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After the 3 I've made already [Mother Brain Themed Boss Rush, Escape From Hell, and a level I submitted for a community contest] I've come with what is possibly going to be the toughest level I've created... Stormin' The Gates!

Story: About the Level.
It's the same old situation when you come to the Land of Bowser. There's always the final part before you reach the gates to his Castle. Instead of all the normal stuff. I went with a style sorta like World 8-3 in Super Mario Bros. You reach the castle gates and have to go through what some would call the depths of hell to get there. And this is no different. Instead of lava pits and spikes. You got 3 long Airships to hop from. No secret doors or pipes. 3 small bosses, 1 bonus boss, and 2 endings?

Yes that's right! 2 different endings

Screenshot's are right here Featuring BOTH endings. Plus the start of the level and one of the sub-bosses. I wanna keep a majority of this level a secret to you the players so I can keep a bit of an Element of surprise. Like I said, there's 2 different endings to this level and I did it for a purpose. I'm actually allowing anybody who needs an extra level in any future Episode they're making full permission [PM me first] to use this level for their episode. Thus why I added 2 different endings. Cause alot of episodes around "this" point in the story has a level that leads to ether a Toad House or Warp Pipe. So that's why there's 2 different endings.

Music credits: Download: Let me know what you guys think of this level.... This one took alot longer to make than the last levels. I pretty much spent an entire day on it. Alot of easter eggs and even a Secret area which I hid with a few goodies. Good luck to all.

The download link needs the ""

Whats with the giant pile of Yoshi coins?

randomaspland wrote:Whats with the giant pile of Yoshi coins?

Got bored near the end.

I'm currently working on the sequel level "Black Wedding: The Final Battle".

MarioRPGExpert93 wrote:The download link needs the ""

Done.

I've played through the level and it really wasn't that good.
The first issue is the free powerups at the beginning. You can easily get a tanooki suit and break this level.
The second issue is the level is very flat, there's some moments where there's nothing in the screen, and the level felt like a hold right and occasionally jump to win.
The third issue is the NPC spam, granted this isn't much of an issue due to the previous 2 issues, but spamming enemies (especially magikoopa) everywhere isn't a good challenge especially with the randomness.
The fourth issue is the difficulty, the level is somewhat easy due to the powerups. None of the airships feel more difficult than the last one, and it feels the same. There's some enemy spam (and a projectile generator that kills the enemies) one the first half of the airship, and a boss that you can skip on the second half (and I'm not sure that this was intentional).
The last issue is the castle at the end, I'm not sure why there's a bunch of stairs BGO and dragons coins there, it looks weird.

The positives of the level is that the atmosphere is suitable for the level, the graphics and music work for the level. Also the level length is decent (especially considering the lack of checkpoints).

Overall, the biggest problem with this level is the lack of the focus and I would suggest looking at other airship levels to see how they get their challenge from.
I hope you improve, and I wish to see more levels from you.

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