Originally posted by KaitoI only said "No CAROL" because I didn't want every reply to be the same.
Kinda defeats the purpose of the thread.
Might as well title it "Who do you feel is the best SMW hacker and why, but no carol".
Plus, it's kind of an unnecessary rule, most of the people who answer carol are usually the newbies who just discovered SMW hacking, thus Brutal is still fresh on their mind. Also the "hack weebs" who are obsessed with Japanese hacks for no reason other than that they're hard to find (and also they're Japanese).
Most of the longtime members aren't impressed by Brutal's ASM anymore.
Keeping in mind the huge amount of attention and popularity carol has drawn to himself, as well as the amount of users trying to make "Brutal Mario killers" (lookin at'cha, Roberto) and constantly pestering ASMers (including carol) to make them resources and absurdly complex bosses for their "Brutal Mario killers" kind of soured Brutal's reputation amongst the userbase, either from being tired of hearing about Brutal being "the hack to end all hacks" or from BM stans making fools of themselves towards carol and other ASMers.
The production time (started around 2005-2006, going on 10 years now) extending further and further, making a finished version's release seem less and less likely, kind of caused longtime members formerly interested in Brutal to lose interest in the hack altogether as well.
Oh yeah, and there's the whole accuracy dilemma where some people are gonna shit on the hack for being inaccurate and only working correctly on older versions of SNES9x, ZSNES, SNESGT et al.
I agree with accuracy being important (I'm an "in-training ASMer", after all), but Izuna raised the issue about severeness regarding hack accuracy being part of the reason Japanese hackers and generally less hardcore hackers aren't attracted to SMWC the other day on #hyperpower's Discord and I kinda agree with her points.
Also where the hell is your layout BG from, getting mad Kolibri or SvC Chaos vibes from it (it's not
Green Forest -Forest of green- from SvC Chaos tho)
EDIT: Oh yeah I forgot to bring up the fact that Brutal also suffers a lot from flat level design, rather dull bosses, clashing graphics (delete all DKC1-3 ExGFX from existence pls), and the flashy ASM isn't gonna make most people overlook that lol
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