Mario 64: Shifting Sand Land/Lethal Lava Land Theme
If I could be Mario for just one hour, I would delve into the treacherous depths of Shifting Sand Land, from Super Mario 64. For those delicious scorching yellow pools of quicksand, the marvelous golden pyramid of untold evils whose insides are rich with the stench of death and animated violence, and those frightful thwomp-like blocks which bear eternal expressions of anguish and madness as they strive to squash you to a pulp – they all have been permanently etched in my subconscious storage of happy, fantastic imaginary lands. If I could only go there, for real this time, just once! I’d spread my arms and precess like a graceful spinning top as I lightly glide across the burning blue sky. I’d feel the comforting hot blasts of rich golden sand upon my face as I come face to face with the turbulent whirlwhinds of the desert. And as long as my whole body has not been seized and swallowed by the quicksand, I would continue to enjoy my escape from reality into a magical world that has perhaps been more significant to me since my childhood than any real place in the real world.
