Soapbox: Playing Super Mario Sunshine Today Painfully Illustrates Nintendo's 3D Evolution

2017 marks Sunshine’s 15th anniversary – the game came out in its native Japan in July 2002, the States in August, and Europe in October – and with Odyssey a few weeks off (and spurred by it), I figured now would be an ideal time to dive into a supposed classic that, for whatever reason, I’d not indulged properly in before.