SMW2+3: The Essence Star

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Game: SMW2+3: The Essence Star
Genre: Platformer
Started: 13th September 2009
Completed: Ongoing
Original Thread: Link


SMW2+3: The Essence Star (henceforth known as "The Essence Star") is a romhack of the original Super Mario World which I have decided to Let's Play despite knowing full well that the only three SMW romhacks that people outside of the "romhacking scene" seem to give two spinning shits about are:

  • The Second Reality Project
  • Kaizo Mario World
  • That romhack your friend sent you that's really good that you're going to LP and loads of people should watch and download

This is one of those "professional" Mario romhacks i.e. it's not "just" a level hack or "just" a graphics hack. It does have RPG elements, such as being able to actually talk to people, as well as various collectibles and a comparatively complex storyline.


So what's going on here then? Well aside from the obvious "I'm going to play the game and talk about it", I'm going for a 100% run, and I'm going to do it without savestates.