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"Why do I get this feeling that I'm being watched?" Should we all unsubscribe then?

"I feel like i'm being watched" Lakitu: 😐

"And he unironically drowns" LMAOOO IS THERE A WAY TO IRONICALLY DROWN

GermanPeter: The piano never really got a reaction out of me Him again, two seconds later: *talking about how a snow man is disturbing*

Just remember, your view in the game is a camera held by a flying turtle and you are just a camera watching a man save some princess from a bigger turtle.

I've always thought that LLL's painting was just the bowser insignia made out of flames.

This game always felt very isolating to me. The castle is so big yet so empty, the worlds are so surreal and dream-like, and the early 3d graphics don't help either. There's barely anyone to talk to. Most of the NPCs you encounter in the game are enemies, and even those are pretty sparse in some of the levels. The only thing that talks to you are signs that are mysteriously placed in all the levels... You don't really feel like anyone has your back, you're basically just left out on your own.

innocent kids game: exists everyone: horrifying

Actually, Luigi being hidden in the game for 24 years and 01 month is what's really disturbing.

Honestly, I always thought of the defeated enemies like this: You know how they give a little 'poof!' with stars and all that? In 3D land and the original games, it has been shown the magic in their world can go as far as disguising enemies as Bowser himself, so Bowser has some fairly powerful magic. I imagine that the little poof signifies them being teleported! They get damaged, teleport back to Bowser's Castle, get first aid, then, once they're healthy enough, get sent back in the field! I mean, I don't think Bowser has an unlimited supply of troops, so this makes more sense, and it's just like an actual army!

"The floating spinning eyeballs and monster man eating piano never scared me... but those SNOWMEN WITH THEIR BLACK EYES WOW MUCH SCARED"

SM64 is like an old ballroom except there's no life energy left behind and is just an empty world that tries to mimic life but does an uncanny job at it.

Super Mario 64 has always been “off” to me, but that’s probably the reason why I love it so much. I love the weird and dreamlike feeling it gives me.

I mean Lakitu is literally behind you for the entire game acting as your camera, so... yeah, you're being watched.

I swear to god I remember there being a door on top of the castle after you collect every star in the game to unlock the 120 Star door, it brings you to peaches bedroom with a peach painting, but that’s all I remember. I know it was most likely a dream but it’s still really weird.

I think the reason the pokeys look creepy is not only their face, but the fact that unlike most enemies, they're always staring at you. Not at Mario, but at YOU. No matter from what angle you try to look at them, they are always staring into the camera. That, I think, makes them some of the creepiest enemies in the game

The weird water world is truly mind absorbing... i can't play that level without feeling anxious

"The snow mans face is scary, its like he has a gaping mouth" Snowmans face: ._.

"Unironically drowns" Wtf does that even mean lol

This game always gave me weird existential crises as a kid.

“Alright, we need to make a kid friendly game. What do we do?” “Make it like a cartoon!” “Make it dream like.” “Town go sink”

"Why can't I shake this feeling that I'm being watched?" You're forgetting that throughout the entire game, there is someone watching. Right behind you, no matter where you go, they're always right behind you. Staring, watching, keeping track of your every movement, never ceasing for a moment and always able to match your speed. No matter how high you fly, how low you sink, how slow you crawl or how quickly you run, they will always match you move for move. The question isn't if you're being watched... But *why is there a Lakitu recording everything?*

Mario 64 definitely has this weird uncanny atmosphere to it, and I love it for that. Wet Dry World is awesome. *Yeah, I said it.*

I used to play Mario 64 when I was younger, and I can say I experienced this uneasiness sometimes, I'd be wandering around the castle and suddenly I would get this odd feeling of loneliness that made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, sometimes it hit me so bad that I'd have to turn the game off and go do something else, it's weird how this game so many people have fond memories of can radiate this kind of eerie energy

The most creepy things are the ones that aren't intended to be creepy or aren't sold as creepy. :D

germanpeter: not scared of an eyeball, a eel, and the creepy piano also germanpeter: scared of a whomp, a pokey, and a snowman seems about right :/

You have a very generous interpretation of "disturbing".

Not to sound like a smartass or anything but the "beta peaches castle" was a test level

Hello! In case you're wondering, the skybox at 12:13 is actually just a heavily edited photo of Casares, a town in Spain.

The game developers watching people over analyze the game: 😬

"Who is watching Lakitu in the beginning and ending of the game?" is the bigger question, lets be honest.

The secret town of wet dry world gives me the chills it terrified me as a kid. The worst part is once your in there you can’t leave, your just trapped in this empty lifeless village with no escape...

why is there 64 marios

He missed the fact that you flood wiggler's home, then kill him for a single star.

I had no idea Wet Dry World was considered ominous, it’s one of my favorite worlds and I actually feel very safe there. I always thought it was a pretty cozy stage.

I never got a feeling of dread or eeriness from this game (even from Wet Dry World) but I always felt a sense of unsatisfaction, like there was always another part to a level or the castle that was just out of reach. For example, I would try for hours as a kid to try and summit the hills surrounding Bob-Omb Battlefield to find out what was on the other side, and to try and shoot over the towering walls around Jolly Roger Bay, again to find out what lurked behind them. I've never felt anything close to this feeling from any other game before or since. I distinctly remember seeing a video years ago where a guy supposedly used the cannon in the castle grounds to shoot the other way over to Isle Delfino. Obviously, the video was completely fake and I can't find it anymore, but I think it instilled a sense in me of wanting further exploration in this game. Super Mario 64 DS and mods would quench that want ever so slightly.

I never had a problem with Wet Dry world, or anything with Mario 64, just kinda there, I remember playing a bit on my friend's N64 and I just thought it was neat, but that was a long time ago and I mostly remember playing the DS version. But I oddly remember playing lots of Wet Dry World when i was waiting for food at a restaurant. I also get what you mean by feeling not completely alone, best way to describe it and a way to constantly feel it is an empty TF server, without the constant gunfire and shouting it feels slightly off, and with the ambient noise or none at all it gives off a feeling.

Im only seeing this so I can understand a person's different perspective. Since when I played this as a little fetus boy (Joking), these things described as "Creepy" or "Unsettling" like the water world Skybox being a literal Atlantis had always seemt so.. aesthetic to me, I enjoyed looking at them in detail, to the point of going to a high surface just to see whats out in the void of the island we call a stage. Most of the paintings always made me chuckle since they seemt pretty stupid and funny to look at, I never saw the "Fire Monster" painting as an actual monster, I used to see it as just a flame that was withering out. Seeing the perspectives of other people, SPECIALLY those who turn around your opinions is a great way to spend the quarantine times, just seeing how people think differently than you do. I wonder if anyone is even going to read this seeing as its already been a day since the release of the video, but if anyone does, I appreciate you taking the time for you to read a random comment you found on the internet.

The reason why the levels feel they're in the middle of nowhere it's because, unlike what most people believe that the paintings are portals to locations in the Mushroom Kingdom, Mario is literally transported to a world that only exist inside each painting and those worlds are limited to what the paintings show.

Fact is...All Nintendo 64 games have a creepy feel because of its hardware limitation. Goldeneye creeps me out. The NES definitely had the same vibe especially when a game would freeze. I'm old...I've seen it all. Super Nintendo for some reason didn't feel creepy. Probably because it wasn't the first of its kind. 3D was the first of it's kind on N64 and it was on a cartridge.

8:40 Actually, concept art of Super Mario World shows Mario POINTING for yoshi to eat something, which was actually confirmed.

I got scared by the feeling of being totally alone as a kid. It's just you and the gumbas floating in the void, very spook. I got that feel from a lot of games. In Ratchet and Clank there are segments where the two split up and I hated them. Seeing skyboxes always creeps me out, knowing how small the world really is. How small I really am. How small everything is.

You’ve totally nailed it: As thrilling as the transition to 3D was, the world of SM64 most certainly has an emotional deadness/flatness to it, and I remember feeling unsettled by it, even as I enjoyed the game. I never felt “warm”’ playing this game . . . You’ve finally given words to those vague, 11-year-old-kid feelings I had back in ‘96 🤘🏻😂!

Trying a little too hard with the 'everything supposed to be scary is cute, like the rotating eyeballs, and everything cute is creepy, like the snowmen'. I know it's fun to overanalyse everything, that's what people do all the time, like hey isn't Mario squashing all his enemies, changing their innards to pulp????' Wet/Dry World always makes you sick every time you load it up? lol ok more interesting is when you said you always wondered what were in the islands in the distance. i too would stare at things like that, extensions of the world, more mysteries...

I find that with Mario 64, as well as other N64 games, the "too realistic" texture problem is non-existant _as long as_ you play at the default very low resolution. There's less contrast between the perfect edges of polygons and the low-res slightly realistic textures at low resolutions (especially on a blurry CRT). You may disagree on this point, and I do understand, because almost all of Mario's textures are just flat colours, which makes quite a jarring difference. I think that that difference makes sense though, because Mario is in other worlds for most of the game, paintings which contrast starkly with Mario, Peach, Toad, and their Mushroom Kingdom. Even the castle's corridors sort of fit that, being in a dark basement, even in your own house, can definitely feel like another world. I think that the game is that way, at least in part, to help bring out a sense of adventure. The experiences of creeping through dark corridors or fighting your way up a big fortress are supposed to be amplified by a world that feels out of place, and even if they aren't made to do that, then they still do; the textures make it so that the game doesn't feel like one world where everything looks the same, but an archipelago of different landscapes, but to some it might feel quite disturbing. fun game tho

Mario 64 feels like some sort of fever dream, and believe me I have had many of those. All the blurry objects, the non-existent ground that should support the floating levels, the giant but distant islands you can never reach... Makes you wonder

He took all of my thoughts and put them into this video even though I could never describe my thoughts

Hits the nail on the head. All of the early 3d games are surrealist-scapes. Hopefully low-poly as a retro art style gains some traction because it is honestly pretty awesome.

when i was bab i had a dream that there was a secret barn level in New Super Mario Bros. Ds and it was so realistic I couldn't seperate it from reality so the next day I spend like 2 hours trying to unlock the secret barn level. The level was just a brown barn in front of 1-2 that had a single toad in it.

That "crt" effect is killing everyone who owns or has owned a crt, and especially me watching it on one.

"Every copy of Mario 64 is personalized" is just the Mandela effect with extra steps and turned into a creepypasta

When you showed the whole Wet-Dry World skybox design where all the buildings could be seen, the first time I watched this and even now I get a very unsettled feeling, like I'm seeing a town after an apocalypse or after everyone in it had died. The dark windows and doors made it feel like there was something inside, waiting to jump out and grab you. I totally get how someone could feel scared of the skybox, it's horribly unsettling.

Whomp: has goofy face and comedic bandaid Peter: unsettled Eel: Has white eyes sharp teeth and red and black skin Peter: I see no problem here

For some reason, I always got the feeling that Bowser wasn't the true evil of the game. The ending seems so superficial - it's like nothing really changed at all

I always liked wet-dry world. When I was younger, I played it all day and was mesmerized when I discovered the underwater city. Perhaps it is because I was without volume, but to this day, I think it is one of the coolest stages out there.

How the heck did Unagi never get a reaction out of you? That eel was the thing that triggered my Thalassophobia... The rest of the game however was always pretty normal and fun for me to play (except obviously for the infamous Wet-Dry World, eerie as hell)

It's quite an interesting mindset you had, and still have. As a child, I always thought that the levels and such you travel to are just different dimensions, in which you have to get the power stars back to defeat bowser. Although I only played SM64DS as a child, I can't really say that the textures creep me out in the original. For me at least, the game was a huge playground for me to have fun in.

Actually back then during the N64 era almost all games had the exact same feeling of loneliness, dont get me started on THPS2 levels. Also all games produced on me the same feeling of wanting so bad to explore them beyond their boundries.

Wait a second, since when did wdw not have music? On my SM64 "channel" on the Wii, I have basically completed that course unless me having music is one of those "every copy of SM64 is personalized" things

2:08 Actually, if I recall correctly, I remember seeing a Twitter post about how a number of textures come from stock photos of real things like hay and rocks. Specifically, I know the texture of the ground at 2:13 is from a picture of hay.

Compared to other 3D Mario games, Mario 64 just has a weird lonely feeling for me Also 7:44 "unironically drowns" 🤣

I think the reason why Mario 64 is creepy is because it represent the abstract feeling the best way i could ever think of, like just unadd the Mario stuff and you got a a game where you explore a castle that go beyond what is possible with an interior that is bigger than the exterior that also got almost nobody in it (just like an nightmare when we think of it...) with room that have one of the most unnatural event in it, example : The mirror room with the mirror that reflect a painting that don't exist, the room with the Tiny Huge Island Painting that resize whoever goes near any painting, the endless stair (do i need to say more ?), a clock can literally take you on a dimension that looks like a giant clock interior, the castle ground ward which is haunted, and of course painting that lead to abstract word in the middle of the emptiness (ocean, desert, cave, void, ice mountain and whatever the heck is Wet Dry World is) with almost (again) nobody in it expect unnatural living creature that want to kill you. Now that i think of it Mario 64 might be just an dream cause it looks like all of one of my weirdest nightmare and dream, but nice game tho really like it Edit : okay i need to add more for the castle room part cause there are definitely more so : A room that have a giant metallic looking water portal that lead to a giant maze cave place, a hall where you found a water looking portal that definitely will give you *fun* , a aquarium room with a painting of a sunken ship with two hole in the wall, one that give you a one up, and one that teleport you to a giant cube made out of colored windows filled with water in (guess what ?) the middle of nowhere, two small elevated room that have a hole in it which give you a view of a sky while we in fact are looking *down* and not up which teleport you to some place with clouds and flying platform in the middle of the sky with of course nothings in the horizon, a trapped hall that lead you to a dark gloomy looking cave with platform in the middle of the air, and hole in the ground that lead you to a ocean of lava, and another hole this time, that teleport you to a place with colored sky sunset with platform floating in the air, a symbol placed in the center of the main hall that if you are placed the the center and looks up, you are teleported to some tower that seem to reach and incredible high level in the middle of the cloud with one tower platform with a giant red button, and a hole in the castle water lake things (idk how is it called) that make you go in a very weird place with lots of moving platform with another giant button, but this time it is blue. But again, nice game i really like it

"Why do I get this feeling that I'm being watched?" Lakitu: uh-

I think most of what you mentioned were due to limitations at the time and poor designs other than anything else, but for Wet-Dry world... I completely agree! I hate that level! Is not that is hard or something, it just feels weird, like there’s a negative vibe or something... Maybe is the abandoned town... who knows...

It’s weird because I feel almost the opposite. I played this game when I was maybe 7 and Wet-Dry World is the most memorable level for me and most comforting. It’s strange how we can feel so different about the exact same thing.

Ok, this video has made me feel Wet-Dry World's negative aura myself, I never think deeply about the level much but the more I do the more scared of it I become.

I agree with you; the aesthetic of the game seems "off" it always creeped me out.

It's interesting to listen to perspectives on Mario 64 from younger people. When I played it when it was new, I wasn't at all afraid of it. I had no frame of reference to what a 3D game could potentially be. The fact that the worlds felt empty and that they are just wierd little self contained areas never occured to me at all. I was so blown away by the entire game. The graphics were the most impressive thing I had ever seen at 7 years old. This brand new and immensly fun way to play video games was really all that occured to me. Something that I never thought possible. I cannot stress enough just how mindblowing seeing Mario 64 for the first time was. Having no concept of what an Analog stick even was, despite having played video games my entire life. I remember the first time seeing the Mario 64 demo at target. I tried to use the dpad to move mario and was very confused when it didnt work. It's been 25 years or so and I have yet to see another mindblowing leap like that.

funny thing is, back then I thought the chain chomp was cute, and I wanted one as a pet

7:45 I didn't know there was a way to ironically drown

"Mamma mia, I did a whoopsie!" 🤣 I'm subscribing.

My first experience with sm64 was on the ds back in the late 2000s, and I remember that some of the stock music which played during text dialogue popups gave me some creepy asmr vibes.

you know why you feel like you are being watched? because in the lore of sm64 it's said that everyone in the castle was trapped in the walls by bowser

Finally! Someone who shares my obscure fascination with the eerie extended world of this game. I think the idea of the abandoned sunken city was better explored in Thousand Year Door

Mario 64 feels like a dream for me... Like that one feeling of i already did that or I've seen this one, but cant remenber it. Is just weird

"Why does everything in this game want to crush me?" It's a video game, what do you want? "I never found the giant eyeballs scary. Same goes for the eel and the piano." "What's worse than them, though, is the snowman." That's just really funny. "Why is the snow even alive? It's snow!" It's a Mario game, dude. Why did you question that but not the the living cacti or concrete blocks?

I never actually took the time to think about wet dry world, but when you take the time to actually think about it... It's a pretty creepy atmosphere.

"Non Euclidean Nightmare." That's my new band name. lol.

7:28 Just for future reference, you misspelled "Morbid".

Author of video playing Tetris: OMG there is literally bricks falling from the sky!!!! Imagine being a child playing this game and then all of a sudden there are bricks crashing down in bizarre shapes! Truly morbid and disturbing!

The hand boss was like the most secret thing in the game. I was shocked when I found that boss

The feeling of being watched is a very big reason why I avoided open world single player games when I was really young and I totally forgot about that. Ironically, this was my favorite DS game and I still felt like it on here

More videos like this i really like the concept...i've enjoyed every second

To me, Mario 64 was just too quiet.

this is why i love silent hill and you perfectly pointed it ou, how the level is empty you cant enter most of the stuff and the old textures just make it so good and eerie

You feel "watched" That reminds me of the "Be quiet in the hallways!" in the castle Creepy

>being watched Yeah Lakitu follows you with a camera the entire time, you actually ARE being watched in a literal sense.

I can’t believe 15k people liked this video. I’m not a harsh critic who just loves to bash people’s content but this was absolutely ridiculous.

I just played the DS version but even this game has a pretty uncomfortable aura in my opinion. Like, something was just off about the castle. It felt abandoned and kinda as if the castle itself is alive in some way. Still, the game is fun and the levels are well made. Also a lot of us grew up with the game, if it's the N64 version or the DS version.

6:26 Look at the painting to the right. _WEEGEE_

"Mamma mia i did an oopsie!" It is like... mario failed his adventure?

GermanPeter: *feels like he's being watched* Lakitu: confused turtle noises

"Why do I get this feeling that I'm being watched?" I mean lakitu is filming you, so he has to watch you.

I grew up on Mario Galaxy, and when I played 64 a year ago out of curiosity it felt like I was playing a version of Galaxy from the uncanny valley. All the textures were just a bit too far removed from the modern versions I’m used to, and the backgrounds seemingly went on forever. The fog around the bowser levels is so oppressive and unnatural, I felt like if you fell off the level you would never ever land.

Hello German, I've been watching your videos for quite a while and I'm very happy to see you are getting more views and the attention you've always deserved. You are very talented, keep up the good work!

I don't remember Mario actually dying with his eyes x'd out and collapsing lifeless. What the hell man.

"Why do I get the feeling I'm being watched" Lakitu: uh

Wet dry world kinda feels like home for some reason.

Wet-Dry World always made me imagine it as a deserted city where all the people drowned, and you went there years after the fact just to find it overrun with monsters as you run around exploring the formerly-inhabited town. The skybox image also made me feel really isolated in a way, like I was the last person left in the world, which went along with the first notion. That’s the only part of the game that kinda made me feel off; that it felt so depressing and out of place in an otherwise happy-go-lucky Mario game