HYSTERIA

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I really enjoyed this hack overall. It was super creative, and a lot of the ASM was stuff I've never seen or played before. When the levels flowed, they really flowed, and I think I said "oh wow, that was cool" out loud at least 5 times over the course of my playthrough. The final level was brutal but also a really fun way to wrap the hack up and bring it all together. Great soundtrack throughout the hack as well.

I do think there were some unintuitive setups, especially in a few of the earlier levels (the sticky fly in one of the early levels was straight up clunky), and as a result, the difficulty curve of the hack is kind of U-shaped. Hard, then easy, then hard again. For the most part, if things weren't lining up, it was because I was doing something wrong -- there was definitely an *intended* way to do it -- but there were some times when I just wasn't sure what I was supposed to do.

Nevertheless, just a lot of fun to play. Highly recommended for low-to-mid-level intermediate players looking to dip into some more chocolate-heavy hacks. Thank you for putting in the work to make this hack.

Good. Overflowing with random fun ASM bits, very even difficulty curve with short sections, and readable. Can't ask for much more than that. As an intermediate player myself I knocked it out in a day. I wouldn't call it exceptional - some of the setups were definitely starting to feel repetitive by the time I got to the credits - but it was exactly what I needed after not playing SMW for a few months.

Super creative lower intermediate hack with quite a few setups I never saw before. And it forced me to learn sticky fly

Yeah, this is too hard for me. But I like the death screen

I played the 1.0 version.

Fun hack -- readable, good checkpoints, very fair. Definitely recommended!

Writing this as a Beginner moving into Intermediate hacks. Hoping this finds other looking to do the same and is helpful to them.

This hack was extremely fun to play. It was definetely the hardest one I have played that I could actually complete. The levels felt like they were a good length with checkpoints spread just far enough that reaching them felt great but didnt leave me frustrated in not reaching them. The difficulty of some levels felt a little disjointed as I had some levels that took me 5+ hours to complete and then I felt like I finished the next 1 or 2 within an hour each. The only REAL block I felt I reached was in level 2 (ManCorsa) where after the checkpoint I had to do a sticky flight. Being as fresh as i am to these Kaizo hacks I had never done one and really wasnt to sure how to do it. Thankfully I had watched VoDs of other Kaizos and seen it so I knew what to do just had to do some research on how to do it lol. All the levels felt very fresh in what you had to do during them which made it extremely fun and taught me alot of things that Im sure will be useful in future Kaizo hacks. The final level was extremely challenging but I really enjoyed learning how to work the mechanics of the level, I had never played a level like that and it was just as fun as I hoped it would be. The end boss was also extremely fun and unique as a newer player. I really hope others looking to up the challenge they are facing find this hack and have a great time with it.

PS The Credits are amazing...still working on them but AMAZING.

I really liked the hack, it is 5 stars. in the "fuck you tail" level when you finish the level, I believe they forgot to remove the screen for destroying the castle, I don't know if there will be an update to the hack, but this in a speedrun would change almost 30 seconds (a lot), I I've already done a few runs, if you make an update, I'd appreciate it if you removed it. Otherwise the hack is perfect, one of the most fun hacks I've ever played. thanks for creating

Fun hack!

Very fun hack which I liked a lot. But I think the 2 tile wide blocks should actually look like 2 tile wide blocks instead of having a 2 tile wide block indicator... Also, I did the yellow switch twice to see what was in the pipe under the switch and I think it is just a screen scrolling pipe that softlocks you.