User:SkyBlueCat/Drafts/Super Mario 64 Big Star Secret

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The video, of course, has to do with unlocking Luigi that it provide with a handful of steps on how to do so; all of this was impressively done with Windows Movie Maker 2. For most of the time, Lotus begins doing what the steps say at the beginning, going in for almost five minutes. A few instructions includes kicking a boo, walk around the fountain from the castle courtyard and more. The tutorial ends here: Lotus tells the viewer to press "A" on the wall. Just as the viewer is about to do so, a zombie from the K-fee commercial appears with a loud scream. However, as far as one can see, Lotus can be seen going against the wall in seconds before the screamer, but it is unknown what this could possibly lead to. Later on, the video ended with credits appearing from the top of the screen, while "Those Chosen by the Planet" from Final Fantasy VII plays in the background.

In the reaction video, there's another part that wasn't mentioned in the description is Mario going up to the stairs. It was until the man who records the video tries to skip half of the video, only almost at the end of the screamer, where Lotus focuses and instructs the viewer to press "A" on the wall. A K-fee zombie then appears from there on, scaring the kid away.

Background

This one is among the Super Mario 64 screamer videos that appear from its old days, which all had to do with the urban legend. The video was apparently based on "L is real 2046", an urban legend that started after it was once believed that a message from the courtyard plaque ("big star" referred to by the screamer") was a code to unlock Luigi, an unplayable character in Super Mario 64. The video has shown other steps aside from using a code to unlock the character, on the other hand. This urban legend has long since been debunked, kind of. 

The video's audio has been muted to avoid copyright issues, so it was replaced with 009 Sound System's Dreamscape theme in 2010. The video originally had a set of three music, such as "Whispers in the Dark" by Skillet at the start, and "Those Chosen by the Planet" from Final Fantasy VII in the second half and the credits. However, the music that played in the beginning was often mistaken as "Bring Me To Life" by Evanescence, according to many witnesses. Lotus also said that an email was sent to him, which offered him to put "Database" by Alexander Pearls for almost US $40, which he accepted later on. When questioned about the audio swap, Lotus explained that 009 Sound System's Dreamscape theme is  "one of the those YouTube recommends it for audio swaps when they screw you over."

Although some claimed that it took place on the Bob-Omb Battlefield, Lotus later confirmed that it happened inside the castle, mostly in the courtyard. He also mentioned that Mario also entered an "alternate dimension" in the video, where the textures appeared to be glitching out, possibly due to low memory issues with the emulator. "Those Chosen by the Planet" then started playing from that moment. On September 16, 2020, Lotus made two screenshots attempting to remake what he could remember, such as the thumbnail (Mario standing in front of the courtyard) and the part where Mario is next to the castle.