Insane Difficulty: Anima Zero plays Super Mario RPG Armageddon - Insane Difficulty

Put simply, it's time. Time to finally play through the hack I've been waiting on for a long time.

If you're coming in here to expect competent playing and knowing what to do, you've come to the wrong place. I'm playing this mostly blind. I know what a majority of the super/god bosses are, but my knowledge of the rest of the hack is limited.

Basically, expect lots of game overs and hilarity as this game advances.

As a side note, I'm playing this on Snes9x. I faintly remember this game deciding to have a slight fit with a few areas in ZSNES (Unless this hack fixed that or something). That means the videos might look a touch different.

With that, a few videos where one thing's certain...I am completely inept at doing timed blocks for attacks that can be blocked early on. It gets slightly better at the end of the 3rd video.

Otherwise, it's the typical Mario fanfare. Peach gets kidnapped (I think she likes being kidnapped!), Mario tries to save her, fails (But not because he's weak or anything), then has to hoof it through an area to reach the Mushroom Kingdom.

A quick video before I get off tonight where I do something I should have done at the start of the game, then fast forward to the Mushroom Kingdom where there's an evil croc thief and puffballs who can make it rain by shedding tears. I do believe one should not mess with such a creature that could possibly flood a place if he really wanted, am I right?

Debating if I want to grind up Mallow a bit so he's a little less squishy before the next video.

In today's videos, Mario & Mallow set out to catch the thief who took Mallow's coin, then return to the Mushroom Kingdom to evict some invaders, namely a giant ass knife.

Today's videos have the duo making it to Tadpole Pond by way of the Kero Sewers (And evicting a hungry beast from the area in the process!). After Mallow gets himself a snazzy new weapon, the duo hoofs it through Rose Way in the quest to reach Rose Town and find out what kind of problem is befalling the area.

Couple more videos tonight where we find out what's happening in Rose Town, then set out for the Forest Maze.

Two words: Captain Geno. Suddenly I feel much better about my survival chances with the one guy that NEVER left my party in vanilla now on my side.

Tonight's videos have my party touring the Pipe Vault of monsters that eat your party if they touch you (And they ate me once!), then heading over to a town of mole people to begin the rescue mission to save a couple of kids trapped in the mine.

Oh yeah, Croco rears his head once again, but he gets rejected pretty fiercely.

Today's videos have the party wrapping up business in the Moleville Mines before venturing over to a tower where Peach is and get some help breaking down the front door from a very familiar face.

Said familiar face is also lacking severely in hp and will need an off screen session to get him into fighting shape.

Tonight's videos have the entire Booster's Tower trilogy featured. Bowser gets scary strong, Mario tanks shit as usual, and Geno blows shit up as per his usual goal.

Also, slowdown trilogy!

It is highly recommended that you play this in snes9x 1.53 only or you might come across bugs at some point

Yeah I figured. No worries there as that's exactly what I'm using.

Now then, here's a trio of videos where a wedding is crashed, the princess is back with us, another star piece and much less nasty Axem Ranger duo gets encountered, and a visual on that saying "Curiosity killed the cat".

Lots of videos today where I get a bunch of stuff done in the Sunken Ship. Includes Geno basically doing 90% of the work for one boss fight, me dying to a boss, a super boss getting downed, and Yaridovich, the so called spear master of the Smithy Gang.

Problem with Yari? He's not the real captain of the spear, Rex Gallero, so he fails by default. Hell, Peach even knows this! That's the true reason she went into rage mode for this battle.

Plenty of videos tonight. The party makes the trek to Monstro Town, fighting enemies old & new, then partaking in some sidequest delights before delving into the main course located at Bean Valley with a dessert platter at Nimbus Land.

First couple of videos today where the party starts exploring Nimbus Land. A hidden chest is located for Peach that gives her a weapon which basically turns her normal attack damage into Captain Rex levels of awesomeness, then the party invades the palace.

Valentina also learned valuable intel today. Don't fuck with Mallow. His ability to change the weather on a whim pretty much kicked her ass.

Also, she should have had Birdo be her guardian. That dingbat gave me two game overs here. Fuck you Birdo D:.

Today's videos have the party diving into a volcano in search of the sixth star piece. The enemies prove to be a noticeable step up in damage capabilities, but my solution is to have Captain Geno rain down hellfire on the battlefield. Meteor is so awesome, heh.

Of course, fighting the Axem Rangers isn't quite possible at lv47. Thusly, the party sets out to get more powerful and it begins with a poor mimic boss gets whacked for its armor.

Lots more optional boss fights occur in today's batch of videos. At least next time I can finally tackle the Axem Rangers at Barrel Volcano (I hope!).

A few videos this morning where I...ahem, axe the Axem Rangers.

Two words: Fuck Doomsday

Also, I kill a couple more optional bosses.