The "negative emotional aura" comes from the fact that this is an obnoxiously designed level. Everyone who plays it will recall their frustrations with navigating the level for their first time with all the awkward platforming. The part that always gave me the most anxiety as a kid was having to use the Heave-hos to get higher in the level when the water is low. If you miss, you take a significant amount of damage and it always feels unwieldy even today. There was also the fact that "Go to Town for 8 Red Coins" and "Quick Race through Downtown!" required you to enter the level at a certain height. Since I imagine most kids, like myself, didn't pay any attention to the Toad dialogue, I imagine not very many were able to figure the puzzle out very easily. Even when the puzzle is figured out, you still have that long tunnel of water to swim through with no way to recover your health. Underwater segments with breath meters are enough to make anyone anxious. It's just really easy to die in this level on your first time and I imagine many people carry their frustrations with those experiences on every repeat visit. Couple that with the level's bizarrely somber tone with an abandoned town and the strange skybox, it's no wonder you would feel uneasy returning to it. It's no more supernatural and evokes the same feelings as the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time (In my personal experience, Jabu Jabu's Belly gives me the same reaction since that dungeon used to scare me as a kid). Still, the psychology behind this phenomenon is really interesting... The iceberg rumor I'm most interested in is the "Brain diagram" (Let me remind you that's all the Iceberg image says: "Brain diagram"). I see so many conflicting ideas with this one. Some people suggesting there was a texture of a brain diagram in the files of Wet Dry World, others say that a collection of objects throughout the game can be put together to create a diagram of the human brain, and the most bizarre of all is the assertion that Wet Dry World itself is a "fully functional" model of the human brain (I don't even know what that's supposed to mean). Obviously, most of the stuff in this iceberg diagram is fictional, but it's all based at least on rumors that started somewhere. I'm interested in figuring out what exactly the basis of this "brain diagram" really is.
@ It's all very fascinating! And it's a lot of fun having that childhood imagination resurface, too! I've even started to notice some of my own observations that could be added to the iceberg. For example, in Bowser in the Dark World, there appears to be giant crying goombas towering over the stage in the skybox.
Yeah, I think it is pretty much it. I was a kid, and I was just playing for playing, it took me YEARS to realize some levels change depending of which course you select at the beginning. And in addition to that, I'm not a native speaker, so there you had a kid playing Mario 64 with this weird platforming level and with no skills in English, it was just so confusing and weird, but still, funny. (Kinda)
I think the idea of the 'fully functioning" brain diagram feeds into the AI idea. How else could Nintendo have build such an intricate AI into an N64 game? Well, by building an actual brain into the architecture of course! I mean, you need to have a very very limited understanding of how coding works to believe that this is even possible, but it makes the theory all the more spooky since this means that the game itself, the very thing you can see and "touch" is alive. You've been playing inside a living being all along.
this world is one of my favorites, is so strange, out of the normal, but at the same time fantastic, is almost like a abstract portrait of a ancient civilization sunken in the water, but with a more extravagant landscape, full of obstacles, traps and weird beings, cool design for this level, is unique.
@@oishidas443 Yep, the skybox of WDW was Shîbam, but Supern't forgot to mention throughout 500AD, due to volcanic activity in the Gulf of Naples, the southern area of Baiae was sunk and/or raised; so logically speaking in terms of archeology: some of the city was found in the gulf's waters, and since then, some of the ruins' surviving buildings are now tourist traps for hot spring fanatics.
If anyone wants to know what city is used for the skybox/background of wet dry world, took me 23 years to figure this out lol, its an image of Casares, Spain!!! EDIT: looks like it is Shimbad, Yemen, not Casares, Spain!!
For anybody struggling with this level to get to the red bomb just jump hi into the picture before you enter the level and the water will be much higher
This is one of the most favorite childhood games when I was a kid. For some reason, not a ton of games that came after could create that sense of wonder and magical nature of this game. The world felt so huge and mysterious. Games these days show you everything right off the bat and doesn't leave a sensation of exploring the crazy unknown.
No. Not at all. Many of us often enjoy the feeling of being secluded or totally alone, at least for temporary periods. This level encapsulates that feeling.
One of my favourite games of my childhood. I was always slightly 'haunted' by the sight of the city in the distance in this level. Childhood minds conjure up some strange thoughts 😊
I have to admit Mario 64 can be a bit surreal and unsettling at times but this level is definitely not creepy, anything but that although it is kind of a claustrophobic area
I believe the negative aura theory cause even today I can't finish the level I either feel drained, bored, or lose interest in the game entirely and don't touch the game until I feel like starting a new game again.
ORI that happened to me when I played Kirby super star Milky Way wishes, the first level in that game. Mainly because of the many different seasons and millions of rooms I just had to go into all of them. Probably just ocd tho
Wet Dry World as well as Rainbow Cruise from a design perspective are some of the most visually ugly levels in the game since they're less levels and more beta test rooms the developers just decided to call "levels" and this had to do with the fact how Miyamoto cut the development time for this game and the game was already maximizing its storage space so it couldn't do half the shit it wanted to do that it ended up doing in Super Mario 64 DS
I feel like Super Mario 64 DS with better controls and only adding Luigi as a new character instead of 3 more would've made for a hella fun game. also of course they could just also replace wet dry world and rainbow ride with better versions or entirely new stages that make good use of possible new mechanics or existing ones.
never played mario 64 DS, never will. The fact that this level stands out. With the blue painting outlines, showing a type of enemy is not in the game, and the painting usage, it makes this level unique, as well as the course. And it pretty much feels like a level rather than a test place. But rainbow rides? That level could burn in a fire for all I care.
I think the whole thing with this level is that it has a lot of components that made people have rather divisive opinions on it. It's essentially a test level, seems to made out of edited OOT indev assets, uses an edit of an actual photograph for BG, some people say it operates sorta like an actual human brain, it's really undetailed and messy and there really isn't an exact theme or meaning to it. Because of that, while some people being the people they are thought of it as just good or just bad, some people didn't know about many of the things mentioned above and the level's mysterious nature and wondering how it even got in the game lead to some children having fears or even nightmares. And as we know, nightmares really like to make up some bullshit that blends in and looks really well done and believeable, but isn't actually real at all. Due to many children remembering those nightmares and seeing how damaging cartridges can lead to weird, not reproducable glitches and the overall mysterious nature of this level, the fear of unknown and many other things mentioned above, once people actually started discussing it, it got quite big. Not to mention that we all see things differently and process them differently aswell. Some people actually got headaches when playing this level. In reality, it's probably nothing more than a test level that was halfassedely added into the game due to really limited development time and cartridge space, but it will probably be remembered forever. Music's still cool tho
It's also cramped and bright. Have you ever been put off by things being too bright, like when your mom would do spring cleaning and open up all the windows? It made me feel exposed so combining that with the small area makes me feel trapped and at the mercy of who knows what. Then you have the ambiguous theme. It's just an area where the water can rise and fall. Maybe it's a flooded construction site? It seems to have a purpose but you can't tell what that is. And it sits in that blurry skybox. A foggy, faded image of a city that surroumds you and seems to rise itself. It really fucks with my sense of space. All these things combine to make you feel unnerved. Traped like a lab rat in an flooded city. The feeling of helplessness and a lack of understanding of your surroundings is a common feeling in childhood so it makes sense that the level would stick in peoples minds. It produces a similar effect as those liminal space photos.
the stage IS pretty creepy, most people talk about it. they even made a fnf mod about it ua-cam.com/video/zjyuGznhZAk/v-deo.html by far something is missing like the stage is haunted, but leave that for the creepypastas
That also happens in big boo's haunt when you enter or leave the mansion, in hazy maze cave when you enter the dorrrie area, in dire dire docks when you swim into the room with the bowser sub and i think in jolly roger bay when you go inside the treasure chest cavern
@@AndreasK333, in Big Boo's Haunt, of course, the music is slightly different when you go in and out of the mansion, but when you go in and out of Merry-go-round too! In Hazy Maze Cave, when you go into the underground lake or the toxic maze, the music changes too. In Jolly Roger Bay and Dire Dire Docks, when you enter the water, the music slightly changes. However, when you enter the ocean cave or the docks of red coins, the music will change even more!
@@lostpockets2227, the higher you jump into the painting, the higher will be the water level as you start the level. If you jump in the middle of the painting, only half of the course will be flooded! There was also a Toad talking about that interesting fact.
I never feel that emotional aura, I feel happiness flowing through my blood stream, as im always welcomed with my favorite music in super Mario 64, plus the unique outlines of the painting and the unique painting usage, along with the new enemy, and the weird water raising, it is very good. Added with the sunken town, this level really stands out of the crowd
@@strangesphereoidcreature Yes finally someone else. When I played the ds version of this and the n64 version, I saw it as another level to collect stars from. Not some depressing level with a flooded town in the back
Do not follow this guide if you are at the wall jump section at 10:20. Do not wall jump between the buildings it is near impossible. Go to the corner of the brown brick wall and do the wall jump there as it is infinitely eaier
This was always my favorite map. As a kid, i would play for hours just wondering in it. Always wondering what was behind the fence, until one day i got in there, swam to the bottom to an entirely mew and different area. As a kid it was really something. I was 8 when this cane out.
Negative emotional aura from this level? Perish the thought! Just because it’s a level with dreary music. And dreary colors. And no organic life around. And extreme dichotomies between either drowning in water or experiencing shallow and dry environments. And a quasi-apocalyptic subtext where the surrounding environment looks like a drowned city, and how the level actually contains a drowned abandoned town with no clear answers about either its origin, or what happened to it... ...Folks, do your part to protect the environment and combat climate change. I’m just going to sit in a corner and cry now. :(
I swear it's just the fact that the music used in this area is the same music used in hazy maze cave and other areas that give off the same mysterious vibes is the cause of people feeling so weirded out, coupled with the map being very odd already. This specific remix of the underground theme is very lowkey and mysterious sounding, almost as if you are not supposed to be in the areas it plays in.
Eerie yet nostalgiac.. but I didn't particularly enjoy the level as a kid and it made me feel weird yet at home. I can't reconcile my complicated feelings over this level.
I really don't see what's the problem with this level, i kinda like it : It's challenging, original and the gameplay is good. And don't tell me that you can't finish it cuz you really gotta be a fucking oyster not to be able to get all the stars.
I remember 9:42 surprisingly distinctly. I shouldn't, since it's very much a level within a level, something extremely novel and out of place. (You don't see that kind of off-kilter decision making/design anymore. The 90s where known for it ala Myst style.) I'm not going to lie, I used a strategy guild with this game back in the day. People are right to call the level design frustrating, but it's still a nostalgia trip 20+ years later.
as a kid I had found a way to open one of the doors in the secret village. later on a friend of mine found out that if you pushed the chairs in that building a certain way it opened up a hallway behind a closet that led to another secret village with very tall buildings with stairs and water below that you couldn't get out of when you were in. for some reason the menu and power button stopped working and we had to spend hours creatively looking for a way for mario to kill himself. we never found one and pulled the plug from the console. I didn't think much of it but my friend had recurring dreams about mario screaming in that endless hall of stairways, throwing himself off the rooftops repeatedly to no avail. I doubt this happened in any copy but hours now that I think back of it. edit: years later I found out that my firend had taken up a plumbers job and traveled a long way to work in Manhattan and had committed suicide by jumping from the Woolworth building while on the job. he was said to have been mumbling unintelligibly in a language vaguely sounding like Italian. strangely enough he had no heritage of that kind, but he his last words were supposedly unmistakable: mama mia...
“Have you ever played through Wet Dry World and felt this eerie feeling? That's the emotional aura in effect. Wet Dry World has this unfinished, beta-esque feeling of incompleteness. Like it was a test build that was slapped together into a course at the last second. Truth is, WDW is a simulated human brain. Not in the traditional sense, but similarly to how people have made calculators in Mario Maker, and computers in Minecraft. I don't remember it exactly, but it had to do with the shifting water tides. Another thing that hints into this is the brain diagram found in the stage, which was probably put in there as a reference point for the developers when making this. Super Mario 64 is, at its core, and insidious and evil work of human creation, a twisted experiment made to test the bounds of technology. It's horrifying. Every copy of Super Mario 64 is personalized. Nintendo's experimental AI adapts and subtly creates a slightly altered version of the game tailored specifically for you, appealing to you subconsciously in ways you don't even notice, as well as attempting to mess with you and study how you react to it. Have you ever played someone else's copy of Mario 64? Have you ever felt like something was just a little bit off? That's why. That's how. This is much more than just simple experimentation with procedural generation, however. There are many layers to this, and some of them are more sinister and malicious than others. The secrets of the game are probably hidden within a single, personalized copy of somebody. A copy hidden from the masses by Nintendo to cover-up the truth about their experiment. What if the ROM that Nintendo uses for all the Virtual Consoles and shit are all the least-personalized ROM, that way they can cover your tracks. What if the ROM that is uploaded to all those pirate sites were uploaded by Nintendo, that way people wouldn't be able to replicate the personalization? It's messed [up]. This shit goes DEEP."
Negative emotional aura Everything in the universe is energy. The spiritual/energetic/astral(whatever you want to call it) plane is parallel to the physical plane. Everyone has an energy field(aura), everything has energy, or an aura. When you create something, like art, you're putting your energy into it. They say it's an extension of you. When people consume/view your art(or in this case, game), they are tuning into the vibration of you when you made it. So how was the designer of this level feeling? What was their intention? Many people are reporting it to be unsettling, and I believe them. There is a reason. It's not just for no reason. Why is it off-putting? I want to know.
Alguien mas le da una aura triste y una melancolía profunda Bueno yo tengo 13 años y a los 7 mi primo tenia una nintendo64 yo no conocia mucho de mario 64 el ya se lo habia pasado tenia todas las estrellas pero cree una partida nueva me fui pasando los niveles llegue a wet-dry world y senti como un vacío muy profundo y unas ganas de llorar muy intensas y en la noche tuve unas pesadilla muy feas pero creo que no tienen nada que ver y bueno a mitades de año descargue un emulador y lo volvi a jugar y senti lo mismo, miraba la ciudad y sentia una melancolia y despues de unos meses ya se me habia medio pasado y luego mire el iceberg y no se es muy raro lo que siente
I would like to correct and inform some of the people who may end up reading this at some point, as well as share my own personal opinions: The background of Wet Dry World is NOT a location in Spain, but rather, Shibam, a town in Yemen. Apparently people confuse the skybox with Casares, Spain due to the certain locations having similar building layouts, and the red building near the top is apparently the Mosque of Mohammed Ali in Cairo, Egypt. As for the weird "negative emotional aura." thing, I don't really get unsettled by the world. The world definitely weirds me out though, and I think the background is a really fitting choice. It's a city underwater due to a flood (Or at least, I think it's supposed to be underwater. Minus the actual levels when the water is low.), which is wrong on many levels (No pun intended.). So I can understand why it may freak some people out, for me it's the visuals and how it's just unnatural for a whole city to be underwater, though I assume it's the same for others as well. As it means that if there was indeed a civilization there, it's inhabitants are most likely gone. Haven't really gotten into the whole ARG and iceberg meme thing, but the fan made "cut" themes made by people for Wet Dry World are amazing, especially one that for whatever reason nearly made me cry. I wasn't unsettled though, I found the theme mostly relaxing, the only spooky parts in my opinion were the intro and outro of the song. I can't describe the feeling it gave me, but I know others felt it as well, it's a feeling and combination of emotions that you'd only understand if you listen to it. I'll list the people that made or at least uploaded the themes I've listened to below once I find them again, I'll edit this comment once I do so. 1: Skug 2: Jim Nopédie If I made any mistakes with the facts I listed above, please let me know! I was reading it all off of the Super Mario Wiki!
I can see why people say it has a negative aura. You’re basically playing on a level that is almost like the remains of something until you get the underwater town. As a person who plays games, you’re constantly speculation where you are and what is this place . The way you go thru this level especially raising the water levels yourself, has this undertone to it. As if you were the one who flooded the city or somebody had in the past. You know there used to people there but not anymore. It’s strange
Ok the red coin one if I was more explorative would have found. Btw you can get there without the canon. With the water level high enough you can jump over that grate. 🤪
I remember playing this level when i was like 11 and i just got scared of it because of the music and by the fact that my bedroom was dark so i just ran to my living room lol
I VERY MUCH LIKE THE WATER GAMES IN MARIO 64. I WOULD HAVE PLAYED THIS GAME WHEN I WAS MIDDLE AGED. NOW IM OLD. I BET THERE IS NO ONE IN HERE AS OLD AS I AM. IM WHAT YOU CALL AN OLD GAMER. I LL BE 70 NEXT YEAR.
I always liked this level when I played the DS version quite a few years ago. It’s not a very expansive course, there’s a relative lack of enemies, and it’s a place to chill and solve water puzzles. Of course, with no help from the internet I didn’t know how to unlock the red blocks or luigi, so I had no idea how to get all the stars. Good times.
This game turned to be quite difficult for me as soon as I hit the basement. Then I hit the second and third floor, and I said no. I got some stars, did a BLJ up the stairs, played the Bowser level, failed, and then left. If I didn't have these videos, I wouldn't be able to grab every star in the game. And this is one of my least favorite levels in the game. In other words, one of the levels that I hate.
The "negative emotional aura" comes from the fact that this is an obnoxiously designed level. Everyone who plays it will recall their frustrations with navigating the level for their first time with all the awkward platforming. The part that always gave me the most anxiety as a kid was having to use the Heave-hos to get higher in the level when the water is low. If you miss, you take a significant amount of damage and it always feels unwieldy even today. There was also the fact that "Go to Town for 8 Red Coins" and "Quick Race through Downtown!" required you to enter the level at a certain height. Since I imagine most kids, like myself, didn't pay any attention to the Toad dialogue, I imagine not very many were able to figure the puzzle out very easily. Even when the puzzle is figured out, you still have that long tunnel of water to swim through with no way to recover your health. Underwater segments with breath meters are enough to make anyone anxious. It's just really easy to die in this level on your first time and I imagine many people carry their frustrations with those experiences on every repeat visit.
Couple that with the level's bizarrely somber tone with an abandoned town and the strange skybox, it's no wonder you would feel uneasy returning to it. It's no more supernatural and evokes the same feelings as the Water Temple in Ocarina of Time (In my personal experience, Jabu Jabu's Belly gives me the same reaction since that dungeon used to scare me as a kid). Still, the psychology behind this phenomenon is really interesting...
The iceberg rumor I'm most interested in is the "Brain diagram" (Let me remind you that's all the Iceberg image says: "Brain diagram"). I see so many conflicting ideas with this one. Some people suggesting there was a texture of a brain diagram in the files of Wet Dry World, others say that a collection of objects throughout the game can be put together to create a diagram of the human brain, and the most bizarre of all is the assertion that Wet Dry World itself is a "fully functional" model of the human brain (I don't even know what that's supposed to mean). Obviously, most of the stuff in this iceberg diagram is fictional, but it's all based at least on rumors that started somewhere. I'm interested in figuring out what exactly the basis of this "brain diagram" really is.
@ It's all very fascinating! And it's a lot of fun having that childhood imagination resurface, too! I've even started to notice some of my own observations that could be added to the iceberg. For example, in Bowser in the Dark World, there appears to be giant crying goombas towering over the stage in the skybox.
Yeah, I think it is pretty much it.
I was a kid, and I was just playing for playing, it took me YEARS to realize some levels change depending of which course you select at the beginning.
And in addition to that, I'm not a native speaker, so there you had a kid playing Mario 64 with this weird platforming level and with no skills in English, it was just so confusing and weird, but still, funny. (Kinda)
My favorite theory for the "brain diagram" is that somehow, WDW itself is a working, functional model or _diagram_ of a human brain.
@@jakobhere620That theory is so goddamn ridiculous lol
I think the idea of the 'fully functioning" brain diagram feeds into the AI idea.
How else could Nintendo have build such an intricate AI into an N64 game? Well, by building an actual brain into the architecture of course!
I mean, you need to have a very very limited understanding of how coding works to believe that this is even possible, but it makes the theory all the more spooky since this means that the game itself, the very thing you can see and "touch" is alive. You've been playing inside a living being all along.
this world is one of my favorites, is so strange, out of the normal, but at the same time fantastic, is almost like a abstract portrait of a ancient civilization sunken in the water, but with a more extravagant landscape, full of obstacles, traps and weird beings, cool design for this level, is unique.
Fun fact: There is a Roman city called Baiae that sunk underwater
@@supernt7852it is shibam yemen
@@oishidas443
Its not
@@raxes1144 you can see the proof of it easily
@@oishidas443 Yep, the skybox of WDW was Shîbam, but Supern't forgot to mention throughout 500AD, due to volcanic activity in the Gulf of Naples, the southern area of Baiae was sunk and/or raised; so logically speaking in terms of archeology: some of the city was found in the gulf's waters, and since then, some of the ruins' surviving buildings are now tourist traps for hot spring fanatics.
If anyone wants to know what city is used for the skybox/background of wet dry world, took me 23 years to figure this out lol, its an image of Casares, Spain!!!
EDIT: looks like it is Shimbad, Yemen, not Casares, Spain!!
Thats cool. I always thought it was a painting, not an actual image.
@Oshabot 16 lol i plan to.
@Daniel Veas Sánchez Andalucía
No. It’s actually Shibam, Yemen.
@@clintgunter lol not to be an idiot Clint, but its not Yemen, I don't know where that came up! IT IS Casares, Spain
For anybody struggling with this level to get to the red bomb just jump hi into the picture before you enter the level and the water will be much higher
thereallifez Thank you. Thank you so much.
I figured that out while watching this vid...
thereallifez thx
Thank u so fucking much lol
Thanks for the tip 👏🏼
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This is one of the most favorite childhood games when I was a kid. For some reason, not a ton of games that came after could create that sense of wonder and magical nature of this game. The world felt so huge and mysterious. Games these days show you everything right off the bat and doesn't leave a sensation of exploring the crazy unknown.
is it weird that i like this level specifically due to the ambience
Tempest aka Krimps I do too it’s cool
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No. Not at all. Many of us often enjoy the feeling of being secluded or totally alone, at least for temporary periods. This level encapsulates that feeling.
@@JulesThePsion can relate, huge fan of metroid
The background in this level is one of my favorites, it really stands out.
Hi chris! If your curious what the background is for wet dry world, it's an image of Casares, Spain!! I never knew this till recently!!
@Daniel Veas Sánchez its not Caceres, or whatever you spelling lol, Casares, is an actual town in Spain!
lol i like how this reply section is just arguing over how to spell a town in spain
@Oshabot 16 lol its a true fact its spelled Casares, not Caceres or whatever Daniel noob here is saying!
New research has determined it is actually Shibam, Yemen. Matches down to the window openings and building shapes.
One of my favourite games of my childhood. I was always slightly 'haunted' by the sight of the city in the distance in this level. Childhood minds conjure up some strange thoughts 😊
What did you think was scary about it? I'm curious :P
it is some city in spain. I really dont understand how it at all could be slightly scary.
Broooo same u not alone I searched online n others felt it too
@@lordgarmadon2598 others felt the same..I googled it..wierd..I felt it too
I'd jus pan the camera n look n try n see how folks could live there
I have to admit Mario 64 can be a bit surreal and unsettling at times but this level is definitely not creepy, anything but that although it is kind of a claustrophobic area
Wet Dry World was one of my favorite courses
Moises Alvarado the gamer same
I hate this course
Same
I love this course,
It gives me headaches
I believe the negative aura theory cause even today I can't finish the level I either feel drained, bored, or lose interest in the game entirely and don't touch the game until I feel like starting a new game again.
For me, I think it’s the music but idk
ORI that happened to me when I played Kirby super star Milky Way wishes, the first level in that game. Mainly because of the many different seasons and millions of rooms I just had to go into all of them. Probably just ocd tho
Fuck this course, I hate it still as an adult struggling to beat any of it on my Nintendo switch pro
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Oshabot 16 yo
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@Oshabot 16 uwu
You speak bomb omb too?
Wet Dry World as well as Rainbow Cruise from a design perspective are some of the most visually ugly levels in the game since they're less levels and more beta test rooms the developers just decided to call "levels" and this had to do with the fact how Miyamoto cut the development time for this game and the game was already maximizing its storage space so it couldn't do half the shit it wanted to do that it ended up doing in Super Mario 64 DS
I feel like Super Mario 64 DS with better controls and only adding Luigi as a new character instead of 3 more would've made for a hella fun game. also of course they could just also replace wet dry world and rainbow ride with better versions or entirely new stages that make good use of possible new mechanics or existing ones.
never played mario 64 DS, never will. The fact that this level stands out. With the blue painting outlines, showing a type of enemy is not in the game, and the painting usage, it makes this level unique, as well as the course. And it pretty much feels like a level rather than a test place. But rainbow rides? That level could burn in a fire for all I care.
I actually love this level. Raimbow Ride I hate it, but not because it's bad. It's just soo hard
I think the whole thing with this level is that it has a lot of components that made people have rather divisive opinions on it. It's essentially a test level, seems to made out of edited OOT indev assets, uses an edit of an actual photograph for BG, some people say it operates sorta like an actual human brain, it's really undetailed and messy and there really isn't an exact theme or meaning to it. Because of that, while some people being the people they are thought of it as just good or just bad, some people didn't know about many of the things mentioned above and the level's mysterious nature and wondering how it even got in the game lead to some children having fears or even nightmares. And as we know, nightmares really like to make up some bullshit that blends in and looks really well done and believeable, but isn't actually real at all. Due to many children remembering those nightmares and seeing how damaging cartridges can lead to weird, not reproducable glitches and the overall mysterious nature of this level, the fear of unknown and many other things mentioned above, once people actually started discussing it, it got quite big. Not to mention that we all see things differently and process them differently aswell. Some people actually got headaches when playing this level. In reality, it's probably nothing more than a test level that was halfassedely added into the game due to really limited development time and cartridge space, but it will probably be remembered forever.
Music's still cool tho
It's also cramped and bright. Have you ever been put off by things being too bright, like when your mom would do spring cleaning and open up all the windows? It made me feel exposed so combining that with the small area makes me feel trapped and at the mercy of who knows what. Then you have the ambiguous theme. It's just an area where the water can rise and fall. Maybe it's a flooded construction site? It seems to have a purpose but you can't tell what that is. And it sits in that blurry skybox. A foggy, faded image of a city that surroumds you and seems to rise itself. It really fucks with my sense of space.
All these things combine to make you feel unnerved. Traped like a lab rat in an flooded city. The feeling of helplessness and a lack of understanding of your surroundings is a common feeling in childhood so it makes sense that the level would stick in peoples minds. It produces a similar effect as those liminal space photos.
I don't want to read it all sorry
I hated this level as a kid and I hate it now playing it on my switch at least as much as I did as a kid 👿
Definitely feels different than the rest of the levels
Stop using the word essentially and just say what you mean!!!
damn this level has such a chill atmosphere
*laughs in claustrophobic*
The music is eerie, but in a weird calming way for me. I like it.
This level totally encapsulates the unnerving and liminal space feeling. Maybe that's why it's so catchy and mysterious
for me, this always was the unfinished level.. I always thought something was missing.
the stage IS pretty creepy, most people talk about it. they even made a fnf mod about it ua-cam.com/video/zjyuGznhZAk/v-deo.html
by far something is missing like the stage is haunted, but leave that for the creepypastas
I think it actually is, due to the high demand on the game releasing early the devwlopers had to leave some levels kind of unfinished.
I just realised that when you go to the water town, the music changes completely!
@@TommyTom21, it sounds a lot spookier in the water town than in the Heave-Hoos room! Listen closely! You will see the difference!
That also happens in big boo's haunt when you enter or leave the mansion, in hazy maze cave when you enter the dorrrie area, in dire dire docks when you swim into the room with the bowser sub and i think in jolly roger bay when you go inside the treasure chest cavern
@@AndreasK333, in Big Boo's Haunt, of course, the music is slightly different when you go in and out of the mansion, but when you go in and out of Merry-go-round too!
In Hazy Maze Cave, when you go into the underground lake or the toxic maze, the music changes too.
In Jolly Roger Bay and Dire Dire Docks, when you enter the water, the music slightly changes. However, when you enter the ocean cave or the docks of red coins, the music will change even more!
@@alisiaale565 this is the version of Wet Dry World when you enter in the Underwater town: ua-cam.com/video/cmxAo-pDN84/v-deo.html it's in 3:19
@@Mateeazz, yeah, it's the same as when you go to the underground lake or the toxic maze.
I know why you're here now
Iceberg?
Claustrophobia feeling to wet dry world
Why??????????]
@@bruzukamente it's small
Negative Emotional Aura is a weird way to say "Shitty Level Design"
The red coin level is such a pain!!! I can't even do the fancy jump to get up to the red guy!
it is ez to go to the bob omb buddy
Wow. I watched the whole thing. I didn’t know you could get two stars in a level without it ending.
If you get the 100-coin star, it doesn’t kick you out of the level.
My favourite part about this course is that you can flood the entire course with a high jump in the painting!
what how?
@@lostpockets2227, the higher you jump into the painting, the higher will be the water level as you start the level. If you jump in the middle of the painting, only half of the course will be flooded!
There was also a Toad talking about that interesting fact.
Almost everyone: "negative emotional aura😪😭😭"
Normal people: "my man speedrunning this level👍"
I never feel that emotional aura, I feel happiness flowing through my blood stream, as im always welcomed with my favorite music in super Mario 64, plus the unique outlines of the painting and the unique painting usage, along with the new enemy, and the weird water raising, it is very good. Added with the sunken town, this level really stands out of the crowd
@@strangesphereoidcreature Yes finally someone else. When I played the ds version of this and the n64 version, I saw it as another level to collect stars from. Not some depressing level with a flooded town in the back
I still re-play it to practice my skills and do shenanigans. It’s like a mini test level,
real speedrunners: are you kidding me? That’s insultingly slow
sane people: so are we breathing underwater in the water?
Do not follow this guide if you are at the wall jump section at 10:20. Do not wall jump between the buildings it is near impossible. Go to the corner of the brown brick wall and do the wall jump there as it is infinitely eaier
This was always my favorite map. As a kid, i would play for hours just wondering in it. Always wondering what was behind the fence, until one day i got in there, swam to the bottom to an entirely mew and different area. As a kid it was really something. I was 8 when this cane out.
Imagine someone commenting here before the iceberg....
this stage gives me nostalgia, i used to more or less like this stage.
Idk why everyone gets negative aura I have played through this game and this level hundreds of times I never got it
In fact this might be one of my favourite mario 64 levels due to the music and the sky box I was never creeped out by the sky box
@@pinkeo64if you watch 9.02.97 you will get some "feel" of this level
Negative emotional aura from this level? Perish the thought!
Just because it’s a level with dreary music.
And dreary colors.
And no organic life around.
And extreme dichotomies between either drowning in water or experiencing shallow and dry environments.
And a quasi-apocalyptic subtext where the surrounding environment looks like a drowned city, and how the level actually contains a drowned abandoned town with no clear answers about either its origin, or what happened to it...
...Folks, do your part to protect the environment and combat climate change. I’m just going to sit in a corner and cry now. :(
I swear it's just the fact that the music used in this area is the same music used in hazy maze cave and other areas that give off the same mysterious vibes is the cause of people feeling so weirded out, coupled with the map being very odd already. This specific remix of the underground theme is very lowkey and mysterious sounding, almost as if you are not supposed to be in the areas it plays in.
5:45 Mario chucked that chuckya!! 💪🏻
Eerie yet nostalgiac.. but I didn't particularly enjoy the level as a kid and it made me feel weird yet at home. I can't reconcile my complicated feelings over this level.
ME GUSTA MUCHO MI JUHEGO SUPER MARIHO HARAÑAS PATONAS 100 MONEDAS HAMARIYAS CUHADROS MONEDAS HAMARIYAS COMPLETA HESPAÑOL HEFRAHIN BAÑALES HANGEL COMPLETA HESPAÑOL
One of my fav levels in SM64, I'm quite surprised to see the amount of divided opinions on it.
I used to think you could somehow get into the town by walking off the corner of the level, but the slippery slopes always stopped me from trying
This level made me feel odd when I was a kid, a sensation that something was missing and had to find it.
I really don't see what's the problem with this level, i kinda like it : It's challenging, original and the gameplay is good. And don't tell me that you can't finish it cuz you really gotta be a fucking oyster not to be able to get all the stars.
don't know why but this level feels like playing on saturday 8am
I remember 9:42 surprisingly distinctly. I shouldn't, since it's very much a level within a level, something extremely novel and out of place. (You don't see that kind of off-kilter decision making/design anymore. The 90s where known for it ala Myst style.) I'm not going to lie, I used a strategy guild with this game back in the day. People are right to call the level design frustrating, but it's still a nostalgia trip 20+ years later.
I've been watching this channel since I think 2014
2:14 the Chuckya defeat sound effect was so funny
Man those wind up guys that toss you around kick your ass....
Its all wet, no wonder no one lives here!
as a kid I had found a way to open one of the doors in the secret village. later on a friend of mine found out that if you pushed the chairs in that building a certain way it opened up a hallway behind a closet that led to another secret village with very tall buildings with stairs and water below that you couldn't get out of when you were in. for some reason the menu and power button stopped working and we had to spend hours creatively looking for a way for mario to kill himself. we never found one and pulled the plug from the console. I didn't think much of it but my friend had recurring dreams about mario screaming in that endless hall of stairways, throwing himself off the rooftops repeatedly to no avail. I doubt this happened in any copy but hours now that I think back of it.
edit: years later I found out that my firend had taken up a plumbers job and traveled a long way to work in Manhattan and had committed suicide by jumping from the Woolworth building while on the job. he was said to have been mumbling unintelligibly in a language vaguely sounding like Italian. strangely enough he had no heritage of that kind, but he his last words were supposedly unmistakable: mama mia...
Neophyte that’s a good story
Wet dry world positive emotional aura 😊
I love these videos
Thanks for the walkthrough!
for some reason, i was always scared of singleplayer 3D Games. i have no idea why. i got over that 3 years ago.
I can't wait for the Watch for Rolling Rocks part and the inevitable A-press jokes
He already uploaded Hazy Mazy Cave
This guy already did it the intended way by wall jumping to the star.
Playing this level is the same feeling has weird but familiar images
if you want to see more weird but familiar images just look up liminal space
If hell exists it's eternity in sm64 lol
You're all crazy this is one of the most fun levels in the game 😂
Ok normie
If playing on switch Drifty Joycons make this hard
This level made me bored while everyone was scared of it. I just thought it was a boring town nobody wanted to live in.
Dude yeah it’s the most boring level
@@supercarsnaviation6148 Dire Dire Docks is more boring.
@@Sr.Tweeterat least the wario apparition meme made dire dire docks hallway more cool and creepy lol
excuse me are we forgetting rainbow ride? most of it is literally just waiting around
“Have you ever played through Wet Dry World and felt this eerie feeling? That's the emotional aura in effect. Wet Dry World has this unfinished, beta-esque feeling of incompleteness. Like it was a test build that was slapped together into a course at the last second.
Truth is, WDW is a simulated human brain. Not in the traditional sense, but similarly to how people have made calculators in Mario Maker, and computers in Minecraft. I don't remember it exactly, but it had to do with the shifting water tides.
Another thing that hints into this is the brain diagram found in the stage, which was probably put in there as a reference point for the developers when making this.
Super Mario 64 is, at its core, and insidious and evil work of human creation, a twisted experiment made to test the bounds of technology. It's horrifying.
Every copy of Super Mario 64 is personalized. Nintendo's experimental AI adapts and subtly creates a slightly altered version of the game tailored specifically for you, appealing to you subconsciously in ways you don't even notice, as well as attempting to mess with you and study how you react to it.
Have you ever played someone else's copy of Mario 64? Have you ever felt like something was just a little bit off? That's why. That's how.
This is much more than just simple experimentation with procedural generation, however. There are many layers to this, and some of them are more sinister and malicious than others.
The secrets of the game are probably hidden within a single, personalized copy of somebody. A copy hidden from the masses by Nintendo to cover-up the truth about their experiment. What if the ROM that Nintendo uses for all the Virtual Consoles and shit are all the least-personalized ROM, that way they can cover your tracks. What if the ROM that is uploaded to all those pirate sites were uploaded by Nintendo, that way people wouldn't be able to replicate the personalization? It's messed [up]. This shit goes DEEP."
go back to reddit
it’s just a video game, my guy. it ain’t that deep.
@@kolesimmons428still have something wrong in it
Negative emotional aura
Everything in the universe is energy.
The spiritual/energetic/astral(whatever you want to call it) plane is parallel to the physical plane. Everyone has an energy field(aura), everything has energy, or an aura.
When you create something, like art, you're putting your energy into it. They say it's an extension of you. When people consume/view your art(or in this case, game), they are tuning into the vibration of you when you made it.
So how was the designer of this level feeling? What was their intention? Many people are reporting it to be unsettling, and I believe them. There is a reason. It's not just for no reason. Why is it off-putting? I want to know.
That sounds like something my mom would say about aura and energy
bro, you're going too deep into this
I don't know why but this map scared me on the ds version...
Johnny Blade Please tell me of your fears
Um... ok?
Johnny Blade u mean STAR 5
Negative emotional aura
The pixelated skybox was the thing that scared me the most in the ds version.
The comments wow. I had the same feeling as a kid. It was weird and mysterious. Felt like I shouldn't be here.😂
I never really experianced the emotionally negative aura. I always quite liked this level.
Alguien mas le da una aura triste y una melancolía profunda
Bueno yo tengo 13 años y a los 7 mi primo tenia una nintendo64 yo no conocia mucho de mario 64 el ya se lo habia pasado tenia todas las estrellas pero cree una partida nueva me fui pasando los niveles llegue a wet-dry world y senti como un vacío muy profundo y unas ganas de llorar muy intensas y en la noche tuve unas pesadilla muy feas pero creo que no tienen nada que ver y bueno a mitades de año descargue un emulador y lo volvi a jugar y senti lo mismo, miraba la ciudad y sentia una melancolia y despues de unos meses ya se me habia medio pasado y luego mire el iceberg y no se es muy raro lo que siente
Es porque es jodidamente aburrido
@@Etherion956 Por fin alguien entiende que la "energía negativa" es porque el nivel es malo y ya xDD
This was always my least favourite level in the game but I always liked the red coins in the town.
I never made it here when I played this game for the shortest time, but I think it looks really awesome, or at least my interpretation of it
How was the water so high when you started Episode 5?
in star 5 not happening nofeng
Guy Fieri jjskdddffffffg h,
Edccc
Jump high into the level painting to get the water higher
Guy Fieri I
When I play super Mario 64 in 2020 I will get nostalgic 20 years later
Yep, I am old enough to be on UA-cam but I am still really young, so I am gonna have some deep nostalgia years later
I play
I would like to correct and inform some of the people who may end up reading this at some point, as well as share my own personal opinions: The background of Wet Dry World is NOT a location in Spain, but rather, Shibam, a town in Yemen. Apparently people confuse the skybox with Casares, Spain due to the certain locations having similar building layouts, and the red building near the top is apparently the Mosque of Mohammed Ali in Cairo, Egypt. As for the weird "negative emotional aura." thing, I don't really get unsettled by the world. The world definitely weirds me out though, and I think the background is a really fitting choice. It's a city underwater due to a flood (Or at least, I think it's supposed to be underwater. Minus the actual levels when the water is low.), which is wrong on many levels (No pun intended.). So I can understand why it may freak some people out, for me it's the visuals and how it's just unnatural for a whole city to be underwater, though I assume it's the same for others as well. As it means that if there was indeed a civilization there, it's inhabitants are most likely gone. Haven't really gotten into the whole ARG and iceberg meme thing, but the fan made "cut" themes made by people for Wet Dry World are amazing, especially one that for whatever reason nearly made me cry. I wasn't unsettled though, I found the theme mostly relaxing, the only spooky parts in my opinion were the intro and outro of the song. I can't describe the feeling it gave me, but I know others felt it as well, it's a feeling and combination of emotions that you'd only understand if you listen to it. I'll list the people that made or at least uploaded the themes I've listened to below once I find them again, I'll edit this comment once I do so.
1: Skug
2: Jim Nopédie
If I made any mistakes with the facts I listed above, please let me know! I was reading it all off of the Super Mario Wiki!
9.02.97 memories
Gee I sure hope there isn’t some link looking characters looking to take me to a really dark room where I spend all eternity there
My favorite level I always liked to mess with the skeeters and try and get into the town
I can see why people say it has a negative aura. You’re basically playing on a level that is almost like the remains of something until you get the underwater town. As a person who plays games, you’re constantly speculation where you are and what is this place . The way you go thru this level especially raising the water levels yourself, has this undertone to it. As if you were the one who flooded the city or somebody had in the past. You know there used to people there but not anymore. It’s strange
Those little spider thingies used to stress me out so much as a kid chasing me on the surface 😭😭
I made a found footage animation (similar to Backrooms videos) about this stage because the town haunts my dreams 😭😭😭
I got so angry when I did wet dry world
1:09 is that a skeeter?
I’ve seen 3 Mario games with Skeeters and Buttons That Drain water!
Why is the background town under water?
It is suposed to be the theme of the level i think.
Ok the red coin one if I was more explorative would have found. Btw you can get there without the canon. With the water level high enough you can jump over that grate. 🤪
10:27 Houston Marriott South at Hobby Airport
I remember playing this level when i was like 11 and i just got scared of it because of the music and by the fact that my bedroom was dark so i just ran to my living room lol
This is my favorite level actually
Positive emotional aura
As a kid I was scared to go into the level simply because of these spider things. I was scared as hell of spiders
I VERY MUCH LIKE THE WATER GAMES IN MARIO 64. I WOULD HAVE PLAYED THIS GAME WHEN I WAS MIDDLE AGED. NOW IM OLD. I BET THERE IS NO ONE IN HERE AS OLD AS I AM. IM WHAT YOU CALL AN OLD GAMER. I LL BE 70 NEXT YEAR.
We all seem to not like this level due to the skybox being a town in Spain
I think the town just randomly being there in the later levels is creepier.
@@mattwolf7698 search Towngameplay in UA-cam
I thought the camera was the worst part of Mario 64…. Then came the wall jump
yeah the camera was always annoying, but i also didnt like how the jump kick and dive moves are done with the same button
I always liked this level when I played the DS version quite a few years ago. It’s not a very expansive course, there’s a relative lack of enemies, and it’s a place to chill and solve water puzzles.
Of course, with no help from the internet I didn’t know how to unlock the red blocks or luigi, so I had no idea how to get all the stars.
Good times.
This level is a liminal space
Not really
This game turned to be quite difficult for me as soon as I hit the basement. Then I hit the second and third floor, and I said no.
I got some stars, did a BLJ up the stairs, played the Bowser level, failed, and then left.
If I didn't have these videos, I wouldn't be able to grab every star in the game. And this is one of my least favorite levels in the game. In other words, one of the levels that I hate.
Then how did my friends and I all complete this game at the age of 7?
@@christophg159 I would’ve asked the same question
The music got me bumpin’
I loved this level an this game growing up i still remember 100 percenting this
this man can do it in 15 minutes yet i cant even beat it under 30
how do you get the water so high on the 5th star?
I got it nevermind
tristan tobey how
How do u get the water soooo high
@@coolkidsxd245, with a high jump in the painting you can select the highest water level!
Muito obrigado pela informação 👏🏿🤝🏿🤗
I remember getting headaches playing this level as a kid... reading these comments about the obscurity of this level is consoling
Who's idea was it to think that the background of this stage is their brain? Because I see atlantis more than a brain
It's probably Atlantis. look at the German name of this level.It's "Atlantis Aquaria" I think.
I don't understand this "negative emotional aura" stuff, but this level was certainly a pain in the ass when I was younger.
it's mostly because of people not knowing how to describe that the level's unfinished, so they just say it has a CrEePy AuRa
Nintendo missed a good opportunity to name a level in Mario Galaxy 1 or 2 "Up-Down Galaxy"
This level, hazy maze cave, and boos haunted mansion piss me off so much I won’t play for a couple days.
Im the only who love this level due the ambience, even as a kid?
Hey the music in wet dry world is not so Bad
and it's not so scary and Alone
i wonder why people says this is a negative aura
Don't get why people like this level 😕. I never liked it. It gave me a bad vibe or kind of depressing. "Emotional Aura"
Trust me alot of people say that
You are just saying this because it's everywhere in the comments lol
@@brianwilson1074 no no no, it seriously is true
wow where did you learn all that skill bro
3:59 pez espada de la mañana de super Mario 64