is tightroping along the fence to the big tree which I would climb up before doing a leap of faith from one of the leaves to the area with your fludd and the mayor, a lot slower than you could be but it felt cool so I kept doing it.

[@brendanwagner198]

whoever edited this good on you, entertaining as hell

[@prequeltrilogy5812]

Damn prima % is a nutty category

[@squiddler7731]

When it said that the very first shine in the game was medium difficulty, I honestly thought that just meant that medium was the base level difficulty of the entire game, lol.

[@Stardust_42]

Nintendo should probably play their games

[@xanderkatt1391]

My dude we commented this 13 minutes when it released… it’s a hour long video

[@hopebagel215]

Chad

[@MudakTheMultiplier]

Tbf this guide is written by Prima, and is only approved by Nintendo.

[@Stardust_42]

@@xanderkatt1391 I saw the opportunity to be the top comment, and I took it. Just try and stop me

[@GuitarHeroRocks99]

@@MudakTheMultiplier still means it's the way Nintendo intended if they approved it

[@BigHailFan]

I like the one brainlet in the chat saying "Sunshine's eternal problem of not being intuitive." The entire game's premise is spraying graffiti with water. I as a kid saw the drawings of goop on the wall and thought I should spray them, and doing so made platforms appear. And judging by literally everyone else in chat, so did they. Sounds like a skill issue, Aggrogravor.

[@shellyvision9693]

The guide suggesting you just leave during the final level is hilarious

[@fainfawn7641]

They weren’t colorblind, the reason for the color naming difference is the fact that the colors on older tvs were what they say in book

[@Caylixarene]

More prima% runs please!

[@COIN_a]

Cant wait for the prima 99.9% windwaker run

[@davidpotts7116]

It physically hurts me this guide makes you walk past so many blue coins and blue coin graffiti…

[@Meteorite_Shower]

Gotta get those gold coins instead.

[@bigtimebabey]

With all these Insane!™ levels I see why I wasn't so good at the game lolol

[@ethanallred4254]

Congrats on the engagement Linkus!!!

[@Loki-]

I think I used the hover over the manta ray boss strat just by intuition lol.

[@ManofLowMoralFiber]

Aww, I loved books like that before the internet. I knew they weren't always perfect- but I had a lot of fun and learned some cool things. Thanks for the video.

[@rileyspurgeon8887]

Linkus you're awsome and you inspire me to become a streamer. Your content is always so intertaining, thankyou.

[@Desgaroth]

I'm glad linkus finally got over his Speedrun-phase and started to play the way developers intended it to be played. The hypest gameplay.

[@g1Chikumo]

oh damn, guardian tales still going strong I see? That's fun =D

[@livipup]

D: I didn't say hi to JustifiedAbsol during this stream EDIT: The editing in this video is top tier :) Whoever edited this one should be very proud of it!

[@ManiacalGamer97]

Crazy that he played most of the game without even looking at the screen.

[@samsiegel378]

Linkups!!! I have that same guide book! No way, I’m so excited that you found one!!!!

[@nicka5040]

I completely forgot about the hotel level and was super confused when you got there. 😂😂

[@lukers9819]

This was a very great video! Well edited and fun to watch!! Appreciate how you edited the words over top of the actions taking place in the game! Gets a like from me (:

[@sharpcoyote7988]

Guardian tales does sponsorships? One of the best Gacha RPGs ever, even though it's very P2W (again, Gacha RPG)

[@connerblank5069]

I like that the guide made sure to tell you to use every movement tech at least once. Genuinely not a bad introduction to how to Mario, assuming you get through the whole thing.

[@yeshwizard7519]

45:10 yes person in chat, both Luigi card games were interesting to do but also the music was unforgettable as you gamble away.

[@colin_henry1]

Great editing!

[@uiinpui]

This is one of my favorite Mario games lol

[@PlushiePoogle]

34:50 I never did a triple jump, I think I did a backflip, but yes I've been using that skip since my very first playthrough as a kid. I've never done it the intended way 😆 OMG the random "leave in the middle of this stage to go practice on a different boat in a different stage" made me laugh so hard.

[@SueZQue83]

The guide makes this game out to be really difficult

[@zxylo786]

When you are a kid of like 5 like I was when it came out it really is.

[@SlappyDaniels]

Love the video!

[@VickyViolet]

Corona Mountain might have been INSANE for everyone as a kid, but I appear to be the only one who never had trouble with the boat.

[@Beefnhammer]

I never had issues with it either. The only truly janky part of this game is the Pachinko stage. If you struggle with any other part (including the sand bird and the chuckster level), that's a skill issue.

[@BlazeItYo]

One of my favorite games.

[@SportsGaming-ll3ru]

Congrats on the engagement my man

[@Zensei79050]

You know you speedrun too much when playing the game casually is "content"

[@tetra_kirby5691]

Waaaiiiit, is Sirena Beach ep. 1 a Splatoon reference? That's craaaazy bro

[@joshuaselley2262]

2023 mario sunshine content makes me very happy

[@AceWolf456]

I love the video genera of "Malicious Compliance with Nintendo Guides".

[@pikachupower0025]

With these Prima Guides, we know to Always “Hammer Away”

[@Zeevolts]

My buddies and I co-oped Mario Sunshine together. We used the same exact guide! We got all shines and blue coins and was an overall pretty good experience!

[@TableSalt_]

4:49 This was definitely an "Aj" which is Swedish for "ouch"

[@clichedtopic4363]

We're past playing games w/o jumping we're finished collecting every coin. No. We're going to play the game now... By playing the game.

[@euanbutler2081]

Playing on the switch version in noki bay I definitely did not know the cracked pots were functioning elevators XD

[@TheMortalMan]

I kinda hope he does a Wind Waker *As nintendo intended* video

[@superscatboy]

INSANE

[@cdteddey]

Love it this is amazing content! Super good job. I hope you play lots more games this way!!!

[@TheGingerlie]

Love that the Pokemon as Nintended guy is getting more popular to the point where others are doing the same thing. He started an awesome trend.

[@The_Trentnado]

This has been storytime with Linkus7

[@andersonfuller3271]

Loved BBoy’s prima% I’m sure this will be just as entertaining

[@hyperbola0]

holy shit that guide book brought back memories

[@caimstear]

okay, but like, guardian tales is unironically dope af

[@xacloman]

Funny video dude keep it up

[@AviciisGhost]

you look really healthy this year cheers !!!

[@fredyex]

Never miss any Super mario Sunshine uploads in my recommended

[@hibye-die]

So those raccoons have what a 3rd of the shine sprites they see 2 different Mario's and he just came in on a plane yeah hes the criminal here right

[@Frommerman]

The racoons are like private equity firms during a financial crisis. They took a huge chunk of the resources everyone needs on the cheap, distracted everyone from what they were doing with conspiracies, and then massively jacked up the price so they could use the money to do the exact same thing again in the future.

[@tkdmanetan]

well, I'm going to follow your vid again so I can beat it on my gamecube!

[@LegoAssassin098]

I find something kinda charming about these prima guides

[@wolfiemuse]

funniest shit in the world when he’s just reading the book but playing the game nearly perfectly without looking lmao

[@choiie]

What difficulty was the Ricco red coins according to the guide? Remember struggling with that as a kid 😂

[@cormzart8326]

:feelsnostalgic: It's linkus's old room

[@thegman3577]

Wow that book is nastalgic lol old prima

[@Celtic1020]

Hey, this is just like the Papasea series. It's cool to see it for something not Pokémon.

[@ScrambledAndBenedict]

Woah woah woah WOAH. YOU CAN KILL THOSE BLUE DUCK MOFOS WITH THE SAND CASTLE PLANT THINGS?!

[@Warri0rLink]

Tutorial Level: “Medium difficulty” Several very easy shines: “INSANE difficulty” Scrubbing Sirena Beach (one of the hardest Shines for me as a kid): “Easy difficulty” 😂😭

[@Sad-Lesbian]

Low-key pretty good guide for casual play ngl.

[@AutkastKain]

In Corona Mountain, the last boat is a bit easier to use if you think about it and use it like you are paddling a real boat. That's how I played it recently, and it was a bit easier. It's not intuitive for the game

[@WC3fanatic997]

To be fair that Delfino Hotel Manta Ray one was a legitimate nightmare when I was a kid. I *_HATED_* that one.

[@Serilaene]

Intended% should be a new category speedrun.

[@tannermccauley4894]

crazy how he can read and play the game at the same time (;

[@majesticespeon3126]

When I saw this on my subscription I thought it was from Papa sea so I clicked on it thinking that and when I saw your face I’m like oh this is the other guy I subscribed to lol I completely forgot I subscribed to you but I’m still happy I did

[@lime8636]

i was questionning your knoledge during this video because i found most of this stuff on my own lol

[@jamiedempsey2183]

I genuinely did not know about the barrels in Sirena Beach 6

[@TheBigGuay]

I am as old as the Prima's Official Strategy Guide for Super Mario Sunshine on the Nintendo GameCube. Damn...