Back in the day, I thought Sunshine was obviously better than Mario 64, but now, well, if I was writing this tomorrow I might flip them in the rankings, as I’ve already done quite a few times in the lead-up to right now. The GameCube’s Sunshine was a massive disappointment for some, because it wasn’t Mario 64: But Better, and was instead its own thing. The only thing really wrong with Super Mario 64 is that Nintendo kept making Mario games after it. It was an extremely ambitious endeavor whose central concept was likely doubted many times before it actually came to be, and it delivered on its promise. Maybe you preferred the 2D origins of the series even after playing 64 - hence the arguable - but it’s hard to put yourself in the shoes of someone who outright might not have liked what 64 managed to put together. Nintendo 64 launch title Super Mario 64 was, at one time, arguably the best Mario game in existence. ![]() Both 64 and Sunshine have real, glaring faults, often related to the camera work that came with their respective territories - 64 as a three-dimensional platformer at a time when that wasn’t really a thing yet, so neither were cameras for them, and Sunshine as a three-dimensional platformer that was also heavy on vertical movement, which, same problem. ![]() In the various versions of this list, which was changed and rearranged as more and more games began to fill out the little skeleton ranking I put together to kick things off, and as I had second thoughts about placements when the entire 101 was actually put together, this pair, always linked together, made it as high as nearly cracking the top half, and as low as sitting somewhere in the 90s - almost entirely based on how aggravated I was with their faults at that moment in time, or after playing something better or worse with similar-ish systems.Īs is sometimes the case in a situation like this one, the truth of the matter was somewhere in the middle, which is how things ended with the games sitting in the low 70s, still together. ![]() Outside of figuring out which game was actually going to top this list, there was nothing I agonized over more than where Super Mario 64 and its followup, Super Mario Sunshine, were going to rank. You can keep up with the rankings so far through this link. I’m ranking the top-101 Nintendo developed/published games of all-time, and you can read about the thought process behind game eligibility and list construction here.
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