🐭 So 2 Mice Walk Into a Bar... 🐭

Had a ton of fun with this. Great use of gimmicks. Anti-climactic unkillable boo at the end felt a little bad - final quick run through a bunch of gimmicks would have been a great non-boss sendoff, or do something with the already prepared literally-every-powerup-imaginable room you used at the start to build a little powerup gauntlet or something would have been great.

I'm a beginner going through Barb's recommended list, so this is the fifth hack I've beaten (the first four being A Plumber for All Seasons, SMB1X, Of Jumps and Platforms and mice 1).

This hack was just a great time all the way through. The level design is consistently fun and innovative outside of the dumpster fire (which is a joke that doesn't outstay its welcome), and while it's definitely "kaizo-lite" it almost always felt like the deaths were my fault. I went for the dragon coins and would recommend other people do the same. Even though they're not saved so you have to get them all at once (without a midway), I found that in most levels the design was so tight that this came pretty quickly after the first clear - by getting good enough to clear each part of the level separately, I was also getting good enough to semi-consistently clear the whole thing at once. The one semi-exception was my cold dead heart, which I did find annoying most of the way through, but I think that's because I'm bad with trajectories rather than because of any issue with the level itself.

Two other notes: First, for me Floravale and Janctze River are the least interesting levels of the hack, and they're right at the start - so it's absolutely worth persevering. (And they're not bad, just a little on the dull side.) Second, a lot of the level gimmicks felt like they were crying out for inclusion in a final exam-type last level as in mice 1, so I was a little sad when the last level was "just" another good well-designed level with some chocolate in it.

On the whole though this is a great hack, 5/5 will probably play again at some point (especially if it goes up on RetroAchievements).

8/10. I love this! its all so creative and fun and ... fun... I like it. thank you for making it
It's not 9/10 or higher because it is good but not THAT good in my opinion.

There is a soft lock on the 2nd part of the first castle when you missed/fall off the yellow platform that is going up

that was fun.

Your vldc12 level was fun too. I'd love to play more.

This was a well-designed game, but some levels worked better than others. Not all of the gimmicks were memorable, and a few overstayed their welcome. Some levels dragged on for too long and no matter how the gimmick was used, it still became tired. Most of the levels had midpoints appearing a bit too early for my liking. From a graphical standpoint, this game looks great. The music selection is decent, and most of the gimmicks are implemented decently. The design style isn't my favorite, but regardless, great job. If I could I'd give it a score ending in ".5", but I'll round it up. My expectations were met, and once again, great job.

music is included in the txt readme

Is there a list of music used in this hack? Lotta catchy tunes but no names. . . THe hack is well done though, 10/10

That's cool and all, but where's Reggie?

10/10 I like this hack. Awesome job S.N.N. and Idol

Nice levels!

It doesn't seem to run on the snes classic.

What's the point of having coins in this?
Even if I collect so many coins, there's no effect.

nice

This is a solid, very fun hack with a few small areas that could be improved. The ideas were all very clever and it made excellent use of SMWC resources. Aesthetics were great and the overworld was pleasant as well. I felt that the hack seemed to switch between hyper linear design (as seen in mice the 1st) and organic, rompy design, which became a tad jarring at times. I appreciate that there was an effort to make things less hyper linear, but I felt that the rompy sections were either introduced awkwardly or not explored in-depth enough. I was impressed with the number of vertical scroll-enabled levels (many hackers fear this camera setting); as always, this comes with the possibility of an annoying camera. I feel like a custom, per level camera with uberasm would greatly improve the hack. Overall, it was a great, super fun time. Highlights included thwimp stacks, layer 2 w1 castle, the sniper aim level, and the black rex level. 5* and looking forward to more levels added!

I'm having difficulty getting this running on a Super NT + SD2SNES setup. The game fails to boot with some garbage (https://imgur.com/a/VK47AS0) on the screen.

My sd2snes is running version 1.10.3-usb-v10, which includes sa-1 support.


edit: I've resolved the issue. A simple reinstall of the latest firmware seems to have fixed things.

took me a while to realize that. it doesn't mention sa-1 anywhere in the description or tags. guess i'll have to check it out on emulator.

The first world map's upbeat and loud music can get annoying to listen to, especially for players who fail over and over and listen to the blaring world map music over and over again.

It didn't work on your Everdrive because this rom has SA-1..

Had a blast playing through this. The Roto-Disc and Boomerang levels in particular stood out to me, but all of them were really well designed and memorable in their own way. Nice work

How did you do that the first level 103 background effects moves

updated to fix some softlocks, also updated hack difficulty to hard.

Definitely a hard/very hard difficulty instead of normal, but great hack very creative

I tried to play on Super NT with everdrive, and unfortunately it just loaded as a black screen

style/substance ratio is way off but it alright

damn my heart's broken and now i am resigned to die

I found a mistake: it seems you forgot to add the fun to this hack.

I'm gonna start playing soon. I'm sure it'il be great