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This is a realy nice adult Super Mario World hack. To be honest the backgrounds and structures were often copied from other games (e.g. Super Metroid, Castlevania and most important Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island and many more), but it's realy well done. They fit in perfectly and create a new gloomy, freaky and sometimes funny Super Mario World feeling.

The game itself feels is a bit shorter than, the original one (PITMK: 7 Worlds + Bowser Fight), but it plays with so much more fun. It's a good challange sometimes and I can only beat it with the save and load tool of my emulator, so far ;) .

All levels are completely new levels! At the beginning the level disign has a low difficulty, but later it's medium to hard. E. g. the last stage has no midentrance and as this wouldn't be enoung the game even tells you exactly that and that you should use the save feature of you emulator...

There are just mushrooms and the fireflowers. No Racoon! No Yoshi! I like it. It's oldshool, but you have the space on the middle of the top, where your further item is stored, if you touch a new power-up.

Some people say it's violent. Yes it is, but it's just 16 bit, so who realy care anymore? ;)

Super Mario Bros seems to be one of the most popular game series to base many hacks on. Admittedly, as much as I loved growing up with the original Mario games I was just not all interested in checking out a Mario hack. But sometimes you look for something different and this hack seemed to be pretty perfect for what I was looking for.

Panic in the Mushroom Kingdom is certainly not a new hack at this point, but anyone that says that it wasn't innovative really don't know what they are talking about. As well, the hack is sort of a parody of the Mario games with some slightly offensive material, with the exception of the Evil Kirby Land and what you win at the end. That kind of polarized me, but you will just have to see that for yourself.

As far as what's been hacked, every stage is redesigned. The overhead world is totally different, but in the perspective of things, not too different. The player plays as Luigi instead of Mario. A lot of enemies have been changed but that is mostly later in the game. An interesting change that was made, but didn't do anything that I noticed to affect the game, was at the end of some stages it looked like Super Mario Bros 3 instead of Super Mario World. Or sometimes to beat a stage you needed to touch a flag. It's all worth taking a look at to see all that's been changed. Especially seeing all the poor toads impaled near the end of the game.

There is no "readme" file that comes with the patch so for people that aren't familiar with patching may have a difficult time figuring out how to properly patch the hack to the rom. The ROM needs to be expanded to 1 MB and this can easily be done with Lunar Expand that is found on this site.

Anyway, worth checking out and a lot of fun if you grew up playing Super Mario World.

This hack is very unique and worthy of a medal. There must have been years of work put into this hack.