DarkMatt Plays Your Levels And Insults You: Revival (For CC11) (We have six now.)

[Alagirez]

Tier 9 will reveal after CC14

[DarkMatt]

>tfw you know CC will keep going.

Have a pepsi.

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In case you are wondering, yes, I am instead spending what free time I have making zeldas.

[Black Mamba]

>tfw you know CC will keep going.

Have a pepsi.

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In case you are wondering, yes, I am instead spending what free time I have making zeldas.

Wait, you can make zeldas?


Still can't wait for the next results. Getting out of the n00by shit and the joke shit.

[DarkMatt]

Wait, you can make zeldas?

Still can't wait for the next results. Getting out of the n00by shit and the joke shit.

Yes. And would you believe me if I told you it's somehow leagues more intuitive than making marios?

[Black Mamba]

Wait, you can make zeldas?

Still can't wait for the next results. Getting out of the n00by shit and the joke shit.

Yes. And would you believe me if I told you it's somehow leagues more intuitive than making marios?

Well yeah. Making marios is easy. throw blocks on a grid and build a tileset to make the level look not like shit and there's first place in CC12.

[DarkMatt]

Message of the Day: Okay so it's kind of no secret I died and had to hunker down to get through college. (Which I managed to, so 's all good.)

But like, I can't explain why the hell I don't keep on going with this. It's probably because there's a lot of reasons.

First off all these levels are awful. I have to brace to play shit. Second, I have to play a LOT of these levels, and it's amazing I can even keep my comments fresh. Finally, it's a lot of prep work and time spent...wait no it's not. It's about 2 hours if I manage to get through a tier from start to finish.

But have YOU spent 2 hours doing anything at once? If you do, can you tell me how the hell that's possible?

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#53:

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Shell Surfin' Fortress
Who to Blame: Turtwig

Gameplay: 4 / 10
Aesthetics: 4 / 10
Turbo Tunnel Bonus: 3 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 3.66

DarkMatt sez: Well this level was stupid. It tried really, REALLY hard to make something out of shells and in the case I get obtuse twitch reflexes that kills me with a single failure. FUN!

I'll just play Battletoads instead. Thanks for trying, though.

#52:

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This Level Has Ice Physics
Who to Blame: Frozen Boo

Gameplay: 4 / 10
Aesthetics: 3 / 10
Lava Bonus: 3 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 3.33

DarkMatt sez: Fuck you for lying and fuck you for acting like lava's no big deal. Oh, instant death? The player can put up with that. It's justified, it's a volcano level!

Furthermore, your coins moving is the stupidest fucking thing and the shittiest attempt to look like New Super Mario Bros. Why even bother with that shit?

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Volcanic Panic
Who to Blame: dragonfan96

Gameplay: 6 / 10
Aesthetics: 4 / 10
This is the THIRD FUCKING LEVEL WITH LAVA Bonus: 5 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 5

DarkMatt sez: You cannot pick one fucking fire mario music to use and it sickens me that you can't make up your fucking mind.

I also dunno if you noticed the fact that 60% of the ground you used is meant to be below lavafalls. You either have really bad eyesight or a really bad attention span to fuck up that badly.

ASIDE FROM THAT, this level was okay. Goombas were bullshit but this volcano level did not go out of its way to shove lava in my face and I did somewhat enjoy my run through it.

Also your English is shit. See me after class.

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GRASSY GRASS GRASSLANDS (Thanks for not getting the name right Valtteri.)
Who to Blame: AeroMatter

Gameplay: 6 / 10
Aesthetics: 6 / 10
Coin Bonus: 5 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 5.66

DarkMatt sez: Do you have a biting hatred towards anyone who insists they check every block? I suppose if they're Luigi there's no problemo but anyone else can be expected to take 5 seconds for every multi-coin block. It's kinda ridiculous. So is the 275 coins in your level. Damn, 1-1 is pretty lucrative.

Other than that, this is a bland level of a different calibur. It varies the graphics and the obstacles enough to set itself apart from all those in TIER FOUR, but I'm still not feeling a lot from this level. Still, points for variety.

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GreyVSAnatomy
Grey Must Defeat Biology Class: XerX

Gameplay: 7 / 10
Aesthetics: 7 / 10
Dark Land Bonus: 7 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 7

DarkMatt sez: This might be the first level in the contest that intrigued me in a positive way. This level shares a lot of similaries with the last level, however it has a much cleaner and organized theme, (not without its flaws, mind you, like the background and the three pieces of graphic that isn't greyscale does not fit.) and the obstacles it put up were interesting: not trying, but also timesinks. Asides aren't bad, per se, but they should be used in moderation. Spending more time trying bricks instead of playing the level means the pacing is pretty slow the first time around.

I would love to play more from you though. An episode like this I would find a nice pleasant trip down chill lane. You just need a little bit more experience with engaging the player and perfecting your level idea.

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Goomba's Lair
Who to Blame: ap3jmpt

Gameplay: 4 / 10
Aesthetics: 3 / 10
Consistency Bonus: 2 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 3

DarkMatt sez: clash
klaSH/

verb
verb: clash; 3rd person present: clashes; past tense: clashed; past participle: clashed; gerund or present participle: clashing

2.
(of colors) appear discordant or ugly when placed close to each other.
"suits in clashing colors"
synonyms: be incompatible, not match, not go, be discordant
"her red scarf clashed with her coat"

It's not just the graphics, either. This level, is a fucking mess. A diarrhea mess of NPCs, gimmicks, and art styles. It works so poorly it's disgusting.

The only thing I can say about this is that this level is so jam-fucking-packed with individual ideas given 0 thought past the initial implementation you can make a Goomba WORLD. That is, this level has enough gimmicks that you can split this one level into the 4 to 8 a world in an episode would normally have.

That's how big of a clusterfuck this level was.

Nowadays, most people understand why you should not go overboard with mixing and matching styles and ideas. Consistency is, usually, a valued aspect of mario levels.

Then there's ap3jmpt.

What an asshole.

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Canyon Path
Who to Blame: AlexGKubbed

Gameplay: 6 / 10
Aesthetics: 7 / 10
Ceiling Bonus: 6 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 6.33

DarkMatt sez: Mildly challenging, but I didn't feel any real gimmick from it. Makes for a good generic level, but I just could not feel the challenge it wanted to present.

Graphics I'm divided on. On one had, they work and the colors work just fine. On the other, it gets pretty illogical and cluttered at times. Detail and clutter are two sides of the same coin, so it's really just me frowning at excessive use of background graphics. It's not a bad style per se, just one that doesn't click with me.

There's also a couple of minor dirks but they're so minor I can't really bring myself to point them out.

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Shy Guy Plains
Who to Blame: KingBowserKoopa

Gameplay: 6 / 10
Aesthetics: 6 / 10
Subcon Bonus: 5 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 5.66

DarkMatt sez: Finally! An SMB2 level with awful horrible have to bomb through walls and the bombs DON'T RESPAWN. We're finally getting that authentic SMB2 experience. Hey, pro tip, we live in the future. RESPAWN THE BOMBS.

Also, fuck you for putting the powerups AND coins into the ground. I sure do love playing roulette on whether I get something I can use or a piece of shit. I also love having to go through every piece of grass just to find the powerups. That whole future thing we're talking about? Why not put the powerups ABOVE GROUND? HUH? THAT WOULD'VE BEEN GOOD.

[Alagirez]

yes it released

[DarkMatt]

yes it released

Okay I JUST finished the minor editing and just got the OP updated.

You didn't read it at all didn't you? You just posted saying "YAY" the moment you saw this thread.

I'm not a mod, and I don't really care about your posting habits, but could you not do this?

[Alagirez]

yes it released

Okay I JUST finished the minor editing and just got the OP updated.

You didn't read it at all didn't you? You just posted saying "YAY" the moment you saw this thread.

I'm not a mod, and I don't really care about your posting habits, but could you not do this?

I'm sorry i will not do that again....
BTW, i have a question :
How you can make a .gif screenshot without Lunalua?

[Emral]

You'd be a fantastic contest judge.

[MECHDRAGON777]

>tfw you know CC will keep going.

Have a pepsi.

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In case you are wondering, yes, I am instead spending what free time I have making zeldas.

Yay, people other than me on this forum uses Zelda Classic.

[Imaynotbehere4long]

But have YOU spent 2 hours doing anything at once? If you do, can you tell me how the hell that's possible?

Patience and perseverance.

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Just wanted to point out that this isn't the first time dragonfan96 made that mistake.

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Wait, you seriously need a gun for the Birdo fight? I think the bigger sin would be that the footballs can't be grabbed, not that unused CGFX were included.

Or can you grab the footballs and that's just you being dumb again? I don't know since I haven't played the level.

[DarkMatt]

Wait, you seriously need a gun for the Birdo fight? I think the bigger sin would be that the footballs can't be grabbed, not that unused CGFX were included.

Or can you grab the footballs and that's just you being dumb again? I don't know since I haven't played the level.

Your first mistake was confusing stupidity with laziness.

[h2643]

I'm sorry i will not do that again....
BTW, i have a question :
How you can make a .gif screenshot without Lunalua?

https://www.google.com.ua/#q=gif+record+screen
You literally didn't even search did you

[Darkonius Mavakar]

HOLY SHIT THIS IS STILL ALIVE
pls contest judge

[DarkMatt]

Good news is SURPRISE NEW TIER RIGHT AWAY.

Bad news is the next tier isn't even started yet, so I'm out of buffer. Next tier's gonna be a bit later, but should not take weeks.

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Message of the Day: Why do all of you want me to be a contest judge?

Number one: I'm pretty sure this is obvious by now, but I really DO NOT have the time and effort to get these done by the time Valtteri gives his judges to get them done. I don't care about your awful levels THAT much. God forbid.

But the more important number two: I would have to take a completely different tone and style to my feedback. This thread is all about shitting on levels, and unless you all want to openly admit the level contest here is a fucking joke, people are going to get really butthurt over the shit I say about their levels. I mean this thread all in good fun and "take of it as you will". I can't do that for official contest reviews. I don't know why you think this translates well into that, but really, I wouldn't be doing much except getting a lot of people mad when, when we get right down to that, that is NOT my intention.

And it's worth mentioning number three: I'd have to use THEIR scoring system. You will get me to stop using the Wildcard category when you pry it out of my cold dead hands.

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#45:

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Scorching Skies
Who to Blame: mariogeek2

Gameplay: 4 / 10
Aesthetics: 3 / 10
Virtual Boy Bonus: 3 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 3.33

DarkMatt sez: Red: the Level.

Would it kill you to use colors other than shades of red/orange? No? Too lazy? Thought so.

It's not just the fact that EVERYTHING IN THIS LEVEL IS RED and only barely gets away with it because they don't blend together that well. This level has shitty jumps that are hard to do small and stupid hard to do as big. There's also really dumb misleading coin trails in a section where you're encouraged to think fast. Finally, nothing but mushrooms, in a lava level, only reason why I didn't dock off extra points is because the mushrooms stay still, which is a merciful design choice given all the other dirks this fucker did.

#44:

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Familiar Stronghold
Who to Blame: PaperPlayerX

Gameplay: 5 / 10
Aesthetics: 7 / 10
Originality Bonus (also LORE Bonus): 2 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 4.66

DarkMatt sez: Shut up. Stop talking. Literally stop trying to say things in a vein attempt to amuse me and just let me play. Holy shit.

This is what happens when you are shit out of ideas so you literally just take a concept from another Mario game. Points for it not being literally a 1:1 conversion, but points off for having a really stupid jump, an unoriginal gimmick, and dumb boss fights.

Not seeing how one can make 8-4 better, because this fucker right here certainly failed to make me want to play his level over just loading up Mario 1 and playing that.

And a very quick aside just I have an honest question: why are you assuming we've all played the very first mario and got to the end of it? You do know there's some people who haven't, right? There are some people who aren't going to immediately notice you had no original level concept, right?

#43:

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Valtteri's Space Mission
It consists of a rocket, a match, and copious amounts of duct tape: glitch4

Gameplay: 4 / 10
Aesthetics: 5 / 10
"Valtteri is a Meme" is not a Meme Bonus: 6 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 5

DarkMatt sez: Oh good, I've gotten back into levels that put me to sleep. This level had literally NOTHING going for it. Just throwing around some moving platforms and giving your level a spaceship candy wrapper does not make your level any better.

If there is one thing I don't hate about this level, is that the memelording can be 100% bypassed. I appreciate glitch4 allowing me to just, not have to care at all that I'm a shitty graphic fighting another shitty graphic.

Also Valtteri is no fucking hero what the fuck are you talking about?

#42:

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Mouser's Slippery Stronghold
Who to Blame: Sewpah

Gameplay: 3 / 10
Aesthetics: 5 / 10
Frosting Bonus: 3 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 3.66

DarkMatt sez: I especially like how half your content is spent going around for ace coins, leaving me with the other half of a short as fuck level. Also great job conveying a "slippery" level, not an ice level, not a blue level, no just fucking cake frosting on the castle ground. I fucking love it.

#41:

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Pyramid with Lava
Who to Blame: RoundPiplup

Gameplay: 6 / 10
Aesthetics: 5 / 10
Contrast Bonus: 3 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 4.66

DarkMatt sez: Foreground and background colors REALLY do not mesh well, and it's because one's excessively light and the other's excessively dark. It's not pretty to look at.

Other than that, this level did have interesting enemy layouts, but I just could not feel like it was really contributing to the level. That's probably because, while the enemy placement challenges me, it's FUCKING RANDOM. Seriously, I don't see much rhyme or reason to where everything is, and when I get stopped by it more times than a couple, it doesn't help.

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Roy's Sinister Stronghold
Who to Blame: Ludwig von Koopa

Gameplay: 7 / 10
Aesthetics: 8 / 10
ROY'S OUR BOY Bonus: 5 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 6.77

DarkMatt sez: Here's a level with a good artstyle, mostly because this guy managed to keep palette colors consistent without it being monotone, or glaring. The dahes of extra colors help to break up how grey this level is, and there you go, working theme.

I want to say this level had interesting gameplay but it's currently just a couple of ideas suspended and stretched on a blank canvas. The level HAS gimmicks, and they ARE noticeable, but they just aren't really expressed. This is a shame because this level's kind of long but the level's gimmicks just does not break the generic feeling due to how little the author makes use of them.

Finally jesus fuck the boss takes forever. I didn't play this level just to spend a minute or 2 fighting SMB3 Bowser. WE're in 2016 and we still can't adjust health? What the fuck are you faggots doing with your lives?

#39:

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Abyss Sea of the Cryptic Sunken Ship
Who to Blame: GameClip477

Gameplay: 7 / 10
Aesthetics: 6 / 10
"Why is it ALWAYS YOU WHO DOES THE COLLECTATHONS?" Bonus: 6 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 6.33

DarkMatt sez: Music is awful. Holy fucking shit, it's only really loud and really obnoxious. WHY DO YOU THINK THIS IS GOOD MUSIC? (This is probably because YOU WENT ALL OVER THE PLACE WITH SOURCES TO USE FOR MUSIC)

In all seriousness though, I was expecting bitter disappointment but by the time I could start complaining, the level was over. This could've been really grating to go find this author's macguffins to beat the level, but it never really did. Level difficulty also stayed pretty consistent and didn't get too grating at some points.

Much as I want to bite my tongue and accept this is a good level, it does play really slow and I'm still questioning if "collect X things in a big area to win" is something that can be done well in a Mario game.

I'll give this a pass, but I still never want to play levels by this guy.

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Breaking into the Tower
Who to Blame: Chip Potato

Gameplay: 7 / 10
Aesthetics: 7 / 10
Length Bonus: 6 / 10

FINAL SCORE: 6.66

DarkMatt sez: Oh good, a level that had interesting gimmicks but was too short to capitalize on any of it. Also an overabundance of gimmicks. You know what would've helped? CONTENT. LENGTH. DO MORE THAN JUST FALL ON YOUR ASS.

Also hey it's Sednaiur's pack, and hey I don't get how there can be S shaped bricks for arbitrary reasons. Why even.

Boss this time, thankfully, does not take forever, so that's a plus.

Really, if it wasn't for the fact that this person can't A: focus, and B: flesh out a level, this would actually be p gud. Too bad these are concepts no one understands.

[snoruntpyro]

I was expecting you to be more harsh on 39th (the abyss level). I personally hated that level, because I found it really boring and obnoxious with literally the whole level being fetch quests. Also getting hit by blue fireballs I couldn't see because they were on a blue foreground and blue background :v

[Emral]

We can adjust health. Just not in CC11.

[Alagirez]

"FINAL SCORE: 6.66"
nice score
Darkmatt when u will post tier 7?
and will you make a revival for CC12?

[DarkMatt]

I was expecting you to be more harsh on 39th (the abyss level). I personally hated that level, because I found it really boring and obnoxious with literally the whole level being fetch quests. Also getting hit by blue fireballs I couldn't see because they were on a blue foreground and blue background :v

Oh don't get me wrong, I hated its guts. But I just can't hate it like everything before it.

I think that's mostly because it's just really hard to make water levels more exciting than not water levels. As I said, before I could start feeling that way, the level was done. So it did SOMETHING right.