I figured I should give this hack a shot. I watched the movie, and my overall impression of the game is that it's not particularly different from SMB. It has some little gimmicks (like the dots in World 1-3 that sort of behave like vines), but otherwise it's not too special... it looks like it's trying to be difficult, but not ridiculously so.
As for the movie itself, the play is alright. There's some use of glitching. However:
- There's no use of the flagpole glitch (assuming it still works in this hack).
- Fireworks are set off, including some stages with 6 fireworks. This wastes more time than just waiting before touching the flag.
- Bowser is not killed with fireballs. This is probably trying to look more impressive (especially in World 3), but I think it looks sloppy.
- Lots of fireballs are shot to try to increase entertainment, but this sometimes makes the game lag (check out 1-4 with the fire rods for example). Also, it gets really old.
Unfortunately, I think that the play and the game are below site standards, especially since those standards are quite high for the SMB games. No vote. MrOmicron, if you're interested in playing hacked versions of Mario games, you should check out the hacked versions that have been published... each of them has something which makes it interestingly distinct from the original SMB. Maybe this will help with ideas.
