The entire game is a philosophical take on a man's battle against drug abuse and possibly his own death without his friends help and intervention. Bowser is a fictional representation of Mario's dark addict side. The cake acts as a promise or reward, and lets us know that the entire game's narrative is told backwards (as it begins with the cake being done, and ends with it only as a thought).
Reversing the order of the events we have:
- Mario barely defeating Bowser while his reality is being shattered around him.
- Mario experiencing the psychotic episodes that are the games final levels: the clock tower, representing his time running out, and Rainbow Road, which we can imagine being an homage to a classic Beetles hit, amongst other things. Riding the carpet represents Mario being on a dangerous and unstoppable ride towards his potential doom if he doesn't get off and start changing his destiny. Also Big/small world, where his sense of reality is constantly being warped.
- Again, Mario has to face his inner demon that is Bowser.
- Mario traversing dark caverns, scorching deserts, lands filled with lava and other terrible landscapes. The symptoms of withdrawl?
- Mario must then again fight Bowser to attempt to seal him away for good.
- Mario then finds himself in more peaceful and happy places, and begins seeing his old friends like Toad and the Bobombs. Looking towards the heavens, Mario finds he can soar high without the use of drugs. Religious meaning?
- Mario exits the castle. For once in his life, he truly feels free, and sees himself in the third person. He is told that Peach has baked him a cake, as promised. Possibly a metaphor for a lost relationship being restored.
- Mario jumps down a pipe, leaving his troubled past behind.
Or it could just be a story of a moustachioed plumber fighting evil reptiles and searching for magical stars. WHO KNOWS
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