Postby silent_ » Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:50 pm
Grass Time! by MyNameIsEric - Reviewed by Kep
Design - 6.5
This level had some pretty solid design. The music made the level feel more alive, and it truly felt like I was on an adventure while playing this. However, towards the beginning of the level, there was a background object on a sizable and the edges of the background object hung off of the sizable so it created a cut-off. In addition, personally, the coins in bubbles are totally unnecessary for this level and they need removed in my opinion. No points will be taken off for that, though. Anyways, regarding the gameplay, I liked it. The only thing that kind of ruined it were the things I pointed out earlier and the fact that at some points of this level there was a spam of NPCs, but a lot of this will be covered in the Placement category. To conclude this paragraph, the Spinies at the top of section one kinda come from the sky and they can unfairly without warning fall on you. Place them on the ground, please. Otherwise, this level had great design and your score showed that.
Placement - 4.5
To be honest, this level didn't have great placement. For starters, and I tell you this every time I review your levels, tone down the enemy placement and please stop spamming enemies in literally every level you make. Also, you should really tone down your coin placement and in addition, try to spread them out a little. Plus, try to make your first dragon coin more obtainable. It was extremely hard to get, even spin jumping on that Piranha. Otherwise, I can't really find anymore flaws in this level's placement. I mean, the question block and brick placement was fairly great, and the placement of the pipes in this level was splendid, even though you shouldn't of abused jumping Piranha plants since those are really annoying to avoid and having about 10+ of them just makes matters worse.
Atmosphere - 7
Fantastic grassy atmosphere! The epic music made the atmosphere even more lively. Regarding the aesthetics, they were great. The only thing I recommend in the future is choosing better backgrounds, since it doesn't fit too well in my opinion. Try to have a mountanous background or something. Also, in certain areas of this level, you kind of overused background objects. Please tone it down a bit. Otherwise, the atmosphere in this was extremely impressive and well-executed. Great work.
Overall - 6
This level was great, but there were a few flaws and bugs encountered which brought your score down. Hope you're happy with making it to the Pretty Good section, though. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this your first time getting a score passed 5.99?
Last edited by
zioy on Thu Oct 16, 2014 7:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Reason: Review approved (we have a whitelist on Kep's reviews btw so he's an effective LJ)