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Pipe City

Super Mario World Hacks → Pipe City

Submission Details

Name: Pipe City
Author: Graystripe
Added:
Demo: No
Hall of Fame: No
Length: 4 exit(s)
Type: Kaizo: Beginner
Description: Hi! This is my first-ever hack. It has:

- 4 Exits
- 40 second timer on each level to encourage moving through quickly.
- No Secrets
- No items
- No Boss
- No Kaizo Blocks
- Custom blocks, sprites, backgrounds and music
- Retry Prompt
- Beginner to intermediate level platforming
Tags: asm exgfx music no boss
Comments: 11 (jump to comments)
Rating:
4.8 (4 ratings)
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Comments (11)

ideronme Link
On the first level, there's a section at the beginning where you go up and down some pipes to hit some switches and progress. The issue I'm having right now is that I'm dying to the hitbox of the munchers when I don't think I should be. There are four munchers hanging upside down in a row before the up pipe, and even though I'm avoiding them, the corner of their hitbox comes up just enough to catch my toes. This is really annoying, because I'm doing everything the way I should be doing it, but still dying often due to something that isn't my fault. And there's no real way to prevent this from happening with the current setup, since the platform is moving to the right the whole time and you need to jump up right to even get to the pipe opening. You have to just pray that you don't die here.

In the second level, I didn't understand how to do the part after the second timed platform. Every single time I got to the room with the koopa and the switch on the ceiling, I would immediately bounce into the munchers because the cloud platform was still in the wall as I was dying, so I had nothing to stand on. I ended up having to jump back onto the cloud (during the two muncher gap) and make sure to activate the timed platform so that it moved behind the cloud instead of in front of it. The issue though with this solution, is that when you come out of the next pipe, the cloud platform immediately catches you, so you have no reason to use the koopa at all. You just stand on the cloud platform and hit the switches as they pass.

I really, really dislike the start of the third level. You have no room to jump, or to even start moving sideways as you're falling to hopefully make it under the jumping guy. And once you're on the other side, you can't just jump far away because you hit the button again. If you jump too close, you die to the muncher because you're trying to move sideways as you fall to make it under. This paired with the 40 second time limit makes this level not fun to start. Of course you can just go fast and use the same jump you use to hit the button to get back under the jumping guy, but the timing is really tight and this strat isn't consistent. Sometimes the enemy doesn't jump at all after I've hit the button, so I have to start over even though I didn't do anything wrong. Just give us a little more room to set up the trick instead of putting munchers on nearly every single possible spot. I can definitely see a beginner getting HARD stuck here and quitting the hack. The issue isn't really the speed you need to have to execute the trick with, it's the very tight space and the inconsistency of the jumping enemies that really hurts this part of the level.

The fourth level is in my opinion, the best level in the hack. No complaints here, I thought it was well executed and fun to play. The one thing that's consistently great across all the levels are the aesthetics. The color palate, background, music, it's all great. For a first hack, really well done. There are a few things that could be changed to make the first three levels more enjoyable, but aside from those issues the rest of the rom is really nice and flows pretty well. 4/5.
RXDARK Link
A fun short hack with a solid difficulty curve. I'd say it's around mid-beginner difficulty.
aazz Link
Very good hack.
I really like the music of the level "Downtown". What is the name of the music?
I tried to use this tool to find it, maybe its database is too old.
edit: Found it in the Credits.
Graystripe Author Link
Hi! glad you enjoyed it. The song is Doctor from the webcomic Homestuck. It happens to be one of my favorites! i was a huge homestuck fan so the music is very close to my heart <3
Klunky Link
I really didn't like the timer, felt completely unnecessary it's not like a kaizo plattformer is something you can really optimze or is even fun to do so as they are per definition as linear as possible. So dying because you were 1 second close to the goal feels like a total waste of time. The final troll in the last level is something you will probably die at any rate cause the timer whips you to race to the goal, this is not really a good way to introduce a troll.

Otherwise it's solid but the timer really makes no sense here.
Croy Link
GG! 100%#smrpg{y}
DinoMom Link
A tight collection of levels that knows what it wants to do and does it. The level design and music fit each other impeccably.

Very nicely done.
Daniel_mi_bb_fiu_fiu Link
Nice hack I hope for more hacks like this, I loved the level design 5/5 : )
davepriz Link
Enjoyed the first level, will return to it soon I’m sure!
tobson Link
What The_Uber_Camper said! Looking forward to your next hack.
The_Uber_Camper Link
Nice little first hack!