Probably Not Worth ItIf you're looking for a serious, clever hack of "A Link to the Past" with a brilliant story, great humour, and innovative and challenging changes to gameplay then this is...not for you. Then again, you more than likely worked that out for yourself already. However, if it is not any of those things, then I suppose that leaves the question of what exactly this hack is. Well, for a start, "Not very good", would be something that it is. "Mostly unchanged" would be something else. The maps, enemies, and pretty much everything are still exactly as they are in the unaltered game. Still, that's not really answering what the hack is either. The truth is, there isn't all that much that one can really say about this particular alteration. The only thing that's actually been done is that the in-game text is edited, and poorly edited at that. Lines of dialogue too big for text boxes are crammed in tight like sardines, with words overlapping and making some lines totally unreadable. Not that what's there is worth reading. If this game can be considered "mature", it is only in its use of inappropriate language. Explicit it may be, but mature it is not. No, rather the whole thing comes off as more than just a little bit juvenile. The "joke", if one can call it that, is that lines have been changed to be more "adult". Generally this means that everyone and everything is talking about pornographic activities, the places where such things take place, and/or the associated paraphernalia for the same. Also, there is cursing. There is an awful lot of cursing, which entirely lacks any and all impact due to both the lack of consideration for situational appropriateness, and the utter ubiquity of its usage. While it may at first be amusing to see such crude and vulgar language superimposed over a beloved classic (or a hated scourge of one's childhood, as the case may very well be for some players), the novelty of such a change quickly wears thin. Essentially, it all boils down to one thing. There is only one joke here. It is not executed well, and it is repeated for far too long, to the point that one may just find that they can no longer remember a time when they ever found it funny in the first place. The bottom line is that the hack just is not interesting enough to hold anybody's attention for long. If you have ever played the original "A Link to the Past", then you will not be missing out on anything by giving this one a miss, and if you have not played "A Link to the Past", then the odds are really quite high that you will have a much more enjoyable experience from playing the original. The only thing that this hack manages to bring to the table, the use of crude humour to replace dialogue, is something that you could easily do in your own head. In fact, it would likely be a better experience in the long run, since lines you came up with yourself would never come out garbled and smashed together, and would likely sound funnier to you.
Graphics
10 Sound
10 Addictive
1 Depth
1 Story
1 Difficulty
5