Grassy Level Re-Review

[TDK]

Hello, I'm new to the forums. I made a fairly short grassy level for SMBX. This is my first level on the forums, so any feedback would be appreciated.

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Video:

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Download and enjoy:
https://www.mediafire.com/?798el4aojtkck78

[Mable]

What's up with the floating iceblock. And why is the ? Mushroom there.

[aero]

Try playing other levels to pick up on design techniques before submitting future levels; that should do you a better service than for criticism to be spelled out. I honestly expect this to end up in the trash can subforum, since there's a lot of problems with your design.

Walkthrough:

[glitch4]

got a request

Official Review

So as the title says, we're starting in a grassland section, there's a one block, containing a question mark mushrrom, which doesn't do anything to make the player affect, so it's pointless. There's some BGOs, so it's a bit decorated, and a water cutoff next to the grassland tile (you should see it). Later, we saw blue koopa next to the rainbow shell, and by the way - since this level is SMB3 themed, the shell AND the blue koopa should be SMB3 recolored, because in my opinion, they do not fit in here. Moving on, we have a bad coin placement and a random green spiny placed for no reason. Then we go to the orange pipe, which takes us to a cave section, only having a one screen, and there's problems of it:

a) it has a midpoint in a 1 minute level, which it shouldn't have since the level is very easy to beat.
b) It's SMB1 themed, but the SMW orange pipe, SMW midpoint BGOs and SMB3 gray pipe are here for no reason.
c) the section is bland as heck. No BGOs whatsoever to make this section decorated well.
d) it's totally pointless unless it might be a bonus section.
e) still bland.
f) the midpoint has cutoffs.
g) still goddamn bland.

Alright, back to the grassland section, we're having more of bad emeny and coin placement and then here comes this one:

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If you see it, you should know, what problem in that screen is. Basicly, if you look at the water, it seems that if you 'jump' into the water, you can't get out of there (by meaning you can't reach the pipes there), so you should add something to reach these pipes or at least make hem less higher.

Anyway, more bad NPC placement and then a Lakitu at the last screen of this section, which should be removed because... it's pointless. A random block containing mushroom is also pointless and should be removed, too. Anyway, entering the pipe and we're at the last section, which also has Lakitu, which isn't necessery. Then there's big block containing coins, which is pointless, again. Then there's a few Spinys and we get the goad, finishing this level.

Well, overall, this is kinda bad level. Since it's the first one you made, my tip is to play some levels from the best section, which can help you improve your designing and also read the thread called ,,level design tips''. whelp

2/10