Super Mario Sunshine – The Manta Storm
Super Mario Sunshine is an amusing, colorful title that puts a great spin on the classic Nintendo tropes and gameplay mechanics we had come to love. Yet, despite the cheerful trappings Super Mario Sunshine offers up one of most infuriating boss battles on the Nintendo Gamecube. Up until this point, players spent their time running about a tropical paradise, cleaning up sludge and surfing on colorful squids to collect gold Shines. Then users stumble upon a lost hotel that is instantly swarmed by a giant toxic manta ray that shocks the player if they touch it.
The real problem begins after you do enough damage to this boss as it will continually split apart making multiple, smaller versions of itself. This goes on until there are literally dozens of tiny, angry manta rays swarming around you making it easy to get overwhelmed. Since these enemies can climb on virtually anything, here is really no safe area to defend forcing players to always be on the move. Did we mention that every manta ray leaves behind an electric sludge trail that damages the player if it’s touched? Perhaps it’s time to go back to riding Bloopers and eating exotic fruits.
