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68th: Dark Cloud Castle by Roberto Zampari Koopster DESIGN: 36/50 CREATIVITY: 14/30 AESTHETICS: 17/20 TOTAL SCORE: 67/100 A solid platforming experience. It's really gone for variety and as a consequence it ends up not expanding on any of its ideas much at all (except for extensive usage of sparkies...

Based on spotzone discussion from last night, it sounds like the he came up with a tentative schedule so there'd be a new video every 6 hours "patreon vote"/mario slot at 5:30 am eastern "raocow's choice" slot at 11:30 pm "royale" slot at 5:30 pm "all the" sl...

70th: Elemental Heavens by Impetus Koopster DESIGN: 19/50 CREATIVITY: 18/30 AESTHETICS: 13/20 TOTAL SCORE: 50/100 Kind of a messy, very compact level, kind of stretched by the two dragon coin rooms that need to be redone constantly, which gets very boring. The first half feels quite randomly designe...

73rd: The Night Garden by ZMann Koopster DESIGN: 32/50 CREATIVITY: 14/30 AESTHETICS: 19/20 TOTAL SCORE: 65/100 Got some vibes from FrozenQuills's and SNN's entries from last year. It settles that it is an exploration level and stays an exploration level to the end, something I appreciate. For the mo...

75th: Perilous Paintings by Twoka Koopster DESIGN: 19/50 CREATIVITY: 18/30 AESTHETICS: 14/20 TOTAL SCORE: 51/100 This concept is really neat but this level looks rushed. It doesn't do anything with the gimmick and with each enemy beyond the basics, and it ends very suddenly (the midpoint is very loo...

77th: Danish SUPER BLOCK by Waddle Derp Koopster DESIGN: 21/50 CREATIVITY: 19/30 AESTHETICS: 12/20 TOTAL SCORE: 52/100 The gimmick is introduced very poorly - took me 3 lives to understand what was going on. All it boils down to is really finding the question block pattern and keeping it in mind whe...

I had some suspicion that the first level that was played (Crystal Lake) was heavily inspired by Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers, contacted the level author, and they confirmed it. The sections before Midway Point are based on Crystal Cave. The color choice in the first part is based on floors B1...

79th: Crystal Lake by MandL27 Koopster DESIGN: 17/50 CREATIVITY: 16/30 AESTHETICS: 13/20 TOTAL SCORE: 46/100 I'm not impressed. The level design is very thoughtless overall, it's very empty, spread out, and it doesn't progress. Feels like you tried to let the player take a lot of alternative paths b...

morsel/morceau wrote: ↑2 years ago If it is only solid on one of four sides, surely it is a demisemisolid block.

While such a name may be more proper, since Super Mario Maker release, such platforms are officially known as semisolids.

also, i'm assuming from this level there are no la-mulana addmusics known to man, which is a big shame. almost enough to make me transcribe the music to midi just to make one, but not quite There are legacy ports of Mr. Explorer and La-Mulana (as in, a track called La-Mulana), which due being legac...

Also, raocow, you forgot to get normal exit. He didn't. Doing a single exit is very much intentional. See the description of second VLDCX video. I only commit myself to playing ONE exit per level. I heard that extraneous dumb unnecessary secret exits are a *thing* in this contest, and my solution i...

79th: Stageshow Shuffle by Karatekid5 Koopster DESIGN: 18/50 CREATIVITY: 15/30 AESTHETICS: 9/20 TOTAL SCORE: 42/100 The first half is very stretchy and gets spammy quite often. It's also very visually misleading, things that are solid or not aren't clear and the palettes aren't consistent in that as...

83rd: Lava Floaters by KennyJ (Kenny) Koopster DESIGN: 11/50 CREATIVITY: 18/30 AESTHETICS: 12/20 TOTAL SCORE: 41/100 This level's flow is so weird. In the first half it feels I'm doing something different every 2 screens. The second half reuses a lot of the concepts you used a bit, and I think it's ...

85th: Water Processing by superwiidude Koopster DESIGN: 35/50 CREATIVITY: 19/30 AESTHETICS: 15/20 TOTAL SCORE: 69/100 Alright level. It doesn't try to do much out of the ordinary but it's quite solid, although perhaps a tad too short for the numerous gimmicks you used. Could've used better flow and ...

88th: Unforeseen Consequences by Chihaya (Guiga) Koopster DESIGN: 16/50 CREATIVITY: 16/30 AESTHETICS: 12/20 TOTAL SCORE: 44/100 A level that felt very disjointed and misguided. Makes some weird decisions, like a path in the first half that's super hard to get to and there's absolutely no advantage i...

89th: Very Danger Lifts by LHB Koopster DESIGN: 26/50 CREATIVITY: 10/30 AESTHETICS: 12/20 TOTAL SCORE: 48/100 Short, quite slow and uneventful autoscroller for the most part (it starts off -really- slow). The volcano loti would've been a good bet to base the entire level around - the bits that force...

93rd: Lofted Lifts by Galactaknight Koopster DESIGN: 19/50 CREATIVITY: 12/30 AESTHETICS: 13/20 TOTAL SCORE: 44/100 A badly constructed level and seemingly untested. Specially the line guided segments - they are very confusing, unpredictable, and even broken (like, two stances where segments that wer...

97th: Lava You Lots by Mata Hari Koopster DESIGN: 22/50 CREATIVITY: 19/30 AESTHETICS: 9/20 TOTAL SCORE: 50/100 I think the issue of this level is that it tries to do way too many things, and they end up not being very well integrated with each other - it feels like just a lot of "stuff" ev...

98th: ninjaboy.xls by tomato jonson Koopster The one left for last DESIGN: 24/50 CREATIVITY: 9/30 AESTHETICS: 10/20 TOTAL SCORE: 43/100 Really difficult and unforgiving level. It is doable and quite fun to learn, but that doesn't excuse the lack of midpoints or more powerups. A lot of obstacles disc...

What would be here to stop the level author from providing a ridiculous number of 1UPs in a level. Or coins for that matter, if 1UPs would be banned. Were designers docked points if they had a dragon coin on a subscreen boundary? Asking for a friend. I believe Lunar Magic 3 fixes that one, so this ...

Only like 45 seconds into the video but "my" level was a collab with TaviTurnip. I don't know why it's only being credited to me `~` Fixed in my post above. Not sure why VLDCX results as well as SMWDB only lists you, however. My guess is it's because TaviTurnip is not a member of SMW Cent...

100th: Overgrow Chateau by Zyglrox Odyssey + TaviTurnip Koopster DESIGN: 29/50 CREATIVITY: 21/30 AESTHETICS: 14/20 TOTAL SCORE: 64/100 The message box at the end of the secret got me good, my mind was completely blown when I discovered Zyglrox made this lol Alright, so this is a team level and it sh...

As if "no life farms" rule would be enforceable. What would be here to stop the level author from providing a ridiculous number of 1UPs in a level. Or coins for that matter, if 1UPs would be banned.

Nevermind that such a rule is a bad idea anyway.

100th: Monty's Hall by MiracleWater Koopster DESIGN: 11/50 CREATIVITY: 23/30 AESTHETICS: 14/20 TOTAL SCORE: 48/100 Really wanted to have fun with this. Let's talk about the two Us: Unecessary and Unfun. This level has a lot of this. Why did that falling chained platform "puzzle" have to ex...

- something to do with the custom 99 lives version of these hacks you were provided with. Have you tried with non-99 lives versions? The patch in question changes literally two bytes in a ROM: $009E25 (Amount of lives to start with) and $00A09C (Timer to disable skipping the intro message). It's de...