I found this hack really refreshing, playing a version of earthbound where I had to put my brain to use more than you have to in vanilla considering how easy that game is. The new tools menu for Jeff let me get actual use out of them for once and Poo felt like a wholly new character and felt much more unique rather than just being a worse Paula until becoming a starstorm bot. All of the new PSI animations and sprite work were a treat as well and I got so much more use out of status effects than I ever did before. The better condiment system was also a nice change, though I’ll admit I still didn’t really use them, it’s hard for me to justify spending the inventory space on them. This, unfortunately, does come with some snags, the balancing can feel wonky at times (which I am aware is getting improved upon for next version), making some fights feel very exhausting unless you get lucky with a debilitating status. I’m also not sure if I’m misremembering or not but the enemy spawn rate seems *much* higher than it was in vanilla and that was probably my least favorite part of the hack, there were just so many enemies in some dungeons it made traversing them really sluggish because of the enemies higher difficulty. Some of the instant kill’s late into the game like PK Beam gamma also frustrated me, but that’s not a problem I have with this hack exclusively, I just don’t enjoy those kind’s of moves in any rpg. Overall though I quite enjoyed this hack and am looking forward to 3.0 whenever that is finished.