Korosu Mario World 2

I just finished playing through this hack for the first time. I've played a lot of romhacks over the years but this one still managed to feel fresh and original despite being almost 6 years old. Chris has a natural gift for level design and he really nails it in this hack. If you love classic era kaizo this is going to be just the hack for you. Kaizo blocks are tastefully placed and always led to a great chuckle upon "finding" them. If you are a player of kaizo I think you owe it to yourself to play this classic...plus I heard that there could maybe, possibly be a new romhack from Chris coming ;)

Thank you Chris for delivering a truly wonderful sequel to one of the great romhacks of history.

Among the more frustrating experiences I've had playing ROM hacks. Many blind setups and a seemingly endless array of cheap trolls that the player has no way of outsmarting. If you see a two-tile space, you know there will be an invisible block on one of the tiles - it's just a certainty - but you have to guess which one. You'll see this happen multiple times in the same level. It isn't fun or funny; it just wastes your time. The game also lacks originality. I don't think I saw one novel setup in the whole thing. The difficulty is unbalanced as well, with some levels taking only three or four lives, and others taking many dozens. I can't find anything to recommend in this. Go play Hark Bros instead.

You can tell there was a lot of effort put into it and lots of testing.
I would not put it among my favorites tho, there were many infuriating trolls (and to my surprise, on the edits it says many trolls have been removed). This is just personal taste. But I don't like to grind a very difficult level, finally go through a tough part, and then be denied by something unfair.
I am a big supporter of the idea that a hack can be really difficult and still be fun and fair, without having to put Kaizo blocks here and there, or other trolls.
I'm sorry if the creator finds this critique unfair, after all the hard work that went into this (by the way free) content, but I wanted to share my honest experience with the game.

Luigi sufrio XD.

after play it i think the difficult is great for a kaizo light hack, its a vanilla hack but you edit palettes and made it looks great, respect to the level design is cool

5/5

Generally speaking, levels are fair and accessible, and look pretty.
Levels are very straight forward and doesnt require much figuring out to do. Everything seems to be optimized for 1st cycling, so just go with the flow seems to be the best strat here.

As a critique, there are many overused tricks, and sometimes it feels a bit repetitive/uncreative.
Unfortunately the hack is locked so i couldnt easily count, but i could bet there are way over 100 grey falling platforms in the hack (EDIT: roughly counted 86). As well as like around 40+ thwomps (maybe exageration.. but theres a lot).

*Changed to 21 exits. Last castle clear doesnt save to sram.

This hack is fantastic but i have one problem. I don't get to keep my saves... Im playing on a super famicom, using an Everdrive chinese version. I keep my saves in regular mario world. Does anyone know what the problem might be?

Sick hack Chris. Thanks for another great game!! That's awesome!!

A fine hack for sure, but you'll get the same trolls and kaizo blocks as any other hack coming out these days.
If like me you're getting really tired of those, maybe it's not the best hack. If not, then definitely go for it.

please do not kill the mario world