Reviews from

in the past


Aria of Sorrow Alter is a romhack of AoS that jumples up the map and progression, it might be more free in the mid point depending on what boss/soul you happen upon. It's alright, but the new jumbled castle doesn't have the same flow as Aria I feel, just kind of jumbled for returning players to not explore the same map, but not really designed as well as the original.

They at least did something really cool with 1 area (the clock tower) that I don't wanna say but its cool. There is also some Meta puzzle (not really a puzzle cause a hint card tells you immediately what to do), but its also cool.

The problem I have with this is that it definitely harder, which I dont want from Igavanias. I don't think these games have particularly good game feel for them to be hard, so it just fucking pisses me off when I get bounced around constantly. Some enemies also just feel wayyyy more spongey and that sucks.

Yeah idk, if you want more challenge and are a AoS superfan I guess?

It's been ages since I played this Romhack yet still I think about it more than I think about the vanilla AoS.

Some of these changes are good and all but ah... comrades... fellow gamers... at the cost of losing all my gamer cred I have to admit, I cannot for the life of me beat Creaking skull. The thing was bad enough as is, but these fuckers gave it, what I assume to be complete invincibility as well as ability to track you across other games??? My soul cannot know rest so please... Currently I'm playing Super Mario Bros 3 and I'm expecting it to follow... so if you could leave a summon sign somewhere in world 3 I'll be sure to find it and we can take it down together. Just to avoid any confusion my name is soulsucker69 and please please don't take any of my super mushrooms or super leaves...

Great romhack for one of my favorite games of all time.

Good hack but the final stretch is kind of worse. Nice not knowing where to go again though!

And by worse, this versions chaotic realm is just kind of boring.

But I enjoyed doing the arena to wreck everything with Excalibur.