Difference between revisions of "Duwang"

is this memes. Pretty good level! The aesthetics are pretty weird and definitely not something I've seen in Mega Man before :V. The design isn't THE BEST EVER but I like some of the ideas present. I like how Spines are used in the first section, and there are some kinda neat setups with the Plantman platforms in the second section. I don't like some of the enemy placement in the second section tho, there's enemies like Crazy Cannons that just seem placed to waste your time rather than actually provide a challenge. The third section is interesting (and REALLY stressful) but I think the gimmick is badly introduced. I didn't get what the sign meant until my second playthrough, so on the first playthrough I was just trying to get through the section as fast as possible and getting extremely paranoid of the death wall coming out of nowhere. It's an interesting stipulation when you get it, though, and it affected my playstyle personally quite a lot. So, while it's not perfect, the level has some interesting ideas, and it's a good level overall. Also that meme room, smh

Picture this: you're just strolling through a city, shooting a bunch of enemies, admiring the cool graphics, and minding your own business, and then OH MAN A GIANT WALL OF HANDS COMES OUT OF NOWHERE AND KILLS YOU INSTANTLY AAAAAAAAA. That's what happened to me in the second half of the stage. The first time I played this I had no clue what caused that to happen, but the second time I noticed the picture on the wall and realized that it happens whenever you press the left arrow. A text sign saying "don't look back" or something similar would have been nice. Also, some of the Plant Man platforms in the aerial secton despawned, so I had to use Rush Jet. Maybe add a few "safe" platforms in case that happens, like count bombs.

Probably the most memorable thing about this level is the section of death hands. Only for the hands. Loving those. My favourite section to play through, however, was the platforming section. While it doesn't do anything particularly innovative I like how it makes you shoot a long distance to activate a platform or take down a foe. The first section suffers a lot from the background and the no-left-section has some spam issues near the end and ends up getting rather repetitive. I'm not a big fan of this level's visuals.

I really enjoyed playing this stage. The level design is very solid, and the ideas behind it are very interesting. I also like the aesthetics and music used in this stage. However, there are quite a bit of problems. The section with the creepy grey hands thing is confusing and I have no idea what causes them to trigger. Aside from that, the visuals, although as mentioned previously, look good, it still feels a bit nauseating just looking at all this blend of colours. And finally, the Noble Nickels didn't need to be where they are. To conclude, this is definitely one great level, but it has some issues.

I.. what. The hell. I don't... even... if I could leave the review there, I would. I have no idea what was going on and at this point I'm afraid to ask. This was... creative? I guess? The idea here was actually fine. But your implementation killed it. That is single handedly the WORST gimmick introduction to an instant-death mechanic I've come across. Yikes. It took me so many attempts to even figure out what was going on. What was looking like a decent, if unoriginal level, was just killed stone dead by that gimmick, my word, you need to find a way to explain it better. I don't mind dying to figure out a gimmick... but when your playthrough comes to a complete dead stop because it's bungled so badly, it's a big problem. I was stuck here for a significant level of time. And, no, I do not think the background details are enough to understand it, because there are arrows EVERYWHERE ELSE in the level. What is one more background arrow supposed to mean? The new element was also fairly glitchy too. Yeesh. As for the new tileset, it was, in a word, hideous, from the colour palette, to the shading, to the new elements to... what-ever that scary thing was at the end of the stage was. And even then you have tiles that clearly should be animated that weren't.. and the cloud's just appear without any indication you're going to a cloudy area... and... yes, it's all very ugly. Oh, and those Nickels?... and why the heck did you put them all in the same room? What was the point? There is one highlight to this stage - the bit in the clouds. I there was some really good implementation of the Plant Man platforms. But... the rest? I'll say it again: Yeesh.