History NightmareFuel / SuperMarioSunshine

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[[caption-width-right:225: For context, this thing is big as a house. And you fight it underwater...in darkness.[[note]]The fact [[NonMaliciousMonster it's only a menace due to poor dental hygiene]] does very little to make up for it.[[/note]]]]

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* The game features a stage in Noki Bay where you have to go underwater (thus, making it a TimedMission), and clean the teeth of a giant eel (pictured above); complete with poisonous bubbles and a whirlpool that threatens to suck you in. Doesn't help that the eel lunges up out of its cave at you and you have to get close to its mouth to clean its teeth. It's ''huge'' and you have to fight it in a dark, underwater trench, it attacks by trying to eat you, ''and'' you have to get close to its open mouth to attack[[note]]You actually just have to clean its teeth with F.L.U.D.D., but still[[/note]], especially bad if you're not good with water.

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[[caption-width-right:225: For context, this thing is big as a house. And you fight it underwater...in darkness.[[note]]The fact [[NonMaliciousMonster it's only a menace due to poor dental hygiene]] does very little to make up for it.[[/note]]]]

* The game features a stage in Noki Bay where you have to go underwater (thus, making it a TimedMission), and clean the teeth of a giant eel (pictured above); complete with poisonous bubbles and a whirlpool that threatens to suck you in. Doesn't help that the eel lunges up out of its cave at you and you have to get close to its mouth to clean its teeth. It's ''huge'' and you have to fight it in a dark, underwater trench, it attacks by trying to eat you, ''and'' you have to get close to its open mouth to attack[[note]]You actually just have to clean its teeth with F.L.U.D.D., but still[[/note]], especially bad if you're not good with water.

* The bees. Unlike the bees in most of the other Mario games, these bees have a more realistic design to them that can be rather unnerving, especially for those who are afraid of bees in real life. You can hear them buzzing around their hive if you approach it, and if you get too close, they will start attacking you until you back off. If you dare to knock the hive down with either FLUDD or by stomping on it, a huge swarm of bees will suddenly rush you, and they won't stop unless you run away far enough or if you're on Yoshi and have him eat the bees.

** Phantamanta has a [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZaL95n2Isc remixed version of the Goopy Piranha Plant/Plungelo battle theme]] that is pretty unnerving.

* The game uses bitmap images for generating goop on maps. The bitmap for an older version of Bianco Hill's goop shows what looks like "Kug" (a DummiedOut enemy), a Piranha Plant, [[BreadEggsMilkSquick and... a]] NightmareFace with what looks like hexigonal teeth, big eyes, and a weird-looking wisp-hand sticking out. See it for yourself: [[http://tcrf.net/Super_Mario_Sunshine/Unused_Pollution_Maps#Early_Bianco_Hills here]],

Vacations exist to help one escape their stressful main lives, but if Bowser and Bowser Junior terrorising Mario's vacation spot wasn't enough, he also now meets some [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal terrible tropical terrors]].

[[AC:Plot]]
* The plot itself is scary, as it definitely becomes a lot darker. Mario's been sent to prison for a crime he didn't commit, instead being committed by Bowser Jr. He's forced to then face off against Shadow Mario, a criminal mastermind, to not only save the princess, but the entire island, and his good name. Making it worse, he has no power-ups this time, only F.L.U.D.D.; the Flash Liquidizing Ultra Dousing Device as his partner and weapon worn on his back.

[[AC:Levels]]
* A few of the music and sound effects in Sunshine can be terrifying. For example, Hotel Delfino, a HellHotel-type ghost house stage, is frightening enough on its own, but its [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0Y6uNRtCfs background music]] is a fairly standard-sounding tune... with ''bones rattling in the background''.
* Getting sucked into another dimension. You lose FLUDD, have only your jumps, are trapped in cheery, happy puzzle-worlds and the levels are NintendoHard.
* The Blooper Surfing course can be pretty spooky when you realize that there's no roof to the area. Instead, past a certain height, there is just [[NothingIsScarier blackness]]. It doesn't help that there are a [[RealIsBrown lack of bright colours]] in the area, in contrast to most of the game, making the area feel unnatural as a result.
** Use a camera editor (like that included with Dolphin) and get the camera out of bounds, and it's revealed that the stage actually hides the background to the special levels. You're not supposed to see it normally, but it's exceptionally creepy to realize that a room that's supposedly under a building is actually floating in psychedelic space.
* The Boos in Hotel Delfino look rather demented, with glazed over eyes and tongues hanging out more than usual. They even look outright stoned.

[[AC:Bosses]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=58ZVat0Ocdg The boss theme in general.]] The battles feel quite frantic with this piece playing, and it practically keeps you on your toes the whole way through, which only serves to make the below bosses that much more threatening to deal with.
* Shadow Mario and his scary {{red eyes|TakeWarning}}.
* In the Gooper Blooper battles, Mario is fighting a giant squid who uses his tentacles and ink that summons slimy enemies to attack. The method of defeating him is to jump on each of his tentacles and graphically pull them off one by one; after doing so, the pulled tentacle will wriggle wildly before disappearing.
* Phantamanta. It's a large, paper-thin orange shadow in the shape of a manta. Wherever it goes, it leaves a trail of goop and emits a really creepy shriek when you try to spray it. The worst part is that it's an AsteroidsMonster and divides into smaller faster shadows as it is destroyed. When you've finally destroyed half of the original manta, the remaining 64 mantas [[TurnsRed stop fooling around]] and all converge on your position at once with incredible speed at a time when you're probably almost out of health. You may think that going in the lake would protect you from it, but it just hovers over any water, so ''nowhere is safe.''

[[AC:DummiedOut]]

vacations exist to help one escape their stressful main lives, but if Bowser and Bowser Junior terrorising Mario's vacation spot wasn't enough, he also now meets some [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal terrible tropical terrors]].