Name: | Sauna Mario World 2 |
Author: | pnaha |
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Version History: | View |
Demo: | No |
Hall of Fame: | No |
Length: | 21 exit(s) |
Type: | Kaizo: Intermediate |
Description: | Sauna is back! Compared to my first hack this one has more levels, more chocolate, more secrets, more silliness, and it’s probably a bit more difficult. My goal was similar, to keep levels intuitive and fun, but I let myself get a bit crazier with level themes and ideas. There are secret exits with hints that will guide you to the right direction, but they aren’t that hard to find even without the hints. Also, portrait rooms are back for people who enjoy looking around for secrets. Get comfortable, grab your chilled beverage of choice, and get ready for löyly. I hope you’ll have a good time! Cover art made by Dangil, tracklist and changelog included. Version 1.0 - November 30th, 2024 Version 1.1 - February 5th, 2025 Version 1.2 - February 25th, 2025 |
Tags: | exgfx hdma music traditional |
Comments: | 22 (jump to comments) |
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Thank you for making this 5/5*!
One thing I really liked was
Easy recommend, for both this and Sauna 1.
I will offer one bit of constructive criticism. The bosses are a weak point of the hack. They needed more variety in their behavior. For a final boss, the danger should escalate over the course of the fight. Think of vanilla SMW, the GPW series, Storks, etc, where the fight evolves as you damage the boss.
Anyway, that's a fairly minor critique of what is an otherwise excellent romhack. Easy 5/5.
Käärijä, Windows95man and pnaha - the list of recent Finnish great Entertainers becomes longer and longer!
This is just a masterpiece of hack: It's completly polished, you can see from the very beginning how much work you've put into this. Your art style is so unique: Vanilla on the one hand, but so polished in every detail. The cleanness is so perfect: So little indicators, but still every jump is absolutely clear. Difficulty is just perfect for me - and also the chocolate is so well-balanced: More janky setups are shortend, so you'll never get salty.
Thank you so much for your effort - I've had such a great time with it and will play it (like the first sauna) multiple times for sure!
And the expectations have been surpassed. Amazing levels. This is really art. Level design like its music composition. There is flow all the way through, you understand the beats and the harmony and then bang: a nice unexpected joke, that makes my face go like it does when listening to a good jazz solo.
I think the level design is on par with GPW2, but with a lower difficulty. Which is a good thing. For GPW2 I had to put in at least an hour per level (up to multiple days), while here I can enjoy it without investing time I don't have.
Only a few rough edges here and there, but mostly it's very polished. I didn't like the boo fight.
Some very solid, tried and true setups mixed with some truly unique setups with some head scratching to how to do them. Play Sauna 1 and this and be happy!
Thank you for building
Pnaha, I am not exaggerating when I say this is one of the best hacks I've played, and now one of my favorites. You have created something amazing that is able to follow up your previous hack which is already awesome. Thank you so much for all your hard work, and thank you for using my silly drawing as the art for it. I am forever grateful