Kurai Kokoro Kyūden

There’s a whole fucking room in the castle that’s just a long corridor with a portrait of bowser at the end. There’s another specifically designed to be a trick of perspective so you run towards a portrait of a goomba that looks like it’s right in front of you but it’s actually far away and huge. There’s a room filled with paintings and then a mirror wall so you can like, see the paintings reflected, I guess?

Years ago, my husband sent an email to Nintendo asking them a bunch of questions about Mario 64; stuff like “How do Bobombs reproduce?” and “Who does the second baby penguin belong to?” and that. I bring it up because one of the fifty-odd questions asked was “Why is there no furniture in Princess Peach’s castle?”