Castle Grounds (Outside the Castle)

Castle Grounds (Outside the Castle) is the place where you will spawn after loading one of your savefiles.

First Visit: Cutscene
When you enter the castle grounds for the first time, a cutscene will start, showing Bowser's Airship reaching for Peach's Castle.

Kamek: The airship is loaded and ready to attack, master Bowser...

Bowser: Perfect... Let phase 1 of my master plan, the Invasion, begin!!!

Then, a transition will happen and Mario, with a FLUDD, walking to the right, will be shown on screen. After a while, the screen will zoom out and glide to the castle, then zoom back in, and start a dialogue. Mario will eventually come from the right and walk to Princess Peach, starting another dialogue. A toad eventually says ' What's that sound?' and the screen zooms out to reveal Bowser's airship. Bowser says "Let the invasion...BEGIN!!!" and the screen glides to the far right of the airship, to reveal bullet bill cannons and parachuting goombas. The toads run around while the bullets bounce off the Castle's Forcefield. Kamek penetrates the Forcefield and tries to defeat Mario. In the meantime, the screen goes to the right, showing a toad running to Princess Peach. The Princess lifts the Toad into the air, Bowser says "Your castle's mine, princess!" and then shoots flames towards the toad, burning it. Kamek is still trying to defeat Mario, but this time, he is actually hit by one of his spells and falls asleep. Bowser and Kamek are then shown next to the Shine Sprite orb. After a bit of talking, Kamek shoots a spell towards the Shine Sprite orb, which breaks it, darkening everything and shooting Shine Sprites in all directions,... until it runs out of them. Mario is then waked up by a Toad, called Eddie. After some talking, Mario finds a shine sprite. Eddie then reveals that the Shine Sprites weren't totally destroyed, instead they were scattered everywhere around. Toad runs in the Castle, and then you are left in the stage. You need to enter the door to enter Peach's Castle: Main Hall.