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I have a love of the bizarre, and this hack definitely scratches that itch. From the very beginning, it is, as my title says, a hellish fever dream. There are 2 possible paths through the game, and you can take them both on a single playthrough. Almost every level is some bizarre, disjointed... thing; it's quite an experience. You're dumped onto the world map with its gray grasses and sewage brown waters with the ice world music playing, and you're already a little off-center, and then it punches you in the face with dark ice levels right off the bat. Soon thereafter, you'll swim in a black lake with red ripples on the surface. You'll run into Larry Koopa just hanging out in one of the stages, shooting at you, as he chases you from a path that runs parallel to your own. In fact, you'll run into dozens of Larry Koopas, sometimes as many as 3 or 4 at once. He'll show up to battle you in small arenas, he'll show up in little boxes to shoot at you, and just about anywhere else you can imagine. There are a few Bowser fights, some of which have an end-level block buried beneath the bricks, so you have to have him dig down for you, and when you grab it? He just turns into a coin and you walk away. Even the music is in strange places; there's a level where it sounds like someone's playing the sound test on fast-forward, and the next level is completely silent. If you're looking for a strange experience, this is it!

Throughout the hack there are clever rooms or jumps, but there is a lot of filler and repetition in between. The hard path mostly consists of fighting the first Koopa kid a dozen times, often 2 or 3 of it at once. The easy path does show some concepts of level design but there's something missing, besides the ceiling.

There are a total of 5 Bowser fights, 3 making him dig in a certain area and 2 with the depth of blocks doubled, neither style making him harder at all. The underwater one was interesting at first, but as soon as a you get under the water, its a normal fight.

While its already mildly short at 28 levels, I can imagine it could have been a lot better if it were half as long.