More of Super Mario's Disturbing Analog Horror

[@machtalaterrouge]

Yo, Sunflower! And thanks for the analysis ^^ I'm currently working on the third part of the series. First of all, to answer to your question: yes, the weird text in the description is totally decipherable. And the key is in the video. the "I let you logs in the river" quote may be used as a hint and I think it fits pretty well to this case (this quote isn't the key, tho). Good luck to anyone who can resolve this part! Then, I wanted to say you've missed two hidden texts (I agree, they're within a few frames to notice them). The second text is more a confirmation of something than anything of deep-lored, while the first is... interesting and can bring a new interpretation to one scene (and both interpretations are valid). And finally, pretty good job with video editing! Sooo, see you all next time!

[@Sunflower41XD]

Hey! Thanks again for creating the Black Sun Tapes, I can't wait for part 3 Ah so it's decipherable and I missed a few screens, I thought I was so thorough with finding everything! I'll have to take a look at everything again and make a follow up comment on this video and address it in the next one. Glad you enjoyed the editing :]

[@machtalaterrouge]

@Meowsler Alright. How could I improve my series (don't think I'm mocking you. I'm genuinely curious)?

[@machtalaterrouge]

@Meowsler I see. I agree The' is very well made (it's one of my favorite horror romhacks, honestly). But you don't answer to my question. How could I improve my series? Let's imagine you're making an analog horror (or digital horror) on, let's say, SMS, on what base you're using to create the world, the characters and the story? Like what would happen if Nintendo kept the personalisation AI for the Gamecube (like my series) or on any console? What could happen if everything go wrong à la Grizzco Tapes? Or how characters react to a deadly and weird virus like in a lot of MLP fanfictions? Honestly, I'm curious to see what you would advice me to improve my story.

[@newerboomerangmiaro7778]

I wonder will TTYD be referenced in the arg?

[@FoolMisinfo]

@@machtalaterrouge welp I'll give this in, my only criticism about the series so far is that it is quite cliche/more so frustrating that you actively use text that you have to time it right to stop the video. As much as I love analog horror of all kinds this has been quite the problem in many great analog horror series both well known and obscure, so my criticism isn't just "it's bad because It's bad", it's bad because at some point it has become a very used way to hide messages that instead of it's usual charm of a fun interactive ,enticing way to get your viewers to get through your series it has instead become frustrating and obnoxious to rewind over to go through and pause at the right exact second/frame/moment, yours doesn't exaggerate it sometimes, I've seen series legit show frame text or frame for a semi second specific pause that becomes more difficult to pause. But it is still a nit picky problem that not only myself but I've seen people generally criticize about analog horror nowadays, aside from that you've done an amazing series!

[@NorthStarBlue1]

Looking past the whole "haunted video game" aesthetic, the underlying concept of a world that was created, had its core stripped out and then was callously tossed aside by its creators, with no thought given to the slow wasting death that it was condemned to, is a very terrifying one when explored in depth.

[@kayntrain]

The 3d animation from this arg is really nice and different from other ARG. Great video essay. I never heard of most of these without your channel.

[@MrfnordTim]

"Plane" probably means either "infinite flat surface" or "level of reality" in this context.

[@CassiusStelar]

American names work with N64 based personalization ARGs because Argonaut and Silicon Graphics were instrumental in Nintendo making the leap to 3D graphics. There would not be a Jonathan working on Mario Sunshine's AI...

[@SammEater]

Exactly, at that point the team was entirely Japan based. The only westerners working on Sunshine would be translators and VAs, no one actually making the game.

[@CassiusStelar]

@@SammEater I just realized I didn't change "american" to "English" before I hit post and now I'm ashamed of a comment I left two fucking months ago At least I was right

[@cherrypopscile3385]

That's true. Just hire a Japanese voice actor, random guy making an analog horror arg, likely having 0 budget. He probably did that so he could do something other than Generic TTS Voice over blue screen. When you're watching series made on shoe string budgets, you'll have to accept some level of immersion breaking.

[@CassiusStelar]

@@cherrypopscile3385 *facepalm*. way to attack a strawman. This isn't about voice acting, it's about writing. Instead of the voice memo being recorded *by the guy who programmed it*, have it in universe being read off as correspondence between a former Nintendo programmer from Japan by a former NOA localizer.

[@Frdrck2.0]

​@@CassiusStelarI feel like you don't know what a strawman argument is buddy

[@Comet_Game]

I love channels like this, gives me that vibe that Nexpo gives me and i love it. Any viewers or sunflower himself give me any more KZbinrs that have the same editing and quality as sunflower and nexpo

[@Sairuken]

Preeeeetty sure "Divine words" refers to programming code, as that's what would give the ai/characters purpose and direction, as well as restrictions on form and behavior- without it, they wouldn't know what to do, and that's why they become distorted. When I heard "black sand" in this context, I immediately thought of static, since static is sometimes described as "gritty". While static is merely a visual phenomenon for us, it might actually be a "physical" occurrence for those in the machine. It's also well known that when electronics decay, artifacting or static may start to appear- if this world has been abandoned or damaged for so long, it would make sense for it to begin to sink into static, or "black sand".

[@buddyzilla4557]

So a grassy field is a "plain." An aircraft can be a "plane." The third option in a similar spirit to the first is a "plane" or empty space in which something can rest on. When you gragh out points in geometry, the grid is the plane. When you create polygon sprites in a sandbox game builder, the space you build it in or resting on to give it orientation is a "plane." The universe is made up of matter ever expanding like water spilled iut on a table or flames from a central ecplosion. This means SOMETHING different of spacial substance lays ubderneath and beyond its borders. This would be the existential plane as it is the plane on which the universe and all other existance would rest upon. I feel this latermost homophone is most likely what is being referred to.

[@galaxtia]

What's good, Sunflower? I've enjoyed the analysis of the analog horror videos!

[@Sunflower41XD]

hey thanks for enjoying them!

[@cyberpancakee6627]

Using character AI I got mario to torture bowser jr, while being gaslighted by peach, show him peach isn't real and that was him talking, and that he was a god but was hit in the head, resulting in memory loss, despite everyone knowing he was a god

[@randomwashere4152]

diabolical

[@cyberpancakee6627]

@@randomwashere4152 fight club but with shrooms

[@TheRiddler6129]

Mario & Yoshi watching as the entirety of Isle Delfino is being covered in Dark Sand:

[@Frdrck2.0]

Your videos are very high-quality. Keep up the good work

[@darrencovert2127]

23:21 you know who this guy kinda looks like? A distorted Mario.

[@EvenMoreTiniestWizard]

Stanley is NOT having fun.

[@alankim6424]

Hey, Sunflower, I think I got most of the words at 19:43 of your video about the tarot card, the red text says "It is said the Watch Dog is the Guardian of the Laws, keeping the unborn spirit of the Drowned in Red alive, mind broken, only eternal scholar.", as for what it means, that is for us to find out.

[@alankim6424]

although for the red text on 22:41, i cannot make out much as well

[@Sunflower41XD]

woah nice job! It sounds like an interaction between a 2 characters we don't know too much about

[@SammEater]

Without the horror themed, I wonder if we will ever reach a point where an actual AI can make a personalized game to whoever is playing it. That does look like an actual cool concept.

[@SammEater]

The only thing I don't like about this type of creepypasta about games is that they make even the "in universe" presentations creepy, like that Dolphin one, no one would make a video like that to be shown in a meeting with devs with a "creepy music" soundtrack, it would probably be just like an instructional video. I know that this video is "technically" being "distorted" but even then it looks too far fetched, it needed to be more grounded in reality with a slightly unsettling feeling underneat and more technical terms instead of all that mythology and philosophical talk that makes no sense for a dev to say to another dev making a game (or an AI). Either way, I like this one.

[@conzondo]

Dooter-aw-nuhmiss lol Sorry I love you Sunflower but the way you said Deuteronomous got me

[@Sunflower41XD]

I tried to make it sound as Greek as possible XD

[@Hugo_Tate]

🌻 Is holding us down with the analog horror vids

[@DylanSwag42]

This video constantly having the VHS static filter makes me think Sunflower made this tbh, but that's just me 🎅🏿

[@choconyansmugen179]

I’m surprised you haven’t covered the June archives

[@pgbwyatt4534]

I would also like to see that

[@Sunflower41XD]

I've been asked about it before but haven't looked into it properly. So, maybe I should

[@sp0okiradio08]

Hey sunflower your KZbin pfp looking a bit different last time I saw you, you ok?

[@Sunflower41XD]

Yeah! I just like eye imagery and thought it fit the horror-feel of the channel

[@sp0okiradio08]

@@Sunflower41XD oh cool! Hey I know you've been only talking about analog horror stuff on KZbin but there's this digital horror game called Last Seen Online, thought you might like it and give it a shot shot maybe?

[@Gamma_Churchill]

I hope you cover The Power Star Archives it is pretty interesting

[@Sunflower41XD]

It's definitely on my radar 👀

[@base21]

So its the same as any other mario analogue horror?

[@slimeinabox]

I know its not a long series but could you cover LOZ by mapleriot?

[@Sunflower41XD]

I already did in my Zelda analog horror video :)

[@butterflyfromhell885]

Can you do an iceberg where De Blob 2 on Wii Analog Horror Analysis ends gang violence?

[@Sunflower41XD]

we all know "analog horror explained" videos ends gang violence

[@GerpidyGerpson]

Yo whats up flowa. How you be? Yay for more spoops

[@Sunflower41XD]

yo im good thanks, and I hope you are too :]

[@ShadeMeadows]

I always love these~

[@espeon030]

SAME

[@masonplayz5492]

You should cover the Kamabo co investigation by Timeclocked tunes it’s a really good Splatoon analog horror video.

[@fluffcake]

Honestly quite sunshineqular

[@ToadcolonD]

Love this guy fr

[@Gigiplayz-q3v]

To decipher the text inside the description, you have to use something called a keyboard shift cipher hope that helps

[@captainpepsi353]

i feel like analog horror has just reached the point where its all the same (Loud noise with flashing images means scary) like i cant take any of it seriously when its about mario sunshine and how its somehow related to majoras mask???? like none of this makes any sense and is insanely cheesey

[@linkfreeman1998]

Its even worse that some of the concepts and names are prolly just put there to make it feels deep. But the end result is just confusing.

[@ivoneo2806]

Well analog Honor isn't really that now nor are they the same there are actual good ones now but I understand your opinion l guess

[@ivoneo2806]

​@@linkfreeman1998I guess

[@koreyworey6345]

I personally disagree, but I respect your opinion.

[@itsmejambo]

Nice video bro love your videos keep it up it keeps me going 😂😂😂

[@Yoshifan1219]

A lot of the style for these videos remind of good ol nexpo and I love it! I’m curious if he was inspiration for this style?

[@Gbs128]

My guss for the log at the end is QWERTY code i think

[@monstrasmakacorestompy]

21:32 that thing looks a lot like mario.

[@MasterRBertLink]

28:28 - Deku Link

[@Thomfamily5]

8:18 developpers

[@RotcodFox]

This ARG honestly feels a bit cliche and unoriginal, it's not really anything new that I haven't already seen before. I've been really tired of the VHS analogue horror style for a while now, and the "Mario is personalized thing" has been overdone for like a year now

[@Pingu12363Mn]

Sounds like a you problem fella

[@Shadow_20k]

Womp Womp

[@Oracledraws]

Idk why people are disagreeing with this comment, in my opinion, op has a point, I've seen a lot of these types of mario 64 analogue horror esque videos and while it's not bad that they exist, it's just they're overplayed and some people haven't seen much new being done with these.

[@fieryfist3150]

I feel you, I think Super Mario 64 back around 2020 did it best. 4 years later and we're still stuck in the mud with this kind of topic. An ARG around Super Mario Sunshine sounds good on paper and there's plenty of potential regarding it's developmental history but this one just felt like a copy-paste of SM64.

[@linkfreeman1998]

​@@fieryfist3150my god, following the story on this SM Sunshine series is as confusing as The Monument Mythos... Like I can hardly follow.

[@raptorskilltor4554]

Why is Freddy freaker on the thumbnail

[@Sunflower41XD]

Freddy Freaker is a key character in the Mario Sunshine series

[@machtalaterrouge]

Oh God. He went too deep in the black sand! He went deeper than anyone else! He litteraly is drowning in dark sand!

[@BigPurpleGod]

What was thing Mario or shadow mario

[@damonmyers4978]

Can I ask you to do a video on untertale/deltarune analog horror?

[@zeldamaniac14]

Anyone aware of an analog horror with Super Smash Bros series?

[@notTLWO]

what no skybox does to a mfer

[@backbonepictures78]

Props to sunflower for making such a good video for a really mediocre series. At least it’s not as bad as those sonic ones

[@Thebadpiper]

Please do a video on Crash Bandicoot lore

[@amandaletcher1320]

Is it just me but doesn't a pikmin analog horror sound kinda cool

[@TheTSense]

You can't ignore me forever

[@Sunflower41XD]

I know that there's no escape.

[@ephraimallen234]

I think they Know Mario is the best in there channel

[@surviverplaysuplayer1142]

Wow the 3rd video on disturbing mario anlog horror They keep commin, eh?

[@chris08crimson08]

Nice video n epic The babadook has seen you, you said his poem. Now, your blood is his now. Start running while you can.

[@Sunflower41XD]

D:

[@chris08crimson08]

@@Sunflower41XD Just kidding

[@assaultempress]

Metroid next! Please!!

[@Distressedredball-o2m]

21:33 OH SHI

[@Spygaming320]

Can you look at tf2 analog horror next please?

[@Eyewitnesse]

Peanut butter 👍

[@thefuntime2302]

what the sigma

[@yolocalfurry]

What the sigma

[@Crazinator]

Um what the skibidi toilet Ohio Rizz ?🤨🤨🤨

[@IMP-sz8et]

What the sigma

[@MechSonic]

Here question are you good eye ball tv thing evil one

[@backbonepictures78]

That’s so true

[@CAPME00]

Another ARG..............

[@NikolaiOrelovGNR]

Not an ARG, and if you don't like analog horror then don't watch them

[@reviloplays2143]

22nd!

[@baseballcaniac9111]

Hey, Sunflower. I enjoyed this. Have a good day. Remember, Jesus loves you.