History VideoGame / B3313

* PoisonMushroom: You need to collect Red Stars to advance in version 0.9, but after obtaining enough of those the game will enable three kinds of mostly detrimental coins. Purple coins spawn from enemies and objects when the player is healthy and deplete HP if collected. Green coins spawn in formations of normal coins when the player is injured and heal 3 HP without adding to the coin counter. Finally, the rare white coins have no effects... other than a 25% chance of outright crashing the game.

** In certain areas of the castle, the beautiful [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkFpUQc3Y2o&ab_channel=RadiatorRampardos Peach's Castle music]] from the original game is replaced with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh4Tb1xpzg4&ab_channel=Marionova64 a minor key version]]. There's also a floor that plays a version that's in major key, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDKwyiAmclA&ab_channel=TheRoku very slowed down and low pitched]] enough for it to count. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jdk_XGemI&ab_channel=SmuttyDagon file select]] is also in minor key.
** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26SexeVkEug&ab_channel=Skelevaxel slider]] theme is in minor key for some reason too.

* SoundtrackDissonance: Right before the Randomized Realm you'll get warped to the rooftop of a crimson version of the castle. Everything looks black-and-red, the lake and waterfall have dried out, the toad statue is beheaded, Yoshi is nowhere to be seen, and yet circus music of all things is playing.

** The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26SexeVkEug&ab_channel=Skelevaxel slider]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpjyQJ3KqlU&ab_channel=Apollyon snow level]] themes are in minor key too.

* ObviousBeta: {{Invoked|Trope}}; as part of its dream-like haunted game theme, ''[=B3313=]'' contains many elements from the known beta builds of ''Super Mario 64'' mixed with content from the actual game and some of the controls and physics are changed to make them feel off to veteran players.

** In certain areas of the castle, the beautiful Peach's Castle music from the original game is replaced with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zh4Tb1xpzg4&ab_channel=Marionova64 a minor key version]]. There's also a floor that plays a version that's in major key, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDKwyiAmclA&ab_channel=TheRoku very slowed down and low pitched]] enough for it to count. The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2jdk_XGemI&ab_channel=SmuttyDagon file select]] is also in minor key.

** Some level themes like the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26SexeVkEug&ab_channel=Skelevaxel Slider]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpjyQJ3KqlU&ab_channel=Apollyon snow level]] music are in minor key too.

* DarkReprise: In certain areas of the castle, the beautiful Peach's Castle music from the original game is replaced with a minor key version. There's also a floor that plays a version that's in major key, but very slowed down and low pitched enough for it to count. The file select is also in minor key.

* HellIsThatNoise: An eerie jingle plays every time the Beta Lobby changes

-->'''Toad:''' Can you hear the distant screams? I do.

** Motos Factory has a white coin in a corner that does not crash the game by itself. Instead, it forces the player into a path that ends on [[spoiler:a piston repeatedly crushing Luigi into the floor as Shadow Mario watches. Getting too close to the piston or the shadowy figure will cause it to chase the player and crash the game]].

** Water. There are multiple DrowningPit traps and several environments become flooded, drowning everyone in them.

** The Unsettling Maze is true to its name: it is a corridor with [[NothingIsScarier no music]], broken walls, [[spoiler:and twisted variations of familiar paintings (Cool Cool Mountain's little snowman now has a Mr. I face, Bowser has a decomposing mouth, but the scariest may be Tiny-Huge Island Goombas and ''Princess Peach'' who have MonochromaticEyes)]].

* RegeneratingHealth: Mario[=/=]Luigi's health regenerates every so often after taking a hit. Swimming mechanics being tied to health work as they do in the original game.

** In one area, you can find a puzzle which only consists of [[spoiler:three rooms repeating themselves over and over. In one of them, you can find a blank faced Toad who tells you "Shhh! Please walk quietly in the hallways!", and when you reach the end, you only have a blank black room with another blank faced Toad. If you approach him,, [[https://b3313.fandom.com/wiki/Silent_Sewers?so=search&file=Thecreature.png this abomination]] appears and crashes your game]].

** There's little indication of what even is going on. Did Bowser kidnap Peach as usual or is she somehow the villain luring Mario and Luigi to their doom? Are the Shadow and Faceless Marios representations of the "Personalization A.I." from the iceberg and creepypasta memes?
** Warping to the main lobby from the pause menu will actually land the player on a ''version'' of it in cycling order, which can be identified by the numbers marked on the doors. This references the concept of an [[HauntedTechnology haunted A.I.]] editing ''Super Mario 64'' on the fly. Similarly, dying or clearing levels will warp the player to certain rooms instead of their entrance to make them lose their sense of direction. ​

* ShaggyDogStory: Clearing the final boss fight seemingly has ''[=SM64=]'''s usual ending play, but [[spoiler:after Peach and Mario[=/=]Luigi leave for cake, the player gets stuck out of bounds -- all folded up, unable to be anything more than a simple plumber. This depletes a life, so either you get spat out in the "hell basement" or get a game over]].

** The Challenge Lobby also has a walled up door that warns the player to forget about it, much like in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VeUkw36WAFk Epilogue]]". Using a nearby Vanish Cap to enter it [[spoiler:warps the player to a pond with a drowned Luigi that crashes the game should the player try to jump in]].

** Trying to move close to either the Shadow or Faceless Marios (avatars of the Personalization A.I., also known as "Stanley") will cause [[spoiler:the surroundings to transform in a split-second while they become hazardous, though they'll still be immobile]]. Compared to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9_-A0v-L7A the videos by Greenio]], their appearance is rather restrained.

* OverlyLongGag: In V0.7, the Forest Maze is changed to a set of three long hallways divided into several rooms. So you'll keep opening doors over and over, with the hallway turning darker and darker, until, in two out of the three paths, it [[AntiClimax just sends you back to the entrance]]. The correct hallway then has a Toad in the way who asks Mario[=/=]Luigi to keep quiet, which disables all sound effects for the rest of the area.
* PoisonMushroom: You need to collect Red Stars to advance in version 0.9, but after obtaining enough of those the game will start spawning three kinds of mostly detrimental coins. Purple coins spawn from enemies and objects when the player is healthy and deplete HP if collected. Green coins spawn in formations of normal coins when the player is injured and heal [=3HP=] without adding to the coin counter. Finally, the rare white coins have no effects... other than a 25% chance of outright crashing the game.

* GameBreakingBug: {{Invoked|Trope}}; if getting too close to the awakened Shadow Mario doesn't kick you back to the Plexal Basement, it will freeze the game instead. You can also find the yellow switch that enables the Personalization A.I. in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SMgo_vG2mYI Genesis]], but in version 0.7, trying to press it crashes the game in reference to seizure suffered by Jim in that video.

Several of its areas are lifted from many web series about the [=SM64=] Personalization phenomenon, such as the ''WebVideo/SuperMario64Classified'' series, although the horror elements as of V0.7 are downplayed.

* AndIMustScream: The game is partly based around creepypasta memes of ''Super Mario 64'' being haunted by a sentient A.I. entity who is tortured within the constraints of the game's programming, and several areas and the ending suggest that Mario is hopelessly trapped within its dimension.

** The Destroyed Castle Grounds are seemingly set AfterTheEnd, on a red flooded field surrounded by ruins and two massive portraits of Peach in the distance. Entering a pipe warps you back in time to the Haunted Castle Grounds. It starts with Mario atop Peach's Castle, but the whole scenery is likewise crimson red-and-black and ominous despite the circus music playing. Yoshi is gone and Toad's statue is beheaded for some reason.

* ContinuingIsPainful: In most of the areas, dying will drop Mario at the basement area with red mist in a deliberate attempt to confuse the player. As such, it can be a pain to find your way through the maze again. Running out of lives will then reset the game to the usual Mario face screen, but it's possible to underflow the life counter into negative values to prevent it. This is important to know in case you need to deliberately get Mario killed in the areas with different respawn locations.

* DealWithTheDevil: Yellow Switches are associated with the Personalization A.I. If you press the one in the Metal Cap level, the A.I. clears 4 specific stars off your checklist but claims Mario's cap for the rest of the playthrough.

* GottaCatchEmAll: In version 0.7, 30 Power Stars are required to access the Randomized Realm and the normal ending. Version 0.9 adds Red Stars and requires 13 of them instead for beating the game (which was impossible at the time of release due to unfinished content). It also locks half of Mario's moveset and certain doors until you get your first Red Star.

* HopeSpot: Every time you find Peach standing out in the open she turns out to be an illusion. In particular, the route to the Randomized Realm involves a prison corridor with Peach standing inside a open cell at the end. Getting close to her just warps Mario to a strange void illuminated by spotlights. [[spoiler:Even when you clear the game and save Peach, you just get kicked back into either the castle or the game over screen as if it didn't happen.]]
* InfiniteOneUps: There are doors and warps that kick you back to the Plexal Lobby and deplete a life without resulting in a game over if it happens at zero lives. This will cause the life counter to roll over to a huge amount, so then you can exploit it to do things like killing Mario on purpose on a certain hallway to get respawned at the Vanilla Lobby.

** As of version 0.9, reaching the normal ending of ''Super Mario 64'' just sets Mario back to a monochrome version of the Castle Grounds, revealing a new set of levels that leads nowhere.

** One section is appropriately nicknamed "Silent Sewers": it's only a big room with [[spoiler:a trap door that leads you slowly but surely to a JumpScare, but besides that, there are]] only big pillars, water, and more doors. Unlike other areas which at least have happy music, {{Dark Reprise}}s, or a DroneOfDread, the only noises are Mario's footsteps in the water.

* OverlyLongGag: In V0.7, the Forest Maze is changed to a set of three long hallways divided into several rooms. So you'll keep opening doors over and over, with the hallway turning darker and darker, until, in two out of the three paths, it [[AntiClimax just sends you back to the entrance]]. The correct hallway then has a Toad in the way who asks Mario to keep quiet, which disables all sound effects for the rest of the area.

** The dark room with spotlights will sink Mario if he steps outside the highlighted spots.

* RegeneratingHealth: Mario's health regenerates every so often after taking a hit. Swimming mechanics being tied to health work as they do in the original game.

** In a hallway with four doors, one of them is walled up and brings up a warning for the player to forget about it. Using an Vanish Cap to move past the door [[spoiler:makes you come across Shadow Mario, who crashes the game on contact]].

** Getting to the Randomized Realm involves using a throne to warp into what seems like a floor and prison set right after Peach was imprisoned by Bowser. [[spoiler:Trying to save her just warps Mario into the castle's future flooded ruins, and then ''back'' outside a crimson castle that's still standing.]]

** Neither of Dry Town's stars require you to flood the entire place, but it's something you can do at either the top of the big house or at the top of the tower. The Bob-omb inside the big house admonishes Mario for even possibly planning to do it, but then says it's just part of the cycle of life. A different level called Flooded Town partially matches the architecture of Dry Town, implying it did get flooded at some point.

** For some reason, clearing certain tasks first warps Mario to a mysterious void with a checkerboard floor right on top of a Star instead of simply giving out a Star.

* ContinuingIsPainful: In most of the areas, dying will drop Mario at the basement area with red mist in a deliberate attempt to confuse the player. As such, it can be a pain to find your way through the maze again. Running out of lives will then reset the game to the usual Mario face screen, but it's possible to overflow the life counter into negative values to prevent it. This is important to know in case you need to deliberately get Mario killed in the areas with different respawn locations.