Uploaded July 2008 | Updated September 2026, 12 minutes ago

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Ouch! Ah-wo-wo-wo-wo-wo! Hot-foot it across the punishing scorched sand lands of World 4 ("Whirled Whirled West") and World 7 ("Dry Canyon") of my imagined "New Super Mario Bros" sequel, subtitled "Secret of the Dry Guys"!

This music is the overworld theme that accompanies most of the desert-themed levels. Yoshi's percussion underscore again returns (at 1:00), which would play whenever Mario is riding him. In fact, Yoshi's essential to navigate the steaming hot geysers and quicksand parts of these levels, thanks to his trusty protective red boots.

Game storyline: In this game, I imagine that the Mario brothers discover that the events of the first NSMB were merely an experiment: Bowser has been toying with immortality, and his transfiguration into Dry Bowser has given him great hope that he will finally be able to thwart Mario by... outliving him!

And so, after hearing rumors that the ancient unknown Dry Guys -- hideous skeletal Shy Guys -- have knowledge of an antidote to Bowser's immortality, Mario begins his onward journey!

But what IS the ... secret of the Dry Guys?

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