Wet-Dry World: Mario 64’s Strangest Stage | Level By Level
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 9 ก.ย. 2022
- The Mario series is filled with a ton of levels that give off a sort of strange and unnerving vibe. Most of the time it’s due to easter eggs like Shiverburn Galaxy from Super Mario Galaxy 2 or 4-4 from Super Mario 3D land. However, the stage that I think may be the strangest stage in the Mario series, might just be Wet-Dry World from Super Mario 64. But why is this? What about this stage’s music, aesthetic, and design help sell this eerie feel? Well in today’s episode of Level By Level, we are going to be analyzing Wet-Dry World to figure out why this is Mario’s Strangest Stage.
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Honestly wet dry world feels like a play test level they decided to make into a full fledged one
makes sense
This level, along with Hazy Maze Cave and Shifting Sand Land Cave give me really creepy and weird vibes, and that's what I love about them
Same.
Yeah, I’m not sure why, but wet dry world just feels…isolated and abandoned. The loose “main path” makes WDW makes it feel completely run-down and decrepit.
If you like it and it’s scary then how come you’re not scared and like it ?
Yeah same
Its an ferling of abondonment and lonely if u were trapped there forever for the wat dry world case an the hazy maze cave vut wet dry world its kinda more ok but still a bit know like these are the only lvls i don’t like in mario 64 like bo-bomb battle field gives an good happy alive feel like many others
I think the most creepy stage in 64 is peach’s castle itself, even if it is just the hub world. It is even creepier in the beta
How?
@@certifiedbfdifan, I mean like, the basement is pretty creepy, but that’s all I can think of.
@@IdiotWhoPlaysGames Fair Enough.
Yeah I always think that. It's so lonely
@@certifiedbfdifan well, compared to the other stages, it's the most lonely and solitary of the bunch, less lively and stuff. People compare it to liminal spaces, and I can see why. With the amount of secrets and narrow pathways it has, people love to speculate about what other secrets it might hide. In fact, that was the whole basis of the Personalized SM64 Cartridges phenomenon back in 2020.
This level was Weirdcore before Weirdcore even existed and I respect that
no it isn't
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@@eltiolavara9 yes it is?
@@eltiolavara9 A random, purple-hued skybox consisting of an IRL photograph (that has a church in it), a strange town with structures that are oddly sized and look almost nothing like the actual buildings in the rest of the game, mysterious music shared with an underground cave level, a strange crystal that controls the water level, allowing you to flood the aforementioned uncanny-looking town.
Yeah dude, sounds pretty fucking weirdcore to me. You couldn't distil the genre down into a level much better honestly. Not to mention weirdcore has some heavy 90s nostalgia elements, and this is as authentic as you can get (because it's actually contemporaneous, rather than anachronistic).
Perhaps you're thinking of the cringe, try-hard weirdcore with bleeding eyes peeping through open doors in the middle of badly-generated (as in, tasteless and dull, not low-poly) 3d gardens or whatever, with textboxes saying "WELCOME BACK DEAR". Yeah, I call that genre shitcore.
9:27
Speaking of Chuckiya, the devs actually put in a mechanic to *escape* being grabbed by one.
Just wildly mash the joystick in any direction or mash the A button will do.
(there’s a hidden counter that checks for these inputs when a chuckiya is rotating, and if the number of inputs reaches 11, the player eecapes)
You know, I never really found this stage all that creepy, and would always be confused whenever someone found it to be that way. Thank you for finally explaining it to me.
But it still has nothing on World of Nothing from Super Paper Mario lmao
(In case you're wondering: It's basically a level where you walk through the remains of an entire universe that you failed to save. It's about as pleasant as it sounds)
Super Paper Mario feels like it could be a gem to play, and i wish i could experience the game for the first time, but i've already seen let's plays
Yeah, admittedly, as much as I love SPM, a lot of the game's surprises have been spoiled by the internet making them so widespread.
@@whereismrclean6783 yeah
Not a mario game, but so much of ocarina of time unsettled me. havent seen or played majoras mask, but theres so much unexplained weirdness in ocarina that im ASSUMING is more focused on and (kind of) explained in majora.
Focused on? Yes
Explained? Ehhhh, not really
Honestly Wet-Dry world was probably my favorite or second favorite level in SM64
It’s actually my favorite
I like the city
Whats weird is the "Top of the town" star. You're not in a town? Its weird to me
it's actually my 2nd least favorite, beaten out only by shifting sand land. god this level was miserable
Yeah when I played Mario 64 on 3d all stars it was my personal favourite stage to play through. I also like how it was a nice break from the other upper castle stages due to it being significantly easy in comparison and the gimmick revolving around changing the water level was pretty cool
Odyssey’s editing is getting too powerful! Great video, as always.
Honestly I really like Wet-Dry World.
1:33 was so unexpected😂
I'm so glad that you actually continue the Level by Level series despite it not performing well. Most TH-camrs would drop it if it didn't perform well, but not you. There's a reason you're one of my favorite TH-camrs (if not my favorite).
idk if it's cause I first played it on SM64 DS but wet dry world has never felt even slightly eerie or mysterious to me. it always just felt like this almost sandbox-esque world with the main area being so open and being so chaotically filled. VERY interesting hearing other perspectives on it! makes me realize how many things I saw as wacky and fun are really disjointed if you start thinking about it
Ok hot take: This is the best level in the game for platforming
Yes Rainbow Ride and Tick Tock Clock have platforming, but if you fail you are punished with death. Also, the layouts are designed for very specific platforming which leaves less room for experimentation.
Wet Dry World on the other hand has so many options that allow you to conquer it in different ways. Don't want to raise the water level? Just be a wall kick god. Can't do that? Make your way up with the heave hos. You can literally have fun getting higher in the level with technical jumps, or just skip it all with the water or cannon.
Also, the random and bizarre design of the main area creates a perfect jungle gym for your moves, probably second only to the castle yard. The weird shapes and blocks allow you to execute all your jumps to your hearts content. And because there's no bottomless pit to fall into, failures are minor setbacks that encourage you to try again.
The town is the cherry on top, but you covered that in your video.
If I want to just have fun in a chill atmosphere playing with the moveset, I always go to wet dry world in a heartbeat :)
I completely agree. It’s really cool how the level design of Wet Dry World feels surprisingly well structured and fun despite how random and tacky it’s looks from a first glance. It’s the reason why I spent so much time in this particular level
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This thumbnail looks like it could interrupt a conversation about cheese
I always watch SM64 videos, it's one of the most fascinating Mario games
Everytime i played 64DS i always hated to go into Wet Dry World with all 4 characters
It's long, annoying, confusing and difficult to 100%
Ooh yea thats so true
Just use yoshi, u can choose its cap in the star select screen
As someone who's played sm64 A LOT of times and 64ds a couple of times and 100% them both more than once (especially 64), the level is easy for me and one of my favs, best water level in the game fight me
Today I learned that people find this level eery
1:06 please NEVER stop doing these character transitions, I love them!
Stephen Georg has probably said one of the funniest descriptions of wet dry world. He said something along the lines of " it looks like all the scrap pieces leftover from the home depot were thrown into a lake"
This level feels like the backrooms
This is one weird level for sure
I got into the hidden town by backflipping with luigi
early
Wet dry world just gives me an eeriee strange creepy feel if being alone in it with no one else its like i was just abandoned there alone forever
The section of the castle heavily contributes since its so empty and then you go into an unsettling world. Gets alice in wonderland uncanny
What’s really interesting is that it was my favorite level and I was never super bugged out about it. I even felt like an urban archaeologist when exploring the abandoned town
Mario falling scared me i didn't expect the vine boom
wet dry world is just as strange as my life
Genuinely one of my favorite levels. Not because ohh it’s creepy or anything but because it’s plain fun, the objectives are fun to do and the town area is fun to run around and(if you play EX Coop like me) roleplay with friends in
1:35 mario 64 aged well
Mario 64:
This was always my favorite one for reasons I could never explain. It felt like you were in some weird dystopian post apocalypse city in the future.
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Agree.
Disagree
Waluigi CRIIIIIINGE. JK.
True
@@Boy_fucker ratio
really cool and well edited. also interesting theme
Thank you Conker
1:34 literally every single climbing level in the game:
This isn’t exactly a Mario game, but I feel like when you complete a mission in Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and just walk around, it’s really creepy. Like, you’ve completed a mission, there are no ghosts, but you’re still allowed to wander around a bit in most missions. I feel like that, combined with the music, how you’re supposed to leave but don’t, and my nostalgia for that game? It’s just really creepy to me.
When there is stuff to do it isn't creepy, but when you've done everything that fear of not being alone kicks in
@@mariotheundying especially in Luigi’s Mansion 3.
I genuinely love this level. Aesthetically beautiful and the town is really pretty and fun to run around.
I love these transitions haba
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I haven't played very many official Mario games apart from Mario 64 and Mario Kart, but I do agree that Wet-Dry World is a mysterious stage. When watching this, I thought about how this level would feel if the music from JRB and DDD was used instead of HMC. I think it would be interesting that way, but I'd like to know what others think of that idea. I remember that I used to have a hard time getting to the pink Bob-omb on that floating platform since I wasn't all that good at the side-flip then, but knowing that I can determine the height of the water before going in by jumping at a certain height in the water makes it so much easier. It is interesting how you point out how the 100 coin star can be collected without entering the town since in most levels I do the 8 Red Coin mission at the same time I am getting the 100 coins. The exceptions to this would include this stage, as well as LLL and SSL since both of those stages have their 8RC missions outside of an enclosed area that you can't get out of once you're inside. But in WDW's case, I don't do 100 coins and red coins at the same time because there's quite a lot of coins I can collect in WDW without the red coins. While I could save collecting the red coins for last, I usually choose not to. The town has been quite mysterious for me as well such as who lived in the town or if anybody had ever lived there, or if nobody lives there because they evacuated or just drowned when it got flooded. So many questions we'll probably never have the answers to.
I think with the unique mechanics and features, this might have been a tech demo or sandbox level that ended up being put into the game. The lack of the overt path and the metal cap seems like it also fits that.
honestly i think almost every part of mario 64 is unsettling, not saying all the levels, just something with the game has always had me on edge, which is weird cause my first ever video game was 64DS, and to this day i love that game, but specifically the original 64 just irks me the wrong way, strangely enough wet-dry world is on the low end for the levels, while sand land, hazy maze cave and the other two water levels i just hate, and peach’s castle as a hub world seems fine, but its just…. off, i think the problem with 64 comes from: the music, which some levels like sand land have very strange grading music, the old graphics (not saying they cant look good) , the emptiness of the levels at time, especially peach’s castle, and then finally the amount of creepypasta that exists, wario apparition or the infinite staircase that kind of stuff, it also stems from how nowadays since hardware can handle having tons of stuff, we dont get barren areas like in 64, and areas always have something around the corner like odyssey
i love how the star select refers the actual world as a town signifying you are in the town you see with the best representation being underground
1:34 damn near gave me a heart attack lol
I've always thought something was off about this stage. It's far from bad or anything, just slightly unsettling. Thanks for putting my thoughts into words.
I never actually found that stage stange i love it
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THE VIDEO FLOPPED I WANT TO DO MORE VIDEOS ON IT ITS ONE OF MY FAVORITE GAMES
@@Odyssey_Central THEN DO IT BC FANS ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN NUMBERS DON'T BE LIKE NINTENDO
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@@Odyssey_Central did you get my question comment Odyssey?
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YESSSSS THIS IS MY FAVORITE LEVEL IN THE GAME
you are deeply disturbed
Awesome Video!
My pick for the “most unusual” level in the series is probably special 4-5 in Super Mario 3d land.
Aesthetically and musically it uses a fabric aesthetic which you would expect to have peppy music, but it uses the ghost house music. Which I find really odd.
The stage itself is a remix of an earlier level, world 3-3 specifically. but now instead of donut blocks, it uses the crumbling terrain seen in the final levels of the game. The enemies are also replaces stingbys and the like with ghost house enemies, boos, dry bones and peepas. And much like the other special worlds in the game, items are very sparce. As far as i’m aware there’s only 1 statue leaf in this level, hidden in a brick block.
The star coins i suppose are also worth noting. The first is toward the beginning of the level behind some terrain near a row of blocks with a poison mushroom. The second one is after a wall jump section not long after the checkpoint. And the last one is extremely close to the second, being over a pit by the last enemy of the level, a giant boo.
Overall. I really like this stage, mainly for it’s juxtaposition. As i’d said, you’d expect it to be an upbeat level. But it isn’t. It’s eerie, peculiar, challenging, filled with enemies much different from the level’s first go-around and while other levels in the special worlds are similar to this. None are as unexpected as this one.
Theory:This town was for both land and water people (but mostly water people,land people are like tourists here, they are live here but this is not supposed to be their home), I wonder why there is no people here
Hey Odyssey Central, I love your super mario videos, can you do a video showing the palette of the course maker and actually all the course maker in super mario Maker 2 ?
When I first played and still now I didn't think it was weird AT ALL
Great video one little suggestion for a future level by level
What is the best game in Mario 3d allstars
I feel bad for sleeping on this series before, i actually really enjoyed this video
You should do a ranking on all the Mario Sunshine levels and then do a level by level on the best or the worst one in your opinion
I loved shooting Mario through the pipe in the sky for first time in Wet Dry World.
Odyssey: "...these arrow lifts which I'm pretty sure not a single soul had ever used"
Also Odyssey: uses them
I love trying to find out what happened here instead if: ai summon wario wet dry world brain sadness creepy every copy personilized
I feel like the dry town OST from B3313 would work pretty well here. I mean, there's a flooded town, it's creepy, lonely, melancholy.
7:06 I was SO expecting a fnaf jumpscare that I even closed my eyes
I don't know what it is, but his level always creeped me out for some reason.
for me it is the music
Wet Dry World is a Limnial Space in Mario 64.
I love how we have to theorize how things are in this game and how they came to be. Unlike other 3D Mario games, this doesn't give away the answers to people's questions. It's like imagining a picture based on the words from a book with no illustrations.
4-4 From 3D Land Is Terrifying And It Is By Far The Scariest Level Ever
The weirdest, most eerie part about this level is…
The lack of Dry Bones (Dry Bones for Smash)
1:26 I still do not know why Nintendo shares most of its music with the grass and mountain theme. Even the new games, like NSMBU Deluxe, mountain theme and grass theme are the same. Just wanted to point that out.
Can you do a video about the obligatory Haunted House level? The music from that level always gave me the creeps...
also, at 10:33 you called a star a moon
Wet-Dry World is probably my favorite sm64 level
I literally just finished making the painting for this stage in my remake of peach's castle(in scrap mechanic) when I saw the notification😂
The 100-Coin softlock you mentioned was fixed in the DS remake, one of many QoL upgrades that makes it arguably more enjoyable than the original. 💧
This video made me go “EEP!”
Wet dry world is so weird, but in an iconic way
BEFORE ONE MINUTE GANG!!!
It's like Blue Resort in Bomberman 64
The 4-4 ghost is most likely intentional because it has animation, looks like the person from the scream painting and is in multiple levels
I personally think that the most disturbing Mario level would either have to 6-1 (Sammer’s Kingdom) or 7-1 (The Underwhere), both from Super Paper Mario. Sammer’s Kingdom because the END OF THE WORLD occurs as you play the level, and all of the enemies eventually stop fighting you, instead collapsing into screaming and incoherent rambling as they realize that they are all about to be cast into oblivion, and the Underwhere because of the fact that it is literally MARIO HELL. Also it has the River Twygz Bed, which is possibly the single most terrifying location/music track in a Mario game ever.
The Verdict: Wet Dry World is a little goofy boy of a stage
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1:34 SO RELETABLE🥲🤣
12:32 I didn’t know Mario could hold his cap instead of having it on his head. I don’t know if this is an oversight, or a glitch that was accidentally discovered
Big Boo’s Haunt on how it’s not that creepy?
When I saw the community post, I knew it is going to be wet dry world.
This was always one of my least favorite levels to play as a kid on DS, and to be honest that hasn't changed, it feels less eerie and more like they threw in a beta level just to pad it out to 120 stars
It does have that unfinished/test level feel to it.
to be fair I believe development got a bit rushed, iirc miyamoto mentioned a few levels had to be rushed out without as much polish as the more complete levels. wdw definitely seems like it was one of those rushed levels, but it's somehow still my favorite stage lol
Not gonna lie should of been a Halloween special, still a great video though!
This level is great but I think the reason it is the way it is is because it was put together quickly as the last stage they made
For some reason, I liked wet dry world. I have no idea why
Wet Dry World is a test level ඩාඞඩාඞ
9:29 is it bad how it never occurred to me that you can kill this guy by throwing him?
Fun level nonetheless
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Me: 1:33
6:36 Was wondering if there was a Vanish Cap in this stage, but I guess not.
I have an Idea. What if you rate a couple BOTW Shrines? Maybe the ones on the Great Plateau or something.
Hey Odyssey. Can I ask you a question please?
I just feel like Wet Dry World looks like a demo level they kept in
This level is so disturbing I hope this doesn’t happen to any place in real life
How would we think of Wet Dry World if it had the "Dire Dire Docks" music instead of the Hazy Maze Cave music?
As someone who played Mario 64 not too long ago through the anniversary collection I really don't get the whole "wet-dry world is creepy" thing it felt pretty benign to me.
Ranking all Super Mario 64 Stars?
hi odyssey your my favorite youtuber
I always thought this level skybox look like pueblos as a little kid
Ngl Shiftier Boo Mansion from 3D World is up there as well.