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Re: A2XT: World 4's castle has fallen like the Iron Curtain
I find it odd that you don't really have boss fights at the end of these worlds. I was expecting that you fight that Lakitu or someone else in this level.
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Re: A2XT: World 4's castle has fallen like the Iron Curtain
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- "Johnson McCain and the X" is really just a random phrase that raocow used to say once in a while in some of his older videos.
- I pretty much built the level as I went along. The green P-switch ended up being much more useful than I had first anticipated; this made me appreciate how giving the player choices in the way he can go through parts of the level is a fundamental part of what makes Mario games fun.
- I actually didn't remember the Nitroid thing when I made the sinking structure switch thing. Just a coincidence I guess.
- About the music, the first part originally had Shostakovich's Waltz No. 2 (from his Suite for Variety Orchestra), and the KGB building had an excerpt from Shostakovich's Sonata for viola and piano. Unfortunately, Youtube's ContentID thing is absolutely evil and only the Cheryomushki excerpt (in the boss room) survived.
- As everyone probably noticed, the castle and the enemies inside are themed after the color red (the color of communism).
- At the time, I was messing with attaching layers to lakitu; that's how Lakituvitch was born.
- Also, his name was originally written Lakitovich, but people making the story and whatnot preferred Lakituvitch.
- The siblings near the end of the boss room were originally just a very random shout-out to A2MT, but I'm glad they were incorporated in the story.
- This is my very first SMBX level.
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Snowboarding is a nice little level with a nice little gimmick. I don't think there are really any levels with this sort of gimmick, so I think it stands out a bit. A nice little interlude before...
Johnson McCain and the Communists. Oh boy. This one had my fifth highest death total in the entire game. It DEFINITELY has a nice aesthetic to it, but god, that first section... I really don't get how raocow got past it his first try. Oh well I guess? I don't hate the level, but it was the first level to really make me rage, and it's not the last. :D
Time for World 5 I guess now? This might be interesting. ^^;
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the one with all the squares on it on the hub8flight wrote:which world did you choose?raocow wrote:you guys weren't kidding about the new tiers of world being harder, wow
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so you went to world 5 first, okayraocow wrote:you guys weren't kidding about the new tiers of world being harder, wow
spoiler-ish I guess:
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That level is the one that made me go "Okay this A2XT thing may might be crazy enough to work." I didn't know that was your first level Axon - it definitely wasn't perfect (I'm glad a lot of the changes I suggested were made), but you've got some fantastic ideas and I love to see your submissions.
If I remember correctly, I said that World 5 was the best world when playtesting. I don't know if it still is, we'll see.
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DANGIT!raocow wrote:the one with all the squares on it on the hub8flight wrote:which world did you choose?raocow wrote:you guys weren't kidding about the new tiers of world being harder, wow
Oh well, you'll all see that I was right when world 6 is finished.
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The world 6 eow cutscene is still going to be good regardless of how soon raocow sees it.Sebby19 wrote: Oh well, you'll all see that I was right when world 6 is finished.
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Voltgloss wrote:In retrospect, I do think Snowboardin' runs longer than it should. It's about 2 minutes. After testing several other autoscroll-or-equivalent levels for potential inclusion in Episode 2, I'm coming to the conclusion that the best max length for such levels is a minute and a half.
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Parama wrote:
Come on man, it's not that bad...
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I actually never realized how long it was until a few days ago when I replayed The Snowboarding levels in Aero the Acrobat 2.Voltgloss wrote:In retrospect, I do think Snowboardin' runs longer than it should. It's about 2 minutes. After testing several other autoscroll-or-equivalent levels for potential inclusion in Episode 2, I'm coming to the conclusion that the best max length for such levels is a minute and a half.
This is only about a minute long. For some reason, I thought it was way longer.
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Axon wrote:Parama wrote:Come on man, it's not that bad...
It's about 4 minutes 30 seconds.
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Re: A2XT: World 4's castle has fallen like the Iron Curtain
Voltgloss wrote:Axon wrote:Parama wrote:Come on man, it's not that bad...
It's about 4 minutes 30 seconds.
With no midpoint, if I remember correctly (I could be wrong though, I only died once and it was near the start of the level, but still.
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Voltgloss wrote:It's about 4 minutes 30 seconds.
It's the length of the music: 4 minutes 3 seconds.
Parama wrote:With no midpoint, if I remember correctly (I could be wrong though, I only died once and it was near the start of the level, but still.
The level is slow-moving and not particularly demanding, except in 2 or 3 spots. Whether or not a level is too long depends very much on what it asks of the player. For example, fast or hard autoscrolling sections in my episode 2 levels last only about 40 seconds.
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Re: A2XT: World 4's castle has fallen like the Iron Curtain
Axon wrote:The level is slow-moving and not particularly demanding, except in 2 or 3 spots. Whether or not a level is too long depends very much on what it asks of the player. For example, fast or hard autoscrolling sections in my episode 2 levels last only about 40 seconds.
if it's even remotely possible to die in the second half, 4 minute long autoscrolling is way too long. Nobody wants to sit through a big section of gameplay they already beat -- exactly as it is.
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Ditocoaf wrote:Axon wrote:The level is slow-moving and not particularly demanding, except in 2 or 3 spots. Whether or not a level is too long depends very much on what it asks of the player. For example, fast or hard autoscrolling sections in my episode 2 levels last only about 40 seconds.
if it's even remotely possible to die in the second half, 4 minute long autoscrolling is way too long. Nobody wants to sit through a big section of gameplay they already beat -- exactly as it is.
How many times did you die in the second half?