Mario’s Hillside Hideout? The Mysteries, Discoveries, & Nostalgia of Noki Bay | Pixel Portals
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Noki Bay in Super Mario Sunshine has a lot to offer. Awesome beach music, mysterious towering cliffs, a book hidden at the bottom of the sea, and a whole lot of other oddities. In this Pixel Portals, we'll be covering this shaded sea side delight from top to bottom and out of bounds to highlight all the strange mysteries, neat discoveries, and abundant nostalgia this place has to offer. Also, we'll be running around as Luigi, Wario, and Waluigi in Super Mario Sunshine - which is pretty cool!
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Credits and sources:
Written, filmed, and edited by SwankyBox.
Mods by H1K0USEN (Waluigi / Wario) and Marionova64 (Luigi).
Voiceover editing by psnyomi133.
Noki Bay 3D environment footage sourced from noclip.website. Other cinematic clips directly recorded from game.
Music credits:
Songs from various Mario OST's
"Bubblaine" - Super Mario Odyssey
"Noki Bay" - Super Mario Sunshine
"Sunshine Seaside" - Super Mario 3D World
"Deep Sea of Mare" - Super Mario Sunshine
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That book drove me nuts as a kid. And back in like 2003 when I tried googling it, there was next to NO information on why that thing was there!
The interesting thing is I didn't actually find the book until returning to the game later on. I don't think I realized I could clip my camera through the wall in that area to see beyond it, so it was twice as baffling when I realized I overlooked something so interesting on my first pass through. It wasn't until a few years later when it caught my eye.
There was a ton of info on the book back in 2003, even nintendo told people it was cut content because so manu people called in about it
@@everythingpony Kid: Uncle, what's this book?!
Nintendo: A prop for decoration! Stop calling me Uncle already!
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I had a huge water level fear when I was a kid thanks to watching mom play tomb raider (and get mauled by piranhas) so this and pretty much any early 3d Mario had surprise nightmare fuel all over the place. Oooo boy slowly drowning in the jar frantically looking for coins, the huge eels in every 64 game, most games you can't fight back in the water.... the only ones I weren't terrified of was the OoB fish that eat you in Ratchet and Jaxter :P
It's called Noki Bay because you have 'no key' to the door containing the book.
*OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH*
@@skimpskomp shut up
@@mattfahringer148 so text has audio now?
Ah-ha. Ah-ha.
;)
Man I love hearing people gush about nostalgia.
It's like we all had the same childhood but just slightly different, like looking thru a telescope with different lenses that are the different games and levels
EVERY CHILD IS PERSONALIZED!
So touching
You should try playing Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy, and jump into the ocean and see what happens XD that used to freak me out sooooo bad
@@nuderedfinger I wish I can give you 10 likes and a heart!
As a kid, I was deathly afraid of Eely Mouth. I don’t know why or how, but I was. However, in recent years I decided to come back to Noki Bay and it’s honestly the best level in my opinion now. It’s one of those levels that just feels so vast and expansive. I kind of want to make like a gmod map for it now.
Hands down, best level.
Me too! That eel was scary
I still suffer from mild ichthyophobia (fear of fish, for me specifically, large fish) so some levels of sunshine as a kid, when that fear was muuuuuch, much worse, just drove me mad. I'd slam that power button if I got out too far in the deep ocean.
I remember eventually managing to nut up and deal with Eely mouth because I was getting desperate for more shines. I screamed so hard when he'd start trying to suck me up, and...
Yea, they put the shine sprite's spawn at the WORST spot. After finally chasing him off, making me need to go over the damn pit? No, I wasn't having it.
Never did that boss ever again. The idea still makes me somewhat uncomfortable.
@@fang4223 yeah, I think I probably had that too as a kid, the deeper, darker parts of noki bay scared the shit outta me
My childhood wasn't the best so I used video games to escape. Super Mario Sunshine was my first love and it will always hold a special place in my heart ❤
Same mine was Super Mario Galaxy 2
9:00 swanky has existential crisis about his childhood
Particular Mushroom is gonna love this one
He would
This is a funny comment just knowing that
Dude I was just watching particular mushroom, saw this video, looked in the comments and saw this. Woah, didn't think he was that well known!
Lol I bet
Thanks for the shoutout Swanky, much appreciated and I loved the video!! Noki Bay has always been my favorite destination in Mario Sunshine 😊
Lost in comments lel
@@psyduck381 ur not wrong...
Wasssup Dave
Hi Dave big fan
Hey I watch your twitch and subscribe to your TH-cam channel
My memory with this level was being terrified of the deep water, and the giant eel boss, but I do love the world, and the final level is great
Sean Rippy And that's what a video game should be all about, a virtual world with adventures so real, so beautiful, it's like an escape.
Noki Bay is creepy as hell. Until today i feel frightened
I honestly didn’t know Noki Bay existed for the longest time because looking at the sun in the column of light didn’t seem like a way one would enter a level haha
Man, the nostalgia hit me hard the instant the music started playing. This was always my favorite level, and I was always particularly fond of the level inside the bottle. I fond it amazing that Mario could be shrunk down into a bottle and that there were ruins inside a bottle at all.
One of my favorite places in mario sunshine! When I was young, I always though there was an ancient civilisation who lived there.
that's literally the case
I wrote this comment before watching the video.😅
Back when I was a kid I was doing shine 2 of Noki Bay for the first time, climbing the cliffside. Just before I reached the blooper, my dad came home with a bag of sweets for me. Inside were some chocolate covered foam bananas. I'd never had those before then. Ever since then, they've been a rare treat for myself and Noki Bay always reminds me of that memory.
Out of all the classic games on the game cube, I had to miss this one. How did this happen?
K-Fez go play it now it’s so much fun !!!
Seriously though, owning a Nintendo console without the accompanying Mario game? How DID that happen? 😭
Christopher I had Luigi’s Mansion and Smash :)
Please do yourself a favor and play this game. However, it will never be as special as it would be if you were playing it as a kid in 2003.
The bottle has time lord technology
Aww, this was lovely! And what is funny, is that for me it's the other way around. As a kid a was at the beach in France a couple of times and I never was the biggest beach guy. So the level I liked the most in Sunshine was (or is) the one with the least amount of water: Pianta Village. I love how the entire level is like a huge tree house. Exploring the downside with the endless void below felt really frightening. Combined with chapter 3's lava floor the level really gave me the feeling of "yeah, this is the final area. I get it. And I love it". This isn't the only time I fell in love with tree top levels though. Mario Golf: Toadstool Tour has a last, 7th set of holes in DK's tree tops and it was just so different to the other locations. I so wanted it to be playable in the championships but sadly it never was. And another one: Tree tops from Spyro 1, even though that began more as a love-hate-relationship. Anyone who played that level as a kid and wanted to get the last dragon knows why. In real life, I was never a climber. I was never at the top of a tree, also due to me being afraid of height (at least when I was younger), so that was a foreign little world that always fascinated me. I guess that's why I really love tree top levels and in particular Pianta Village.
For me and my "playground area" it was Hotel Delphino. It was so calm, peaceful and beautiful.... And a place where I would totally go to if I was able lol. :3
This is a pretty good summary of all the secrets in noki bay, I would recommend the particular mushroom video on this area if you want even more info
This used to be my least favorite level in the game (besides Corona Mountain or the Pachinko machine), but I came around to really liking Noki Bay in the last few years when I finally decided to collect all the blue coins to 100% Sunshine. It lead me to scaling all these impressive vertical heights and notice fun little things all over the stage that I used to ignore. When you're searching for those blue coins, it's just you vs. the mountain, and it's very pleasantly serena.
Hey SwankyBox, would you ever consider a collab with ParticularMushroom?
I was thinking these videos were oddly posted at such a close time
@@______-uw3ei yes
I NEED IT
Was just about to make a comment just like this when I saw yours. Coincidental timing, no? :thinking:
Yesss
I love how everyone has a nostalgic memory with this game. I used to play with my uncle as a kid. He passed away before he could beat it. Picked it up where he left off and beat it for him. It reminds me a lot of him. I also remember getting this game as a promo with the GameCube and my dad bought it for me. I was so excited. He is gone too. To be a kid again when life was good and your family was here..that's what Sunshine does for me.
As someone with a similar love for this game, hearing you wax nostalgic about your favorite area in Noki Bay really spoke to me. I've got a similar comfy area in the game I call my own, and you don't even need Action Replay to reach it! For me it's the Blooper surfing area inside the tunnel in Ricco Harbor. If you ignore the timer and don't get on a Blooper, you can explore around it and climb up on the rooftops where there's a wide expanse of flat terrain with no obstacles. It's a comfy place to play around with the game's mechanics and take in scenery that most players never even see.
I remember playing the first and last levels of each area over and over again and exploring them. Seeing what each part of the island looked like before and after was always so dazzling to me.
Noki Bay is my favorite level too! I always thought it was so beautiful and ethereal. The music is easily my favorite track in the game too, both the above and underwater themes.
I also really like how the missions you go on in Noki Bay all contribute to one of the few relatively coherent narratives in a Mario level. Most stages just have you searching a landscape for random stars. In Noki Bay, Mario tries multiple ways of solving the problem of the polluted water, eventually has to train to descend into the depths, and finally goes down to fight the eel, followed by what I always interpreted as a sort of celebration during the red coin mission. It's simple, but it's not something you see in Mario games very often.
When I was a kid, I skipped past the old Noki's explanation that he was testing out the swim helmet using the bottle. So for years, I just imagined him telling Mario, "THAT'S IT! I'VE FIGURED OUT WHY THE WATER'S GONE MURKY! IT'S THIS BOTTLE! THE SOLUTION IS IN THIS BOTTLE!" like some kind of raving madman.
A super nostalgic video!
I wish I could go back to those simpler times haha
Who doesn't? Childhood is probably the most fun part of life.
I still play games and im 23! Just because you are an adult, doesn't mean you cant play Mario or any other game anymore!
The first time I entered Noki Bay I didn't think much about it. However, there was a moment that struck me and stayed with me until today.
After you defeat the eel, when you go into the water and explore the world below, the last music in the video starts playing. When I saw and heard that for the first time.... it was magic. I forgot I had to collect suns, and simply explored the place in wonder.
From that moment on, this level became one of my speciale places in videogames.
You sound like an advanced text to speech voice.
I don’t know if you’re insulting or complimenting him.
Wow, rude... I think?
@@TheCoolNintendoGuy8593 both
We are all thinking it
i loved Mario Sunshine but also as a kid but i had like a water phobia in video games since most the other games i played at the time you die in the water or something chases/eat you like...
- the shark and Banjo
- the sunglasses fish in mario 64
- GTA 3 and vice city
- that stressful song that plays in 2d sonic games staying under too long
- those fishes in sunshine that bites your head underwater always scared me too
Man i wish swanky made collabs with Particular Mushroom.
Same. It'd be neat if they tackled Bianco Hills or something like that.
Capn_Colds That would be perfect!
Yeah Particular Mushroom is the sunshine king
Y E S .
Interesting enough, I discovered his channel not too long after I finished writing this video. This video was actually written in December, but I decided to release my Pixel Portals on Sonic Adventure 2 first. If I had known he was also working on a Noki Bay video, I would have definitely considered it!
I will forever wonder about that book
So, I lived near New Orleans as a kid. Hurricane Katrina hit, and it was devastating. Everything was gone. We packed up and left before it hit, but it was just a horrible time. My family ended up living in a tiny little trailer in the woods for a while until we could find another place to live. Well, my grandparents ended up getting me a gamecube, and super mario sunshine. Noki bay, and the whole game in general just made me feel better every time I turned it on. I spent hours and hours just sitting in noki bay, walking around and listening to the music. To this day, when I feel really down about something, I always turn to that game. It helps. Not a lot, but just enough to keep going.
I only recently got to playing this game, so it's not really nostalgia. Noki Bay is an adventure on itself. While most of the other levels are just "another one", Noki Bay feels like the odd one out. It makes perfect use of its size (depth, width, height, multiple areas) and the references to ancient phenomenons make the level really interesting
Damn. The feeling of discovery and doing something awesome you were never supposed to do is something that you would only feel when you are a kid.
When you mentioned the walls responding to water, it really made me wonder what happens in Noki Bay when it rains.
Gotta love a Pixel Portal; love the nostalgia and the way you present it. Keep up the fun. God bless yours and you! :)
Slope in Super Mario Sunshine: I will stop you.
Mario's infinite dive: i dont think so
Noki Bay must have been abandoned Recently, given that people return to it in the end of the game, yet with how many mysteries it has, it must have been inhabited for centuries, if not millenia
I was always intrigued by the giant patch of grass leading up to the volcano. If you look at the Noki and Pianta information images from the Guide Book, it seems as though they were taken there.
Man I love Super Mario Sunshine. Bought this Gamecube game three times throughout my childhood and yet I couldn’t get any of those to last until today. My SA2B still does at least.
I love Noki Bay definitely my favourite Super Mario Sunshine Level
This game does the same for me, bringing back fond memories from my childhood and summer time. Great video as always Swanky keep up the great work!
I have a feeling this level inspired galaxy. This gives me galaxy vibes more than anything.
I've always loved Super Mario Sunshine. :) I never had a problem with Noki Bay; it was Episode 8 of Ricco Harbour I had the most trouble with as I didn't realise that how the platforms moved depending on the colour of the Yoshi until much, much later.
I grew up with this game, it will always hold a place in my heart.
I still feel like I could always come back to this level and just encounter something new. I spent a solid hour and a half just searching for the blue coins.
I just remember being blown away when discovering you have to look at the sun to enter the level!
I feel the exact same way. Although I’ve gone to a beach I was far too young to remember, and the memory of the beach and what the ocean looked like is disappearing slowly as I grow more.
Glad my favorite series of yours is getting a new episode
I never got this far as a kid. I wasn't very good at the game but I would spend hours upon hours just exploring Delfino Plaza. It amazes me how much time I put in as a kid just exploring the hub world
Noki Bay was the level that I actually played the least out of all of them, not because I didn’t like it, but because the concept of going deep underwater with limited access to air terrified/continues to terrify me to this day
really cool stuff swanky was hoping you would bring this segment back because it is one of your best
Super mario sunshine still looks sooo fresh it looks like its just created
It's nice to see Noki Bay getting some appreciation. I'm glad that you're able to see the good in it's verticality, lore, music, and the different feel and atmosphere it gives off that separates it from the other levels.
When he was talking about his childhood made me almost cry
This level for me was my Mario nightmare. I spent hours trying to get past the first level and the secret sell level. To be honest it toke me 10 years to beat this game.
I was literally just thinking about this channel.
I loved the pixel portal series, why'd you stop doing it, it was amazing!
Luigi? R.M? Wario? Our lord and saviour, Waluigi? Wha-?
Noki Bay is also my favourite level!
Noki Bay and Ricco Harbor will always be tip favorite levels of mine. The atmosphere is undescribable and nostalgic.
I loved this area of the game super Mario sunshine is one of my all time favorites! I really do hope for a direct sequel !
I remember hating the eel boss
Not sure why, I never liked this area as a kid as much as I liked the others. My favorites were always Sirena Beach and Pianta Village. But now you've got me dying to play the game as a whole again, nostalgia is creeping up on me :D great video!
Pixel Portals are my favorite thing you do.
Noki Bay is the only stage without Yoshi! Yet, it has an unused track for riding him
I'm the exact opposite as I grew up on the Eastern Shore of Virginia which is located near both the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic ocean so access to beaches was never a problem (though I've never been someone who enjoys the outside as I prefer the comfort of being indoors, which is why I enjoy exploring worlds in video games at it allows me to do something that I'm not really fond of actually doing in real life (I never really learned how to swim as I have a fear of water as I'm fully aware of the possibility of drowning and that the ocean is full of things that can kill you (from riptides to poison jellyfish, the occasional shark attack which are far less common than the media would lead you to believe, etc). Video Games let one be adventurous in the safety and comfort of one's own home (that's not to say that going outside and experiencing the real world is a bad thing, its just something that I'm not really interested in doing as I probably wouldn't enjoy the experience outside of a video game).
How can you have not went to the beach as a kid?, hasn’t everyone?
So much memories super sanic mario glitch and a myth of a hidden book behind the door in the bottle
The sprite where you needed to go clean the teeth of tha gigant eel or whatever it was, scared me as hell as a kid but the rest was pretty cool specially when you see people down there later
might be a thing in the switch version BUT there is the hidden grave site at the very top near the corked waterfall
there some flowers arranged in a pattern and a single 1-up , just thought i point this out
I remember the firat time I got to noki bay I was terrified of the water and not knowing what was down there and dispite that I remember so much fun trying to get into all the little rooms along the side of the cliff. But the most terrifying thing in that level was the chicken thing that would punch you back to the bottom.
Yo! Swanky! I really liked what you said about the game being very beach formal and how ya lived in the countryside. Dude, I feel it. I actually grew up in CA and I’m still in CA. But my cousin lived in the Midwest. We would get together every summer as kids for a few weeks during the summer time. I’d go visit him back in IL and he’d come back with me to visit for a few weeks in the summer in CA. He felt the exact same way. We talk about it all the time. Even now, we’re both nearly 30, but we always get together even still & chill and play our favorite games like in the days of yore. Good share & great video content as always! Super Mario Sunshine was beautiful. Imagine a sequel? Him & I even argue how dope that could be or/also how bad it can be lol
I honestly didn't know this place existed for a while when I played the game. I only remember finding it when I was home sick from school with strep throat.
Happy Easter everyone
I had a lot of frustration and fun exploring this level as a kid. It was also really scary for some reason? Haha.
These kinds of videos are great
This video got deeper, than the game
IT REMINDS me of Disney world growing up we didn't have alot of money i didn't get to go to disney world until i had gotten married and started a family got a good paying career, and seeing it gave me a sign that one day i would make it to see disney world
Swanky's end game: buying a beach house
I never went to the ocean as a kid. So this level ... No, this game means a lot to me. Thanks for the video.
I’ve actually been playing Mario Sunshine recently and I would recommend it, just be prepared to have the feeling that you want to put your fist though you Gamecube/Wii/Switch!
My fond memory of this section was a dream I had. I was Mario and slid through a section of wall to this secret in between spot where I had over 1,000 coins I could get with the rocket nozzle. Best Mario dream I ever had. I could still hear the cling of collecting the coins
Keep calling it NOOKY BAY because IT IS GENNYUS
Everything in a nutshell!! Forever love Noki's bay!!!!!!!
I didn't get to see the ocean until the age of 13 and I've played SMS my whole life so I can relate.
"I wonder if I'll own a seaside home when I grow up" fucking lol, good one fam
I didn't like Noki Bay growing up, mainly because it was super difficult to obtain all of the blue coins there. Devoid of Action Replay codes, I really couldn't get everywhere I wanted to because it was just so difficult to traverse the level.
That's what made the level special. All the shines were easy, but the difficulty was getting to them.
This is a sharp contrast to Gelato Beach where it's easy to navigate, but every single shine is ball busting hard.
Awesome!
I LOVE NOKI BAY ITS REALLY FUN
I enjoy the view, but to hell with sand getting everywhere.
I actually used to be afraid of the ocean in Noki Bay. Obviously it stems from my actual fear of the ocean itself. I'm fine being on the beach, but I can only go so far in the water.
You needed the guidebook for this game. (Back then it seemed like you needed the guidebook for every game.) All those blue coins! I don't remember the book though. Hats off to the creative team I must say.
Noki bay was always personally such a beautifully made/creativley crafted level, the only part that annoyed me was the eel fight, but overall I love this world and its aestetic! Great video as always! Btw, if you ever want to, I would LOOOVE another pixel portals video about DK64! Maybe about Frantic Factory? Crystal Caves? Fungi Forest? Idk I would just love to see you make a Pixel Portals on the game!😁
Yeah, Noki Bay was the place.
I swear there’s probably one thing I still haven’t discovered
He did it all for the Noki.
8:25 cardiff / torry pines!!
Sunshine! Woohoo!
Could you do a video on ocarina of time's secret colored gauntlets
It's been an obscured and debated topic in the zelda community because people still believe they are not real but i managed to unlock them even in the 3ds remake having solid proof its real and even managed to make it to the new version, i would love for people to know that there is still new stuff to find in an old game