I'm studying storytelling for my English class and this video is really good for studying. Analysis, sorry if I get some lthings wrong: So in the first version, there are birds chirping, a waterfall. it's atmospheric. But nothing is in the castle, there aren't even any stairs. Just an empty room with a door that leads to bob-omb battlefield. Bob-omb battlefield seems normal, but there are no enemies in bob-omb battlefield, and the music is slightly slower in tempo. You get a star, that's all. Something is off. When the game changes the first time however, the waterfall is suddenly gone. The outside starts to feel more empty. The castle is still the same. In bob-omb battlefield, nothing has really changed; the music is the same, still slower, layout is pretty much the same. But there's now a patch of yellow flowers surrounded by wooden signs with red arrows pointing downward, hinting that there's something beneath. But after attempts to getting under the patch of flowers, you collect a star. After the second change, now the outside is truly empty. No bird chirps, no waterfall. You're truly alone. The castle is still the same. Once you go through the door that leads to bob-omb battlefield, you turn around to make sure that you're safe before you enter bob-omb battlefield. Now, it looks different; the sky is jet black, the music is missing instruments. You get a message that says "objective". Huh? What does this mean? There's a sign with an arrow pointing right You go right. There's another sign pointing left, you go left. When you go right, however, there suddenly more signs that tell you to go left. You decide to ignore them. Then, there's that flower patch again. Now the flowers are glitched out; floating on top of the floor instead of stemming from it. After failed attempts to try to go downwards, like the arrows telling you to, you decide to go up the mountain that leads to the star. As you go up, there's arrows pointing backwards, telling you to go back. You refuse. You collect the star. The third change. There's no sky, just a white backdrop. The water is all dried. The trees are gone. The birds are possibly dead. The castle is still empty. When you get to the painting, you can see that the bob-ombs are gone. Once you enter the painting, it was the same as last time. You get a message: "Objective. Leave". You ignore. As you explore, you suddenly get a timer, ticking 30 seconds. You have 30 seconds to escape. You ignored...you screwed yourself. The area starts to get more dark and gains a red tint. Once the timer ends, you feel confused. Huh? What the? For a few seconds, you hear silence. Then, you start to hear faint static in the distance. It gets louder. Something is coming to get you. The static is a corrupt and inverted version of yourself. It's floating rapidly towards you. You get caught by it. You couldn't escape. The fourth change. Yeah, there was a logo, and now it's gone. You try to play the game. You're gone, but everything else is normal. The birds are chirping, there's a waterfall. Eerie music plays. You get a message... "Everything is better without you." You feel a sense of dread. This was not a normal copy of Mario 64. You should've listened.
Note also how the painting room gets longer each time... Also, did you notice that after the second change, the stained glass window on the front of the castle is missing? In fact, even the spot where it's supposed to be is gone after the third change... as well as the colors of the surrounding hills.
Denial: He stands there for a second in shock. Anger: Groundpounds in anger. Bargaining: Actually tries it even tho it won't work. Depression: Slows down. Acceptance: Waiting for the end. That's how I understood it.
@Tommy Holman Not trying to defend those types of stories, but how is this hack any more realistic than them? An actual Mario game would never play like this.
@@bubbythebear6891 Well, I think it has to do with immersion. Those hyper realistic blood tropes are so overdone for bad pastas that they kill immersion. This hack builds suspension and tension and gets you immersed waiting for something to happen - it’s very very unsettling because everything just feels SLIGHTLY off That’s what makes this hack great - it doesn’t try to be mind numbingly scary, it just tries to make you uncomfortable and paranoid
complaiiiin complain complain ggod thats all yt commenters know how to do "this is better than that FUCKINMG DOGSHIT KNOWN AS _____" is not the compliment you think it is
Time is ticking down, the time you have before your end, the time you haaaaaaave before eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee end of the message Nothing is down here. Error has occured 0x000000000000 0x026184729472 0x638264939274
the music at the end is haunting, this rom hack seriously gives a sense of hopelessness with the player and definitely represents the term “curiosity killed the cat” to great extent
this to me feels like what depression is like. youre doing more or less the same thing as everyone else, except theres just less life to it. the things that are making others excited arent there for you, and youre just going through the motions. and even in how you can, if you choose to, try to appreciate that at least that you can see the colours and hear the music and wander the landscape, even if the excitement and the finer details arent there, but is it necessarily good to be okay with that when you know how much more there is supposed to be?
I think, in order to see those greater details, you must find some contentment within those dull places. Most happiness, in the moment or long term, seems to come from acceptance of the current circumstances. Even with the overall weight of depression, which is ever present. We can still find a way to feel whole, to be here feeling it right now. It’s all there ever will be.
Whenever the sky first turned black, typical elements of the level felt ominous. In particular, running up the mountain and along those walls made it feel like you had a blind spot on the left side of your vision, and man, turning those corners was tense! Great suspense.
I love how most rom hacks try way too hard to be scary, but this one manages to be one of the creepiest rom hacks I’ve came across. There’s something about the eeriness and emptiness that makes it super unsettling
My interpretation is that an iteration of Mario during a previous gameplay remained within a pocket existence after the game has been turned off/reset by the player and because this Mario desired to fulfill the goal of completing the game, it attempted to continue having an adventure in a world that was slowly fading away. It all came to a head when the Mario tried one last time to climb the mountain of Bob-omb Battlefield, a timer began, and the Mario was approached by another glitchy Mario that represented the inevitable descent into oblivion; finally there to claim it so that the next iteration of Mario appear in it's place and start the whole process over again. The final message of "Everything is better off without you" is the game sticking it to the previous iteration of Mario for thinking that it was important enough to finish the adventure when it's time & place in existence was by definition, finite.
After watching this a few more times, I think I understand the message… The player repeatedly playing the game represents a person going through one day after another until the world around them start to be missing something it used to have; as if it’s coming to an end. Until the objective at the beginning of the level is no longer “Get to the top” but rather… nothing. Like there’s no point in being there. Once the player visits the level one last time, the objective is to “leave”. Not to leave the game, but leave the world. The player then encounters a distorted version of Mario, perhaps representing the player’s darker side and takes you to the complete version of the game saying “Everything is better off without you.” With that being said I believe the message here was showing the stages of depression/suicide. In this state of mind you actually believe that everything is better off without you and you’re removing one thing from the world that it used to have… However if you look in the background at the end, not just the waterfall is missing but the player as well. Everything is NOT better off without you. The world will be still be missing something, and that is *you.*
its funny that most of the horror from anything sm64 related has to do with the nostalgia of playing the original game because you just know something's off in the video
I feel like the story that is being told here is that is that the glitch is running rampant, consuming everything in its wake. But it can ONLY when the player is there, that’s why the game is trying to get you to leave, since whenever you come back it consumes more. Then, the last time, the glitch finds you, and we can see it’s taken on the form of Mario, it leaps towards him and finally consumed him as well, in doing that, however, it deletes itself since it also deleted the only form it could take Finally we come back to the game and see that everything is back, but you, Mario. Only to then be told that everything is better off without you, since it’s because of you that the glitch existed, and it’s because of you that it consumed so much.
You can't keep running from your problems forever, Mario. Luigi, Toad, Peach, Bowser.... They all know it's pointless to keep running. Because your problems are always so much faster than you, Mario. So, what are you going to do? Will you keep running, jumping, kicking off walls, thinking that every time you do you'll be one step further from your problems? Or will you finally suck it up and accept the futility of your dillemma?
@@Thatslikefortoddles3789 i mean, how everything can be Better without the protagonist. If the protagonist Is gone (Mario), everything Is worse cause the antagonist (boswer) can now kidnap Peach, and nobody can stop him
@@The_stickman_king. Oh I get it. Yeah it doesn't make much sense but I guess the devs didn't think about what would happen without Mario. Everything would go into chaos
When I played this, the race startup music and timer started and the one thing in my head was: Na na na na na now We're completely fucked Completely fucked We're completely fucked
I have a theory: The Mario that our player controls is actually not the real Mario, it is a kind of virus or entity that is slowly corrupting the game. The Mario that manages to trap us in the end is actually the real Mario but already corrupted so it also corrupts whatever is the faker "Mario" Getting to remove "Mario" from the game code That's why at the end of the game we are told "Everything is better without you.
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This is literally the most scary rom hack I've played. I'm not one to get scared easily, but going through the battlefield the last time and hearing the race sound start made me feel more terrified than any jumpscare ever could
Really awesome horror hack. I have been searching through different ROM hacks (Super Mario 64 is one of my childhood games) out of boredom. Either there is an over-use of blood, jump scares, etc. But this one is my favorite as it uses suspense and the environment to create an uneasy atmosphere. It legit frightened me the first time. I am doing a fan-art of this right now. That's how good it is 💜
Change 1 Removed bob omb from the picture / Music is bob omb battle feild is slower / Foggier bob omb battlefield / Signs that tell you to enter flowers Change 2 Quiet Castle /No Peach Symbol/ Another removed bob omb from the picture / Better music in bob omb battlefield / Night time in bob omb battlefield / No objective / Random signs / Removed fence / More signs wanting you to enter the flowers / Flowers flying / Change 3 White sky / No water / Giant room / No bob ombs. Just sky in the picture. / Objective says leave / No music at all / Darker Night in bob omb battlefield / Random timer before your fate / Scary Music / Place is turning red / The music stops at the end of the countdown / Place seems normal / Caution sign / Noise / Screen starts shaking / 12:45. / Music / Change 4 Everything is restored / Mario doesent exist anymore / Text saying that everything is better without him / Console turns off
it's like a car slowly breaking down. when one problem is fixed, two more arise, and soon enough the entire car becomes inoperable within weeks. only in this case the breakdown is condensed into 15 minutes of gameplay
I feel like creepypasta never really died, the stories have in fact increased in quality over time. Yeah, the early 2010's had some bangers-Ben Drowned is pretty good psychological horror and has a well-made romhack to back it up, and Funnymouth and Godzilla NES kept me up at night for weeks-but even a lot of the really iconic stories were just kind of meh. It feels like in recent years we've consistently gotten really, _really_ good creepypastas, and I feel like this is a shining example.
The way the camera is set up in Mario 64 makes this a lot more unsettling. Whenever you enter a room the camera faces Mario, and you have to walk forward into the room and wait for the camera to slowly turn around, which builds a ton of suspense and anticipation of what you might see.
I like to interpret this as someone retelling the game when theyre older. This person probably has dementia, seeing as how most things are missing. The first time, this is them telling the story as how they remember it. The music is slower, because its really hard to remember the real speed of a song. Every time it crashes, they cant remember the rest. The second playthrough is another retelling. This time, later in their life when the dementia had gotten worse. More things dissapear and change as their memory decays further. The third playthrough, same story as the last. More things leave their memory, most of bobomb battlefield's instruments are gone, the sky is black, most text is gone. The game is starting to start feeling like a horror game. But by the last playthrough, their dementia has gotten so bad to the point where they remember a completely different game. A weird, empty horror version of sm64.
Me reading the title: Oh it's like a creepypasta. Me most of the video: oh, it actually was just the map on its different early versions. Me at the end: Oh it was like a creepypasta.
The beginning of the vid when they entered the castle and the inside was just empty gave a similar feeling to seeing the house you grew up in without furniture because you're moving away
I was thinking that a star would be there & grabbing it would lead to the usual "something changed" error screen, but afterwards you get transported into some weird acid trip world among the likes of Kidd Video or Revenge of the Sunfish.
12:36 pov: the lights didnt flicker immediantly in the previous room that you sped through, and now ambush is coming and the room your in doesnt have any closets
This video feels like me desperately trying to remember all the Mario 64 romhack show cases and blooper videos I'd watch back in the day (I'm never finding those videos again bruh 😭)
I feel this like a depressed Mario, visualizing in his last delusions one of his adventures from when he was a hero. But knowing that none of that means anything anymore. Melancholic nostalgia and emptiness. A sad reproduction of a reality that no longer exists, that should never have existed. Everything is better without him, and he knows what to do.
I like the increasing amount of signs with arrows pointing anywhere but towards the star like the game itself is warning you to get out before its too late
