I’ve just always appreciated how they bothered to create an explanation for the third person view. Obviously, they didn’t need to do that, and as far as I know, no other developer has ever created lore for a third person camera guy before Mario 64.
So in reality your not really playing the game at all, it’s actually a recorded live footage of Mario’s rescue of princess peach for some cake for some reason, Mario’s controlling himself
Your the camera man the entire time, except Mario can’t see or doesn’t notice until he’s looking at a mirror
Lakota sells the overall idea that all Mario games are performances meant to entertain the mushroom kingdom. Early games start screens were a stage, Lakitu records everything as the camera man for movies. Party titles are like an interactive amusement park. I be mario and browser are really best friends and the twin masterminds of every production.
And Lakitu, well he and all the other turtles on clouds are the hired support staff to maintain and ensure safety. They earn most of their money from the kart games (3 coins per rescue… Ridiculous rates).
They should have made a spin off game. Cameraman 64. You follow an idiot around all day, avoiding obstacles and you get graded on how well you kept Idiot in focus.
*What is my purpose?*
You follow this idiot around all day.
*Oh, my God.*
Yeah, welcome to the club.
Lol i forgot about this guy. This game was ahead of its time.
I’ve just always appreciated how they bothered to create an explanation for the third person view. Obviously, they didn’t need to do that, and as far as I know, no other developer has ever created lore for a third person camera guy before Mario 64.
Narration: “Today, Mario spent 15 minutes staring at a bowl of oatmeal”
Free will is an illusion I’m just following around this idiot in my body.
So in reality your not really playing the game at all, it’s actually a recorded live footage of Mario’s rescue of princess peach for some cake for some reason, Mario’s controlling himself
Your the camera man the entire time, except Mario can’t see or doesn’t notice until he’s looking at a mirror
Mario made a contract with Swearnet
Peaches
Peaches
Peaches
Peaches peaches
Yahoo!
He also shows up as an enemy in Tiny Huge Island, so thats kind of weird.
Also, the fact that they put a mirror into an N64 game is a very underrated part of SM64.
Still this best explanation for 3rd person camera view
Why is Mario an idiot?
I love how everyone is proper analysing the lore of the camera guy when it’s just a quirky little thing!
That is just called journalism.
(no offense to journalists)
Lakota sells the overall idea that all Mario games are performances meant to entertain the mushroom kingdom. Early games start screens were a stage, Lakitu records everything as the camera man for movies. Party titles are like an interactive amusement park. I be mario and browser are really best friends and the twin masterminds of every production.
And Lakitu, well he and all the other turtles on clouds are the hired support staff to maintain and ensure safety. They earn most of their money from the kart games (3 coins per rescue… Ridiculous rates).
He’s the camera crew you hired to catch peach in the act of cheating
https://youtu.be/rtLZvTkcNeM
“What is my purpose?”
“You film Mario.”
“…….Oh my god”
The camera in the mirror is dangling back and forth but the image remains perfectly still. Unplayable.
Why is Lakitu’s camera moving but the player’s screen is not?
And then they didn’t even give him a role in the movie
Invert Y axis because of flight games
Invert X axis because of this guy
He deserves this fate after being such a god damn prick in Mario 3.
How did he manage under water?
This is a second person game
Cyberpunk2077 doesn’t even have this capability
They should have made a spin off game. Cameraman 64. You follow an idiot around all day, avoiding obstacles and you get graded on how well you kept Idiot in focus.
Is this the one for the DS?
Drone footage from the “cloud”
I just downloaded project 64 and am very much enjoying reliving these games.
A proper mirror… finally
Lakitu is actually an undercover cop. He’s capturing footage for the inevitable Mushroom Kingdom v. Mario Mario court case.
You thought dropping the penguin off the cliff wouldn’t have consequences.
Lakitu just spent 36 hours filming Mario massacre moneybags to break the game and collect a “121st” star.
They must have shifts. Even goombas have shifts.
If you do Lakitu skip at the start…who is filming you?
Is this how the movie was filmed?
Lakitu worked great. Wish I had him in Frontiers.
Whaaaaat he gets a primo view of a hero saving a princess against a big turtle monster. Probably gets a cut of those coins too, it’s the man’s job
That stabilization tho…
i would say the reflected mario has it way worst. Its whole purpose is to be mario’s reflection in this particular room.
I’m annoyed that the camera image doesn’t bob left and right like it does in the mirror. That’s some image stabilization technology right there.
Can we just admire the anti sway on the camera, not a single vibration is present in 3rd person.
Top of his game, manages to follow Mario over 4 parallel universes at super luminal speeds.
wouldn’t this game be considered second person then