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So, I didn't finish yet, but I'm practically done at this point, so I think I can give a fair review given what I've seen thus far. Why didn't I bother finish before writing a review? Well, I'll get to that.



So, the first part of the hack between starting and getting hijump is a bit difficult. Without any etanks, and starting at 30 energy, making the rather long trek to where hijump is at can be quite a chore, especially if like some (not me) you are having trouble navigating through those caverns because of its maze like qualities.



After this point, the hack hits its stride. You start getting Etanks, and a variety of main items, and the hack progresses fairly smoothly. Exploration feels rewarding, and its an enjoyable time. If I hadn't been silly and realized which doors were missile doors I would have made progress faster, so I blame myself slightly for that, and won't take that out on the hack.



However, once you get to the teleporting mazes, the hack starts to get pretty frustrating. It sounds like a neat little concept, but in practice, trying to navigate around when every wrong path teleports you back to beginning is pretty annoying. I was able to skip the first one by walljump midair morphing to grab the nearby etank, and then descending that way down into the chozo ruins area. And after awhile, I was able to figure out that areas teleport maze.



And then we get to the final area. Oh boy. I was really enjoying this hack, besides the teleport mazes, but I was gonna let those slide. But this final area, really ups the difficulty (unnecessarily in my honest opinion). This area wouldn't so bad if there wasn't three vertical rooms that if you fell down you had to restart most of the area. This area wouldn't be so bad if M1 had save points, so you could have checkpoints in the area. This area wouldn't be so bad, if when you ran out of missiles fighting (what I assume is) the final boss, you didn't just lose and have to restart the entire area over again and hope you don't run out of missiles again!



Will I finish this hack? I honestly don't know. I don't like abusing save states, but I feel like I will have to to have any chance of beating the final area. Guess I'm just not good enough. Oh well.



Score: 3/5



Despite how frustrating some of this hack is, it has some neat graphics and pretty good music. The enjoyable parts were very enjoyable, if the parts I disliked were looked into, I could easily see this hack being one of my favorite hacks I've ever played. But as it stands, 3/5 is about as high as I feel comfortable ranking it.

