After replaying this hack after about half a year, I´d like to bring up the discussion to feature
Kruela Mario.
First of all: No, it isn´t perfect, but it´s a very well made hack.
Pros:
- It has a great difficulty curve, that increases from world to world. I barely know any other hack, that is so consistent with this.
- The level design is very tricky and sometimes quite obscure, though in most cases (except in last world perhaps), the levels are relatively short, so it´s definitely possible to solve the puzzles. The last world on the other hand, had longer, but more linear levels, which made them quite exhausting, but also the more satisfying to beat them.
- The visuals and the music are usually very decent, too and for keeping vanilla gfx-wise, the hack still didn´t fail, to create a neat atmosphere with custom palettes and ambient music.
- I´d also like to note, that the hack had 3 prior versions, but they weren´t accepted here, because the author was told, to remaster some parts and he really did his best, to listen to the feedback and improve the levels as much as possible.
So overall i´d say this is a really outstanding Kaizo: Hard hack, especially if you consider, how difficult it is to design fair glitch-puzzle-levels. From my side, it gets a definite yes!