Check out these beautiful handmade Mario64 dioramas

Super Mario 64 Complete Clear Guide BookThe famous strategy guide. Super Mario 64The complete text of, is online now for the first-time.

Kotaku notes that although hardcopies can sometimes be scarce, they aren’t impossible to locate. They often sell for hundreds of dollars. We are grateful to Comfort Food Video Games’ Dave Shevlin, the full guide is now uploaded on the Internet Archive, for all to enjoy — and that includes high quality illustrations of the guide’s custom dioramas.

You will find beautiful dioramas that show the different levels of the game in this guide. These dioramas were made for the guide because it helps the player visualize the 3D level in 2D. While the entire guide is in Japanese but it uses the same visual language as artfully made sculptures, the universality of this guide can be appreciated.

Image: Nintendo

Image: Nintendo

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