Super Mario World Hack Review - Pokey's Adventure

RATE THE REVIEW, NOT THE HACK =)

Hey there! Again, long time no see.
This is the last 2008 review!
So this was a pleasure to do, but as you may have noticed,
it took me A LOT of time to upload.
Anyway, it's a nice one, check it out =)

Enjoy, and happy holidays!

-----------

Information

Hack: Pokey's Adventure

Author: WhiteYoshiEgg

Author's Channel: http://www.youtube.com/mebamme

File: http://www.smwcentral.net/?p=showhack&id=1456

-----------

SXZ Review:


EXCELLENT HACK!!

Score: 96 / 100

Gameplay: 10
Graphics: 10
Level Design: 10
Music: 9
Sound: 10
Difficulty: 10
Sprites: 10
Tilt: 9
Storyboard: 8
Originality: 10

Better for: Veterans

-----

GOOD ASPECTS

-Organized ambiences, nothing extraordinary
-Moderated use of different graphics
-Progressive difficulty
-Nice level design
-Pokey, yay

-----

BAD ASPECTS

-Music can get very annoying
-Senseless storyboard

-----

"Nice concept, nicely performed."

First off, you control Pokey, that makes the hack particular, and it's a great idea, why use a plumber when you can use a cactus?
Yeah, just ignore that.
So, there's a very desertic look in the whole game, from the basic sprites to the background of every level, everything fits perfectly the whole desertic ambience stuff, so visually, the hack has a pretty good standing.
One thing that can get stressing with time is music, since some levels use the same tune, you can get annoyed pretty fast if you're trying to focus on the game (or if you're frustrated, why not), but still, most of the music in the hack's pretty good, so for a little lack of variety, we'll take one point out from "Music".
As of level design, it's excellent; you can choose between just running away to the end, or stop and look for secrets on every level, there are plenty of them and well, they give some pretty good replay value to the hack.
Now, about difficulty, it's just fine, except the castle, it has some hard spots, but still there's nothing that can really affect the overall difficulty of the game, it's progressive, so you start out easy, and then keep on going.
There's something strange about the story, or maybe confusing; what I mean is, Pokey returns from fighting Mario, right? But then Bowser (who was already fighting Mario) decided to create a new army on Pokey's land and kidnap Pokey's younger brothers (who by the way, are part of his OWN ARMY), so yeah, now You're meant to go and destroy Bowser's army (WHICH IS YOUR ARMY TOO) to get your brothers back, EVERYTHING JUST TO TEST THAT STUPID BOWSER'S NEW ARMY.

You know what, screw it.

So, overall, the game's pretty solid and visually comfortable, also level design's great, and keeps you going, also, it has plenty of nice details on it, as well as secrets, but actually, it feels good to run and ignore all those little things, after all, you end up returning to check everything you missed.

And, is it worth the try?

But of course it is! Still, I would recommend you to play and complete the original SMW before playing this, just in case you haven't done so yet.
Anyway, I'm sure you'll like this one, so shall it be in your hacked collection, right? =)

So that's it for today, as always, thanks for commenting, rating, subscribing, anything, thanks for all the support!

And have a great day.

Stay tuned!

Category:

Gaming

Tags:

• Super
• Mario
• World
• Hack
• Review
• SMW
• SXZ
• Pokey's
• Adventure
• Pokeys
• Pokey
• Solracxealz
• Mebamme
• WhiteYoshiEgg

[gameaventer11]

solracxealz you cant beat my mario hack in festerading mode its just to hard

[Solracxealz]

@gameaventer11, sorry man :/

[CollisionCat]

Okay, so where's the review part? =P

[Solracxealz]

@CollisionCat Once again, in the video's description.

[AlxSnowxMatchsxRule]

this hack has made a tired man very happy with various facial expressions of a pokey.

[Solracxealz]

Awesome! :D

[Mordain607]

Yup, good review and good hack.

Also, just realised. The first level you play HAS FREAKING LA-MULANA MUSIC!

LA-MU-FREAKING-LANA!

Epic win.

[BioHazardN00B]

Epic review and happy holidays to all.

[Awesome8500]

epicness

[mebamme]

@GlennMagusHarvey SMW's sound engine does that sometimes. I guess you could call it a bug.

---

And while I'm here, I might as well tell everyone that this demo is seriously freaking old. Don't expect demo 2 (whenever that comes out) to be anything like this.

[GlennMagusHarvey]

@mebamme Oh, by the way, was the sudden addition of reverb to the sound effects at 6:31 intentional, or a bug?

If it was a bug it was quite a nice one.

[GlennMagusHarvey]

@mebamme My biggest issue with this hack is that pokey plays exactly like Mario--so basically there seems to be no special reason for pokey to be the star rather than mario.

I like how you made custom backgrounds and used custom music. I'm interested in where the music tracks all came from.

[GlennMagusHarvey]

@Mordain607 Yes.

That said, I'm also curious where the other music came from.

[ChaosSigma0]

^o^ lol

[Hey5254]

i loved the hack and the review so : hack 9.0 reviw 9.5 :D

[Creaturepresentation]

dont care 

[sonadowfan100]

the gomba raped the pokey O_o

[SteveHenry86]

4:34 RAPE!