Breaking Down Pinna Park | A Super Mario Sunshine Deep Dive 

People always joke about Peach not knowing whether or not she would be Bowser Jr.'s mother, but everyone forgets that in the Mario universe, babies are canonically brought by the stork. My headcanon is that Kamek blackmailed the stork into bringing Bowser a son, being worried about the future of the royal Koopa line. Or maybe it was Bowser himself. But I could really see Kamek be like "Your horridness, I truly believe you should think about starting a family some time soon..." "Oh, don't worry, Kamek. I'm sure my sweet Peach will marry me any day now!" "Riiight... of course, if you say so..." And then he mutters to himself that he'd better take things into his own hands.

Somehow I never realised that the secret stages could be the work of Bowser Jr., and that is the reason why they’re so janky and mismatched. That’s a clever theory.

That "incorrect buzzer" and Yoshi sound also plays if you give a Yoshi egg the wrong fruit. What's funny is that if you just sit the wrong type of fruit next to the Yoshi egg, the sound keeps on constantly playing on loop, and won't go away or become quieter even if Mario is across the map, until you remove the fruit or it despawns

Dunno how you got in my algorithm, but I'm glad you did. I love seeing coverage of my favorite game, and it's criminal how few subs you have.

I never knew that Pinna Park was planned to be part of the hub world, now I'm theorizing that the pianta-shaped tree was going to be the warp for Pianta Village, and the big shell in the pool was meant for Noki Bay? The warp points correlate pretty well thematically, and the actual locations warp locations in game for those levels feel somewhat out of place compared to the rest. Both of these stages are unlocked late in the game, which would still be the case if they were accessed through Pinna Park. Pianta Village and Noki Bay were always my favorite levels, learning of the ancestral homes of both the land-dwelling piantas and the sea-dwelling noki is really the perfect finishing touch on the world building, and with some of the most fun missions too.

Its amazing how observant you are. I've never thought to stop and think about why Yoshi evaporates in water in this game. Yoshi being a fake makes perfect sense

It's also possible that the internal coin counter really does cap at 999 and they have a separate variable that counts from 0-50 to award you with 1-UPs.

I am so glad you posted the full breakdown of the language and that it blew up. That brought me to your channel and I'm loving these Mario Sunshine breakdown videos! I'm learning so much I never knew before.

E Gadd inventing both the magic brush and FLUDD, giving the former to Bowser Jr and leaving the latter to be found by Mario, sounds a lot like an arms dealer arming both sides of a conflict. Except arms dealers get paid, and E Gadd is just giving his inventions away. Are they all prototypes and he just hands them out to whoever will take them in order to test them? Or does E Gadd just like chaos? It's certainly not unfathomable to think of him as a mad scientist.

it's so interesting that you mention the game design of those blue coins under the baskets being present on every mission, because it challenges you to figure out which mission you can obtain them in. that's genuinely clever and I really love it! but clearly not everyone was on the same page, because countless other blue coins are unnecessarily locked to specific shines for no reason. so rather than clever puzzle solving in wondering if the purple bullet bills might be able to free the coins, the "puzzle" is reduced to just. looking around on every individual shine until you find coins that weren't there in other instances of the level that all said I absolutely loved this video! I played sunshine originally when I was old enough to play video games but still too young to be good at them so I actually didn't make it very far into the game - my favourite part was exploring every level inside and out, finding random fun in whatever I could find, and because of that pinna park was always my absolute favourite. being able to get on the different rides and enjoy all the music was an absolute dream

Fun fact: the Bradygames guide actually called the Not-So-Secret levels "Bowser Jr's Toybox" levels. Also, I figured the Stus are just Jr's attempts to draw Goombas.

The editing skills and jokes made are amazing. The part with the lighthouse rising and then “wait a minute” only for the lighthouse to sink again was so funny

so I wanted to point some stuff out. The brown poluted piranha plant at delfino plaza that blocks the way to bianco hills has the shape of Petey, you can even see an X marking his bellybutton. The one blocking Ricco Harbor is in the shape of the blooper tentacle sticking out of the boxes and the one in Gelato Beach has the shape of a flower, probably wiggler's flower. Just some more little facts I thought might be interesting, Petey doesn't spawn small piranha plants, but these are there already, but only come out if the surface has the goop on them, if you kill them they won't respawn. The Plurps when sprayed will start falling down to the ground and die if they touch the ground, if you manage to spray them enough times though they'll drop a 1 up, they also look more worried as they are getting low. Finally the strollin stu graffiti is used again in the chuckster level

Already said by another commenter, but since there's no reply I'll highlight it again: the stu generator on the wall appears in the chuckster level!

Once again some cool observations and ideas I haven't seen before! Other things I've learned that I find interesting: -During the cutscene where Shadow Mario is floating over the water, you can see a different carousel design in his reflection. You can also see that the ferris wheel is red in this cutscene. The red ferris wheel can also be seen in the intro cutscene and the final cutscene. -In the Mech Bowser fight, the water below the pirate ships is replaced with a solid blue reflective surface. -In the Bowser Jr. cutscene, it highlights an E. Gadd logo on FLUDD that isn't there during gameplay. -In Pinna 4, the sunflowers don't point towards the sun. However, they ARE pointing east, which immature sunflowers do. -You can control Yoshi's head with Mario Cam if you jump off of him while his tongue's out. Also you can spray NPCs with Yoshi while talking to them. Also Yoshi's tongue gets shorter the closer you get the the wicker baskets. Also if you ground pound while Yoshi is spitting, Mario won't spin with him. Also you can jump off Yoshi while his tongue grabbed a fruit to not only store it but also cause the fruit to float, which is funny. This is one weird horse... -There IS something of note in Pinna 7! If you look at Shadow Mario before entering the park, you can just barely see he's standing on a block because the floor in there is intangible.

I love how Jr. is still considered the brain to Bowser's brawn. In most of his appearances following this game, he still uses countless tools and machines to combat Mario, while Bowser sticks to his own strengths.

speedrunners have a tech for aiming the rockets more consistently

7:00 I can give some tips, at least for the GameCube version, with it's analogue triggers. Have you ever had a rocket go on a higher trajectory than you thought it would? That's because when you start holding down R, FLUDD's nozzle twitches a bit. That little twitch that should REALLY be just an animation, actually affects the direction that the rocket fires. There is a way to not have this happen though. Simply hold down R partially, for like half a second, and then press it in all the way. Also, those strolin' stu generators painted on the walls, actually do show up in another spot. In the secret of the village underside *sudders* 2 of them can be found in a small boxed-in area half way through the level. It gets spammy pretty fast

16:04 the strollin stu pictures actually do show up again on Secret of the Village Underside! theyre on the inside rim of the box area with the strollin stus.

12:32 I think its because bowser jr used the paint brush to make the enemies in his own way. Thats why they look different, and why they splattered goop when you kill some of them.

Incredible videos. I love that you're only covering things as a fresh player would know them. Calling Shadow Mario Goopy Mario, referencing Yoshi only when the player would actually know about him... I'm excited to see the finished product. Thank you for making these videos! You're hilarious and amazing

If you play through the game without saving or getting a game over all the way to noki Bay and then get a game over inside the bottle episode, then the game will start over at the airstrip, and you will have infinite hover ability and you can fly up to a secret room in the sky

10:20 that's simple : Junior was disguised as Shadow Mario when he has seen the old man. E Gadd thought it was Mario.

21:40 I love the Super Nut hidden on the intermission lmao

These videos are so incredible. I binged all three today and can't wait for more to be uploaded!!! Thank you so much for looking at all the tiny details! I feel like game devs put so much love into their work only for one person to see so little of that in a casual playthrough, so highlighting the features that even veteran players may not have seen in all their playthroughs is so special!!!!! Can't wait for Noki Bay!!!!!! 🐚💜☀

Comment for the algorithm since I will have to come back for the last 10 minutes when not half-asleep

i always heard the sunfloweers as saying "oh im loving it" when you rescue them

These are fun videos and I'm really happy I discovered your channel! Also, Strollin' Stu ARE the Isle Delfino version of goombas. The japanese name is 'Kurin' which is a mash-up of 'goomba' (Kuribō) and '-rin' which is a suffix that essentially means they're cute or goofy or goofy-cute. So they're basically cute and goofy goombas! (Sorry to anyone who actually knows Japanese as I may have butchered this explanation but I believe this is relatively correct...)

The only level Noki Bay can be seen from is Pianta Village but just barely

12:52 Tbh I think I like the Sunshine bob-ombs more than the traditional ones, I find the screen faces adorable Sunshine's redesigns are very interesting, it's definitely either trying to make Delfino Island more exotic or just the devs experimenting with artstyle to find what sticks, either way it really makes Sunshine feel even more unique! Banger series btw, got recommended Ricco Harbor and then went back and watched Bianco Hills and this'un, looking forward to future episodes!

Well I'VE found my new playlist to loop when trying to sleep. Your voice is incredibly calming and charming to listen to, making me intrigued in a game I've never played. Love to hear someone like me who is obsessed over world building and lore that seems "not important" to most people.

Your videos remind me of Chuggaaconroy, it's really nice to see someone passionate about video games taking the time to go in depth to appreciate the little aspects of games. Especially considering the drama that's surrounded Chuggaaconroy recently, finding your channel has been comforting to me knowing that this kind of content is still possible. Subscribed, and looking forward to seeing more from you in the future.

What a fun overview of Pinna Park, this kind of stuff reminds me of why Super Mario Sunshine is one of my favorite games of all time. I'm definitely going back to watch the first two videos in this series when I have the time!

WAIT. Holy crap. I never gave thought to what the bonus levels are. You've given me a very convincing headcanon to something I never considered.

These are great, very high-quality stuff. Hope the algorithm manages to latch on to you!

The idea that the "secret" levels in this game are Bowser Jr's creations reminds me of his levels in Mario Maker 2's story mode. His first level is honestly kind of reminiscent of the levels here; it's a lot of empty space with enemies and obstacles placed throughout in a way that feels really weird. It's kind of cute, considering he built it after watching Bowser build a previous level and is concerned about whether he did a good job. (And he does do better with his other two levels: he builds a pretty big town for a bunch of Boom Booms, though despite his confidence you can beat it without defeating any of them, and the third level has some fairly well designed puzzles involving skipsqueaks. It also, funnily enough, uses the 3d World theme that actually looks like children's blocks.) Bowser Jr. likes making levels!

Popping a balloon without riding the roller coaster blew my mind.

The Yoshi death animation reminds me more of the way Mario disintegrates when passing through a portal. I'd rather believe that the Yoshis on Isle Delfino are subjects (victims?) of some sort of magic that prevents them from leaving the island, causing them to be teleported and reappear in an egg on land. Like how witches can't cross running water or something

If you're using a GameCube controller to shoot Pinna Park's roller coaster bottle roxkets, you can actually pull the trigger all the way down before it clicks, and then shoot when you need to instead of pressing the trigger from its highest point down to its lowest every time you need to fire a rocket. The trigger's deep enough that the travel time from neutral position to fully pressed can impact your accuracy with the rockets. It also helps to be playing with a wired controller on GameCube through a CRT television to mitigate any kind of input lag. If you're playing on an LCD display, and with wireless controllers through the All-Stars collection, that's likely why you're having trouble. Unfortunately, it's just one if those precise timing challenges that's gotten harder with age since the hardware the game was made for is somewhat uncommon these days.

Ive always heard the flowers say "oh im lovin it"

I mean, the joy I get watching these is insane. Please keep up the good work and I think you’ll have great success

16:00 theres actually another stu picture in the chuckster secret

15:59 I have a theory. Underneath Pinna Park there's a 2D drawing of a Goomba in a very similar style as those Strollin' Stu spawners. My thought is that there used to be Goomba's in Pinna Park that would've been spawned by it.

I love your suggestion of the secret levels being Bowser Jr's creations. He did say he could do anything with his brush, so who's to say he didn't just paint them up?

IN the fake yoshi fights, I would make them all die in the same spot, so there's the densest field of flowers.

I am baffled. Every single time you question "has any player ever done this the expected way?" My answer has been yes. I have always done the things you believe no player to have ever done.

ParticularMushroom: *hasn't done any Super Mario Sunshine video's for about 5 years* 2CPhoenix: "fine, I'll do it myself"

You ask "how could the Yoshis have left the island if they couldn't swim?" but I think you might've accidentally uncovered some dark lore without even realizing. If the Snoozakoopas are meant to be natural predators who hunt Yoshis by disguising as their eggs, and there are no Yoshis left in their habitat, it's possible their strategy was so effective that they drove this Delfino subspecies to extinction.

Another random fact: The buzzer sound when you bring the wrong color Yoshi to the Yoshi-Go-Round also plays when you bring the Yoshi egg the wrong fruit.

14:24 clearly it says "Please pass on my best wishes to your mother, thanks!"

I wonder if the japanese text refers to the Pinna Park cannon as an "exhaust port," solely because it's really funny imagining Delfino Plaza having a cannon around in case of naval invasion. Daisy Cruiser better watch out when it comes to port on Isle Delfino.

A lot of the redesigns are because they’re made of paint. Strollin Stus are canonically goombas painted by JR..

It appears that when you press A while talking to the park director, it resets the mecha bowser’s animation.

While Mario, Fludd, and Peach know that Bowser Jr is pretending to be Mario the people of Delfino Plaza don't know that so the disguise would still work on them.

The combination of your sense of humor and the level of detail in each level of the game you go into is gold. I need a Kingdom Hearts deep dive with a breaking down of each world. Can't wait for new videos

I'm from Italy and I always heard the sunflowers say "Oh, bel sole! de" which roughly translates to "Oh, what a nice sun!" followed by the dialect equivalent of "yo" or similar. Given the already heavy italian inspirations in this game I would consider this at least plausible! (also love your videos ❤❤❤)

These videos are genuinely so much fun as someone who loves this particular game so much. You do so much research and diving into weird things that it's a blast to see some of these weird things uncovered. Keep it going!

As a kid, Pinna Park was my favorite stage! unfortunately, our Super Mario Sunshine disc was scratched thanks to kid me, so every time I tried to get to Pinna Park, there was an 90% chance of it freezing 😔. Also this is the only stage I've gotten the 30 blue coins without a guide, in most others I had 1 or 3 left and since I lost my save file I would have to try again later lol

I always heard the sunflower kids were saying "Ooo i'm lovin' it!"

To aim the rockets easier, just lightly press the R button, this will prefill the rocket, then when you press the button all the way down it’s much more accurate!

Love the videos!!

Your content is awesome im very excited for the whole series :))

I absolutely love your level break downs. These 30 to 40 minutes go by instantly as you bring so many interesting points and topics, all of that with a top tier editing and choice of musics. Speaking of music, the one used at 27:52 for the close up on the rest of the island sounds like Mario Golf to me... I wonder where it's from?

Mario's only weakness: uv light

These breakdown videos are so well done!!

Really love these breakdowns. Such a loving analysis of my favourite Mario game!

I just stumbled across your content, but now I'm hooked. Love your tone and narrative style in these and other videos. Looking forward to more ^^

"[...] or more likely while falling to your death in a fludless level." I- I don't know what you're talking about.

the fact that you used clip from AverageTrey's 100% speedrun as an example of 1-cycling the episode 8's rollercoaster is really funny to me since Trey did in fact explain in his 100% WR history vid the way speedrunners broke down the precise aiming of the rockets with digital and analog trigger (dont remember exactly how but it doesn't matter) so like. it's possilble to consistently aiming them! it's just stupidly obscure

Hey, I just want to say that I’ve watched a couple of your recent Sunshine videos and they are fantastic! I love this game and will always give a Sunshine video a watch. You’ve earned a like and sub from me!

These sunshine videos are soo entertaining and I haven't played this game in years. Definitly a sub from me. Keep on going man.

When it comes to the sunflowers, since they are waking up, I always thought they said, "ohh, what time is it?" But admittedly, the esophagus is way funnier 😂

Great series, enjoying watching! Keen for the next ep :)

Awesome series !

Im a big particular mushroom fan (particular mushroomer as we're known) and im loving listening to your videos on the way to work! Thanks for your work!

I thought I knew everything there was to know about this game but these videos are actually teaching me new things. Keep up the great videos!

This is an incredible series bro

I'm kinda binge watching these videos because they're both super cool and make me laugh with the humor added. Thank you sir for making videos, best accidental find ever!

This is so good! Never a dull moment.

31:57 Amazing how the bongos manage to fit well with the main sample of the song. Yeah, I know it’s all MIDI (it’s not real acapella), but still.

Wow! What an amazing breakdown. The glitches and easter eggs you pointed out blew my mind!!! Like the sun draining health and water stopping it? So sick!

I always watch your videos your style is so informative and in general entertaining

You have the best deep dive series I’ve ever seen.

Ì love how when mecha bowser appears it plays the star theme but evil. That was my favorite mission as a kid for how cool it was. Amazing vids. Im genuinely surprised how thorough this is. I'm learning new stuff about this game i didn't know having completed it multiple times. Its great, really excellent job. Excited for more!

I feel that the enemies look different because bowser Jr used the paint brush to make them (Hense why they look goofy/ toy like) and why they're vulnerable to water 🤔

Subscribed off of this series cause this sunshine series is so well done!! And you also covered one of my favorite series of all time: sly cooper which gives me more to watch! Keep it up!

I actually quite like the reasoning for mario taking damage without his hat. Hes getting heat stroke without it

oh, my esophagus!

For all the times I've played this game myself, and all the times I've watched other people play it... This is the first time I've come to find out that Mecha Bowser's boss fight has it falling apart as you attack it. I've lost track of how many times I've fought it just replaying levels, and somehow, I *never* noticed this. In hindsight I have no idea how it never occurred to me that THIS was why he got "harder to hit" on the second and third shots from the spot that worked prior (where I'd usually aim at the head) and I felt like I was just too high up - but it's super cool to finally know!

I'm gunna be real: I never even thought of those as Bullet Bills and Bob-ombs. Maybe a reference to them, or an in-universe attempt to imitate them. They look so different and... not alive. Much more like actual machines.

Not sure if Pinna Park is my favorite level, but it was for sure the level I was most excited to explore !

27:01 Ah yes, a classic. This is another one of those shines where people always cheese it instead of doing the intended route.

Random fact: In all GameCube versions, we see a fast ferris wheel from outside the park in episode 3 instead of episode 5.

You know I honestly don't believe I've ever fought the Ricco Harbour goop without standing on a nearby roof. ... Just. Easier I guess? Than having to worry about the goop monsters.

Mario also has a unique death animation for when he dies from electrocution.

Awesome to see these videos! I'm a bit late on this one, because I seriously waited until the Gelato Beach one came out first so I could view all these in their proper order (I have a bit of OCD, I know--blame me. But I respect your reasoning for doing this second, 'cause having to skip all those Yoshi sections in other levels would get pretty annoying to deal with after a while). I'm still pretty happy to have seen this, though! Something to note: I don't know if you noticed, but, if you look at the opening cutscenes for the beach section in episodes 3 and 5, they seem to be oddly switched, since the Ferris Wheel is shown to be spinning uncontrollably fast in 3 but as slow as it's supposed to in 5. Something I noticed even during my first playthrough, and it confused me at the time. A sign that this game truly was rushed! I usually did just go for the coin Shine by killing all the Swiping Stus, since there's enough of them on the beach to net you half the coins you need. And it's plenty easy enough to get the coins you need by spraying the beach. I've even gotten the 100 Shine on the beach that way before, but I usually personally prefer to gather what I need out there (usually around 80 or so) and then collect the rest in the park. I don't believe you showed the 100 Shine spawn location within the park, unless I missed it, and I'm pretty sure veteran players already know. But in case anyone doesn't and they want to, it spawns in over the Yoshi-Go-Round. Awesome vid again, and I'm excited to see what you come out with next!

Ugh, I always dread the mecha bowser fight. I’ve never been able to get the hang of it.

33:02 works the same way as pumpkin or gourd binding. They’ll grow to fit their restraints.

I’ve always imagined the portal paintings in Mario 64 must somehow be related to the magic paint brush and Portrait ghosts

After finding the Ferris wheel skip on my own I’ve never even used the grates on the back on purpose