Castle’s(?) Of Horror
Another level of Dx, and one of his first CTF levels I believe…. This levels is also for the XLM CTF Contest, just like DarkSonic’s Cavey Forest and my own Eternal Gardens, which I uploaded just before you. Anyways, I have made my intro long enough, let’s see if this level can go for gold in the CTF Contest!
EYECANDY: 2.0 out of 2.5
Probably the best thing about the level is the use of the eyecandy, which doesn’t have much errors It’s not too buggy and I liked it, however sometimes you don’t see where you can walk or not because of the bricks in the front layer. Backgrounds are original, but a little bit too plain. I really liked the name text one the gravesto… What the heck… Argh, you spelled my name wrong again! How many times have I told you during the testing that it’s ChippieBW and not ChippyBW!!! Fiend! Well, for the rest I have not much to say bout the eyecandy, it’s as fine as it is, but you could have used not so much in the front layers. That would guarantee a better movement.
AMMO: 1.5 out of 2.5
Unfortunately the ammo isn’t as good as the eyecandy, and I guess the same thing will count for the rest of the level, unfortunately. Starting of with the Powerups, the three PU strategy (Seek-Toast-Bouncy) is quite original, but I doubt if it will work well, because the Toaster isn’t just a weapon that good in my opinion. About the coin warp idea: it is nice, but a little bit unreasonable, because you need 20 coins to get to the warp and take the Seeker and Full NRG, ten coins would have been more then enough, or even less. Now, you just don’t have enough time in a quick match to collect 20 coins for the Seeker or the carrot. A example of good coin placement is the level Castle Of Corruption by Snooze, that level had a good coin warp. The smaller ammo is also not really good, probably because you don’t see the most of the ammo.
LEVEL STRUCTURE: 1.0 out of 2.0
This is another point of critism, the structure isn’t that good. The fact that kills it is the fact the the eyecandy with the bricks in the foreground kills a lot of the structure, because you don’t know where you need to go a lot of times. Also the sucker tubes ain’t well, sometimes you run up to them because you don’t see them and you get busted out of the house. There are in my opinion too much small holes in the level which make you lose the way behind the foreground eyecandy. Could be a lot better.
GAMEPLAY: 1.75 out of 3.0
The wrong spelling in my name already kills one of the three gameplay points (just joking) As you can see in the three points above I wasn’t really charmed about the gameplay. The eyecandy pleased me the most, but the sometimes un-nice placement and the structure which doesn’t provide a good flow takes even more points away. The music however is just fine, Haunted is a music file which fits right to this level.
RATINGS:
As you could read above I wasn’t really hysterical about this level, the good eyecandy just saved it from a vote below average (5.5) However there are still a lot of points which you need to improve. You have shown that you can create good eyecandy with this level, now try to combine eyecandy and good gameplay in your next level. I guess you surely will create better CTF level in the future, don’t worry. But, is this enough for winning the CTF Contest? I’m sure not. I don’t want to be arrogant or egoistic, but in my opinion my level and DarkSonic’s one were a lot better. Maybe you can get a bronze medal, but I doubt there’s more for you to get here. Here you go, a 6.2
Score: 2.0+1.5+1.0+1.75
Download: I don’t really know… it’s not a really bad level, but it needs a bit more work. I wonder why this level is 1.24 while the tileset got just converted to 1.23. A little bit useless, and it takes away a lot of hosts.
Host: Nope. There are better CTF levels too host, and I wouldn’t even host it to just read the gravestones.
Greetings,
- ChippieBW of XSÐ, CC and XLM
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