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Originally Posted by Ditchy McAbandonpants
Also, I did feel that a lot of Nintendo's GameCube titles, particualrly the franchise ones, were a little underappreciated; the likes of Zelda: The Wind Waker, Mario Kart: Double Dash, Super Mario Sunshine, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion and so forth. I certainly agree that the body of games produced by and large represented a step down from their outstanding N64 output,
but I think people's disappointment about that caused them to overlook the fact that most of these games were still very good on their own merits; hence a lot of unfairly harsh review scores, and a general perception of the GameCube library as weak, which I don't really think is fair.
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I am in complete and absolute agreement with you. As a long-time member of gaming forums such as GameFAQs, I can confirm that these aforementioned games aren't so much underappreciated as they are utterly reviled as if they were the worst things created by mankind. It's disheartening to anyone who actually enjoyed them.
Especially
Super Mario Sunshine. It's such a wonderful, creative, imaginative game that does
NOT deserve the extreme amount of infamy it's reached on the internet. It upsets me almost as much as "Imposter's" does. I'm very much looking forward to
Super Mario Galaxy like everyone else, but I'm intending on avoiding all opinion-based media exposure, because I just know they will all decry
Sunshine as the "flop" of the series. I randomly tuned into G4's
Attack of the Show a few weeks ago, which just happened to have Kevin Pereira and Adam Sessler discussing
Galaxy, and Sessler instantly remarked that he "wasn't the biggest
Sunshine admirer" -- even though he raved about it when it first came out and was recently listed on X-Play's list of top GameCube games. I have a horrible feeling this is going to happen with basically every other publication that originally praised
Sunshine...
Alright, rant over. I'd like to mention
Oddworld: Abe's Oddysee for the PlayStation, which remains one of the most bizzarely wonderful games I've ever played.