I just played it. Dude the game is great but have some issues. It lack the freedom of sm64 because you have to finish 7 levels on every ....whatyoucallit.. level(?) U know what I mean?
There are some difficulty spikes when you aren't wereing flud (the sevent level) and I personally think that the fysics on those levels are a bit off.
Then it's tidious to 100% just finish the story.
But beside those issues the game is great. I actually love it and consider it to be one of the best Mario games (well you know, they're all great).
The cutscenes and story is fucking hilarious. What's wrong with you guys? I think peach was humping Browser? How is that not funny?
Beyond the cutscenes being unskippable, that is something I would give it yeah.
"Now, now boys don't touch that stuff!"
"It's moving!"
I actually do legitimately enjoy how cheesy it is. I don't know what it is about it, but I love it. Don't care if people say it's bad, maybe it is, but I like it the same either way. The only shame is that they can't be skipped, and so they do get old due to that, otherwise I would have zero problem with them.
Plus, the game introduced Bowser Jr. Who I have zero problem with and infinitely prefer to say the Koopalings personally. Because love him or hate him, feel however you want about him, at least there's only one Junior compared to seven Koopalings so he takes up a lot less space in a game than they do, so to speak. If I had to pick one or the other to have for the rest of time, I'd pick Jr, easily. Especially since as far as Jr has developed in a gimmick in later games, his gimmick appears to be "mechs" which naturally offers much more potential diversity than the gimmicks of the other Koopalings, especially in stuff like say the Galaxies and yes, Sunshine itself as well, so easy choice there for me personally.
...Just a shame that in practice he's just a +1 to the Koopalings instead, but theoretically speaking, I mean.
Plus, in like the Parental Controls videos Nintendo has put out for those features on various platforms, the stuff between Bowser and Jr is super adorable and we wouldn't have that if Jr didn't exist and we wouldn't have that without Sunshine.
So I can definitely give it that much, easily, and certainly appreciate it for that, but I suppose that might be getting kind of off-track and away from Sunshine itself, so I'll leave it there.