Top Hacks
Introduction -- Best Aesthetics -- Most Creative Gameplay -- Best Quick Play -- Best Challenge -- Best Exploration -- Best Overall -- Closure
Best Aesthetics 2020
Award
Winner: V I T A L I T Y by Digital_Mantra
Digital_Mantra has always had a flair for designing beautiful worlds, and V I T A L I T Y is his best example of this. The world of V I T A L I T Y is alive and intertwining, and you could spend hours exploring the gorgeous landscapes the world provides. Atmosphere is tricky for most hackers to nail, yet V I T A L I T Y absolutely OOZES with it. There were a number of times I put my controller down just to soak in what I was seeing. Easily wins best aesthetics and cements Digital_Mantra as the GOAT.
- Miranda Gemini

What else is there to say, I think we can all agree there's no arguing here, unless you really like clocktoberfest...
- Tundain

While there are a couple parts of VITALITY where you can't tell foreground from background, it is overall a very aesthetically pleasing hack.
- Cosmic

When you think of good visuals, you think of Vitality. Hands down the best looking rom hack and my pick for the goat, it's amazing to just wander around and get lost in, finding new vast rooms and incredible set pieces. From the tree growing from a dead one to the room where you and a chozo statue gaze together at space, so many rooms made me stop and pause and go "Wow, that looks buetiful." Couldn't give this award to anything else.
- Exister

The best tile work I have seen in any hack.
- MetroidNerd#9001

All strong contenders here, VITALITY takes the cake with Clocktober being in close second in my opinion. VITALITY just has the aesthetics down to a T as many have stated. Clocktober is also incredibly unique, but is quite divisive.
- Sapphron


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