@Daizo, there's not much in this level to say negative or positive about. The pokeys are stacked in a way that it could be difficult at this point to go over them. Other than the Pokeys it'd be nice to see something else enemies wise and tar wise.

Based on what is in the screenshot only, I don't know what to say about it. I really have 2 problems with this level, (1) the amount of progress made in a week considering the deadline of which these levels are to be done and (2) the enemy choices and placements.

As far as (1) goes, I understand that life gets busy at times. But, considering that this level has had almost 3 months to be worked on and little progress was made between this week and last week, I'm going to say it again that you need to pick up the pace. At the rate of which this level is going and as well as others too, it's not going to be done by the end of the month.

But this part is really what's important. As far as (2) is concerned, the enemy choices and placements are biased against Big Mario, particularly in Screens 1 and 3. Screen 1 only gives 1 square of room with Mario to actually go around these two pokeys. It makes it very difficult for Big Mario to get through without taking a hit. There's a potential issue with Screen 2 if Mario comes from the top and there's a delay with falling in the line of fire with a Koopa kicking a Shell. Again for screen 3, same issue as Screen 1 except this time Mario is blocked with a slow-moving Pokey with a wall of sand coming moderately fast at you. Screen 4 is just unfair at this point. Bouncing Goomba in a road where I have to take the high road in a moderate speed level room is not very fun. I think you've swung the pendulum from being too easy with enemies unable to hit Mario to being too hard and unfair with enemies blocking Mario's way. The colors of the coins look a bit off considering how dark the level is and there isn't any power-up in this area either.

I guess the good thing is the land formation isn't flat and boring but other than what was presented from last week with just a screenshot I can't really say anything else positive about it.

I feel that for 8 screens, the tar bubble is just...out of nowhere and used for the sake of being used.

I don't really now anything about JDC's part of the level if he uses the tar bubbles a lot; but to anyone who chooses go your route first, Daizo, that Tar Bubble will be pretty insignificant, since, well, it's only used once (for now) and 5 screens in.

What I am trying to say is quickly introduced these things, like, in the first two screens, and after that use it (and the other bubbles) thoroughly; we already now the feel of going through a cave, so why not give the feel of "swimming through floating bubbles out of nowhere to get through a cave".

I say focus more on those awesome bubbles.

But, in its current form, I like it. I don't quite like that Bro in this level though; Bros in any official Mario game are rarely used, and in this hack it's like it everywhere///exaggeration

Try looking through the default sprites and the custom sprites for rarely used enemies.

O_O JDC used some so why can't I?

I did an all I can really use is monty moles, pokeys and bros

Anywho:

Screen 1: Move that power-up block; as Big Mario, it's hard to attain the Fire Flower, and as small Mario, the Mushroom will fall off quickly anyways.

I really have nothing else to say...other than at least moving the whoel ceilign at least 1 tile; it's too "claustrophobic" and we already have a lot of low of ceiling caves.

Okay after testing this level thoroughly, I will say that it is better than I expected and better than what I've seen before. HOWEVER ... both sides are not out of the woods yet with either part.

Here are the big issues I've found:

As I've said the level is better than before, Daizo, but there are issues with it that make no sense. On a general sense the whole environment has a certain awkwardness to it. The colors seem to be all over the map, there's a green and blue pipe that seems to be bright and then there's a darkened yellow pipe/coins/boxes. There's a white stone on the Layer 3 background that doesn't fit and the Bullet Bill Launcher being yellow is kind of weird.

As far as the lava/sand/tar, which I still don't know what that's going to be, that is a fake square that kills Mario on the spot and doesn't kill any enemies on the spot. The sparkies can't go through the lava/sand/tar and come out of it.

And I'm guessing with the usage of Green Switch Blocks you don't know what comes after this level's secret exit? It's the only path to the Green Switch Palace. This Secret Exit helps Mario out if he has the Green Switch Blocks, but he'll never have it until after he beats this level. Hence, why it doesn't make any sense to have them unless Mario's replaying the level.

The tar doesn't work as expected either. The tar in the floor really needs to have priority while the tar in the air really needs to have no priority. And wasn't it decided that these bubbles we're going to be used?

The mechanical blocks feel a little bit tacked on in general in this level. They don't serve too much of a purpose other than try to pass this level off as a mechanical level. Which arrives me to the point of the level name not making any sense - I hardly see any resemblance to a mechanical feel to the level nor do I see anything of a mirage at all in this level.

As far as the little things:
- Screen 0: Blue Pipe's colors (the Black) doesn't work.
- Screen 3: Don't need the Yellow Switch Block.
- Screen 4: Kind of a pointless ladder especially in a rushed situation since all you have to do is jump up to the next platform.
- Screens 5-7: A bit dry with only 2 Green Koopas
- Screen 8: No turning back if I miss that jump, there's not enough time to rejump and could might as well be a pit.

So yeah, there's a lot still to fix and finish up here and consider. And I don't think that spotlight takes that long to put in either.

Okay after testing this level thoroughly, I will say that it is better than I expected and better than what I've seen before. HOWEVER ... both sides are not out of the woods yet with either part.

Here are the big issues I've found:

As I've said the level is better than before, Daizo, but there are issues with it that make no sense. On a general sense the whole environment has a certain awkwardness to it. The colors seem to be all over the map, there's a green and blue pipe that seems to be bright and then there's a darkened yellow pipe/coins/boxes. There's a white stone on the Layer 3 background that doesn't fit and the Bullet Bill Launcher being yellow is kind of weird.

As far as the lava/sand/tar, which I still don't know what that's going to be, that is a fake square that kills Mario on the spot and doesn't kill any enemies on the spot. The sparkies can't go through the lava/sand/tar and come out of it.

And I'm guessing with the usage of Green Switch Blocks you don't know what comes after this level's secret exit? It's the only path to the Green Switch Palace. This Secret Exit helps Mario out if he has the Green Switch Blocks, but he'll never have it until after he beats this level. Hence, why it doesn't make any sense to have them unless Mario's replaying the level.

The tar doesn't work as expected either. The tar in the floor really needs to have priority while the tar in the air really needs to have no priority. And wasn't it decided that these bubbles we're going to be used?

The mechanical blocks feel a little bit tacked on in general in this level. They don't serve too much of a purpose other than try to pass this level off as a mechanical level. Which arrives me to the point of the level name not making any sense - I hardly see any resemblance to a mechanical feel to the level nor do I see anything of a mirage at all in this level.

As far as the little things:
- Screen 0: Blue Pipe's colors (the Black) doesn't work.
- Screen 3: Don't need the Yellow Switch Block.
- Screen 4: Kind of a pointless ladder especially in a rushed situation since all you have to do is jump up to the next platform.
- Screens 5-7: A bit dry with only 2 Green Koopas
- Screen 8: No turning back if I miss that jump, there's not enough time to rejump and could might as well be a pit.

So yeah, there's a lot still to fix and finish up here and consider. And I don't think that spotlight takes that long to put in either.

The bad thing about a yellow shooter is that it's not black.
We need consistency, and I don't really see a good reason for it to be yellow to begin with.