This hack has some very interesting ideas for levels, but in terms of layout and in terms of visual design. Guts Man now resides in a cool, futuristic mining area that looks like it could have come right out of the mid-’80s. Ice Man’s stage begins with you sliding along what appears to be a deep pond, but is frozen on top, so you can’t go into it, but there are all sorts of interesting things happening beneath the surface, bringing to the imagination a whole new world below. The old fences in Fire Man’s stage can now be climbed, which completely changes how the stage unfolds, though there’s a little trial and error toward the beginning. It also now features these gorgeous purple flames. Bomb Man has a pink and teal theme that clashes a little bit, but the actual shades chosen are lovely, and a bit evocative of an old SMS game; you will also find those big domes from the background now act as platforms, and the boss arena has a very cool aesthetic. Elec Man’s stage has a lovely lime and blue scheme, with brightly-colored simple periods at the end, though, unfortunately, it does also contain my only real gripe with the hack. This might be a personal point, but I hate the mazes that sometimes show up in Mega Man hacks, because they often make little sense, and this one is no exception. The Wily stages have been revamped, too; the Yellow Devil isn’t painfully slow anymore, and the second stage goes from a deep pink sky casting a blue glow on the dusky landscape below to bright green grass against a black sky for the sub-boss fights later on in the stage. Though it’s not without its frustrations, neither was the original Mega Man; I’d highly recommend this one, even if for some of the interesting things it tries.