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I'm working my way through this mod for the first time -- just made it to grasstown.

 

My initial thoughts

- Combat difficulty requires you to slow down and think a little bit. This contrasts with the original game where you can pretty much just blow through everything. I like this most of the time but sometimes the enemies seem spammy. Particularly when you have a ton of those little blue critters jammed into a jagged narrow passage (wtf?)

- Maps are huge and exploration is a big part of the game. One flaw I think might be that sometimes the map is *too* open, as in it is sometimes possible to get to some places that you probably aren't supposed to get to until later, or places you are supposed to get to via a different route. There are some places in the egg corridor, and in the cave between mimiga village and grasstown, where you can get to a place or take a shortcut that would normally be inaccessible, by jumping up and intentionally getting hit by an enemy to boost you up an extra block. I find myself going "against the grain" sometimes

- Bosses are challenging but good

- I am beginning to despise those blocks that crumble underneath you. Especially when they look like regular blocks at first

- The solution to the egg corridor room needs to be less obscure. I found it by myself but I spent way too much time trying to figure it out until I got lucky. The clue from Chthulu was important but I think there needs to be something else

 

 

EDIT

- The game majorly glitched when in the area where you activate the wind tunnel, I dropped to the bottom before activating it. Basically I wasn't able to move and had to reset

This youtube user has uploaded a bunch of the new 3DS songs! I am listening to them now and I must say this is a vast improvement over the Wii. Enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/user/Aviarmew

First half reminded me of this

Spoiler

If you don't have the bubbler (which I presume was taken from the chest before you fell and lost your weapons), you WILL run out of missiles to shoot the blocks in Laby C

and the game becomes nigh unwinnable.

I did that part without the bubbler. You're supposed to have missiles and fireball, although fireball does not do any good on that screen. You just have to use your missiles wisely and you should be able to get through

What's the status of this mod? I really like the gameplay - it's actually somewhat challenging. I haven't gone to the end yet though, how close is this to completion?