| Judge Comments
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 Mick Galbani : 18 / 100
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| Design
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Fun
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Creativity
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Aesthetics
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Functionality
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| 5 / 35
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1 / 25
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1 / 15
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4 / 15
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7 / 10
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Well... this wasn't a pleasant experience. At first, it was just kind of nothing, CFTF visuals and nigh-harmless enemies-save for that trio of Fatool, Ace Manbow, and the butterfly. There was a neat aesthetic detail with leaking acid pipes, but that's the only bit that ended up noteworthy.
Then we fight this weird... top hat spider Stompy, and everything goes downhill. The emoji bombs are out of place, and at least one of them tends to teleport for no real reason. Multiple broken solids pop up (and if these aren't a glitch, that's a *significant* aesthetics error). The enemies continue to be nigh-harmless. There's water that randomly disappears. And it culminates in one of the most frustrating Grey Devils I've ever seen-owed to the fact the slime doesn't despawn on its own, and if you die? It's back to just after the spider Stompy.
I like to talk about things that I found enjoyable as well, but... there's not much of anything positive going for this place. It's all a bunch of bleh, and the most fun I derived from it was the neat aesthetics early in the level.
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 Shinryu : 20 / 100
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| Design
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Fun
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Creativity
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Aesthetics
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Functionality
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| 4 / 35
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2 / 25
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2 / 15
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4 / 15
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8 / 10
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Level design-wise, there's not a whole lot to go over here. This is a very short stage consisting of simple room layouts, along with mostly non-threatening enemy and hazard placements. If it weren't for a few functionality issues (along with some grievances I have with the end boss), there wouldn't be much else to discuss with this one.
As far as technical problems go, there's the fact that both the first and second-half level themes don't loop properly (although you'd have to intentionally go idle for a while to even notice this, I can't exactly overlook it either). More glaring, however, is the lack of collision on what should be solid tiles. I get the feeling they're supposed to be background details, but it just comes across as visually inconsistent. It's especially confusing during the lead-up to the boss, where you're basically phasing through what looks like solid ground (not to mention one of the enemies in this area snaps between being inside and above the floor).
Speaking of the boss, why is there no checkpoint right before him? Granted, the trek back to his room doesn't take that long, but it's certainly annoying to have to go through it again if you happen to die. It's not that unlikely of a scenario, either, seeing as the boss is the Grey Devil, but now his projectiles never despawn. While it's definitely possible to manage this fight with weapons, it's a whole other story if you're going buster only. Trying to keep it so that the globs don't overtake the floor while also trying to sneak in hits on the boss is nothing short of annoying. While I can at least appreciate the thought of wanting to make a vanilla devkit boss more interesting, this definitely wasn't the right approach. All in all, this stage (and the "Red Devil") could have used a lot more fine-tuning.
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 Pachy : 55 / 100
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| Design
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Fun
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Creativity
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Aesthetics
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Functionality
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| 16 / 35
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13 / 25
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8 / 15
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12 / 15
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6 / 10
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Trouble in Toxicity Town!
A very very short level with somewhat basic level design put into it, simplistic platforming with also simplistic enemy placements. Pretty jamming tunes, at least.
Pretty clever repurposing the boss door graphics as pipes, and having the acid drip from them to make it look like a pipe leakage.
Some of the reskins are cute, even if a little amateurish, like the sea mines and the skull miniboss. It's charming in a way.
The final section is a bit wonky with how Mega Man keeps randomly standing up in a one-wide sliding tunnel. I think you wanted some Generic Stoppers on where the acid drops drop.
Grey Devil except now he's red, so he's the Red Devil, how diabolic. He also has a smile that reminds me of the Kool Aid Man.
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 Flashman85 : 36 / 100
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| Design
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Fun
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Creativity
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Aesthetics
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Functionality
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| 14 / 35
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10 / 25
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4 / 15
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5 / 15
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3 / 10
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I feel like we're back in MaGMML1, before the community had a good handle on theming, logical architecture, and the importance of playtesting. With assets smashed together all helter-skelter, pits that look like screen transitions, screen transitions that might as well be pits, and wildly inconsistent collision object use (allowing for player confusion and disastrous out-of-bounds shenanigans), it's like all the wisdom from the previous contests has yet to be gleaned.
Dangers are forgotten as suddenly as they're introduced, and there isn't much we haven't seen elsewhere. There's no real learning curve aside from a few mild increases in difficulty, and no clear rationale for modifying or respriting any enemy other than the boss. Checkpoints are frequent enough, but one before the boss would be nice, as would a power-up or two.
The foreground/background graphics are fine enough, but they lack finesse and variety. All the custom sprites (except maybe the boss) look out of place. I don't understand the change in music at the halfway mark; the second half is slightly more distinctive and focused, but not so appreciably different in feel that it needs completely different music.
There are a few things I like. I appreciate the idea of an acid pipe that runs the entire length of the level and ultimately feeds into the boss. Cracks where the pipe leaks acid are a nice detail. Acid pairs well with Uranus platforms, even if the introduction is too rough for new players. The crude skull in the background of the first miniboss fight adds some character. Using a Sea Mine as a shield for Totem Polen is smart. The second miniboss works well underwater.
I could recommend this level as practice for aspiring playtesters, but not as much else without major revision.
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 ACESpark : 38 / 100
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| Design
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Fun
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Creativity
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Aesthetics
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Functionality
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| 12 / 35
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7 / 25
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5 / 15
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8 / 15
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6 / 10
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Why on God's green earth did you give the Mets more health.
Why!?
Ok, this is just, a rather dull, nothing level. Its focus is all over the place, but new assets seem to either just irritate or waste time.
That's when you aren't encountering softlocks via going through a screen transition wrong, which is not helped by just how few checkpoints are scattered about.
I'd say the graphics are just super inconsistent - obviously - many of the redesigns are rather crude, and frankly, just go whole hog if you're going to replace many of the enemies anyway - it'd at least gel better. And the tileset is.. A bit odd. Several of the tiles that are meant to be solid, just... aren't.
That said, at first there is still a fairly good ambience in this level. Dripping pipes, crates containing what I assume is toxic gunk, walled off areas and weird mutants.
You know, the level actually has an identity in spite of itself.
And that ambience was working, up until the music track changes annndddd.. You lose it. Wham, straight into a wall.
Oh, I actually really like both songs quite a lot. The 2nd song is a right bop. But just ... kind of says it all really. I like it! And it's a detriment to what the level was going for initially.
And let's talk about the Kool-Aid Devil? Not only does he not get a boss checkpoint, good grief, you took what is already a rather tedious dev-kit boss and made it way more irritating. Flick up those turbo switches kids, y'gonna need it.
I feel bad for the Grey Devil, so many people are making him so much worse to fight, I almost regret coding the fella. That's on me, I guess.
OH YEEEAAHH! The boss sucks.
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Mick Galbani 
Shinryu 
Pachy 
Flashman85 
ACESpark 