History VideoGame / SM64DotZ64

* {{Antepiece}}: The player is required to play Bob-Omb Battlefield three times before the climax. The third loop has a dark sky, foreshadowing how the next one gets so dark one can't see the way foward. Clearing the stage 3 times will also prepare the player for doing it on a time limit at the end- [[spoiler:not that it matters, as there is no star at the end]].

* ArtificialStupidity: [=M'' ,:;=] will try to follow after Mario but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Srt9OseX0bY there are ways]] to get it stuck next to walls. For example, waiting at the very corner of Bob-Omb Battlefield by the mountain will cause the entity to get stuck on the mountain's second gap. Even if you run around the opposite side of the map, the entity [[AIBreaker will not follow at all]] until you get directly above or below it.

* ControllableHelplessness: M will fly faster and faster until it catches Mario and there's no way to stop it, fight it or escape from it.

* NiceJobBreakingItHero: The player is implicity draining the world of life by collecting the Power Stars, explaining why [[spoiler:M believes removing Mario will set things right]].

* GameBreakingBug: InvokedTrope; as the game will freeze every time Bob-Omb Battlefield is cleared. Resetting will bring up a "SOMETHING CHANGED" error message before gameplay resumes.

* WhamLine: Following the conclusion of the fourth and final loop, you are greeted with a view of the courtyard, but Mario is gone. After a few moments, a text box appears:

-->''[[spoiler:Everything is better off '''[[PlayerPunch without you.]]''']]''

* WhamLine:
->''[[spoiler:Everything is better off '''[[PlayerPunch without you.]]''']]''

* WhamShot: The [[spoiler:absence of a Power Star]] in the fourth and final loop after all the effort one puts in to clear the area on time. It is inevitable.

->''That was fun.''
->''Let's do it again.''

* ShoutOut: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoPZTT_IHXM official trailer]] ends by paraphrasing the Fallen Child's invitation to "finish the job" at the end of ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'''s demo.

* ArtificialStupidity: The entity will try to follow after Mario but there are ways to get it stuck next to walls. For example, waiting at the very corner of Bob-Omb Battlefield by the mountain will cause the entity to get stuck on the mountain's second gap. Even if you run around the opposite side of the map, the entity [[AIBreaker will not follow at all]] until you get directly above or below it.

until you can finally

''leave''.

* {{Antepiece}}: The player is required to play Bob-Omb Battlefield three times before the climax. The third loop has a dark sky, foreshadowing how the next one gets so dark one can't see the way foward. Clearing the stage 3 times will also prepare the player for doing it on a time limit at the end.

* BlackoutBasement: The fourth run of Bob-Omb Battlefield is set on darkness. As the timer runs down, most of the terrain will turn pitch black only to light back up when it ends and the entity arrives.

* ControllableHelplessness: The entity will fly faster and faster until it catches Mario and there's no way to stop it, fight it or escape from it.
* DownerEnding: [[spoiler:The entity will capture and erase Mario to prevent the player from playing any further. It then claims things are better that way.]]

* FourIsDeath: It awakens on the fourth loop.

** The cheerful race start fanfarre is this due to the sheer MoodWhiplash it causes upon playing from out of nowhere at the final level.

* MinimalistCast: This romhack only features Mario and... M a r i o?

* SurrealHorror: There's no explanation of what is going on or why the entity wants to [[spoiler:remove Mario from the game]].
* TimedMission: The fourth Bob-Omb Battlefield visit ''starts'' on a timer but without any indication of such. After a while, the race fanfarre plays and an on-screen timer shows up. It will arrive shortly after this countdown ends.
* TrailersAlwaysLie: Promotional material for the game invites players to play it. And again, and again. In the actual game, however, players are repeatedly told to ''leave'' until the entity just [[spoiler:gets rid of them and says that's how things should be]]. The in-universe significance of this contradiction isn't known.

* GagNose: The entity is a Mario model with its nose stretched down, which makes it look kind of goofy when viewed from the side.

* GlitchEntity: At the end, a [[https://twitter.com/Classified_FNF/status/1496942649747509263 deformed black-and-white Mario]] with garbled coloring on its face and overalls will chase after the real Mario and [[spoiler:eventually erase him]]. It might be the hack's interpretation of the "Personalization A.I." that haunts ''Super Mario 64'' in fanfiction, but who knows for sure...

* TrailersAlwaysLie: Promotional material for the game invites players to play it. And again, and again. In the actual game, however, players are repeatedly told to ''leave'' until the entity just [[spoiler:gets rid of them and says that's how things should be]]. The significance of this contradiction isn't known.

* DifficultyByAcceleration: The entity will fly faster and faster until it catches Mario and there's no way to stop or fight it.

** The static and rumbling that it makes as it follows Mario.

** The title screen after [[spoiler:Mario is erased]] is blank. Upon starting the game, [[spoiler:the world is back to normal but it is unplayable. After a while, ominous music plays and a disembodied narrator claims that "Everything is better off without you". The game will remain like this until the player quits]]. ​
* ShoutOut: The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoPZTT_IHXM official trailer]] ends by paraphrasing a certain character from ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}''. Namely, the Fallen Child's invitation to "finish the job" in that game's demo.

** On Bob-Omb Battlefield, signposts point against the direction of the goal. A patch of flowers will appear by the mountain with signs pointing to it for no apparent reason. The third loop has a pitch black sky and a blank goal prompt but still nothing happens.
** The final version of Bob-Omb Battlefield is shrouded in darkness and orders the player to leave. It's only a while later that the silence is broken and the terror starts for real.

* GlitchEntity: At the end, a [[https://twitter.com/Classified_FNF/status/1496942649747509263 deformed black-and-white Mario]] with garbled coloring on its face and pants will chase after the real Mario and [[spoiler:eventually erase him]]. It might be the hack's interpretation of the "Personalization A.I." that haunts ''Super Mario 64'' in fanfiction, but who knows for sure...

* GlitchEntity: At the end, a deformed black-and-white Mario with garbled coloring on its face and pants will chase after the real Mario and [[spoiler:eventually erase him]]. It might be the hack's interpretation of the "Personalization A.I." that haunts ''Super Mario 64'' in fanfiction, but who knows for sure...

** The cheerful race start fanfarre is this due to the MoodWhiplash it causes upon playing from out of nowhere at the final level.

* GlitchEntity: At the end, a deformed black-and-white Mario with garbled coloring on its face and pants will chase after the real Mario and eventually erase him. It might be the hack's interpretation of the "Personalization A.I." that haunts ''Super Mario 64'' in fanfiction, but who knows for sure...

* ExactWords: The final goal is to "leave", but the level is unwinnable. After so many signposts telling the player to turn back, this is essentially the game's final warning that the player should literally shut it down, or else...