Two of the games are still contemporary enough to make sense in 2020. This was, and still is, perhaps the greatest platformer of all time. Galaxy is just as good in 2020 as it was in 2007 – in no way is this a game that feels more than a decade old. The controls are still bad, but then the controls always were bad. Nintendo has given it a widescreen update and the visuals, lifeless cutscenes aside, sparkle. It looks, for the most part, great on Switch. Yes, Sunshine is still a hot mess, both infuriatingly brilliant and infuriatingly odd. Hell, the game even has the white-and-black checkerboard floors from the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks.The other two games in the bundle, Super Mario Sunshine and Super Mario Galaxy don’t suffer from the same tension between nostalgia and progress. I'd often wonder what kind of looming terror would greet me if I ever reached the top. And deep in the interconnected hallways of the castle’s highest levels, there’s a staircase that stretches upward, unendingly, called the Never Ending Staircase. In the courtyard, you might get sucked inside a miniature house that transports you to the underworld. Downstairs, a white rabbit bounces away when you look at it. Upstairs, there’s a long, quiet room full of mirrors. It takes place inside an abandoned castle where Mario’s completely alone, except for the ghosts in the basement and the colorful wall paintings that are portals to other worlds. There is something so spooky about Mario 64. But I would be lying if I said I wasn’t unsettled when I started reading horror stories about Mario 64 and found a lie from my youth staring right back at me. I don’t believe that Nintendo, the most kid-friendly company in gaming history, was trying to sedate its audience and inflict brain trauma. Just take a look at the Majora’s Mask " Ben Drowned" theory, which is genuinely frightening. Wario show you fun.” Video games have been a leading topic of creepypastas for years now. The Wario Apparition is most likely a fiction based on weird videos from a 1993 E3 presentation that show the evil Mario doppelganger saying, “You want fun?. According to the theory, if you found the Wario Apparition, you’d suffer stroke-like symptoms and memory loss. Apparently, the worst of these “personalization A.I.” glitches is known as the " Wario Apparition," a disembodied head that can be found in the basement of the game’s castle. (I had a friend who insisted that he hopped on Yoshi’s back and rode him in Mario 64's f inale.) The legend gets way more disturbing from there. This theory seemed to explain why we often share conflicting anecdotes about playing the decades-old game, some of which are completely bizarre. This creepypasta (or, internet urban legend) alleges that Nintendo was testing the waters with a new “personalization A.I.” technology that created strange nuances in Mario 64-such as alternate levels, music tracks, and characters-unique to every player's cartridge. It was around this time when I discovered a thread on Reddit called " Every copy of Mario 64 is personalized," which describes a bunch of urban legends about the Nintendo game, including the existence of a very scary, very “cursed” appearance of-you guessed it-Wario. That is, until earlier this month, when Nintendo announced the game would be, at long last, coming to the Nintendo Switch as part of Super Mario 3D All-Stars, a trio of remasters in celebration of the mascot’s 35th birthday. I was a needy younger sibling I’d churn up all sorts of superstition for attention and never think of it again. Of course my brother never found the secret Wario level.
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