Purgatory, nearing its completion

Hey, you clicked on this thread. Hi!

This is Purgatory, a kaizo: light hack I've been working on for the last 7-8 months (I think I started around May 2020). I was hoping to have it completed by the end of December, but it's best that I don't rush things. There will be 20 exits, 17 of which are complete. The rest are at least half-done, so hopefully I get those finished up soon. This being my first hack, my only goal was to create a collection of levels that I found to be fun to play. Mostly pure platforming, not much item abuse.

You might not be asking yourself: Does this hack have lore? Indeed it does.
In short: Mario has died. The afterlife welcomes him with a path to Paradise, beyond the apex of Mount Purgatory. And so he journeys on, scaling the mountain in hopes of escaping.

Enough lore, let's do some sight-seeing. Those who frequent the SMW Central Discord kaizo channel might have seen some of these over the past few months.


I've had a ton of fun making this hack and I hope to put this piece of myself out there pretty soon! (:

This is honestly a pretty cool concept for a kaizo hack. I especially love the aesthetics; even in the "brighter" levels, the palettes still give off a rather gloomy and forlorn atmosphere. A quite lovely way to represent "Purgatory", if you ask me.

I'm not the biggest kaizo player on the site (though I do occasionally play kaizo:light), but these setups do look pretty fun. I'm glad you're having fun making it, it looks like that will pay off!

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I've seen some of the stuff you've shown on Discord and also watched some people playtest it on Twitch and what I saw looked neat, I wish you good luck on finishing it.

Good stuff, I've seen a bit of this around looking forward to it's release.

Looks great! Really digging the ethereal-type visuals. Can't wait to give it a shot!

One of my most anticipated hacks of 2020. Has looked great in playtesting!

I think I remember seeing a few clips on the discord. Going by the screenshots it certainly does look nice and it looks like it's got some nice gimmicks (the water/ice level looks particularly fun).

I saw Kez testing this, and it looks really cool! Keep it up, and good luck on your release.

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I adore those animated vines. This Kaizo hack is SO stylish, I might even want to try a few Kaizo hacks every now and then.

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Unfortunately, I'm not very active on the site anymore like I was before; I'm mainly on Discord now. Thanks for understanding.

I'm not really a big Kaizo player but this looks really nice, the palettes are great and the graphics all work well together. I like the fact you're abusing the running on muncher thing with the sky tree too.

love the palettes! this looks very polished for (mostly) vanilla graphics, nice work; hope the rest of development goes smoothly!

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Kaizo's not really my thing, but this looks like it'd be fun for that audience! I agree with sinc-x, the palettes are very nice-looking. Would love to watch someone play this!

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Like said above, I'm not usually much of a Kaizo fan but I'm diggin' the look of this hack from what I can see. The palettes really capture this "dream"-like aesthetic that I think meshes well with the lore. That, and these screenshots alone exhibit how well you mix together different elements together without it just ending up a mess.

Great work, I may just have to pull my old SNES controller and adaptor out for this one.

I wish I was good at Kaizo to be able to play and enjoy this.

That said I really enjoy looking at all of these GIF's and seeing the levels in action.
Really great aesthetics using a mainly Vanilla Style yet it looks so clean and refreshing. Very Nice work can't wait to see it fully done.