Name: | Salty Sagan World |
Author: | Oskise |
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Demo: | No |
Hall of Fame: | No |
Length: | 22 exit(s) |
Type: | Kaizo: Expert |
Description: | Salty Sagan World is a moderately challenging Kaizo hack dedicated to the streamer, speedrunner and scientist CarlSagan42. It features a wide variety of levels mainly focusing on fast paced platforming with the occasional item tricks thrown in. Most levels also feature custom music to give them more character, apart from that though the hack uses almost exclusively vanilla SMW assets for that authentic SMW kaizo experience. You can watch a trailer for the game here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qp8DiyrcjAw Big thanks to com_poser for making the awesome covers used in the credits as well as Westslasher2 and Chaoscomposer for playtesting the game! Good luck, and most importantly, have fun :) Also featuring: Engaing story with multiple endings Shell jumps Dolphins Autoscrollers An escort mission Puns 7/4/2018: Updated to Version 1.01 8/4/2018: Updated to Version 1.02 18/4/2018: Updated to Version 1.1 Heavy nerfs to most levels to make the game more accesible 19/4/2018: Updated to Version 1.11 |
Tags: | music traditional vanilla |
Comments: | 21 (jump to comments) |
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Comments (21)
The high exit count also contributes to a slog feeling. I took frequent breaks to play other hacks, coming back to this one to get in an exit here and there. It felt a bit like doing homework.
That being said, this hack is not terrible. There are definitely fun, clever moments, like the fire spit in Discard After Use or some setups in Sunrise Land and the Ultra Star level, etc. It's just that my enjoyment of these was dampened by the many frustrating design choices that exist to make the game harder and to make the player "salty".
As far as the levels go, I thought Dungeon Demice was a fantastic level, and I actually enjoyed The Escort Mission despite the other reviewers here saying to watch out for it. Although I wish I had more warning for Blargg’s Lava Pit, that was seriously one of the all time worst levels I’ve ever played, like sorry but there were some objectively bad design decisions made in that level. Discard After Use was quite painful too but felt great to finally beat. But my god, the last castle level was just WAY too long to be enjoyable at all, if you don’t use save states to practice every trick (which is probably what Oskise did while he was making it) then it’s extremely painful to make any progress in this level the traditional way.
Overall, I think a few changes would make this hack a lot better and would make me actually recommend it, but as it is I can’t give it higher than a 3/5. Although I was so glad I finally beat this hack that even if changes were made I will never play it again. However if Oskise were to make another hack I’d still be interested in checking it out since there was potential shown in this hack. But for the love of god, condense your ideas down and make shorter levels.
- Thanks Oskise!
And I am NOT a top-tier kaizo player. I still recommend it.
5/5
5/5. I recommend this one for experienced kaizo player.
The levels flow very nicely and are well-paced. The Vertical Escort mission and the lava level were great spins on existing kaizo archtypes.
Small glitch abuse required for 100%: Double eating sprites with Yoshi and an easy keyjump.
Difficulty: 4/5
Instantly hooked!!
https://youtu.be/10ZGIPoCFgc