Super Mario Galaxy 2 - The Shadow People of Hell Valley 

  In a game like Mario, you're usually too focused on not falling off the crumbling catwalk into the lava below to ever really stop and look around. Especially in Mario Galaxy, where you are zipped across space from one world to the next, the vastness of the game world just whipping by you in a blur.  

  But if you ever do get the chance to stop and stare into the distance, you'll find some extremely creepy shit. Specifically, in one level of Super Mario Galaxy 2, if you switch to first-person view and look in a certain direction, you can see shadowy figures standing at the edge of the galaxy. 

 Anywhere you go on that level, if you look up and to the left, they'll always be there. You can't come any closer. You never meet those "people," and nobody in the game ever mentions them.

  So this is basically a video game version of the urban legend. Fans have already started writing about them and speculating on what they could be: (that is to say, aliens) watching Mario from afar? from Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask?  

But couldn't they just be, we don't know, or something? Well, somebody got curious and And this is where things get really fucked up.

Turns out the sky pattern for that area is called "BeyondHellValley." "Hell Valley" isn't the name of that level, or any level in Mario Galaxy. It doesn't even sound like something you'd find in a Mario game. As for the shapes themselves? They're called "HellValleySkyTree." Ah, see! They're just trees. Now let's pull out itself ...

  So what the hell, Nintendo? Some claim "Hell Valley" is the Japanese name for that level (which wouldn't be surprising, actually), or the name of ... but none of that comes anywhere near explaining why those dudes are there and what we did to make them look at us that way.  

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