Everytime I see this screencap I took, I feel the need to explain myself on why the scares in B3313 work as well as they do: It's based on the active imagination we had as kids, the naive expectation that absolutely anything was possible in games like these.
When we were kids we didn't have the understanding that a game was a virtual space with solid set of rules. To us, absolutely anything was possible, and that was really scary. Anything could creep around every corner, and we expected the worst from the uncanny spaces and scary images.
Too scared to turn that sharp corner. Too scared of the empty hallways. Too scared to approach the eel. Too scared to approach the LLL painting. Too scared of the infinite staircases. Too scared to approach the weird vivid liquid that lead to HMC and DDD (this was a personal experience of mine). As you grow up, you understand the rules of the game and start to rule out those possibilities. You understand that some of those things don't fit the gameplay, the story, nor the context of the game. The spaces start to become familiar and those fears become vestiges of their former selves.
B3313 uses the recent breakthroughs in SM64 modding to make those fears real. The game's original rules are broken and all those images you thought about as a child can suddenly become real. You no longer have the safeguard of the game's rules.
That door can now take you somewhere discomforting. That sharp turn might actually hide something awful. You might actually get lost in the endless empty halls. The lights can now go off anytime. And that goddamn painting might just come to life.
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