Can You Beat Super Mario Sunshine Without Touching Water?

The 120 Shines TAS actually manages to defeat Mecha-Bowser and leave before the sprinkler, but it takes a shot at the very beginning which I think is frame-perfect. In Ricco 6, you don't have to use the blooper as soon as the red coins spawn, so you could just go for the mid-air one without touching water, then get the blooper for the other ones, leading to only one water touch. It might be possible to get all the coins without blooper or touching water, but the timer will probably make it tricky. When spawning on the plaza, you don't control Mario until he lands if you're coming out of a main level, but you can control him if you're coming from the title screen. Just save and quit after Noki 7, reload the save file, and you can hover to safety!

I'm gonna imagine Mario accidentally brought his clothes that were dry clean only. And that's why he doesn't want to touch water

"By succeeding, I successfully beat Super Mario Sunshine" I too am incredibly poetic

I would say the boooper touching the water doesn't count as it's essentially a moving platform, and you don't count any platform that's touching the water

If I remember correctly, one of the boxes on the left side of Sirena Beach should have a 1up in it, which would give you a single use refill during the Manta battle.

Alternative title: Mario sunshine but Mario has a job interview after this

Pinna Park entry cutscene be like "A water touch is a water touch, you can't say it's only half a water touch."

9:37 with that logic standing on a boat or the platforms from earlier also count as touching the water. I would count the blooper as if it were a small speedboat thats independant of mario instead of a part of mario in that sense.

Just so you know, jumping through the leaky bathroom in Sirena 3 is not required. There's actually a tile in the entrance area to the pool that you can ground pound to take you to the room below it, where the leaky bathroom would normally take you. I don't know why they thought to put that there, especially given how hard it is to find the tile (so I can't believe kid me found that before the leaky floor jump), but you could have used that as an alternative to banana clip.

If you're allowed to pickup a nozzle to refill your water, then surely you are also allowed to pickup bottles of water? You're not touching the water itself.

10:54 “Next up is Pinna Park!” Mario: “Ah, So you’ve chosen death” ☠️

Petition to name the speedrun category for this concept Dehydration%

I would actually exclude the roller coaster water based on the cutscene rule. You don't have control over the coaster, and the coaster is what forces you into water, not Mario, so I would count that under the same principle as cutscene water. However, if you were to do the fight too slowly and touched the water a second time on the coaster, I would count that, because that water touch would be due to a failing of Mario's, not the coaster.

Really amazing video! I like how you actually took the heart of the challenge seriously instead of just giving up because of Fludd or something. Really clever strategies throughout the run.

I love how you y-turned after most shines so Mario shows off his shines to IDK who

I really appreciate this video! I always hate it in those "If I touch x it changes to the next game" videos where one game is just completely skipped because of some dump technicality. Like, touching the puddles made by FLUDD, ok, I could see counting that, trying to avoid your own puddles could be an interesting challenge, but the water particles from the spraying animation while Mario is standing still on dry land!?!? Bruh!! It was a long time since I saw that video, but I remember being SO disappointed! I remember wondering about Sunshine leading up to it. There's so much water everywhere, you need to be in water to refill FLUDD's tank, and then he just goes "Nope! Not doing this game! Water particles!" Like dude what!?

Play without touching grass - Don't go outside Play without touching water - Don't bathe Step by step, we're approaching true gamer status.

Did you know that during the Manta fight if you stand under the umbrellas where the coins are, you are completely safe from the mantas and the goop? They're projected from the sky like beams of light, so they can't go under anything. You could have just stood under one of those umbrellas taking potshots.

Mario definitely stayed dry while surfing on the blooper. I would say he only got wet 11 times.

this was a really funny idea, since water makes up a lot of sunshines identity