Uploaded June 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Normal stars went pretty well, except for the small pillars one, that ending was just cursed.
Reds practice went really good. Almost got the star from the 2nd path pretty early on, but wasn't careful enough at the end gyazo.com/e81ea5f32124b37f34dd37832e1260a5
After more practice I felt decently confident with most jumps. Attempts went pretty well too, but then I started choking far in. At first I handled it pretty well, but then I choked the very end multiple times, which turned this into an absolute miserable grind. As always I only choked to things that never happened in practice, which added a lot to the frustrating. I got more nervous every attempt I got and just felt incredible sick. Glad I was able to eventually get the star, because I was close to giving up for that day.
Also a 19 and a 20 were back to back as well as the 2nd 19 and getting the star.
Normal stars went pretty well, except for the small pillars one, that ending was just cursed.
Reds practice went really good. Almost got the star from the 2nd path pretty early on, but wasn't careful enough at the end gyazo.com/e81ea5f32124b37f34dd37832e1260a5
After more practice I felt decently confident with most jumps. Attempts went pretty well too, but then I started choking far in. At first I handled it pretty well, but then I choked the very end multiple times, which turned this into an absolute miserable grind. As always I only choked to things that never happened in practice, which added a lot to the frustrating. I got more nervous every attempt I got and just felt incredible sick. Glad I was able to eventually get the star, because I was close to giving up for that day.
Also a 19 and a 20 were back to back as well as the 2nd 19 and getting the star.
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Decent levels, but the invis wall spam during lategame is pretty ridiculous to the point that you are not scared of messing up in some way, but rather of finding a new invis wall you never hit in practice.
Died to the last jump of the final stage because of such an invis and after that I got a bunch of far in chokes, which was really tilting. Glad I am done with this hack now, after this being an open project for so long.")
![SM64 Liminal Dream 1.5 Preview [playthrough]](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/mQ-IXtLb6Z4/mqdefault.jpg "SM64 Liminal Dream 1.5 Preview [playthrough]
Really incredible hack.
Amazing aesthetics with such a well made atmosphere.
At first it felt a bit too linear for me. You have different pipes, all leading to a few levels, but ultimately to a dead end. What I loved so much about b3313 is how overwhelming that massive maze feels at first until you figure it out better and better and I was kinda missing that feeling here. However I figured those brick doors will all be open in the final version, so this entire thing will get much bigger still.
Also hope you can actually see the level names in the pause screen, because like this even with StarDisplay its quite hard to figure out what you are missing and in which level you currently are.
Anyway really looking forward to the full version, now we just gotta wait like a year...")
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I heard this one is a lot worse than the previous 2, so I was pretty scared starting it. It certainly is quite a bit harder, but overall its a really sick hack with a lot of creative ideas and unique jumps.
Especially strangers level was brutal. I mostly just learned one star a day, because I prefer practicing stars that hard offline. I got to 3/4, but the last one seemed actually impossible. I didnt have much motivation to go for the other stars in this hack if I cant finish it anyway.
I went through the star with states and every jump was just trial and error and I didnt see a way to build up any consistency. Eventually I put more effort into learning the star and actually found a lot of really good strats to the point the star became pretty doable. However I had to practice the star for 5h, which is pretty absurd for such a short star. Half of that time was on finding a setup for the jump at 1:04:31. Other people just slowly crawled across, but I couldnt do that at all. I hoped finding a consistent setup with punches and that crouch turn wouldnt be too bad, but it just wouldnt work. Every time I thought I found a setup and redid it from the start I died again. Thats why I had to spend over 2h on just that jump alone.
Most of the remaining practicetime was just me overpracticing and pretty much getting the star from the 2nd MC box.
After beating strangers level I thought the rest wouldnt be too bad, but there were many many really challenging stars left. Especially mules level gave me quite some trouble. The playground star felt like the last stranger star at first and I did not see myself building up much consistency with any of those jumps. However then I found a massive cheese, which just skipped the entire star.
I also found a little cheese for the top star, but that didnt help me a lot. Despite practicing that star for multiple hours as well, I could not build up much consistency with the middle part. I even had to set up an angle modifier for the jump at 1:32:39, because otherwise the dive to that platform just didnt seem possible. Even with the modifier it felt like the hardest jump of the star.
So overall a really good hack and I certainly recommend it giving it a try. Tons of creative jumps and other really cool ideas, like the seasons banjo-kazooie level and I still really love the concept of the entire hack. Every star is a unique challenge and not just 5 rather easy stars and a super difficult red coin star. Just expect it to be a bigger project, since many of these stars are quite tough and require a bunch of practice.")
