If you're on the fence as to whether or not you should play with hints or without, then I recommend to take the easy path. the Pirate Mothership and Tourian) and help to counter some of the lackluster vanilla+ areas. Simple, genius additions or changes bump this hack up for me (i.e. There's a lot of interesting ideas along the main route that kept me going and are well worth experiencing. The new stuff is very cool, but confusing. The parts most like a half hack also fall into the category of 'changed just for the sake of changing' unfortunately, which usually means it's worse than the original.
It's a pseudo half-hack with a lot left the same but changed slightly, though some parts are completely different. Read More This is a pretty good hack, and a decent start if you want to try ZM hacks out in general.
