There are some one-tile platforms with footballs on them, which makes for a tricky platforming, but I thought it was pretty fun. At first I thought ceiling spikes can hurt you, but they're not, in fact those aren't solid at all, a clever troll to trick player that they do harm. But generally it's rather silly and easy untill boss level, which is my favorite level in this hack. If one's unlucky, they have to repeat it, but it should be a good punishment for a poor play. Again, levels don't have difficulty for the sake of difficulty and thus making terrible expirience, so even stinkers that are supposed to be bad don't possess much of a threat, like Yelloh heaven zone, which is a very slow autoscroller.

In fact I think level design in this hack is great, by joke hack standarts anyways.

It'd sound terrible in a normal hack, but I think it's clever in a joke hack. In GOING DOWN AND UP, in first half of the level player shouldn't rush to victory, as the layer smash can result in player falling in the pit, but player also should avoid swooper that is offscreen. It's a clever troll, and paying attention won't result in getting hit. For example, in level fight against enemy in autoscrolling section with smasher trying to hide in lower spots will result in getting hit anyways, because the floor is too high. As I said, it's generally easy, so you're unlikely to get a gameover. The levels certainly have a lot of intentional garbage, however there are no terrible difficulty spikes for sake of difficulty. But not only message boxes should keep me playing it, but the overall gameplay.Įven though I had low expectations from this hack (I mean, it's a joke hack after all and shouldn't be taken seriously) it's actually quite enjoyable. I just wanted to know what other funny things message box will tell me.

No lie, this hack is pretty funny, which was mostly the reason why I continued playing this hack. The hack is generally easy, it's packed with power-ups, yoshis and lives pasted randomly almost everywhere, so you're unlikely to get a gameover, even when you reach final third world, because you're likely to wrack a lot of lives.

However, is it as bad as description suggests it is? All levels are filled with cutoff and other nasty things, like glitchy sprites, eye-searing palettes and trolls. Being one of the earlies (if not THE earliest) joke hacks around, it is what you'd expect from a joke hack even today, as this genre didn't change much in time.

Vinny super mario 64 chaos edition