This has led to the term 'Kaizo Hack' defining a ROM hack of any game intended to be extremely difficult or unfair, intended to push the difficulty to the limits of human capabilities. 3, Kaizo Mario 64, SMG2 The Kaizo Green Stars by Evanbowl, and the Kaizo Caverns Minecraft map in Vechs's Super Hostile map series. The Japanese word 'kaizō' ( 改造) simply refers to ROM hacking in the gaming industry, since its literal meaning is 'reorganize,' 'restructure,' or 'reconstruct,' but Kaizo Mario World's prominence means that other ROM hacks have used this term to indicate an extreme level of difficulty, such as Kaizo Mario Bros.

Punishing players is an art form.' Legacy Kaizo Mario wasn’t the first mean Mario hack, but it was the most polished, and the first to understand that it’s not just about being as hard as possible. In 2015, IGN stated about Kaizo Mario World – 'It’s funny, impressive, and extremely entertaining. Kaizo Mario World 2 and 3 are less prominent, but still rank 17th and 14th all-time with more than 10,000 and 12,500 downloads, respectively. The original Kaizo Mario World ranks as the most downloaded Kaizo hack of all-time on SMW Central, the main repository for Super Mario World ROM hacking, with more than 51,000 downloads from the official repository. The later games in the series did not have the same popularity as the original, but are still very popular games to speedrun or do Let's Plays. The hacks are notable for pushing the limits of human capability and feature many frame-perfect tricks, which usually require trial and error gameplay.Įach of the three ROM hacks starts by killing Mario during the opening cutscene unless the player performs a certain action. Kaizo Mario World consists of three side-scrolling platform games in which the player controls Mario or Luigi.īeing ROM hacks of Super Mario World, the hacks use many of the same game mechanics while also introducing and forcing the use of glitches to make progress in a level.

These cruelties and the resulting frustration, as well as the skill level required, are both the purpose of the hacks and the appeal of any Let's Play videos made of them. The series is notable for deliberately breaking all standard rules of 'accepted' level design and introduced many staples of later Kaizo hacks, such as placing hidden blocks where the player is likely to jump, extremely fast autoscrollers, dying after the goal post, and various other traps. Kaizo Mario World features extremely difficult level designs on the Super Mario World engine. The series was created by Takemoto for his friend R. The term 'Kaizo Mario World' is a shortened form of Jisaku no Kaizō Mario (Super Mario World) o Yūjin ni Play Saseru. Kaizo Mario World, also known as Asshole Mario, is a series of three ROM hacks of the Super Nintendo Entertainment System video game Super Mario World, created by T. Gameplay from the first installment of Kaizo Mario World

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