YMMV / Super Mario 63

• Awesome Music: Any of the remixes that were put into the game, especially "The Alternate Route" (a remix of "Koopa's Road").
• Big-Lipped Alligator Moment: The Toad claiming to be Mewtwo outside the Rainbow Ride level. At first it just seems like he's just a Toad pretending to be Mewtwo, but then (to Mario's visible shock) he appears to actually begin to use Shadow Ball until he realizes that he's out of PP for the move, after which the frustrated Toad(?) uses Teleport and disappears. Was that actually Mewtwo (apparently disguised as a Toad) or just a really dedicated Toad? The game never says for sure, and the scene isn't referenced anywhere else.
• Cult Classic: Super Mario 63 surprisingly still maintains a dedicated fanbase over a decade after its original release, largely due to the very flexible Level Editor. Aside from this, there's a fairly active speedrun community as well, due to the numerous Good Bad Bugs and Game-Breaker skips.
• Fridge Logic: A Toad after the second Bowser fight mentions he was is able to go on vacation to Bowser's Castle with his family. How?
  • Nathaniel Bandy lampshades the absurdity of this in his Super Mario 63 review video.
  Nathaniel: Also can we talk about how odd it is for a Toad to say his family went on vacation to Bowser's Castle?
  Nathaniel: (now holding a suitcase) Sorry, gotta cancel the video, I got a beach day with Kim Jong Un in North Korea! Ta ta!
• Game-Breaker:
  • Unfortunately for the designer, there is obviously no way to ensure an entirely linear way of game progression, since certain areas can actually be accessed prior to their storyline appearance. In an amusing parallel to Super Mario 64 proper, it's possible to skip to the first Bowser fight from the beginning, and then skip immediately to the final level from there.
  • Hover Nozzle. Lose your balance on a platform? No problem! Unless the platform moves in such a way you can't hover back to land, as they are wont to do later in the game.
  • For speedruns, the Rocket Nozzle is the primary game breaker; it's only supposed to work once per jump, but with pause buffering, it's possible to use it multiple times in a row. Using it in tandem with the Turbo Nozzle essentially lets you fly over obstacles in completely unintended ways.
• That One Level:
  • The Edge of the Mushroom Kingdom. This game makes you earn your 100% Completion.
  • Playing some of the later levels (such as Lethal Lava Land and Tick Tock Clock) can be a big pain in the butt without Hover FLUDD.
  • Also, the Collapsing Lair segment of Bowser's Castle after Bowser is defeated. The area's covered with fire and spinning platforms, and FLUDD is not able to be used whatsoever.
• Unintentional Period Piece: Super Mario 63 is filled with stuff that dates it to 2008. There's references to memes like Rick Roll and Doing a barrel roll! that are played completely straight, one Toad can be seen cheering Barack Obama's name, a conversation with a different Toad has him say Super Smash Bros. Brawl (released in the first half of 2008) is the latest installment of Smash, and Super Mario Galaxy, at the time the most recent Mario game (released in November 2007), supplies several songs on the soundtrack, like the Buoy Base Galaxy and Melty Molten Galaxy themes.

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