Everything Scary About Super Mario 64

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

[@sj-9212]

Mario wasn't alone. Lakitu, the camera guy, followed him around the whole time.

[@checkenginelight1950]

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.

[@aguadetamarindo1947]

@@checkenginelight1950 R button + C-Down = better camera ;)

[@checkenginelight1950]

@@aguadetamarindo1947 I’m going to try that as soon as I get off work today. Thanks in advance for the advice!

[@LemonKreme]

I played on 3DS so I didn’t have to worry ab things like this💀

[@libertyko15]

@@checkenginelight1950 fax

[@catomax26jeev]

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

[@strangesphereoidcreature]

Finally, someone who agrees with me

[@TheStopmotion2]

@@strangesphereoidcreature me too

[@minnie..9787]

Same

[@minnie..9787]

@@strangesphereoidcreature now you got 2 likes

[@jimbobbyjoejr5679]

Super meat boy best game

[@jcaseyjones2829]

It's weird that half the gaming channels on KZbin 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.

[@nthgth]

Well said, I agree

[@danielbueno8474]

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 KZbin. Ngl tho, those first Greenio videos creeped me out in a way no one has done in years, lol

[@chronogamer7901]

It is just bandwagoning. Mario 64 would only be scary to people with some kind of mental illness.

[@lavosdream5809]

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.

[@jcaseyjones2829]

@@lavosdream5809LOL! what the heck was creepy about smw??

[@ammoniti0n]

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

[@mrbigbankuchiface_3352]

epstein island

[@GyurkaDaBest]

@@mrbigbankuchiface_3352 bro 💀

[@ChanDaManTKH]

Black men

[@joaopadua7134]

"Mario 64 seems like a dream" Damn that actually got me

[@drawingdragon]

It genuinely does. I adored this game as a kid, but it always felt so _off_ in a not-quite-scary way.

[@realsallytickletoes]

frfr

[@raisa2587]

@@drawingdragon this

[@collinsterry0208]

No lie when I beat it i thought it was a dream the next day

[@No-hd4cg]

*It isn’t a dream, it isn’t a nightmare, it’s hell*

[@starman1004]

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.

[@alissaoldham7128]

Same here

[@gokux75]

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.

[@henrikedbr]

Oh yeah

[@desertrose1226]

Shifting sand land was my fave zone as a kid.

[@nernoision]

I was never scared I just felt scared and tense

[@Starlightpassi]

The scariest thing in this game was the "Bowsers Message"sound and the laugh. It scared me as child.

[@saiyenct3508]

The only thing that just rubs me wrong is the endless stairs. It's literally unexplainable

[@Guavantamanolo]

And the spinning room in the secret boo level

[@oofbrazil3528]

They put a teleport right at the middle-top of the stairs to send them back down the staircase, and it doesn’t work if the player has 80 stars.

[@Siciliancivilian]

Have you even actually played the game? It becomes unlocked and no longer endless after you achieve a number of stars.

[@elemental7726]

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.

[@nullarcana]

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.

[@Nombrenooriginal]

In super mario 64 DS i always wanted to know what is that island in the distance.

[@DaKingKayden]

@@nullarcana remember the hell valley sky trees, makes me wonder what creatures the game is hiding behind them

[@pelthepelican6232]

True

[@That_cone_head_zombie]

@Mittens but we mean the stuff we haven’t seen the other places in the world it can’t be just a few things

[@ALEN1ful]

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.

[@teresahamilton6036]

AYO

[@anotheraccountididntneedto7222]

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.

[@ALEN1ful]

@@anotheraccountididntneedto7222 Man that would have been soemthing

[@anotheraccountididntneedto7222]

@@ALEN1ful Yeah, people really need to try it, it works with shrooms as well.

[@Andwerr]

BRO SAME HERE

[@scubaagent5834]

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.

[@I.G.S.A.N.A.G.M]

Besides the Eel swimming. Jolly Rogers Bay is so relaxing.

[@PixelsAfterDark]

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[@AltonTRU]

What's the music in the video

[@mohammadfazillah3294]

hey can I ask whats the background song's name your using now

[@AltonTRU]

What's the music

[@mustafaomarYT]

Broo dude your near 1mill views

[@robbyrippe1967]

JuhuhkMarioExE😱

[@grace7919]

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.

[@PixelsAfterDark]

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!

[@parker-boy98]

What does Bill Cipher have to do with this?

[@grace7919]

@@parker-boy98 The Reddit AMA for Bill explained that he liked to listen to rising Shepard tone for fun.

[@GamingDrummer89]

@@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.

[@BonnieTheBunny20]

@@grace7919 they mean why did you bring him up.

[@maylabrown4584]

Someone is there with you, Lakitu documents everything that happens in Super Mario 64 as he is the camera.

[@tekmogm5979]

Yes, but you only see him at the beginning and in the mirrors room, most of the time you forget he is actually there.

[@minniessh]

@@tekmogm5979 i thought he was ONLY in the mirrors room???

[@BioAlpha5]

@@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.

[@checkenginelight1950]

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.

[@gpz219]

@@minniesshthere’s an icon of him with his camera in the bottom right corner throughout the game, he’s there all the time

[@heshbello2245]

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.

[@noeltlalka6476]

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

[@maddawg5016]

Dude this game is horrifying The bosses are so scary and Did you see the demons 💀

[@Blue_Shift421]

@@noeltlalka6476 its like gmod, you feel like in these levels something is watching you from above or anywhere

[@jeffthegamerboy3476]

@@Blue_Shift421 it's the lakitu lol. He follows you everywhere. In that mirror room, you can see him following you.

[@jeffthegamerboy3476]

@@maddawg5016 wait till you discover bloodborne

[@DoctorWigglerLovesBeheeyem]

I don't think the eel is creepy at all. In fact, I think he's pretty cute! I was pretty shocked when I found out that so many people thought it was scary.

[@jayceofspades7195]

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.

[@dice5709]

Now that's terrifying!

[@DaKingKayden]

God that reminds me of the zombie mario clones that would chase you in that I_HATE_YOU.exe mario creepy pasta

[@RaccoonFoot]

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.

[@bigsmoke9691]

1 day i has a dream about wet dry world... but it was not creepy it was like a normal dream but not creepy...

[@JTguitarlessons]

Those are some neckbeard dreams, you need a life dude

[@drawingdragon]

@@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.

[@xyenk7620]

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

[@masterfarr8265]

@@JTguitarlessons wow did it take you 5 days to come up with that?

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

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.

[@BioAlpha5]

im sorry for your loss that must have been tough

[@Ashes2Ashes_Blush2Blush]

@@BioAlpha5 Thank you xx I appreciate that so much. He was a good human taken away unnecessarily.

[@CresterLol]

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

[@CresterLol]

@@BioAlpha5 well no shit their cousin died

[@DE.V.S]

You dont really have to say anything​@@CresterLol

[@swiftrick69]

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.

[@Todija]

Indeed

[@GRRRRR1111]

​@@TodijaIndeed

[@TheWinni]

​@@GRRRRR1111Indeed

[@thedoglovinggamer5825]

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.

[@theh9632]

Just that 2401 makes me question if it was a coincidence or intentional.

[@Yes-by3fq]

@@theh9632 intentional 99% sure

[@notjebbutstillakerbal]

L WAS REAL 2401!

[@thedoglovinggamer5825]

@@theh9632 No, it was DESTINY!

[@theh9632]

@@thedoglovinggamer5825 holy shart you're right

[@benjaminvance8142]

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.

[@umeinui]

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

[@ninjapro5451]

I love how such a fun and non scary game can give you these type of moments

[@peppermintroll]

This deserves much more views than it has right now

[@PixelsAfterDark]

Haha thank you! Had a blast putting the video together and it super refreshing to see many enjoying it too

[@ninjapro5451]

@@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

[@SpongeBobGreenscreensNL]

Jjj

[@M7RF7]

​@@PixelsAfterDarku never played super mario 64? You tryna ruined my childhood nostalgia 😢

[@StViolet_Star]

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.

[@TekkenOnlineFights]

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

[@Silverflame-1]

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.)

[@DaveyB253]

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.

[@burntcrust7961]

Damn that son of a bitch always scares me

[@hamhockbeans]

Chomp no the eel hell yeah.

[@ErinJeanette]

OK! I'm glad I'm not the only one who was creeped tf out by this game as a kid LOL

[@sebozz2046]

Especially the eel for me ! One the scariest experience of i had as a kid

[@ErinJeanette]

@@sebozz2046 yes!!

[@ryanbloomfield1111]

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.

[@xyenk7620]

Nah I loved this game even though I played the ds version it’s still a very cool game but this vid ruined it

[@theeddsworldfan9250]

@@sebozz2046 yeah.

[@waspqueen217]

You pretty much nailed it dude. SM64 to this day is a masterpiece of liminal space and kenopsia. Great video.

[@far0oky0u25]

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

[@sansbob]

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

[@kazamito7953]

what does 2401 mean

[@sansbob]

@@kazamito7953 24 years and 1 month later. It's also the numbers on Luigi's grave.

[@kazamito7953]

@@sansbob ah yes,i already did research on it but thanks

[@evangreco6691]

Luigi is playable? Maybe it’s only on ds🤷🏻‍♂️

[@warthog_77]

​@@sansbob Wait luigi died?

[@JCVidZ0912]

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.

[@IOSALive]

Pixels After Dark, Wow, this made my day brighter! Thank you!

[@brandonfouts4074]

Bro you did an amazing job! I actually was getting creeped out. Awesome!!

[@hl5217]

Mario 64 actually has 4 water levels. Jolly roger bay, dire dire docks, wet-dry world and the secret aquarium.

[@emulatedhedge820]

Dorrie isn't unsettling, just adorable.

[@squarohedron0664]

Yes

[@SpaceFighter2004]

Especially in the DS version

[@SpongeBobGreenscreensNL]

Hi mario

[@angryshibe2205]

​@@SpaceFighter2004fax

[@ZarinaBatool342]

That thumbnail kept me up at night for a good amount of time 😅

[@transcendentsacredcourage]

Because Mario sees into your soul.

[@sami-kc8ox]

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.

[@ehlohimwhil5762]

What about the laughing Bowser after you failed a mission or 'died' ...I hated that as a kid

[@sillycheese301]

Or if the door was locked and you tried to open it

[@Mattatat9ty3]

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.

[@anonymousperidot7446]

While I never played Mario 64 myself I know exactly what you are talking about

[@nyclurker603]

You should play subnautica :)

[@noremacmurphy]

This game and it's spooky vibes have a special place in my heart.

[@supportpatriarchyordietrying]

I loved how the in-game Underground theme changed slightly when you approached something scary. (e.g. the swimming dinosaur or the empty city)

[@runaducal6563]

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...

[@transcendentsacredcourage]

Those Bullies in Lethal Lava Land weren't playing with you. 😂

[@kharirichard6740]

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!

[@reti5828]

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

[@billblaski9523]

I like the "Mario 3 was actually a stage play the whole time" better

[@idkaname3084]

1:46 toad just broke the forth wall

[@CesarSalad69]

What? Im on youtube?

[@wk12plays]

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

[@sebozz2046]

Yemen i guess as there is obviously a mosque in top of the city

[@legoboy7107]

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.

[@Tenjooo]

@@legoboy7107 yeah, the temple is a mosque in cairo, egypt

[@prehistoricgentlemanbird9131]

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.

[@siryellowand]

1:44 "and...... What? I'm on KZbin?" Got me dying💀💀💀💀💀💀

[@VanWolf]

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

[@scintillam_dei]

GTA should be banned because it glorifies many evils.

[@DBlood2424]

Majoras mask for me

[@THE-SCARECROW-a111]

Tbh mjaoras mask and ocarina of time made me feel uneasy and Mario 64

[@doctordoggo1475]

Great video man! so sad to see such a low amount of likes and subs for such a investing video.

[@PixelsAfterDark]

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 :)

[@Huh22202]

@@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!

[@annagenjoian6894]

This was scary about super Mario 64 you saw Luigi was being more scary than super Mario

[@Singing_Monsta69]

@@PixelsAfterDark EXE

[@sunskye]

OP@

[@VenusFeuerFalle]

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?

[@transcendentsacredcourage]

That's definitely creepypasta material. And a decent theory.

[@Loading_1134]

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😱🤯🙌

[@juliamitchell3385]

I'm going!😱😱

[@Thin_Man_the_great]

0:58 Factor 1- Emptiness Is like the back rooms you feel alone but you arent

[@transcendentsacredcourage]

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.

[@djvs.theworld]

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.

[@YasFunny63]

Dang,im sorry for u Buddy :(

[@alanm6o9]

Lol that's crazy If true

[@savestores]

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.

[@mariotuber2866]

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

[@ArichDKC]

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.

[@EndPlayz]

Hazy maze cave was probably the most unsettling, so empty and... Dark

[@sebozz2046]

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

[@GummyDaCow]

If I played this game when I was a kid I would get trauma for the rest of my life.

[@sat296]

I played this when I was seven years old, but what creeped me out the most was the cake ending scene, where if you look behind the star, you can start to see a face looking right back at you. And oh boy, that made me not want to sleep.

[@transcendentsacredcourage]

Basically a foreshadowing of Bowser's return.

[@R3dex4]

Great video! I’d love to see more of that!

[@PixelsAfterDark]

Thank you! Super passionate about games and horror so its great to see such positive feedback when combining the two

[@alpurrs]

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

[@transcendentsacredcourage]

One Boo Painting spews fire while another Boo Painting releases Boos. Yeah... definitely a recipe for nightmares and disasters.

[@AnxiousCinder]

2:36 piano mimic

[@ilililx2556]

new symbol of avarice skin possibly😱

[@scgmike7805]

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

[@basilmybeloved7170]

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

[@PixelsAfterDark]

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

[@paraparappa6561]

i tried this and mario just got pushed aside?

[@basilmybeloved7170]

@@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??

[@paraparappa6561]

@@basilmybeloved7170 yeah maybe. mine is just how it was intended, no creepy shit.

[@paraparappa6561]

@@basilmybeloved7170 wait, im gonna explore mine and tell you anything i see

[@axy_the_alien7034]

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

[@gnarlynicholasreviews]

Great analysis on a niche topic… gimme more!

[@legogonkdroid5967]

I think, that the feeling of emptyness comes from the bright colours mixed with the realistic textures and the liveless eyes of the enemies

[@ANormalName1]

I Think The Most Scary thing in This is The Graphics

[@shaniceb.5129]

My question is why is there an underground village with no way out in wet-dry world?

[@alanm6o9]

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

[@adridoes_sillystuff]

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.

[@_Woop]

9:47 what the hell is that black shadow😰

[@kosk]

Where

[@kosk]

Like smth dissapear at right down corner?

[@CoolGuyMaro]

That’s those little things that shoot fire

[@starcuesatmidnight]

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

[@shirehorse7]

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.

[@transcendentsacredcourage]

Good call on the Snifits. 👑

[@IanTheRoCreator]

2:53 HELP MY THALASOPHOBIA IS RISING NOOOOOOOOOOOO

[@fancyfont215]

Same💀

[@palmossi]

What’s that?

[@TheEditorThingy]

Fear of the ocean

[@jasonr.6428]

I loved the vid man, great job!

[@johnwebb6342]

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.

[@RGNooblez]

Til this day I'm still terrified of the eel and spider thingie

[@YasFunny63]

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

[@alanm6o9]

Hahahahah that's fuckin hilarious bro. You should go back and play it now and face your fear

[@YronTheFirst]

0:49 vine boom

[@CesarSalad69]

💀

[@jarrodlutes9753]

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

[@Austin_Hunter]

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

[@transcendentsacredcourage]

That's just Bowser being a prick again. 😂 In all seriousness, get well soon.

[@Austin_Hunter]

@@transcendentsacredcourage I honestly forgot this comment existed lmao It doesn’t haunt my dreams anymore

[@jesse4437]

0:17 "Children's game" tf

[@PlayLori]

I loved this video ❤️ thanks for talking about my childhood most precious game

[@kylethefraggle30]

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

[@astepbehind982]

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.

[@jimberry5318]

There's actually paintings of mario ,luigi,peach and bowser in zelda ocarina of time in the castle windows

[@astepbehind982]

@@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

[@jimberry5318]

@@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

[@flopflip8972]

Subnautica moment at 3:31

[@DCONightingale]

My favorite game of all time and all these years later, I’m still learning new things about it. And now why to be afraid of it.

[@seanelmlinger2052]

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.

[@skully959]

Good job, you nailed it.

[@cauamontini7252]

This game scared the shit out of me sometimes

[@samusaran7319]

Great topic man, I myself have been trough this (and) other fillings ! 🎮 🕹

[@ozzie8433]

Nostalgia. Just nostalgia. I was lucky enough to play this as a kid and i loved it

[@harbeast125]

This creeps me out 0:27

[@blondeboyworld]

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.....

[@Azkahamm]

I used to stare off into the skyboxes of the levels as kid (especially the city background of wet-dry world) & it always gave me this indescribable feeling.

[@TheSnoozeFox]

Yeah it creeped me out as a kid too, the castle and game in general feels empty and abandoned even though that wasn’t the intention