| Name: | Invictus |
| Author: | juzcook |
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| Demo: | No |
| Featured: | No |
| Length: | 22 exit(s) |
| Type: | Kaizo: Intermediate |
| Description: | Invictus is a chocolate kaizo hack with a touch of vanilla charm that will challenge even the most experienced players. It aims to be fun, whilst remaining difficult albeit fair. It took the entirety of my free time over the course of nine months to learn and build. Good luck, and enjoy! This hack features: - 20 individual, challenging levels with instant retry - An impressive coded-from-scratch final boss (courtesy of Kaizoman/Thomas) - A fine assortment of custom assets, including a bangin' soundtrack - NO hidden blocks. Studies claim fun has increased by 200%! - Loads of secrets for those who explore a little deeper... Special thanks to Nexus15, Freakin_HA, HmWhyNot, ChrisG___, White_Moth, Hiro_sofT, DanTheVP, LadiesMan217 and Kaizoman for all of their assistance, patience and hard work in helping me to make this hack a reality. This game wouldn't exist without them. Official Invictus Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lRFlsPE5sg |
| Tags: | asm bosses chocolate gimmick music |
| Comments: | 53 (jump to comments) |
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After a few more traditional levels that serve as appetizers, including the incomparable One By One, things slowly but surely get tougher. With Built To Fall, we realize that we will be dealing with long technical sections, but always really pleasant to play and showcasing a surgically thought out flow.
Then come the big guns: Lake Bodom (a water level whose slower pace is really interesting) and Cemetery Bloom (a super tight ghost house with trolls that make you question your interest in kaizo). There we realize that we are in the highest shelf of the intermediate category and that even if we shout loudly, our mother is never gonna come pick us up.
After that there's a good old skytree level (Die-Tree) and when we finally reach the H, things seem to want to calm down a bit. Until Rise Again, where the chocolate part of Invictus begins to assert itself in this level which features "double jumps".
Chocolate is also in Biohazard: vertical screen wrap and sawrfing are on the menu. I hope you sharpened your fingers. Kamek Woods sets the stage for the grand finale with more classic platforming and a super tight blind finale which is, let's face it, a little frustrating.
The progression continues with Stellar which introduces a new gimmick: you can activate and deactivate blocks with the L and R buttons.
Absolute Power more than deserves its name. We are introduced to motor skills (we can change the nature of the jump during the jump) and when we finally overcome this big piece of meat, we are really sated and we feel absolutely powerful!
Koopa Road, which I loved, with its perfect homage to the 8-3 level of SMB1 is a kind of warning: from now on it's going to be seriously tight and hard. Continue at your own risk.
Then the final castle, Invictus. 3 delicious sections that bring together the previous gimmicks, namely motor skills and L+R to activate or deactivate blocks. All at the same time, a melting pot for the fingers and the brain.
But that's not all. You still have to beat Kamek. A LONG, very long, boss that challenges you to survive its various attacks and phases for ~90 seconds and then - finally - gives you a tiny opportunity to defeat him.
An incredible hack that allows you to perfect and hone your skills while giving you a lot of self-confidence. When you finish certain levels, it feels like you could do ANYTHING! Almost.
Would recommend.
100% clears first playthrough video : https://youtu.be/KyLZJUNX6r4
One day..
I've uploaded a video showing just a clean, no-commentary clear for each exit here.
Quality: 5/5; Difficulty: 8/10
The only bad things I have to say about it are: There were a few "oi" moments,
Overall, Invictus is my favorite Kaizo hack for not only being fun, but it feels like an approachable game for even the worst of Kaizo players. I recommend it highly!
(rip grammer)
https://discordapp.com/invite/juzcook
While I've greatly enjoyed this game, I hope at some point you will upload a version with a checkpoint saver. Losing your progress on a long level with multiple sections is absolutely brutal for a noob like me.
5/5 absolutely amazing! <3
Favorite levels were Built to Fall and Absolute Power. Everyone and their mother now seems to have a motor skills level in their hack thanks to Invictus. Thanks Juz?
Thanks for all the hard work that went into this.
5/5
this awesome asm stuff too. I can definitely say a must try
hack, definitely.