In Super Mario Sunshine, Delfino Plaza is the main plaza of the game. However, in trailers before release, it showed that there was going to be a different plaza (or a possible early Delfino Plaza), with a giant Strollin’ Stu-like creature called Hinokuri walking around the place and many more different things.
The build also reveals that humans were intended to be citizens of the plaza. F.L.U.D.D. was going to be skinnier. Gooper Blooper was going to be dark blue and fought on top of the bridges of Ricco Harbor instead of in the market and helicopter area.
It also appears that in the E3 2002 trailer, the Giant Stu and Stackin’ Stu would chase Mario around like a normal Strollin’ Stu. Shine Sprites‘ design went through radical changes during the development.
Additionally, Mario’s Health Meter would simply be a sun with a number in the middle indicating his health. The water meter was originally placed in the center of the “sun” Health Meter. The F.L.U.D.D. pack was actually Nintendo’s third favorite choice, with many other forms of water-pump functionality suggested. One other notable device in the top two was a water gun but was abandoned deciding that some players may render it too violent.
Whenever Yoshi got hungry he would always be colored green, instead of flicking colors in the final version. There were some abandoned sprites as well, including Yoshi vomiting any water he may have swallowed.
There was also going to be a brown Pokey species, which was going to have white flowers, and black colored Piantas as well. [1]
Where the Polluted Piranha Plant in Delfino Airstrip, there would have floral-like pedestals surrounded by Graffiti. Instead of the runway being sunk, it would have been “leveled”. Blue Toad and a Pianta would have been on the pedestals.[2]
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