Actually, the ending suggests that the entire game takes place in a Lovecraftian equivalent of Hell everything except World X-8 was an illusion caused by dimension distortion. Naturally, this was changed to Melty Molten for the English language releases, despite the other language versions giving the level similar names to the original. The last galaxy in the Japanese version of Super Mario Galaxy is known as Hell Prominence.The third one in the set is a boss fight with a demon's hand trying to stab you with a pitchfork. Apogee's Monster Bash starts its second episode off in three of these levels, with demons accounting for a large percentage of the enemies.Worse still, to get to the final room, you have to traverse the entire temple three times, carrying three mutually exclusive items in your inventory. And all this is topped with the fact that if you don't know how to activate the checkpoints or any of the secret passages, every time you screw up and get dropped into the Land of Hell, you are sent back several rooms. It doesn't help that the Hell Temple has background music that will ring in your ears and drive you to despair as you fall into Lands of Hell over and over again. And just to add insult to injury, completing it 'rewards' you not with a better ending, but with Squick Fuel. La-Mulana has a Hell Temple with even more stringent requirements, and its difficulty outdoes the already-hard rest of the game by a couple of orders of magnitude.Then it changes impromptu (complete with Record Needle Scratch) into the, according to the manual, most evil music genre in the whole universe: Elevator music. You know, that one scene with the demon rising from a volcano in Fantasia? That one. The background music? Night on Bald Mountain. The Trope Namer is Earthworm Jim, where the second level, "What the Heck?" takes you to a planet of Fire and Brimstone Hell to face off against Evil the Cat.Instead of fire and brimstone, the Abyss is a purple void filled with floating gothic architecture. Paladins has the Abyss, the Realm's equivalent of Hell. Perhaps the least colorful example, as it appears to be a monotone rocky valley.
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