Hard to See Land

10th: Hard to See Land Make a Good Mega Man Level (Remastered)

I mean, it's SORT of difficult to see...

Overview Creator(s): ParmaJon Composer(s): Murzain Statistics Scores: 61 62 32 58 49 Total: 52.4 / 100 Rank: 10th Elements: 1 Enemies: Batton Bikky Crazy Cannon Fan Fiend Metall Metall K1000 Peterchy Returning Sniper Joe Screw Bomber Spine Telly Tondeall Gimmicks: Cossack Platform Crystal Generator Destroyable Block (Top Spin) Guts Lift Top Lift Yoku Block

Theme Music MaGMML - Hard to See Land Stage Order Location: Tier 3 Previous: Napalm Forest and Caves Next: Maze of Death

"It was at this point that Mega Man realised something was wrong."

―SuperMetalSonic360, commenting on how broken the level is on his playthrough.

Hard to See Land is the 10th place entry in Make a Good Mega Man Level. It is a stage that mostly focuses on platforming puzzles.

Strategy

The level starts with a vertical drop, with Mega Man landing among six Screw Bombers. To the right of this area is a split path. The lower path involves avoiding Returning Sniper Joes and Crazy Cannons before carefully jumping over Cossack Platforms, while the upper path is a set of Yoku Block patterns ending with a 1-Up and an E-Tank. The two paths merge into a series of jumps across Top Lifts with Tellies serving as additional obstacles, and a Fan Fiend blocking the end of the room. After going down and through a small room with three Peterchies, Mega Man faces a long room with several different enemies serving as obstacles, most prominently Tellies and Battons, with a Tondeall, a Metall, a Bikky, a Returning Sniper Joe, and a Crazy Cannon also blocking the path. After that is a vertical room where Mega Man must ride Top Lifts (and a Cossack Platform) to the top while breaking Top Barriers. The following room is a long horizontal area combining Crystal Generators with various platforms. Mega Man must jump across Guts Lifts, Cossack Platforms, and Drop Platforms while avoiding the aforementioned crystals, as well as Tondealls, Metall K1000s, and a Bikky. The stage then ends with a drop through five differently-colored rooms, with the Energy Element at the bottom.

Judge Comments

Judge Comments
snoruntpyro  : 61 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 13 / 25 16 / 25 12 / 15 11 / 15 4 / 10 5 / 10 The vertical top section was a super neat idea, but thanks to a combination of the jankiness of the vertical scrolling and my programming incompetence with the tops it became a bit on the 'eh' side. The rest of the level was...okay? It was just 'fine' in my book, except for the end with the solid colors, ow that hurt my eyes.
Cheez8  : 62 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 14 / 25 10 / 25 11 / 15 10 / 15 9 / 10 8 / 10 I don't really see what's hard to see about this place. Is that the joke...? How meta. It's interesting seeing this basically be a pure platforming stage in an engine that rarely deals in them. Many enemies seemed like an afterthought until I realized that. Makes it hard to judge, but for a different kind of challenge, it was fun enough.
Duvi0  : 32 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 5 / 25 10 / 25 5 / 15 7 / 15 3 / 10 2 / 10 I hated this level... until the second half. What the hell is with the first couple screens, dude?!
Mick Galbani / Blackmore Darkwing  : 58 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 17 / 25 15 / 25 9 / 15 8 / 15 3 / 10 6 / 10 This was a fairly interesting level. You had a definite concept in the level graphics, and the level makes fairly good use of various platform types. Generally speaking I can't complain. That being said, the sudden bright colors right at the end of the level is something I'm going to have to dock you for, that was quite hard on the eyes. I prefer needing something being hard to see in terms of squinting, not its hard to see because its too freaking brihgt.
MrKyurem  : 49 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 15 / 25 15 / 25 12 / 15 8 / 15 4 / 10 5 / 10 I am glad that this level didn't live up to its name (until the boss room, that is) - despite some rather easy-to-see flaws, like some unfair portions of the level (crystal section comes to mind), this level had some neat ideas, including the vertical scrolling section.

Trivia

• The long vertical room was intended to be divided into individual screens after ParmaJon ran into issues with vertical scrolling during development, but the scrolling wound up being preserved in the final game. Make a Good Mega Man Level Remastered divides the screens up as intended (as well as giving the boss doors their intended graphics, which are background tiles in the original game).
• This level features the only original music track in the entirety of MaGMML1, thus also making it the first piece of original music in the series as a whole.