What made Peach's Castle seem so esoteric?
nintendo zoomer youtuber said so
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>>12547998better question is why are younger generations obsessed by super mario 64
>>12548006Because it's a timeless masterpiece
>>12548006>reeeeee all zoomers do is play forknife!>*zoomers actually interested in old games*>reeeeee why are zoomers obsessed with this!no winning with you uncs is there
Miyamoto was desperately trying to make the best game possible, so he travelled to the astral realm and the machine elves told him to make the game exactly like this to inspire people to overcome Samsara.
>>12547998nothingwe all just thought it was comfy it was>>12548006its one of the earliest 3D games they can go back to and have the controls be suitably modern enough to where they dont just immediately get filtered and come on here to make a gay thread about how "controls borked old game bad reeeeee"
>>12547998Masonic symbolism up the assIdk why, but that's common with Nintendo games
>>12547998>rushed random assets the game regarded as some occult masonic initation ritual>game with careful design choices with actual hidden meanings disregarded and ignored as that game that wasn't sonic and killed sega
>>12548032>actual hidden meaningsnever in my life seen anyone point it out, wanna go into it?>>12548028i love this theory, specifically when it's explained by schizos and not gay cringe youtubers.
>>12548028this reminds me of that one room that comes up in daggerfall dungeons sometimes. its got that exact shape, and two rafters just like that, sometimes with a warp portal/door up on top of one of them
>>12547998basic shapes, patterns and color schemeswhen you think of castles you think of grey/brown dingy elaborate medieval/gothic fortresses, not a bizarre playhouse with vibrant rainbow colors
>>12548028came here to post this /thread
>>12548165you can't /thread a thread in progress you dingaling
>>12548028Most of the time it's literally just "we thought it looked cool", or "it sounded like fun".
>>12548174The japs are always like this. ‘Angel’s Egg’ is one of the most goddamn symbolically rich movies and that nigga’s explain is literally just “I like little girls and fish.”
>>12547998the castle looks like eyes wide shut tier billionaire vibes. enter a room as an italian plumber. be a nobody. become one with the art. one with the media. enter the dream world. chase the stars. collect the coins. be the hero. fight the slow inevitable force of evil. the black dragon. bowser as a metaphor for evil and death. chase the princess. there's always another castle. your hunt will never end. it's an esoteric vision. meant to draw you in and confirm all of your worst desires. the dream consumes you.
>>12548017Terence McKenna played Super Mario 64 in his son's Nintendo. He was an art advisor for the game.
Some jap games are full of esoteric hebrew kabbalah shit. They want to appeal mysterious to a western gamer, it makes sense that wayPersona, Final Fantasy
>>12548016never will be, millenials are a generation of cuckholds anyway so no need to give them your time.
>>12548387That's what your parents said about you and what their parents said about them, etc etc.
>>12548413I hate generation war faggotry as much as the next guy but this board is mindlessly obsessed with zoomers where it becomes a point of how every thread starts or random generation war shit is mentioned in any proper discussion, I wish the jannies would just ban this shit already.
>>12548006See >>12548000
>>12548028This is a cool theory actually especially since masons and illuminati are supposed to be infiltrated everywhere, and they are present in Japan too.But at the same time, the design in Peach Castle is a classic castle with checkered floors and red carpets/curtains/etc. It's there in SMB3 too.Masons base their visuals on architecture, and a lot of it is inspired by classic castle and cathedral design.
>>12548006Liminal spaces and low poly graphics. These things terrify and fascinate zoomers.
>>12548428>Meanwhile, millennials fear... having kids
>>12548440Having kids is the most cucked and enslaved thing you can possibly do.
>>12548474
>>12548475yes jews hate it when you make more goycattle ZOGbots for them
>>12548440>ai summaryIt's almost as if...
>>12548380>esoteric hebrew kabbalah shit.Wouldn’t that also be mysterious to the Japanese audience as well?
>>12547998>What made Peach's Castle seem so esoteric?revisionist history parroted by dumb fucking retards not even born when this was released>>12548000trips of truth
>>12548549>>12548440>me use ai>i iz intelliguntand people still shit on you. remarkable.
>>12547998http://shmuplations.com/mario64/>—I also noticed that there seems to be a lot fewer enemy types than previous Mario games…?>Miyamoto: There’s no special reason for that. (laughs) Normally we’d include about 80 different enemies, but this time we had just under 40. And many of them are neither friend nor foe, but something in-between. That was one of our themes for this development, actually.>It’s kind of like, we didn’t want to just throw the player into this scary world and have them go on an adventure; rather, we wanted to make a game where the player would feel, “wow, what is this mysterious place I’ve come to…” So many of the characters might look like enemies at first-glance, but they actually aren’t hostile to you. The bunnies, the penguins, the snowmen…So giving the game a bit of a mysterious atmosphere was intentional. I also think it's a good way to create a memorable atmosphere in early 3D games, because they're inherently a bit empty and esoteric feeling.
>>12548174>>12548247There are freemasons in Japan though
>>12548000https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9CS4SFaCOxo
What does she even do in her castle all day?
Literally hard ban every single user, zoomer or otherwise, who distorts every thread into whining about their socioeconomic/romantic/political situation.
>>12548387So why did you come crawling to a millennial site?
>>12548751>I also think it's a good way to create a memorable atmosphere in early 3D gamesThe very early 3D aesthetic of "just a bunch of weird shit" was a natural consequence of tinkerers playing around with early capabilities and it was pure kino. It was a sandbox of the mind, full of bouncing spheres, fiber optic plants, and unicycling frogs. Super Mario 64 was a bit more mature, but still well in that era where simply being able to peer into an alternate-reality 3D universe was totally enthralling.
>>12548000based. The masonic floor is an interesting choice by Peach though
>>12548006gameplay-wise is a 10 out of 10.
>>12548901>hat era where simply being able to peer into an alternate-reality 3D universe was totally enthralling.Yeah, it's hard to explain to people who grew up with 3D how mindblowing it all felt back then.
>>12547998it has nothing to do with occult Freemason shit, it's just the contrast of the music and bright surroundings with the creepy haunted feeling of the castle>voice laughing when you enter>Peach painting changing to Bowser as you approach>Boo in the hallway>dark basement with fire demon painting>endless stairs
>>12548174>>12548247"there are murderers who say they didnt kill anyone, therefore they didnt"if you still think hidickey onNo is just some shut-in type who made "a gundam show with christian symbols cuz he thought they looked cool" you shouldn't contribute to a thread like this
>>12549706This, exactlyI guess these anons have their eyes wide shut
>>12548016>Attend a symphony>Act like an obnoxious faggot the entire time>"I can't believe people think I'm an obnoxious faggot when I'm listening to something other than mumble rap! How could this happen to me?"It's not very difficult.
>>12548415And? millennials had to deal with it and now you do. You act like you aren't going to bitch about gen alpha. And for the record I've never felt the need to hate on zoomers. But it's just how it goes you fuckin whiner.
>>12548016>reeeeee why are zoomers obsessed with this!Asking why isn't inherently negative. I was interested in why zoomers liked some of my favorite games because I was glad they did. If that poster is being negative then I'd assume they're an anti-Nintendo shitposter rather than someone who likes SM64 and is mad at others for liking it too.
>>12549706mgs3 literally has a character tell you titles and descriptions of movies that influenced the game and people still don’t get that the game was made with influence and a thorough thought process behind the use of that influenceyou’re right that people are just blind
>>12547998>people back then>Wow this is a cool castle BING BING WAHOO>people now>OMG ITS SO ESOTERICALLY LIMINAL! IS MARIO 64 SECRETLY HORRIFYING? cue large red arrow pointing to circled mario hat
>>12547998I played this as a kid back when it was new and the only thing that was "esoteric" to me was the inner workings of the faggot mind that decided wet-dry world was a good idea.>b-b-but underwater levels good!Die ten thousand times and come back just to die again.
>>12550076>discussing retro games on the retro game board is being obnoxious
>>12550130you're the retard that drowned all the time from holding down A instead of repeatedly pressing B aren't you?
>>12550149FUCK WATERFUCK YOU
>>12549706The Christian symbolism in the show literally means nothing.The show IS densely packed with meaning about many things, but the judeo christian stuff was all set dressing. He had no idea what any of the names of symbols meant other than "Adam" being the beginning and EVAs are "Eves" because they're mothers, wow. The rest of the religious stuff was word salad and flashing neon crosses.And it's totally fine.
>>12550145Its not the what you purposely obtuse retard, its the how. Like how I'm calling you a fucking retard for purposely missing the point when I could have just stuck to correcting your misinterpretation.
>>12550326get back to me when you've wiped the tears away from your eyes and calmed down. you clearly aren't capable of talking about this topic without your emotions taking over.
>>12550558I just called out your strawman but sure. Tears galore.
>>12548006Because they all played it as kids. Zoomers got N64s and SM64 as hand-me-downs and first consoles.
>>12548000FPBP
>>12548016The question was stupid. Your response was stupider. Your meltdown that succeeded it is the stupidest yet.
>>12550286You are technically correct, though there is deeper post-enlightenment Christian messaging and the search for meaning, as approached by an outsider to the culture yet nonetheless incapable of escaping it, embedded in the series irrespective of its use of iconography for visual appeal.
>>12547998mario is a stand in for the base initiate/hermes/mithras, bowser is the mithraic bull to be slain and peach is sophia. the whole game is some quasi virtual masonic initiation for kiddies.
>>12550286its a mixture of the creator projecting himself into shinji, his troubles and insecurities through some jungian psychoanalytic shadow work while using kabbalaistic motifs to reach kether in the end, with his anima female side asuka completing the journey through the spheres, finalizing "the work." as well as themes like the jesuit pierre teilhard de chardin's heat death of the universe/accelerationist/singularity theory that we will all become one in the end of the world. the kabbalistic destoyer goddess lilith - rei - ends the world by bringing us ALL back to the womb, effectively destroying the world to make a new one with asuka and shinji as the new adam and eve.
>>12548751I remember really liking that back in the day. The worlds felt like real worlds, not just obstacle courses. Banjo-Kazooie did it better though.
>>12549601I remember when this was the big "holy shit best game ever". https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnZjALq6k6Q
>>12550919>n-no u!telltale of assblastedness kek
>>12551780That is a valid interpretation, but it's not what I see. I see a completely secular search for meaning in a chaotic world and an analysis of people who are driven by fear for various reasons. I also see a lot in the story about 20th century engineering, the development of the energy industry, and war, but that's outside the scope of our convo.
Its a me, Mario!
>>12547998andrew larkin loughboroughAlmost sure rate of mixing for randomly perturbed Lorenz maps
