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This hack has a lot of improvements over the original game. Some of the original annoyances were: the nerfed after-hit attack, slow movements, having to find Cousin IT every time you needed a password, some unnecessary screens and very few ways to replenish your health (since only a few monsters drop a skull). So, I was very excited to play this hack, since it try to fix most of the annoyances.

The problem is, the hack wasn't well balanced. It fixes the nerfed lighting, but now it is also a multi-hit attack, turning it into a damn machine gun that makes Fester unbeatable. It also fix the slow movements, but I think it got WAY too fast. It makes more monsters drop skulls, but now they drop it EVERYTIME, making you be almost always with a full health. As for Cousin IT's password, it can now be easily accessed with the select button, which is awesome! (though I would love to have a save feature!).

So, overall, I appreciate all the achievements done with this hack, but I can only recommend it if you just want to have a fast experience with this game. Otherwise, if you prefer a more balanced and challenging experience, I can't recommend it at all.

That's the game of my childhood but enhanced as it should be, so much more enjoyable to play with!

The only missing things now are maybe a SRAM patch, put the sound test back in option, and also reactivate the Infinite Health cheat, which is not working anymore in this version.

Thanks for the great work!

This is a game I owned since it was released, and I got into the last dungeon, but didn't finish. A very hard game due to some design decisions, not all good. The worst part, is that this one screams for battery save, because reaching the password, sometimes take more than an hour walking to find Cousin It, that is not always at the same spot, this is plain bad, and was fixed with a very elegant solution, just press select to get the password. While still not a SRAM save, it solves the most annoying issue on the game. Other one I really liked is the speed bump in moving, it just makes it so much easier some parts. I don't like the very high health-item ratio from enemies, it makes the game a bit too easy, so much that you stop taking care then walking on the dungeons.

I used the Vanilla patch, as I think the map design and puzzles to solve in order to reach the other point, are actually great, even more with all improvements this patch brings for you to do so. In other words, this is a must-use patch, if you want to really have fun with the game, and not get angry with Ocean's idea to make one of the most difficult action-RPGs ever.