After giving this hack a shot, it had good first impressions and stood out as a sort of master quest of the original game. A better master quest hack than the one I played ages ago, with cleverly made puzzles. But sometimes those puzzles are too much to figure out and can leave you stumped. Nearly every dungeon has a portion where I could not figure out what to do, so much that I need to look up a youtube video. Even when I find the solution, it’s usually something I wouldn’t have figured out. There’s also times when you need to do trial and error. In those moments, I feel bad for those playing on hardware without save states.

In some cases the puzzles are just flat out not fun at all, like the ones in the hyrule castle tower with the pushable statues that you have to push around a maze and hope you can get past them, while in the dark with just a flashlight.

There was also a time where I was stuck without a key for a long time in the desert palace. Turns out the key was under a pot that was in a room with tiles that fling at you. And I realized that the tiles were also removing the pots from existence. Another ridiculous moment is when there was an enemy you need to kill and it was unreachable. Turns out you had to capture a bee and unleash it.

Finally, another ridiculous moment is when you had to bonk off a statue in order to push a block behind you that was over a pit.

After I got to palace of darkness, I just said screw it this hack gets me stumped way too many times for what it’s worth. Even the maze before palace of darkness got me stumped completely. I can’t imagine how difficult the later dark world dungeons are. I wouldn’t say that this hack is not worth checking out, but most would have a lot of trouble getting through it and kinda wastes your time playing this. I would only recommend this hack to ALttP pros such as speedrunners who know the game more than veteran players.