Thunderclyffe Plant

6th: Thunderclyffe Plant Make a Good Mega Man Level (Remastered)

Feel the thunder.

Overview Creator(s): Lamda Artist(s): Capcom, Lamda Composer(s): Lamda (original), Threxx (remix) Statistics Scores: 89 67 81 48 67 Total: 70.4 / 100 Rank: 6th Elements: 1 Enemies: Big Eye Cannon Joe Crazy Cannon Gachappon Hammer Joe Metall Octopus Battery Pandeeta Pickelman Bull Picket Man Power Muscler Returning Sniper Joe Shield Attacker Super Ball Machine Jr. Taban Telly Gimmicks: Count Bomb Destroyable Block (Magic Card) Elec Block Yoku Block Sub-Bosses: Hot Dog

Theme Music Mega Man X: Variable Zero - Tesla Coatl Stage Order Location: Tier 4 Previous: Spiky Meltdown Next: Research Facility

"This level seriously looks amazing, and I really like the aesthetic of an underground castle and city."

―snoruntpyro, in her judge review.

Thunderclyffe Plant is the 6th place entry in Make a Good Mega Man Level. It is a power plant level with Elec Blocks serving as the primary obstacle, alongside a large variety of enemies.

Strategy

The level starts with the entrance to the titular plant, blocked by a Returning Sniper Joe. Dropping down and falling through a room with two Lyrics leads to a longer room with a Pickelman Bull, a Cannon Joe, and two Shield Attackers. Dropping down again leads to a room with a Shield Attacker and an Elec Block. In the room below this, a pair of Magic Barriers and a Returning Sniper Joe block a large energy capsule. After that is a long room with Picket Men, Octopus Batteries, a Hammer Joe, and a Crazy Cannon all appearing as obstacles.

After falling through a group of rooms with Tabans appearing in conjunction with various enemies (specifically Tellies, a Pandeeta, and Octopus Batteries), Mega Man lands in an rocky underground/nighttime area with several Metalls, a Gachappon, and a Power Muscler. At the end of this room is an entrance to another part of the plant, which leads to a room with several Telly spawners. Climbing up the ladder leads to a Super Ball Machine Jr., a Pandeeta, and a pair of Yoku Blocks blocking another ladder. This ladder leads to a long climb upwards, starting with two rooms with a Super Ball Machine Jr. in each (and a Cannon in the first). Following this is two rooms of climbing up ladders while avoiding Elec Blocks and Crazy Cannons, followed by a room where the ladder on the left leads to an E-Tank, and the one on the right leads to a 1-Up. Climbing up the middle ladder and getting past one final Crazy Cannon leads to a split path. Going right leads to a room with a Hot Dog guarding a W-Tank¹ or M-Tank^1R, while going to the left leads to a room where Mega Man can climb upwards to face a Big Eye blocking a gate. Getting past the gate on the left route leads to the Energy Element.

Judge Comments

Judge Comments
snoruntpyro  : 89 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 23 / 25 21 / 25 12 / 15 13 / 15 10 / 10 10 / 10 This level seriously looks amazing, and I really like the aesthetic of an underground castle and city. The music was great, too! Some of the castle parts were super neat too, I really liked the structure of the vertical segment towards the end.
Cheez8  : 67 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 17 / 25 14 / 25 10 / 15 7 / 15 9 / 10 10 / 10 You can get stuck and have to restart if you enter the room with the W Tank by sliding. I can see how you'd overlook something like that though. More importantly, the stage was still fun a second time, which is something to be proud of! It didn't really push any envelopes in terms of gameplay, but you changed things up a lot, and the presentation was especially good.
Duvi0  : 81 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 23 / 25 25 / 25 5 / 15 8 / 15 10 / 10 10 / 10 Jokes aside. I loved this level, front to back.
Mick Galbani / Blackmore Darkwing  : 48 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 11 / 25 10 / 25 5 / 15 7 / 15 8 / 10 7 / 10 This... was also a level. I take it the music theme here is Tesla Coatl's theme in 8-bit. Regarding the level itself... you definitely built a good level with what you had, but I don't really feel like enough was done to really make the level excel either. It works, but I wouldn't say it stands out, really.
MrKyurem  : 67 / 100
Personal Fun Factor Other Fun Factor Uniqueness Creativity Graphics Music 17 / 25 15 / 25 10 / 15 6 / 15 9 / 10 10 / 10 Overall, I quite enjoyed this level, although at times, it seems either too empty, or just a bit too harsh. I also quite liked the tower portion of the stage - not many of these levels do ladder segments. I did find that some gimmicks, like the yoku blocks, were hardly fleshed out at all.

Notes

• The level's name and music hails from Mega Man X: Variable Zero, an on-hold fangame developed by Lamda, where they are used for Tesla Coatl's stage.
• During development, a gimmick involving moving sparks was planned, as well as a boss fight against Tesla Coatl from the aforementioned Mega Man X: Variable Zero. However, neither of these were implemented in time.