Gehenna is the fifth world in Mushroom Kingdom Fusion. Little is known about this enigmatic realm; it is the limbo between worlds and has decrepit ruins, space-time rips, and derelict ships lost from the Bermuda Triangle. It has so many terrifying mythical monsters that even the land itself will try to kill you in this place. The World Boss is the Cacobirdo. To access World 5, the player must complete the Isle of Mystery with the secret exit.
Plot[]
Gehenna, the world between worlds, is the place where the Mushroom Kingdom Coalition first meets one of the creations from The Fusionist himself, The Cacobirdo, in his lab. However, after Cacobirdo is defeated, the Fusion of worlds continues, and the Coalition has to keep going on their path to find and confront him.
Description[]
This world takes its name from Gehenna, which is the same name of a landfill in ancient Judea known for its unquenchable fire. In the Christian New Testament, it was used as a symbol by Jesus of Nazareth for what would become the Christian concept of hell. Earlier during the game's development, it was called Ocean of Oblivion and was slated to be a generic world of water levels, but was later changed into what it is now to fit the world's name.
Contents[]
Total number of levels: 13
- Normal Levels: 11
- Secret Levels: 1
- World Boss: 1
- Battle Levels: 6
Levels[]
Outer Gehenna[]
Where the Coalition's journey through this enigmatic realm begins. This region houses the garden of Eden, which has become overcome by corruption and overgrowth, as well as a vast desert wasteland.
- World 5-1: Sea of Muck
- World 5-2: Dreary Wastelands
- World 5-3: Terra Edifice
- World 5-4: Rotten Eden
- Battle Level 1: Defiled Coastline
- Battle Level 2: Charged Reef Maze
The Dark Limbo[]
The epicenter of the Bermuda Triangle's machinations, filled with the ghosts of mankind.
- World 5-5: Anomalous City
- World 5-6: Lair of the Leviathan
- World 5-7: Fiddler's Green
- World 5-8: Vortex of The Siren
- Battle Level 3: Sludged Mire
- Battle Level 4: Tenebrous Woodlands
Inner Gehenna[]
The heart of the enigmatic realm, where the Fusionist has set up shop.
- World 5-9: Malviento Tundra
- World 5-10: Overflown Relics
- World 5-11: Stygian River
- World 5-WB: Lab of the Fusionist
- Battle Level 5: Permafrost Peak
- Battle Level 6: Crystalline Blockade (Boss: Crystal Man)
Unknown Abyss[]
The hidden depths that lie within the remaining alien specimens in a sunken submarine.
- World 5-S1: T'Leth (X-COM level)
Trivia[]
- The World Boss of this World has changed three times throughout the game's development. Initially, it was supposed to be Beauty, but she was replaced by The Fusionist, who, in turn, has now been replaced by Cacobirdo as the Boss of World 5.
- Prior to v0.8, the map of this world is based on two different images merged into one.
- One of the sources is from the cover of the book The Haunter of the Dark and Other Grotesque Visions from the author H. P. Lovecraft.
- The other source is a 3D landscape.
- Before v0.8, The Shopkeeper from the game The Messenger ran the shop in this world. Starting with the v0.8 update, the shopkeeper was The Gypsy from Castlevania. Since v0.9, the shopkeeper now is Merchant from Resident Evil 4.
- The "LEVEL COMPLETE" and "WORLD COMPLETE" script uses a font from the 1996 video game Strife.
- Overflown Relics was originally a Battle Level until it was changed to a regular level in the v0.88 update.
- The old defunct MKF Wiki revealed that the level Water Temple was planned to be located to this world before being settled in World 6: Adventurer's Domain. Also, one of the unused level names, Gerudo Desert, would later be revived as Gerudo Valley, which is also found in World 6.
- According to the old wiki, early ideas for levels that never materialized include the following:
- Prismatic Palace
- Stone Tower Temple
- Ship of the Damned
- Alpha Leviathan
- Castle Gehenna
- Desert of the Knaaren
- Another World
- Castle Alexandra Siege
- Battleship Halberd
- Hollow Bastion
- Nava/Marx Battle (likely based on the Kirby series)
- New Pork City (likely based on Earthbound)
- Mako Reactor
- Giygas' Lair
- Clash on the Big Bridge
- Kefka's Tower
- Subcon Panic Act 3 (SMB2-based level)
Gallery[]
Revamped Map[]
Original Map[]
| Worlds in Mushroom Kingdom Fusion |
| World 1 | World 2 | World 3 | World 4 | World 5 | World 6 | World 7 | World 8 | World 9 | World 0 |