Everything Scary About Super Mario 64
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- Super Mario 64 is secretly a very scary and unsettling experience. Want to know everything scary about Super Mario 64? From the empty rooms to some sinister backstories, Super Mario 64 holds scary theories and environments that make players unknowingly uncomfortable. Watch as we break down all these factors that hide under the skin of the castle walls.
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Chapters:
0:00 Intro
0:58 Factor 1- Emptiness
2:20 Unsettling Moments
2:47 Factor 2- Water Stages
4:05 Unsettling Moments
4:25 Factor 3 - L is Real Effect
5:49 Unsettling Moments
6:10 Factor 4 - Bottomless Voids
7:22 Unsettling Moments
7:43 Factor 5 - Wet-Dry World
9:51 Conclusion
#SuperMario64 #everycopyofmario64ispersonalized #Mario64 - เกม
Mario wasn't alone. Lakitu, the camera guy, followed him around the whole time.
Speaking of Lakitu he is the most trash camera guy ever! As I play this game as an adult my biggest complaint is the camera angles.. I find myself saying if only the camera was pointed this way I wouldn’t fall off the damn board.
@@checkenginelight1950 R button + C-Down = better camera ;)
@@aguadetamarindo1947 I’m going to try that as soon as I get off work today. Thanks in advance for the advice!
I played on 3DS so I didn’t have to worry ab things like this💀
@@checkenginelight1950 fax
"Mario 64 seems like a dream"
Damn that actually got me
It genuinely does. I adored this game as a kid, but it always felt so _off_ in a not-quite-scary way.
frfr
@@drawingdragon this
No lie when I beat it i thought it was a dream the next day
*It isn’t a dream, it isn’t a nightmare, it’s hell*
It's weird that half the gaming channels on TH-cam suddenly became convinced Mario 64 is a creepy game, all seemingly at the same time. Did you guys have a meeting, or what? I must have played a thousand hours of this game over the years and I don't get it.
Well said, I agree
The way I see it, it all started with the "every copy of mario 64 is personalized" thing back in 2020, which popularized icebergs. Since then, I've been seeing videos centered around this theme of "Mario 64 is scary" left and right on TH-cam. Ngl tho, those first Greenio videos creeped me out in a way no one has done in years, lol
It is just bandwagoning. Mario 64 would only be scary to people with some kind of mental illness.
Some of the levels creeped me out as a kid like the boo stage with the carnival music, the stage with the water monster because of the creepy music. Even super mario world had some unsettling moments but i agree, people just jumping on the bandwagon.
@@lavosdream5809LOL! what the heck was creepy about smw??
The interesting thing is that I never was really creeped out that much playing this game even at a young age. But I definitely remember always having that feeling of uneasiness or eeriness especially in levels like big boo's mansion, hazy maze cave, shifting sand lands, and the bowser levels.
Same here
Yeah same here. I was never creeped out by Mario 64 the same way I was with Resident Evil games, but I too always felt some uneasiness or eeriness while playing the game, but couldn't put it into words as a child. Videos like this really capture the mindset though. We were used to Mario games always having so much going on each each level we never really got any down time. It was always a brought colored level with music and enemies everywhere.
Oh yeah
Shifting sand land was my fave zone as a kid.
I was never scared I just felt scared and tense
you know? wet-dry world is one of my favorite levels in the game, not only for it's atmosphere, but because everything seems like you could do anything there
Finally, someone who agrees with me
@@strangesphereoidcreature me too
Same
@@strangesphereoidcreature now you got 2 likes
Super meat boy best game
I couldn’t have been the only one to have wondered what was beyond the giant mountains/hills boarding each stage. I think I must have spent hours continuously climbing up only to slide back down trying to figure that out.
Yeah skyboxes have always fascinated me, like what else is out there you know. The galaxy games have really weird skyboxes sometimes and it's kind of terrifying looking at them in this seemingly infinite space. Weird stuff.
In super mario 64 DS i always wanted to know what is that island in the distance.
@@nolanhartsoe remember the hell valley sky trees, makes me wonder what creatures the game is hiding behind them
True
@Mittens but we mean the stuff we haven’t seen the other places in the world it can’t be just a few things
Back when I was a child, I used to have this surreal dream about the wet-dry level underground town and I was there walking around feeling empty and creeped out
epstein island
@@mrbigbankuchiface_3352 bro 💀
What scared me the most was when my beloved cousin was shot and killed, he beat a lot of levels for me before his death.
When he died, I inserted my game into the N64 and all of my progress was gone.
I never really wanted to beat the game again after that.
Not only was I hurt but I was frightened.
im sorry for your loss
that must have been tough
@@BioAlpha5 Thank you xx I appreciate that so much. He was a good human taken away unnecessarily.
What do you want me to say about this because I’m not saying I’m sorry for your loss I’m just gonna say too bad
@@BioAlpha5 well no shit their cousin died
This video just confirms everything I felt about this game all these years. It does have and ominous and eerie feel to it. One of the reasons why I love it yet feel unsettled by it at the same time.
AYO
Try playing it while tripping on LSD. I dropped 2 hits of potent liquid while coming down off a dissociative, and started playing the game from the beginning when the acid kicked in. Best trip ever, the graphics compliment your visuals, and everything else in the game trips you out in such a way that it’s obvious Nintendo intended for people to play it while tripping on a psychedelic.
@@anotheraccountididntneedto7222 Man that would have been soemthing
@@ALEN1ful Yeah, people really need to try it, it works with shrooms as well.
BRO SAME HERE
The staircase makes use of an effect known as rising Shepard tone (which is also canonically Bill Cipher's favorite 'song' to listen to) that makes it sound like the tone keeps getting higher when in reality it keeps looping.
That's actually really interesting. Had knowledge of that effect (Didn't know it was referred to as Rising Shepard Tone) and didn't even realized they utilized it during the staircase sequence. Makes the whole occurrence even eerier!
What does Bill Cipher have to do with this?
@@parker-boy98 The Reddit AMA for Bill explained that he liked to listen to rising Shepard tone for fun.
@@PixelsAfterDark Not to mention the mechanic of how those stairs work is just that Mario gets instantly warped backwards over and over again and it just repeats, giving the illusion of endlessly going up. Certainly mirrors what the Rising Shepard Tone does with sound and thus makes it an appropriate mechanic for a staircase that seems endless but isn't.
@@grace7919 they mean why did you bring him up.
The only thing that just rubs me wrong is the endless stairs. It's literally unexplainable
And the spinning room in the secret boo level
The most scary thing I remember was the ghost mission when The piano starts to attack out of nowhere. This got me almost a heart attack and I was scared even after a bit. MAN crazy childhood
Someone is there with you, Lakitu documents everything that happens in Super Mario 64 as he is the camera.
Yes, but you only see him at the beginning and in the mirrors room, most of the time you forget he is actually there.
@@tekmogm5979 i thought he was ONLY in the mirrors room???
@@minniessh no i believe he is there at all times cuz hes the camera but only renders in certain scenes like the mirror room.
so hes is there but on a technical level he isnt as thatd be to much for the game to handle for something you cant ever see as
he is the camera
kinda like how Navi could be but isnt.
Speaking of Lakitu he is the most trash camera guy ever! As I play this game as an adult my biggest complaint is the camera angles.. I find myself saying if only the camera was pointed this way I wouldn’t fall off the damn board.
@@minniesshthere’s an icon of him with his camera in the bottom right corner throughout the game, he’s there all the time
I'm a little surprised you didn't include the giant fish from Tiny Huge Island in this video. That thing terrified me to the point I wouldn't go upstairs for fear of accidentally entering that painting.
On a lesser note, the hellish, laughing fireball painting for Lethal Lava Land was just as scary to me when I was younger.
On one more note, Wet Dry World does strike an eerie chord with me, too. Half in part of the bizarre, depressing tone of the level, but also because of a horrific dream I had from being in the town. My nightmare was that everytime you raised the water, people who were locked in the houses would drown, break down the front door, and swim after you as zombies.
Now that's terrifying!
God that reminds me of the zombie mario clones that would chase you in that I_HATE_YOU.exe mario creepy pasta
2:47 I personally love the feel of the water levels. I never found them creepy when I played the game recently for the first time. I think it’s either the fact that I would always vacation by an ocean with my extended family (I would also play Mario games with my cousins so I associate the ocean with good memories) and that I SCUBA dive, so I know what to expect in water.
Besides the Eel swimming. Jolly Rogers Bay is so relaxing.
Strange, i played the hell out of this game, never felt scared… i do remember getting somewhat startled by the Eel that came out of the wall the first time, and that was just about it.
I know right? I dont understand why people get startled by 'emptiness' in games. If anything, i get scared by things that are supposed to be scary
Dude this game is horrifying The bosses are so scary and Did you see the demons 💀
@@noeltlalka6476 its like gmod, you feel like in these levels something is watching you from above or anywhere
@@Blue_Shift421 it's the lakitu lol. He follows you everywhere. In that mirror room, you can see him following you.
@@maddawg5016 wait till you discover bloodborne
I have reoccurring dreams/nightmares about this game. They usually involve encountering Bowser at random moments in the castle. I'm pretty sure it stems from the feelings this game's emptiness gave me as a kid, which you explained perfectly.
1 day i has a dream about wet dry world... but it was not creepy it was like a normal dream but not creepy...
Those are some neckbeard dreams, you need a life dude
@@JTguitarlessons I wasn't aware you could control what dreams you had at night. Guess I'll just go get a life and that will cure the repeating nightmares I have involving a random spooky mall I haven't been in since I was 8.
Me too I had a dream where I was going to the big boos haunt mission on my way there I had to fight bowser in the hallway
@@JTguitarlessons wow did it take you 5 days to come up with that?
You should have talked about the fact that it was confirmed 24 YEARS AND 01 MONTH (2401) later that Luigi was supposed to be playable
what does 2401 mean
@@kazamito7953 24 years and 1 month later. It's also the numbers on Luigi's grave.
@@sansbob ah yes,i already did research on it but thanks
Luigi is playable? Maybe it’s only on ds🤷🏻♂️
@@sansbob Wait luigi died?
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What's the music in the video
hey can I ask whats the background song's name your using now
What's the music
Broo dude your near 1mill views
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I think the emptiness effect is only unsettling to those who grew up in cities or similar. I grew up where empty spaces are normal.
Indeed
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@@GRRRRR1111Indeed
I was like 7 when I played this game for the very first time. Growing up I always wondered why this game felt so unsettling and kinda does to an extent to this day. This definitely explains a lot.
its funny how in the giga leak luigi was confirmed to be planned to be in the game. the leak happened 24 years and 1 month after the game came out.
Just that 2401 makes me question if it was a coincidence or intentional.
@@theh9632 intentional 99% sure
L WAS REAL 2401!
@@theh9632 No, it was DESTINY!
@@thedoglovinggamer5825 holy shart you're right
I still remember the only 2 stages that literally traumatized me as a kid were the haunted mansion, and that hell/lava like dimension. Not to mention the music...
Those Bullies in Lethal Lava Land weren't playing with you. 😂
You pretty much nailed it dude. SM64 to this day is a masterpiece of liminal space and kenopsia. Great video.
This deserves much more views than it has right now
Haha thank you! Had a blast putting the video together and it super refreshing to see many enjoying it too
@@PixelsAfterDark definitely man and with people playing the 3d all stars that never played the original or the ds version should come and watch this
Jjj
@@PixelsAfterDarku never played super mario 64? You tryna ruined my childhood nostalgia 😢
When I was younger, nothing really scared me, I enjoyed this game, not even the chain chomp got me, it was that piano that really scared me for a while.
Damn that son of a bitch always scares me
Chomp no the eel hell yeah.
Incredible video brother. I always felt this way about this game and never had anyone to talk this over with! Thank you for helping me find "closure". Respect
If I played this game when I was a kid I would get trauma for the rest of my life.
OK! I'm glad I'm not the only one who was creeped tf out by this game as a kid LOL
Especially the eel for me ! One the scariest experience of i had as a kid
@@sebozz2046 yes!!
I used to stand beside the walls in the castle and go into zoom view or whatever view that is and look through the walls at the darkness beyond them, always made me feel eerie as I was only 7 or 8 at the time.
Nah I loved this game even though I played the ds version it’s still a very cool game but this vid ruined it
@@sebozz2046 yeah.
2:13 I just realized why Saints of Virtue was always so friggin creepy. All those echoing footsteps in empty areas is so unsettling, nevermind the giant floating laser heads.
Another thing's probably only weird to me is how, the castle seems to lack any "living spaces" or rooms that people would actually live in, like a kitchen or a bedroom for Peach. (I can definitely accept that as a video game back then it doesn't NEED those things, but still.)
the castle is vivid but empty, we don't know what happened or why it's so empty and gives ominous and a eerie feel and vibe to it.
It's legit explained by Toad at the beginning, the castle is empty because most of the people once in it were put in the painting worlds
Dorrie isn't unsettling, just adorable.
Yes
Especially in the DS version
Hi mario
@@SpaceFighter2004fax
Mario 64 is where I discovered my fear not just of deep water but aquatic predators in video games. Still to this day I feel it. (Far cry 3 was a nightmare with the sharks and the completionist in me needing all collectibles.) also wet dry world I like to think of as Hyrule in the wind waker time line when it’s flooded. The abandoned town’s windows, doors and buildings are reminiscent of hyrules buildings style.. but that’s just me and how I headcanon it.
While I never played Mario 64 myself I know exactly what you are talking about
You should play subnautica :)
I remember as a kid by the time I got to Dorrie I was so spooked and used to everything trying to kill me I couldn't believe Dorrie was actually "Friendly" as the sign said. And then the instructions to pound its back to get it to lower its head, every step of the way of getting that star using Dorrie I kept expecting it to suddenly start attacking me somehow. From the moment I saw it, to when I got close, to when I got on its back, to when I stood on its head. I felt if I stood on its head too long eventually it'd at least shake me off but no... It's kinda like when you're expecting a jump scare in a horror game and it just doesn't come in the place you expect it, thats my experience with Dorrie as a kid
That thumbnail kept me up at night for a good amount of time 😅
Because Mario sees into your soul.
I think it’s eerie because you’re alone In this huge world with only the music. I was always weirded out by Wet-Dry World for that reason.
Mario 64 actually has 4 water levels. Jolly roger bay, dire dire docks, wet-dry world and the secret aquarium.
As a kid, my parents bought me my first Nintendo 64 and I remember playing this game and having so much fun as an adult now that I see this video it is a creepy situation
when i remember this game or see any footage, it makes me feel unsettled. i could point the finger on the water levels and something about them (and the fear of drowning in them) making me be scared of swimming sequences in video games until now, but never why the game as a whole made me feel unsettled. this feeling makes me want to play it again just to see if it was because i was young, but it genuinely felt eerie despite being so colorful. thanks for making this video and pinpointing why.
1:46 toad just broke the forth wall
What? Im on youtube?
Pixels I can’t explain in words how much I LOVE your videos. Not only these are some of my favorite Nintendo games but I love the hidden messages/pictures that you reveal in your videos, and yes I liked and subscribed.Keep up the good work!
I loved how the in-game Underground theme changed slightly when you approached something scary.
(e.g. the swimming dinosaur or the empty city)
This game and it's spooky vibes have a special place in my heart.
The background city in wet-dry world is a real city called Casares
EDIT: There's a debate on whether it is Casares Spain or Shibham Yemen
Yemen i guess as there is obviously a mosque in top of the city
It's the town in Yemen, it's been matched up and the buildings are a section of that town in Yemen copy-pasted (hence why there's duplicate buildings). But I believe that temple-like thing at the top is from somewhere else, one thing I saw said it's from Cairo, Egypt, but I'm not sure. Casares, Spain, is just a similar-looking town, but it doesn't actually having anything really matching up, whereas the place in Yemen literally has a 1-to-1 correspondence with the group of several buildings in WDW that was copied to fill the town.
@@legoboy7107 yeah, the temple is a mosque in cairo, egypt
When I was a kid, there were 2 games that made me uncomfortable, one of them is GTA SA, specifically the Jefferson Motel, and the second was Super Mario 64. The atmosphere on some levels is just... geez
GTA should be banned because it glorifies many evils.
Majoras mask for me
Tbh mjaoras mask and ocarina of time made me feel uneasy and Mario 64
As a child, the walls around Dories' lake always reminded me of human skin, stretched long so it was covering the walls of the cave. And may I remember you all, there were supposed to be people in the cave; workers? The eleveators are cleraly named "work elavator"? WHere are they gone? attached to the walls beneath?
That's definitely creepypasta material. And a decent theory.
I like the "Mario 3 was actually a stage play the whole time" better
What about the laughing Bowser after you failed a mission or 'died' ...I hated that as a kid
Or if the door was locked and you tried to open it
One time I was just chilling by the painting of cool cool mountain, and then I heard the koopa the quick stopwatch, and that made my heart stop.
Dang,im sorry for u Buddy :(
Lol that's crazy If true
Bro you did an amazing job! I actually was getting creeped out. Awesome!!
I love how such a fun and non scary game can give you these type of moments
Great video man! so sad to see such a low amount of likes and subs for such a investing video.
Thank you! Not too much of a numbers person. I just love hearing back from the community and so far the comments are beyond the expectations I had for a first video :)
@@PixelsAfterDark That's what makes these videos so entertaining to watch! You don't care about churning out garbage you care about your videos and treat them as art. So much respect and hope the channel grows so you can do this full time!
This was scary about super Mario 64 you saw Luigi was being more scary than super Mario
@@PixelsAfterDark EXE
OP@
Hazy maze cave was probably the most unsettling, so empty and... Dark
2:53 HELP MY THALASOPHOBIA IS RISING NOOOOOOOOOOOO
Same💀
What’s that?
Fear of the ocean
lol all the things that are supposedly scary are all nostalgic and soothing for me. booting up mario 64 literally fell like returning home from a long trip to me every single time and my favorite place to habd out is wet-dry world. people who have played this game even more than I have still aren't even aware of the water level trick
Is it just me? I remember playing hazy maze cave level as a kid and went to the area of the blue sea dragon. And i remember i was swimming infront of it and it ate mario (like the cheap cheaps would do in the tiny huge world) i remember the dragon lowering its long neck fast and eating mario and mario gets kicked out the level like he usually does when he dies
You know what's interesting. I don't remember that specifically but there is a a handful of memories that I I have of Mario 64 that are just no where to be seen in the game. I was sure that there was a star to be obtained in the courtyard, and a secret star in the mirror room. The mind has a funny way of morphing memories
i tried this and mario just got pushed aside?
@@paraparappa6561 oh? So its prolly just me. I remember it happening vividly and ever since i never swam next to their face. Maybe it means the whole "m64 is personalized" actually is true??
@@basilmybeloved7170 yeah maybe. mine is just how it was intended, no creepy shit.
@@basilmybeloved7170 wait, im gonna explore mine and tell you anything i see
Honestly when i was a kid the only thing that frightened me was water levels especially the eel in jolly roger. When i found it swimming outside the boat the first time! Also the nessy like monster in the lake in the cave however later i liked him because he was helpful and not harmeful. Strangely unlike many testimonies i find on the internet, i never felt anxious about wet dry world since there were no fish or see monsters there.
And thanks. Now i found that i have Thalassophobia ! :D
For some reason, the secret mountain slide always scared me, specially because for the most of the course there were happy moons and stars, but that one part of the skull always scared me as a kid that I would always tell my sister to beat it
4:06
Around 2016 was the 1st time I got scared by a bowser painting, that time was the 1st time I saw a BLJ ever. It scared me because it was done at the endless staircase and the painting at the top made it scary
Even though it scared me in 2016
It didn’t haunt me until mid 2019, it was so bad I had to stop playing the game and speedrunning, just because of that painting
To this day it still haunts my dreams
But way way less than before
That's just Bowser being a prick again. 😂
In all seriousness, get well soon.
@@transcendentsacredcourage I honestly forgot this comment existed lmao
It doesn’t haunt my dreams anymore
0:58
Factor 1- Emptiness
Is like the back rooms you feel alone but you arent
Exactly. Because every time you don't have enough Stars to open doors, Bowser will laugh, meaning he's ALWAYS watching Mario's every move. Hell, Bowser even laughs if Mario dies.
The carnival music in the mansion TERRIFIED me when i was replaying the game some months ago, carnivals are one of my biggest fears, principally the music
One Boo Painting spews fire while another Boo Painting releases Boos. Yeah... definitely a recipe for nightmares and disasters.
As a kid, swimming down to get that eel to come out was always so unsettling for me. Had never really played a 3D game quite like it and going that deep and with how dark it is down there. I always kinda wanted to just get out as soon as possible lol.
When I was a kid, I never noticed this game was creepy. Back then there were no other 3D games to compare it to. But now that there is a generation of games to compare it to, it does seem creepy looking back. Probably because of the blockiness and emptiness.
The empty room concept is a reason why portal 1 unsettles me slightly….i mean like, turn off the captions, mute all audio but sound effects like walking and gun sounds and boom. Scariest thing you’ll ever play
I will admit it took me years to complete Super Mario 64 because of Hazy Maze Cave. I was literally terrified of that toxic maze specifically the sniffit enemies lurking down there. Sure they appeared in Super Mario Bros 2 alongside Shy Guys but these enemies have a more unsettling appearance. Their faces look like gas masks from the World War which is probably why they can survive down there. Not only that but they're also in a Boo Guy form meaning these enemies may have passed away and were revived by Bowser's dark magic to forever wander around the Toxic Maze to shoot down any trespassers.
Good call on the Snifits. 👑
This is exactly how I felt about this game when I was a kid. The thing is that I really liked that creepy unsettling feeling. This is an amazing video😱🤯🙌
I'm going!😱😱
It's very scary when you realize this "you got the n64 game called mario 64 but it feels off. Very very very off. From the metallic footsteps to monsters it just has a weird feeling of someone watching you and the fear of mario not be alone in the world."
I liked the metallic footsteps. Those were hardcore. Even back then, the attention to detail was stellar. They could've been lazy and used Mario's regular foot sounds, but no, they kicked it up a notch when he donned the Metal Cap.
Great video! I’d love to see more of that!
Thank you! Super passionate about games and horror so its great to see such positive feedback when combining the two
So is everyone just gonna ignore this fact?:
The L is real while the sign is just a reused texture from Zelda, but Luigi's textures were found in old files.
There's actually paintings of mario ,luigi,peach and bowser in zelda ocarina of time in the castle windows
@@jimberry5318 maybe the universe's are connected (if you're about to mention smash Bros it's a separate universe with different rules so that's not a connection)
But that's just a theory.
A GAME THEORY, thanks for watching
@@astepbehind982 no in ocarina of time when you go to the castle for the first time and Zelda is still a kid you look through the window in the castle and they have paintings of other characters
3:39 meanwhile subnautica players: 💀
I loved the vid man, great job!
I Think The Most Scary thing in This is The Graphics
My question is why is there an underground village with no way out in wet-dry world?
This freaked me out the most in that stage when i was a kid. I remember getting stuck early on in there and hating the stage for it
Maybe thats the same reason why its empty. Maybe something, like for Example Bowser pressed the button for drown the way in and all people died.
You are making it seem way scarier than what it actually is 😂
As a member of Gen Z, I can confirm that they aren’t. I played Super Mario 64 for the first time in 2021, and I was on edge the entire time. Its environments are extremely uncanny, especially compared to other games available at the time. Keep in mind Tomb Raider was released the same year, so it’s not a generational issue. I think there are a variety of factors that caused Super Mario 64 to end up as it did. Nintendo was new to 3D and if I recall correctly the N64 suffered multiple delays, the development of SM64 was rushed, and let’s be honest the design team wasn’t sober. SM64 feels like no other game, not from Nintendo, not from the Mario series, not even from the N64. It stands out like a sore thumb
Considering you probably played it when it was new, you were probably too busy being overwhelmed by the capabilities of the N64 to notice or care, which is absolutely fine, we all would be. But now that 3D games have been around for so long, people tend to look back at earlier experiments and see flaws that wouldn’t be cared about in the 90s. Hindsight is 20/20 after all
u sound old
@@NoOne-fv6yh maybe I am. We all get there.
@@NoOne-fv6yh
You'll get old one day, too.
The game is not scary per say but it’s really uneasy and eerie
low poly games give me an eerie vibe-
idk why it's just a weird feeling i get when i play or watch someone play them
I remember i was in the bob bomb battlefield,i was doing the red coin star and then,the chain chomp glitched and was able to go on the whole map.the worst was that when he was running to me,he was sooooooo fast there was nothing i could do.i never played this Evdr since
Hahahahah that's fuckin hilarious bro. You should go back and play it now and face your fear
Good job, you nailed it.
I think, that the feeling of emptyness comes from the bright colours mixed with the realistic textures and the liveless eyes of the enemies
The reason they look and feel so weird is because they’re painting worlds, bowser trapped them in the walls and Mario has to get hem out with to defat him. The scenery is just the way it is because of that that’s all.
I always thought that the lack of characters in this game was what made it unique.
But I've come to realize that the maps and worlds are the characters
Til this day I'm still terrified of the eel and spider thingie
"The Internet was just kissing the fingers of the world" got me dying💀
I never felt the “negative emotional aura” of WDW but understand the feeling. The level is a strange environment, but I enjoyed it. Every star has you head in a different direction.
I played this game for the first time at age 8, and the eel, the giant fish, and the BitDW trap door scared me as a kid.
0:17 "Children's game"
tf
0:49 vine boom
💀
The scariest thing in this game was the "Bowsers Message"sound and the laugh. It scared me as child.
I like it when things appear friendly on the surface, but has cryptid, creepy undertones. Creepypastas like sonic .exe fail to capture this atmosphere because that’s just pointless gore with a sonic skin slapped over it.
I got the game around 24.5 years ago (I paused and went "what the fuck" out loud right now) at the age of 6. I love it with all my heart, from the first time I got 120 Stars to the subsequent playthroughs throughout the 2000s, it's of my all-time favorites. This might sound strange but the more foreboding/creepy elements are my favorite part of the atmosphere. I love the idea of the unknown and creepy:from the interior slide room in Tall, Tall Mountain, and permanently warping to places like the volcano and the pyramid, to things like the entirety of Big Boo's Haunt which honestly is terrific atmosphere-wise, I can honestly thank the developers. Wet-Dry World is incredible and my favorite world in the game; I've always wanted to go there to the point of playing around it for hours as a kid.
And then there were things in the game that made me thankful they were there. The Secret Aquarium was one of my favorite places as a kid. Beautiful and mysterious, the atmosphere really helped capture the idea of Mario being in this world he wasn't familiar with. And then there were things like the snowman blowing of Mario's cap, or Klepto taking it. Obviously these things have no basis on Mario's capabilities but I always avoided them at all costs. It was a good balance between loving different things and panicking whenever things like that were close.
Maybe there is a bigger force/villain that we never found out about. Maybe this bowser is just a illusion of some kind along with the other enemies. Created by the unknown force. Maybe this entity is actually controlling bowser and using his minions to guard the world's that were created. Once bowser was defeated and the star power recovered the entity backs off without ever revealing itself. Except maybe after the end credits in the picture with the cake.....
Man, whenever I see an Eel in any game creeping around it terrifies TF out of me and reminds me of this one.
So does the water level where you drop in and has the whirlpool current
Or when you find the stairs that never end
Or when you see the ghost run away in the basement
Or the merry go round wheel in the haunted house
I could go on forever
the fact that the camera is actually a cloud and a turtle is a very nice touch that some 3rd person game view should add like using a drone or something you can interact and destroy leading you to a 1st person view till you find a replace
Subnautica moment at 3:31
5:01 That's literaly a video i was about to watch, thanks for not making give that man even 1 view.
If lolfoxmaster is so good, why isn't there a lolfoxmaster 2?
One major thing about Wet Dry World that is kind of unsettling is the fact that it has the Music of Hazy Maze Cave while the other two Water Levels at least share the same relaxing music. It just feels wrong entering a Level in which the category and theme don't fit. 🤔
This video really captures the feelings this game gives me, I never liked playing it, I like the game it is a good game but something just feels really off about it. Peach's castle always made feel uneasy despite being such a pretty place and there's something about the water levels that makes that emptiness feel somehow tragic, for some reason. It's weird that for someone who adores horror games, this is the game that "scares" me
The water stages in 3D Mario games always creeped me out, mainly because of the whole ‘fear of the unknown’ angle.
Whoever thought that making the Noki Bay Eel fight take place in a PITCH-BLACK PIT WITH GLOWING EYES AT THE BOTTOM was a good idea probably secretly hates kids.
Good thing the giant eel was friendly because if Mario ventures too far down the eel's throat, I think FLUDD will say it's too dark - yet the eel could've used that opportunity to swallow Mario whole.
This creeps me out 0:27
It make sense now. When I first played alien isolation the fear that the alien was anywhere in some of the empty areas did have me jumping at shadows
Great analysis on a niche topic… gimme more!