This game made me realize why Mario 64 ROM hacks are so uniquely terrible.

The Mario 64 engine is held together with duct tape, a hodgepodge of incongruent physics interactions. The thing is, the original game was designed around these flaws. Each stage was carefully crafted in order to prevent the player from inadvertently stumbling into just how god awful this engine truly is. The result is an amazing game.

Amateur ROM hack devs pay no such attention to the flaws of the underlying game systems. The result is games like this: slippery messes where you're constantly butt sliding on surfaces that seemingly should not cause it. Extremely tight platforming on geometry ill-suited for it. A camera that fights you on every single stage.

If this absolute travesty weren't par for the course for Mario 64 hacks, I'd be absolutely convinced this game were a troll hack, designed to infuriate the player with compounding minor annoyances that build and ultimately crescendo into some of the most infuriating gameplay experiences imaginable.

Fuck this game and all Mario 64 hacks. Mario 64 itself is great though.