If anyone has gotten this far (I'm assuming at least some people have gotten to this level) It's this tiny little level where you play tag with some star bunnies, y'know, the ones that luma can turn into.

And if you don't win, you die.

Does anyone else get a freaking creepy vibe from that? I mean here you have these cute little rabbits going "come play with us, byoing!" but if you don't win, you lose a life.

All I can imagine is you find two of them, you're almost ready to catch the last one and then the timer goes off.

the two rabbits you caught turn to you, their eyes glowing red and their front teeth grow jagged and sharp, you hear them rasp out; "oh no... looks like you didn't make it... byoing... you know what that means..."

the last bunny you couldn't find pops out of the ground in front of you "PENALTY... GAME...."  All three bunnies surround you and drag you underground... the screen goes black...

>_>; That level is easy.

I found all of the surrealist "you die because you ran out of time and/or lost a race" levels to be weird. The comets almost have an excuse built in (radiation poisoning, perhaps?), but why does Mario just flat-out die if he loses a race with a ghost, or a squad of penguins? Let's not even get started on what the shark might be doing to Mario after he fails to swim through 8 rings...

I know, that's the thing, the race against teh ghost and the shark at least makea LITTLE sense when mario dies... The penguins not so much so, but I don't recall having a timed race against any of them.

The bunnies though are supposed to be your cute little allies, adn they're just playing a game, but you still die. I just found that really disturbing.

I don't think I'll be playing that level ever again Grey Acumen. Thanks a bunch.

Mario freakin' turns in to a spring by touching a mushroom, flies through space without a space suit (my cousin tried that, and he exploded- true story!!) and comes back from the dead by eating a green mushroom. Let's not nit-pick about him losing a race and dying!

have you guys noticed that when you get killed by electricity, mario/luigi's flesh gets burned off and theres nothing left of them but a skeleton?

surprsingly morbid for a mario game :P

Think the bunnies are bad? What about those robots?

Wow. That is so nice of you to offer to clean up all the garbage in my munitions storage area with those bombs. But you didn't do it as fast as I'd have liked, so you die now!


What the hell!? Stupid robots with their kill die death protocols.

Ahh I loved that level, you could push away the snow with the pointer, very cool.

I agree with Grey, it is creepy, but some of you seemed to miss the point, everything that happens in Mario naturally goes against nature, I mean have you ever died 6 times by accidentally touching a walking muffin?

It was more the case of these lovely little friendly things helping you out and letting you play a game of chase... then BAM, "not fast enough you fat git, so now we cut off your oxygen"

Similarly with the robots like Stof said, he asks you to help him clean up, you then do him a favour which he only repays if you do it fast enough.
"Faster bitch, faster, dance for me Mario"

Actually there's something even better. In some of the purple coin comets, you'll be on a moving platform, and you'll therefore need to catch all the coins as you go. But if you miss some, you'll have a robot at the end, and you'll need to talk to the robot so it will kill you. Yep, you actually need to get yourself killed.

Besides, there should be no complaining about the rabbits. Everybody should know they are the game true heroes.