Snickerd00dle's Summer Game Challenge 2011

[alienjesus]

A bunch more Super Mario Sunshine tonight. Got a little over 50 stars now and have been feeling quite lost since around 40 stars. I literally have no direction. I keep assuming that every 5 or 10 stars I get will trigger some event, but nothing is happening. I dont know what I'm working towards or when its going to happen. I suppose I'll just keep collecting stars and hope for the best.

I cant seem to find the guy that I'm supposed to give my blue coins to either. I've got close to 60 of them, and I feel like I've talked to everyone in the Delfino Plaza, but I've obviously missed someone.

Usually Mario games are very straightforward when it comes to your goal. Its quite frusterating not having that. Cant wait to be finished with it.

The blue coin guy is in the house that the portal to Ricco Harbour is on.

You have to beat Mission 7 in all 7 worlds in order to go to the final boss level.

[Crabmaster2000]

A bunch more Super Mario Sunshine tonight. Got a little over 50 stars now and have been feeling quite lost since around 40 stars. I literally have no direction. I keep assuming that every 5 or 10 stars I get will trigger some event, but nothing is happening. I dont know what I'm working towards or when its going to happen. I suppose I'll just keep collecting stars and hope for the best.

I cant seem to find the guy that I'm supposed to give my blue coins to either. I've got close to 60 of them, and I feel like I've talked to everyone in the Delfino Plaza, but I've obviously missed someone.

Usually Mario games are very straightforward when it comes to your goal. Its quite frusterating not having that. Cant wait to be finished with it.

The blue coin guy is in the house that the portal to Ricco Harbour is on.

You have to beat Mission 7 in all 7 worlds in order to go to the final boss level.

Thanks for the help!! Did it mention that you had to beat those specific missions in each level? Did I just miss the instruction or what? That seems random.

[alienjesus]

A bunch more Super Mario Sunshine tonight. Got a little over 50 stars now and have been feeling quite lost since around 40 stars. I literally have no direction. I keep assuming that every 5 or 10 stars I get will trigger some event, but nothing is happening. I dont know what I'm working towards or when its going to happen. I suppose I'll just keep collecting stars and hope for the best.

I cant seem to find the guy that I'm supposed to give my blue coins to either. I've got close to 60 of them, and I feel like I've talked to everyone in the Delfino Plaza, but I've obviously missed someone.

Usually Mario games are very straightforward when it comes to your goal. Its quite frusterating not having that. Cant wait to be finished with it.

The blue coin guy is in the house that the portal to Ricco Harbour is on.

You have to beat Mission 7 in all 7 worlds in order to go to the final boss level.

Thanks for the help!! Did it mention that you had to beat those specific missions in each level? Did I just miss the instruction or what? That seems random.

Mission 7 is always a contest against shadow mario. You have to beat shadow mario everywhere before you can move on. It doesn't tell you that though, as far as I recall.

[Snickerd00dle]

might be editing my original post to include secret of mana, three friends and myself just started playing today

[Flake]

might be editing my original post to include secret of mana, three friends and myself just started playing today

If you do a 3 player run through, make sure to save before you go to the Republic. If you have three people playing when you get to that scene, the game will freeze.

[geozeldadude]

just to gripe for a minute. i'm playing through chrono trigger, and i'm finding it exceedingly boring. i'm not a huge fan of RPGs as it is, but i enjoyed FF6 enough, but in this game there hasn't been anything that's stood out so far (except for the frog but he wasn't around for very long) and combat is incredibly easy and mindless. i'm at the factory in the future right now. without spoiling anything, can someone give me hope that the game gets better? hopefully really soon?

[noiseredux]

just to gripe for a minute. i'm playing through chrono trigger, and i'm finding it exceedingly boring. i'm not a huge fan of RPGs as it is, but i enjoyed FF6 enough, but in this game there hasn't been anything that's stood out so far (except for the frog but he wasn't around for very long) and combat is incredibly easy and mindless. i'm at the factory in the future right now. without spoiling anything, can someone give me hope that the game gets better? hopefully really soon?

um... I'm 4+ hours into it and think it's brilliant. But I also really like 16-bit RPG's. There's been nothing I've found boring about this game, so it might just be your own taste.

BTW, I just killed that huge thing on the bridge back in 600. Y'know? The big thing that's made out of little skeletal spiders?

[Crabmaster2000]

Finished off Super Mario Sunshine tonight thanks to AlienJesus's tip about the 7th missions. Only had to do about 3 more stars in 3 levels to get that. It seems almost pointless to have the blue coin stars (which I still havnt bothered to cash in) and the stars in Delfino Plaza. The last level before the end boss was a little frusterating. Stupid wooden boat.

I doubt I'll ever pick this game up again. I love Mario games, but this did not feel like a Mario game. I have no desire to clean up the rest of the stars since hunting blue coins feels like a chore. I'm pretty sure I've done full completions of every mario game I've played so far too. This game gets a fair amount of hate and I'm sorry to say that I think a lot of it is justified.

Now I can shift my focus to FFXII and get that crossed off the list.

[alienjesus]

Finished off Super Mario Sunshine tonight thanks to AlienJesus's tip about the 7th missions. Only had to do about 3 more stars in 3 levels to get that. It seems almost pointless to have the blue coin stars (which I still havnt bothered to cash in) and the stars in Delfino Plaza. The last level before the end boss was a little frusterating. Stupid wooden boat.

I doubt I'll ever pick this game up again. I love Mario games, but this did not feel like a Mario game. I have no desire to clean up the rest of the stars since hunting blue coins feels like a chore. I'm pretty sure I've done full completions of every mario game I've played so far too. This game gets a fair amount of hate and I'm sorry to say that I think a lot of it is justified.

Now I can shift my focus to FFXII and get that crossed off the list.

Sad to hear. It's one of my favourite, if not my absolute favourite mario game. I just love the atmosphere of the game, and how incredibly acrobatic mario feels. Galaxy took me a while to get into, because mario felt kinda like a fat plumber again.

[dsheinem]

just to gripe for a minute. i'm playing through chrono trigger, and i'm finding it exceedingly boring. i'm not a huge fan of RPGs as it is, but i enjoyed FF6 enough, but in this game there hasn't been anything that's stood out so far (except for the frog but he wasn't around for very long) and combat is incredibly easy and mindless. i'm at the factory in the future right now. without spoiling anything, can someone give me hope that the game gets better? hopefully really soon?

This is also my first run through of the game, and I sort of see what you are getting at in terms of the boringness of the first 4-5 hours. Yes, it gets better and the story gets more interesting, though you may still want to temper your expectations as in my mind the game doesn't live up to its frequent billing as the "best game of all time" or "best RPG of all time" or even "best 16-bit RPG of all time." It is also very easy, so don't expect that to change (even though a few of the boss battles will require some minor tactical considerations).

I am primarily enjoying it for its aesthetic elements (sound, graphics, artwork, etc.) more than I am for the story or gameplay, although the battle system was pretty cool for its day.

Also, it is short. So you may as well play it through to cross it off the list. A big part of the challenge last year was finishing games we might not otherwise be inclined to play through so as to form a full opinion of a "classic". If it weren't for playing through Ico and SOTN last year, I wouldn't feel justified in having a negative opinion of those games.