Difference between revisions of "Conveyor Mayhem"

This is a really cool level!! I love how the enemies gimmicks are like, modifications of existing engine assets? Moving ladders on rails instead of moving platforms on rails, guts lifts that only activate when you touch them, a bunch of fire themed versions of enemies, sideways crushers - it's all really cool and I love it. I love the open rooms, they feel like a lot of fun to get through, though they do sometimes have lag issues and the scrolling is a teensey bit janky. The level has a bunch of alternate paths and stuff and I like it a lot because it allows to expand on each of its gimmicks but not have any one playthrough of the level be terribly long. I wouldn't call any gimmick in this level underused - they're all introduced, used in more difficult situations, and combined for a very interesting experience. I really like how the sideways crushers and the moving ladders were combined. Honestly I really like the moving ladders in general, they're used really well and the super fast ones are hilarious. The 'modifications of existing stuff' theme also carries into the minibosses, with a fire Mega Telly and a really dumb looking (in a good way) Giant Cannopeller With a Crusher And A Smol Cannon On Top. Both of them are pretty fun, though I think it's too easy for the Mega Telly to corner you and I think the crusher shooting out for the other miniboss could use more telegraphing. The Napalm Man fight is cool and a funny reference to MaGMML1, though I'm not a huge fan of the other boss mostly because he has his shield up in front and there's a small hitbox you can actually hit him in, and I don't think his attacks are as well telegraphed so it takes some trial and error to actually get the boss down. But overall this level is suuper fun and I just really love how it plays <3

This level was HUGE with 3 possible routes, and took me about 40 minutes to fully beat. It was so much fun at first! I really liked the custom assets you used, especially the moving ladders. However, some of them seemed to have no real use besides being an annoyance (spike cannon). The Cannon miniboss is completely skippable, not sure if that's intentional or not. The Crusher Joe battle was pretty hectic, and towards the end he started to move way too fast. The upgraded Napalm Man was pretty cool. Also, the Noble Nickels are insanely hard to get. You really went all-out with the moving ladders ;-;

A very open level! It's so open I even got lost a few times. I like how this level spreads out into different paths, each leading to a reward or a goal. The execution on this, however, I have to question. As a result of the abundancy of paths there are some Nickels that aren't really worth the effort. I'm a big fan of the flavour text on the bosses, especially the text that happens when the player dies. I encountered some glitches in this level, too, unfortunately. A pit of lava lead me into nothingness and a skippable miniboss. The more straightforward sections of the level I found really fun to play through, but the more open sections were often really stressful and finnicky when trying to platform around between spikes and lava.

The biggest problem with this stage is the mediocre level design. Most of it is filled with enemies that are very hard to avoid and require precise timing or patience. Also, there are many cases where you have to make extremely precise jumps from platform to platform. Additionally, this level has many minor bugs and oversights. Putting that aside, I still mostly had fun with this level, and I really liked the ideas used in this stage.

Your most lacking quality was the aesthetics. This stage was ugly. There were *several* graphical glitches (this combination has led to you losing score in both Aesthetics and are also docking your Functionality score, because it's clear these are custom asset programming issues!) [SOME OF THIS WAS FIXED POST JUDGING] and the resized graphics were, quite frankly, hideous.

But, to be fair, this is not an art compo!

The other issue is the sheer number of routes does lead itself to not every path being equally given attention - some were better than others, and guts-platform/ladder combo ... leads itself to potential desync issues and makes certain areas more awkward than others. The stage feels like its held together with duct tape, and its easily possible to glitch through your main gimmick. You missed a few pits too, causing me to reset, as a result of so many issues, you threw away your entire Aesthetic and Functional score. [PIT ISSUE FIXED POST JUDGING]

With the critique aside, the level itself was pretty damn awesome! You used the pre-existing graphical assets in creative ways and graphics aside, the new gimmicks worked brilliantly. Fun times were had, I particularly like how simple but effective the moving ladder is!

The bosses had a few niggles here and there: Crusher Joe needed more of a tell for his main attack (I liked his second attack though!), the Propeller boss was pretty awkward to fight (and.. glitched out on me, so he was skippable, I'm not sure this was your fault though), I really liked Big Telly though.

The main Robot Master was pretty good though! Just align your sprites properly in the future. As an aside, props for putting Health Bars on the mid-bosses! All in all, consider this a win.