Difference between revisions of "AD 2101"

It's an "unfocused string of ideas" kind of level. There's no real theme to anything, and there's basically no difficulty curve, it's just setups that exist. I do like some of the setups, like how the Mousubeil interacts with the Yoku Blocks near the beginning, and the 'sliding on the spin platform' setup right at the end, but the rest just feels...there. The Quick Laser drops are just the ones from Quick Man's stage but slighty tweaked, though I will admit I found it really funny how you made the second one be in reverse grav for no reason. The boss is pretty dumb, because it's a pretty blatant edit of Pharaoh Man but more annoying because he deals more damage and shoots more projectiles. Though the dialogue before the fight was pretty funny. But uuh, yeah It's just really a messy, unfocused level overall. Also, memes.

That was a weird level, but it was kinda fun. It was like a mashup of Plug Man's and Quick Man's stages, with elements from others thrown in. I appreciated how the Force Beam sections had enough of a delay that the player could react without having to memorize the level. I liked the use of the Yoku blocks, but the last puzzle was REALLY hard compared to the rest of the level. The boss was cool, but it felt like its hitbox wasn't big enough. A lot of my shots seemed to go through its head.

This level is kinda all over the place, with the only reoccuring theme being the quick lasers. I hadn't recognised the 2nd segment as such, causing a death the first time I arrived there. Upon closer inspection it turns out that that section is just upside down Quick Man stage... so yeah. Despite its lack of direction, the stage still was fun, with some neat challenges scattered throughout. I'm not a biggest fan of the dialogue at the end, finding it more distracting and awkward than funny, but *shrugs*. There's also a somewhat broken ladder near the first checkpoint, I wonder what happened there...

I really like what the author did here. The Quick Man sections were used in a creative way and I liked the other ideas here. However, the boss is just a lazy clone of Pahraoh Man. Anyway, moving along, the level design is fairly solid, with fair enemy and obstacle placement, however the stage just isn't super interesting. Regardless, it was definitely a fun level.

Zero Wing and Mega Man. Who'da thunk it? Did you go on an archaeological dig to get this meme, buddy? The stage is pretty solid, overall, I think, although there are some questionable portions: Namely - why' d you just straight up copy the layout of Quick Man? Did you think we wouldn't notice? You're supposed to submit your own work!

Copy pasta aside, the new sections of this stage aren't half bad, I just wish there were more of those rather than the filler, and I have very few complaints about the rest of the stage, and the challenges are fun! The combination of the Gravity Flip and Concrete Platforms is actually rather neat, the level should've straight up had more of this kind of thing. Graphically, there's some major weirdness going on, you probably should've just straight up either used a tileset from Zero Wing, or modified the Zero Wing graphics to match Plug Man's stage. It looks so weird, it takes you out of the level.

Pharaoh CATS is... a snippy concept, but not quite sharp enough in execution. He needed some more modifications than he currently has to be a fun fight. Randomly thrown Rolling Cutters don't really cut it. And he's not the sort of character who tries to make paper dolls out of Mega Man anyway, so this battle is isn't quite the cutting edge that CATS as a character deserves. I know he wasn't exactly a cut above the rest in his source game, but surely the memelord status of this guy should've meant going all out on the boss, and I was really hoping the battle would've been a shear delight rather than the blunted edge that it currently is.

Oh, er, Meow, I guess.