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Super Mario Bros. (1985)

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Hack Name: Krack's Kafe Because They Kicked Me Out!
Team: TEAM AFORETIMES
Members: Daizo Dee Von, amhunter, EvilGuy0613, Faro, scooter102089
Difficulty: Hard
Release Thread: https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=120028

Hackjam finished 2 days ago (December 13) and there were several entries, now, im aware there are more than 13 but those are kaizo and i don't care about the kaizoshit entries sorry, go watch a twitch streamer or something.
So, first entry, lead by Daizo Dee Von (or i assume that because the thread was made by him) is a "one Screen levels" hack, with variety of puzzles and filled with hazards, it is also a trial and error hack, this means that you must travel the level, get visual references to know what to do, but this is just to a lesser extent, let's begin

Gameplay:
You took the control of "Krack", and traverse a cave with traps and deadly hazards to get keys for a big treasure. I liked the concept, consider me a fan, most of the puzzles were tolerable and fun to figure out, those don't take as much time aside for some levels but it's not a big deal, however i do have some complains too, as i said in the YT community tab. I feel like the first rooms are a bit too claustrophobic and tight, consider them an early difficult spike, it's not a good design choice to put hard rooms at the start of the level, then we have the second and third set of levels, these are more easy to navigate, now, maybe they are hard because it's some part of the underworld who knows, but yeah, the difficulty spikes are a bit of a problem for me but like i said, it's not a big deal

Graphics:
For the most part of the hack it uses the Vanilla tileset and starts getting crazier later on in the game but nothing that crazy, overall it's fine

Music:
Now i don't know much of the themes used in the hack but the music is varied, there are some custom stuff made for the hack according to the TXT file, so another good thing for this one

Conclusion:
Overall this was a good start for the Hackjam contest, it was challenging but nothing too hard compared to certain future entries of the contest, but i'll talk about those when the time comes, for now, great start

Rating: 7.9/10

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