Super Challenge World

Got past the first world, I can see why people hate it already. A few levels tell you that you need a specific thing to advance. This wouldn't be too bad if you could exit levels, or if the warning wasn't halfway through a level. This hack also requires some backtracking and item babysitting (Which is pretty shit ngl). It also seems like you are better off being small Mario here too because man are most parts of a level absolute shit with power-ups. There is also a 1-UP farm with the first mushroom secret so you don't have to worry about getting a game over. I've experienced slowdowns in some places as well. I'm going to guess that it gets REALLY bad later on though so I'll watch out for that. Progress will be slow as this isn't a hack I'd like to focus on at all, but I will come back to it occasionally.

Ok it's been a while but I've finally come back to this hack. Finished World 2 100% as well as the twilight path. It has gotten a lot worse unsurprisingly. The backtracking was abhorrent. I would like to point out that most secret exits exist after the checkpoint meaning that you'd basically have to do the level twice. Level design has gotten more shit as well, some levels are either extremely empty like Koopa Woods 4 and 5, or backtracking almost the entire level like Twilight Hill 1 and Koopa Woods 2. Also found an overworld softlock, entering the secret exit pipe of the Twilight Castle, if you press left twice you can end up softlocked at a level that is supposed to be Koopa Woods 3, which is just the bonus game room but you are softlocked there after completing the game. Red Switch Palace is just stupid and a troll, and Woods House is just insufferable as all hell. The secret exits are just getting ridiculous, every time I see a red dotted level I just know it's going to be some convoluted bullshit. And man, is it much easier to do sections while small Mario, many one tile spaces are everywhere. It really feels like this hack set out to make some of the most insufferable and garbage "puzzles". In terms of an actual challenge, there is little to none, just trolls and trash. Will continue to the next world at a later date whenever I feel like it, but as stated before, this isn't a hack I exactly want to focus on at all. Occasionally might be stretching it though lol, it's been at least half a year since the last update.

100%'ed World 3 except for the cape required secret and the secret island thing that was with it, no improvements here. I think the levels here were much longer and more tedious. I softlocked myself twice and had to wait the ginormous time left for me to reset since start + select is disabled, really fun. Ice physics + water levels + autoscrollers that are all lengthy is downright deplorable, not fun for one second, especially when paired with why this hack sucks gameplay and design wise. Plateau House in particular, while having an at least decent concept of being a puzzle, has a few cheeses, if you are kaizo player that is. For the second puzzle, you could double grab the spring and p-switch after getting the spring from the pipe earlier, enter the pipe, activate the p-switch to remove the wall, and midair spring jump off of the other spring that's respawned back in the room. This skips using the p-switch to get a goomba. You can skip the second room after the checkpoint with a shell jump, pretty easy. I think you could probably do a Yoshi shell jump for the final puzzle too. There is also more egregious backtracking like in Plateau Fortress or Frosty Cave 5 among others, and again, some levels are straight up terrible to do with big Mario. Don't even get me started on Frosty House, that is some of the most deplorable and absolute trash I've seen. It's the worst level I've played in this hack so far. It grabs everything wrong with this hack, item babysitting, the backtracking, bullshit and trollish secret exit, big Mario discrimination with it's terrible maze. I did managed to cheese a section or two by key jumping, but this level still isn't any better. This is just World 3, so I'm honestly expecting it to get a lot worse. #3 Frosty Castle has a stupid secret exit that's just a fake wall at the end. If I had to say anything good here, it's that not every secret exit was actually terrible, a few were good, but that's it. At this point stuff is getting repetitive, but I will eventually finish this hack, but the motivation to beat it will probably be moved away from this for other, much better, more fun hacks, so progress here might be slower unless I power through it and keep the motivation to just finish this.

Got the motivation to get done with World 4, except for the cape exit of course. Will probably take a break from this hack here for a bit. It's still bad obviously, no level was as bad as Frosty House individually thankfully so there's that. That being said, Swampy Plains 3 could be skipped almost entirely by midair spring jumping where the dragon coin is. The secret ways here, while still dumb, aren't as bad as World 3's. Swampy House was also probably the least convoluted out of the ghost houses. Overall it probably wasn't as bad as World 3, but it's still bad as it suffers from mainly reoccurring problem's that this hack suffer from, like the secret exit for the lengthy castle being at the very end right next to the boss door, great.