Defying Nintendo and all things good, Super Mario Bros. Wonder modder reveals what 'long' characters actually look like, and I can't decide who's worst
Oct. 25, 2023Save yourself - do not scroll any further if you value your ability to sleep at night
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Since the first trailer forSuper Mario Bros. Wonder, the world has been contemplating a single, horrible question: what does elongated Mario really look like? Well, folks, we now have an answer, and it’s every bit as horrifying as you might’ve imagined.
There’s a level in Super Mario Bros. Wonder called Sproings in the Twilight Forest where everything appears as a dark silhouette against a colorful background. Picking up the Wonder Flower in this level will turn your character - and many of the stage’s enemies - into an elongated version with an uber-long torso. A brief glimpse of this stage appeared in the game’s very first trailer, and ever since then I’ve been wondering - nay,forcedto wonder - what that long Mario would look like in normal lighting.
Well, none of us have to wonder anymore. A player by the name ofRedStoneMatthas modified the game to remove the silhouette effect and reveal elongated Mario in all his glory. It didn’t take long for otherplayers to use the modto reveal elongated Luigi, Peach, Toadette, Toad, Yoshi, and Nabbit, too, and I’ve been mesmerized by thistweetfrom Supper Mario Broth as I try to figure out which of them is the most horrifying.
Yeah, sure, there’s a certain horror in Mario and Luigi just looking like human tree trunks, but there’s something about Nabbit’s inhuman proportions that’s deeply upsetting. Peach gets the benefit of a super-long skirt to hide whatever’s going on with her, and Yoshi honestly just looks like he’s having a good time.
It’s really Toad and Toadette that I’ll never be able to get out of my mind. They both look like Eldritch horrors, breaking the bounds of Euclidean geometry with their terrible angles. Good luck sleeping tonight, folks.
Who needs thebest horror gameswhen you can just look at a Super Mario Bros. Wonder mod?
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