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is the sinking volcano level by daizo supposed to have dragon coins?

yeah, they are all bundled up in the same place

watch out for

a single blue coin which doesn't seem to indicate anything dangerous

Honestly, part of it was that raocow just completely misunderstood what the level was asking of the player. No, you don't have to do the screen transitioning glitch with the green springy thing, just jump off the falling brown platform. No, you're not supposed to keep riding the torpedo ted, you nee...

It's really weird how a lot of sprites didn't seem to spawn when raocow played through the level. That never happened to me! As was already mentioned, the contrast between the two halves is really quite big: The first half and the secret exit are super simple, quite easy sections where you basically...

"THE TREES ARE DEAD" is a nice little breather level in between the yogui stages and the final castle. I guess it's one of the easier world six stages, but it's not like you can breeze through it either, especially the very last section with the jumps in between the trees. To get the secon...

I think "The Green Switch" would have benefited from being either only the platforming section or only the puzzle section. You can't really ask the player to spend the time figuring out the puzzle right after they played through the first half and most likely lost a lot of lives - although...

You can watch levelengine talk about his level here , it's really interesting! "Old Fogey Skie" definitely feels like a VIP level, but somehow more compact and more focused on each individual obstacle. While the autoscroller adds a constant pressure, I think it makes it a lot more interest...

I think part of why "Shouldering On" is so hard is that due to the nature of the level you spend a lot of the time on the far left side of the screen with the autoscroll pushing you forward (in the second half that's a given of course, but in the first half there are sections where you hav...

I feel like raocow didn't really attempt the level in the best way. Part of the gimmick is to leave the key at the beginning of each section to see what's going on and how to deal witch each jump individually and then come back to the key and simply execute what you've learned. If you go at it from ...

As I said yesterday, I think that when you break the sections apart like that they become much more enjoyable. The first half of the level is not that bad and I really think that the way to the secret exit is really well and cleverly hidden. The second half and the first part of the secret exit are ...

I think spreading the recordings out like that is a pretty good idea, especially because the secret exit is arguably harder than the normal one. If you play them back to back (which a lot of people do since it's the same level and it makes sense to try and finish it after you started) it's very easy...

Yeah, I think "Into the Dark Forest" was redesigned partially because the original version was really easy in comparison to the other levels around it. It was basically just a stroll through the forest without any really difficult setups, and while I think that having a breather level now ...

Aww raocow didn't show the author of the level. Also this is one of the times where it's totally worth it to check out the movie for the level, so you should probably do that some time (it's in the world seven yoshi house). Whenever I see "Pixel Perfect" I still have the old version of the...

As was already mentioned "Coin Guides Are Always Accurate" was completely redesigned for the recent update. Both versions of the level use mostly the same ideas and gimmicks. To be honest I haven't played the newest one yet but from what I've seen they don't actually look too different. It...

I think the most notable thing about "The Ruins of Challenging Sadness" (besides the awesome level name of course) is the indicator for the crossfire bullets - which is funny, because that is not something Frozelar did but was later implemented by worldpeace. I honestly don't know how I fe...

I think that "The Smog That Smiles Back" works pretty well where it is on the map. Both fortresses are on the main path, so you have to play through both of them anyway and I don't think that playing "The Fortress of the Giant Monsters" right after either "Manky Bridge"...

As was mentioned in the youtube comments, raocow is yet again missing something in the "Richest Warehouse"! I think "Gourmet Hindrance" is my favorite star world level. While it is super hectic and very fast paced, you can kind of scout ahead of time and see what obstacles come u...

There is a little more level history. Manky Bridge was originally a completely different level (although with the same gimmick), which worldpeace kindly made a video of in testing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mm9bBEGKDDQ. The level was changed because I didn't think it made very effective use o...

So yeah, I think there's not much else to say about "Manky Bridge" other than what has already been said. I think I like the second half more than the first half, though the problem is that when you play the two halves right after another you're so burned out that you can't really apprecia...

raocow you missed something important in the Richest Warehouse! You should probably head back there at the beginning of the next recording session or something Also, yeah, technically you could do "Gourmet Hindrance" right now, but I'd advice you to wait (it's really hard!). Maybe you coul...

I don't know if raocow read my comment, but just in case I'm going to say it again: You should really check out the yoshi house that you unlocked yesterday. You can not get to that yoshi house any other way (there is no way to get there from the regular world seven submap) and it does have some thin...

Yeah, I think I agree with most of the peeps here, "Cryophobia Cavern" is not my favorite level either. I think it doesn't do everything wrong do and I do believe that it has some cool ideas as well. For example I really like the camouflage aspect of the enemies or some of the layer two se...

Incidently, does anyone here know where the music in this level is from originally? (Same question for world 6 overworld as well) According to the soundtrack made by era64, the song on the world six submap is from TalesWeaver and called "Sunrise", but I couldn't find it on youtube. Today'...

"Keep a Positive Altitude" is definitely in my list of the best JUMP levels. I really like (almost) everything about it, even the balloon parts! It's another case where the level was really designed with the autoscroll in mind, and it's really neat to see how well the autoscroll and the ba...

I really like the hint for the secret exit in "Luminous Leaping". It's rare that instead of some visual cue you actually get an audio hint that something suspicious is going on. It's kind of unfortunate that it doesn't really work when you LP the game (because you talk over it and in raoco...

Disco Dance Party is pretty fun you should go for that Kidding, kidding, I'm voting for Angry Fish! After watching the video I'm really sorry that I didn't catch the very lopsided midpoint during beta-testing. The only excuse I have is that I already knew what I was doing before I "officially&...