{"id":3838,"date":"2022-07-20T00:19:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-20T00:19:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/20\/soapbox-super-mario-sunshine-wasnt-bad-it-was-just-ahead-of-its-time\/"},"modified":"2022-07-20T00:19:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-20T00:19:23","slug":"soapbox-super-mario-sunshine-wasnt-bad-it-was-just-ahead-of-its-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/07\/20\/soapbox-super-mario-sunshine-wasnt-bad-it-was-just-ahead-of-its-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Soapbox: Super Mario Sunshine Wasn&#8217;t Bad, It Was Just Ahead Of Its Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mario was the original ASMR powerwasher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As Super Mario Sunshine turns 20 on the 19th July, 2022, Kate wants to get a few things off her chest about how the game would have been a massive hit today, probably&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ALRIGHT, LISTEN. Whenever I am in polite company, and I mention enjoying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/super_mario_sunshine\">Super Mario Sunshine<\/a> \u2014 yes, <em>despite<\/em> its insistence on collecting ten thousand blue coins, <em>despite<\/em> its occasionally frustrating camera controls, and maybe even <em>because of<\/em> its goofy voice acting \u2014 everyone tends to swivel towards me, monocles popping off their faces, spitting wine everywhere like a faulty hose, and then all the corseted women in the room faint in horror and I&#8217;m forced to pay their medical expenses for saying something so horrific.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-super-mario-sunshine-wasnt-bad-it-was-just-ahead-of-its-time\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Soapbox: Super Mario Sunshine Wasn&#8217;t Bad, It Was Just Ahead Of Its Time<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>Mario was the original ASMR powerwasher.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>As Super Mario Sunshine turns 20 on the 19th July, 2022, Kate wants to get a few things off her chest about how the game would have been a massive hit today, probably&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>ALRIGHT, LISTEN. Whenever I am in polite company, and I mention enjoying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/gamecube\/super_mario_sunshine\">Super Mario Sunshine<\/a> \u2014 yes, <em>despite<\/em> its insistence on collecting ten thousand blue coins, <em>despite<\/em> its occasionally frustrating camera controls, and maybe even <em>because of<\/em> its goofy voice acting \u2014 everyone tends to swivel towards me, monocles popping off their faces, spitting wine everywhere like a faulty hose, and then all the corseted women in the room faint in horror and I&#8217;m forced to pay their medical expenses for saying something so horrific.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/features\/soapbox-super-mario-sunshine-wasnt-bad-it-was-just-ahead-of-its-time\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":3839,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3838\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3839"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}