why was Mario 64 so scary?

>>715107809 (OP)
It wasn’t

>>715107809 (OP)
The empty castle is what did it.

>>715108205
You could say it was liminal

>Be me.
>Read this sign.
>Do everything in my power to rebel against the stated order; punch the walls, jump nonstop, constantly dive to make Mario as noisy as possible.
I love answering to nobody.

>>715108482
Biminal

>>715107809 (OP)
Looking back on it, I wasn't terribly scared of anything in the game until I got vored by the fish in Tiny-Huge Island which scared the shit out of me for some reason and now I don't like water levels in 3D games in general.

>>715108938
what did you think of that piano with teeth?

>>715108938
You and I are of the same mind; we know its irrational but it just made us feel so helpless. I had a similar issue with other 3D platformers with water segments like Bugs and Taz Timebusters. Didn't like the piranhas for some reason.

>>715107809 (OP)
this was a tutorial to teach you about sneaking

>>715109436
I was so scared it was going to eat me thankfully no one would ever draw that which would be very scary and make me piss spaghetti

>>715108041
Yes it was zoom zoom

>>715107809 (OP)
Nothing in Mario 64 is really scary. I know the meme is that zoomers are afraid of old graphics, but Mario 64 is very inviting visually.
This sign always perplexed me as a child though. What the fuck did they actually mean by this?

>>715111502
I’m almost 34. This was literally my first video game. None of it was scary.

>>715111502
uuuuuhhhhh the official narrative is that zoomers are the ones scared of everything, please refer to the discord rules before posting

>>715107809 (OP)
Back when i was six, i thought the piano was scary, but the rest of the game did not really scare me.

>>715107809 (OP)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pr_sMFi5V88

>>715108887
>B...Bim?

>>715112935
explain what it mean

>>715113120
No time

>>715108938
The way the fish gobbles you up with no prior warning or anything to indicate it was coming. That’s what makes it scary. This must have been what people felt like when Jaws came out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bmP3UHXYi28&ab_channel=mkWIIfreak27 the most terrorfying song evers

>>715113448
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!!!!!

>>715108887
>>715112935
>>715113140
Back to r/thecinemassacretruth with you.

>>715113448
I SHARTED when I heard it

b3313 was scary
sucks that it had so many crashes

We may never know.

>>715114320
That's a real reply of the assholeish variety

>>715108535

>>715107809 (OP)
It's only off-putting when you stop and just look around for a minute. The game is designed with the understanding that you'll be running and jumping around and diving into paintings and stomping goombas: the placement of varying elevations, the background music, the spacing of NPCs. If you don't behave that way, the game suddenly looks empty and strangely configured, while the music's tone persists in spite of yours having changed. That's the entire idea behind liminal spaces: areas designed around you and others walking through them, but when you stop walking or those others aren't present, the place suddenly looks alien and empty - probably because it is, since you never look at it in that context. This is true for tons of old 3D games.

>>715108938
>>715111242
I had to force myself through the stupid Ape Escape 1 level with the water dinos. And then I fell near the goddamn fucking catfish, rushed to metastasize the console and never touched the game again.

The thought of being pulled into a painting scared me as a kid

>>715107809 (OP)
>>715111656
Pretty sure this was just a way to tell you that you can just lightly tap nudge forward to tiptoe

>>715116749
Kek

>>715116521
I don't know what's scarier, b3313 itself or one of the devs being a schizo narcissist who's dating himself but photoshopped to be a girl all because he used Stable Diffusion once