[FAN JUDGE] i decide to judge all your levels for fun (Finished!)

THEMES - Grass, Forest, Island/Beach, Water, Mountain, Desert, Snow, Fire, Cave, Haunted, Sky, Industrial, City, Space, Ruins, House, Castle, Abstract, Bonus

DESIGN - 60 Points
How well-designed is the level? How well does it execute its theme, gimmicks and level setups? Is the difficulty consistent or is it frustrating or boring? Does the level function properly or are there issues such as unintended slowdown?

CREATIVITY - 30 Points
Does the level present any unique or interesting ideas using SMW’s resources? Does it have any original, nice setups? Is the theme/gimmick innovative?

AESTHETICS - 10 Points
How does the level look aesthetically? Is it polished? Does it do anything interesting with the original game’s graphics? Does the music fit? Is the music a nuisance to gameplay? Are there any broken sound effects or samples?
(Known visual glitches will not affect your score.)
(For an aesthetic scale, 5/10 is basically the original SMW graphics. A higher or lower score determines if it looks better or worse than the original game.)

DIFFICULTY - ★★★★★
1 Star - Easy
2 Star - Normal
3 Star - Tough
4 Star - Brutal
5 Star - Nightmare

FUN -
(DIFFICULTY AND FUN DO NOT COUNT INTO THE SCORE. THIS IS PURELY FOR A PERSONAL VS. OBJECTIVE STANDPOINT)

#01 - 79 - MM102 - Custom Block Party - 94/100
#02 - 64 - Ruberjig - CONSUMER CONSTRUCT - 92/100
#03 - 11 - PokerFace - Twilight Lunar - 90/100
#04 - 53 - FrozenQuills - HYDRO FIGHTS - 89/100
#05 - 68 - idol & Squirrelyman157 - VIVIDSECTION - 87/100
#06 - 63 - Kusrry - Clair de Lune - 86/100
#06 - 32 - SomeGuy712x - Eating Block Story - 86/100
#08 - 21 - Aurel509 - Blue cutting sector - 83/100
#08 - 01 - Daizo Dee Von & EvilGuy0613 - Trials of the Great Caverns - 83/100
#08 - 31 - Sixcorby - Frigid Stronghold - 83/100
#11 - 71 - ghyn - mario becomes an amazon delivery worker - 82/100
#12 - 49 - GbreezeSunset - TIME IN AMBER - 81/100
#13 - 08 - Anas - Note Block Surfing - 80/100
#13 - 48 - Nitrogen - Piscine Molitor - 80/100
#15 - 44 - Aeon & Magi - WET FUZZ - 79/100
#15 - 65 - Samuel Zuccati - Babylon - 79/100
#17 - 40 - NGB - Clown Fiesta - 78/100
#17 - 29 - rosysunshine_ - Steel Shores - 78/100
#17 - 58 - AnEvilGhost - Garden of Eden - 78/100
#20 - 84 - TS_N - Unknown Force - 77/100
#21 - 78 - bry - - COSMOSIS - - 76/100
#21 - 28 - TheOrangeToad - Deforested Factory - 76/100
#23 - 33 - Kori - Winds - 75/100
#23 - 20 - Yoshi Master & Domanasaur - MOONLIT MAYHEM - 75/100
#25 - 05 - E-man38 & bebn legg - NYCHTHEMERON - 74/100
#26 - 38 - Enjl & Waddle - HAHAHA,YES···CHUnks - 73/100 (PENALIZED)
#26 - 57 - IronFoxGaming - Purple Valley Trail - 73/100
#26 - 02 - MegaMarioMan9 - MAGMATIC MORGUE - 73/100
#29 - 75 - SMWizard - COCOA-MINT CORP. - 72/100
#29 - 41 - Fruitloops - THE LAST YOSHI - 72/100
#29 - 10 - TheJavabrew - Prehistoric Lift - 72/100
#32 - 14 - Sariel - Starlight-Ride - 71/100
#32 - 16 - yoshi9429 - Mixed Grassland - 71/100
#32 - 69 - Kevin - Lame Kickin' - 71/100
#35 - 85 - Donut & Segment1Zone2 - Sapphire Shores - 70/100
#35 - 04 - Lazy & lolyoshi - LAY LOW - 70/100
#37 - 81 - Idunno - Pastel Peak - 69/100
#38 - 17 - LuigiTime - VEGGIE VALLEY - 68/100
#38 - 34 - snoruntpyro - Cloudgazing - 68/100
#40 - 77 - Spedinja - Scorching Sands - 67/100
#40 - 22 - Blizzard Buffalo - Aurum Fever - 67/100
#40 - 36 - HamOfJustice - BUZZSAW BLUESHIFT - 67/100
#43 - 42 - DetectiveZvarri - sacred forest - 66/100
#44 - 82 - YoungsVideos44 - CHAINSAW MOUNTAIN - 65/100
#44 - 70 - Infinity & Green Jerry - SPACE HIGHWAY - 65/100
#46 - 43 - PSI Ninja - Lady Crithania - 64/100
#46 - 09 - Dispace - Mirage Breeze - 64/100
#48 - 86 - TickTockClock - its new donk! - 63/100
#48 - 47 - PiyoPiyori - WINDY OVERPASS - 63/100
#48 - 25 - blocc - Night at the Museum - 63/100
#48 - 60 - Humberto Quackenbush - Thwomp Stomp Cavern - 63/100
#52 - 51 - Enan63 - Sky Zone - 62/100
#52 - 18 - N450 - Warfield Wilderness - 62/100
#52 - 87 - yogui - HYDROTEMPLE - 62/100
#55 - 37 - codfish1002 - Dolphin Coast - 61/100
#56 - 35 - Eli Jenkins YK - LAKE COOLIDGE - 60/100
#57 - 46 - Pinci - Urbano - 59/100
#58 - 13 - OrangeBronzeDaisy & xyz600sp - Season Twilights - 58/100 (PENALIZED)
#58 - 39 - Dr. Gaspacho - Useless And Nasty - 58/100
#58 - 66 - Julitendo - Sakura Winds - 58/100
#58 - 15 - Heraga - TUBULAR (hard mode) - 58/100
#62 - 67 - Yui-Drakon - Hibernal Woodland - 57/100
#63 - 80 - RZ1 - POKEY BERRY PASS - 56/100
#63 - 62 - Soul Storm - The Wet coast - 56/100
#63 - 52 - huebrbr - PEACH'S PALACE - 56/100
#63 - 83 - Lsh0426 - DJMARIO Respect - 56/100
#63 - 24 - Azula16 - VANILLA SECRET 2 - 56/100
#68 - 45 - Klug - Thiana's Gold Trail - 55/100
#68 - 23 - 2pvenezuela - 62-63 - 55/100
#68 - 61 - Nanny_Skeksis - mᵒᵒn mᵒuntain - 55/100
#71 - 12 - JP32 - RUN YOSHI RUN - 53/100
#72 - 76 - ninj - Loopy Lament - 52/100
#73 - 54 - Roberto zampari - EAST CASTLE WALLS - 51/100
#74 - 06 - KekShadow_08 - The Boring Blossom Forest - 50/100
#75 - 07 - Spade_Magnes - Spooky Wacko Stage - 45/100
#76 - 55 - Fostelif - RGB Plains - 41/100
#77 - 73 - solgaleo35 - Golden switch trail - 40/100
#78 - 30 - qantuum - SUPER BONUS WORLD - 39/100
#79 - 72 - Sacri Pan - A walk in Greenpath - 38/100
#80 - 59 - Ryman - Abuscence - 35/100
#81 - 50 - Shiki_Makiro - YOSHI'S ISLAND 1 (fast-desire drive) - 30/100
#82 - 03 - Boosius - crown thief - 29/100
#83 - 27 - wolfnasty - Haunted Riverwalk - 28/100
#83 - 26 - GabrielJohn - OPASSA BEACH - 28/100
#85 - 56 - MarkVD100 - Time Machine - 26/100
#DQ - 74 - EduzinMMA - ??? - ROM couldn't patch
#DQ - 19 - LUHOINK - AN ODD BRIDGE - Submitted on a banned alt account, troll level

THEME - Cave, Ruins, Castle
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 23 Points
AESTHETICS - 10 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 83/100

THOUGHTS - Well designed, but extremely unforgiving. If you lack the clairvoyance or mess an obstacle up even slightly, more often than not you'll just die and have to go back to a checkpoint. The level is fairly lengthy, so you'll end up losing a lot of progress and have to repeat the same sections over and over, which makes it get old fast. After the "fake" ending and having to go through 1 more area I just wanted this level to end after that point. I must say the sprite edit for Mario is quite cute, and the whole story going on too.

THEME - Cavern, Fire, Haunted
DESIGN - 52 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 73/100

THOUGHTS - It's a very chill fire cave level, which is not something you see a lot of these days. I always appreciate a textbox that tells me "By the way, this game is messed up so don't do this thing or you die", but the 2nd area wasn't actually that bad even with the supposedly glitchy platforms since it didn't require you to think fast or make a long string of jumps with them so it worked around that in nicely. The 3rd part with the skull rafts felt kind of unfinished, since there were some Boo Rings in the ceiling, yet you didn't have to do anything for them to be a threat, plus the 2 seperate rafts, while cool, wasn't really worked with all that much. The aesthetics could've been more interesting too besides the crystals, maybe its palette could've been made to give the vibe of a haunted volcano. Plus the music, while nice, felt more like it belonged in some fairy forest rather than a lava cavern.

THEME - Castle
DESIGN - 15 Points
CREATIVITY - 10 Points
AESTHETICS - 4 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 29/100

THOUGHTS - There's very little threat in this level, probably because there's barely a level to begin with. It's extremely flat, slow, empty, and to top it off it's over in less than 2 minutes. In the 2nd part where you're getting away from the wall it's a neat idea, but there's no threat or urgency so it's just a lot of waiting around. I have very little else to say about this.

THEME - Ice, Castle
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 70/100

THOUGHTS - The enemy placement in this level feels very deliberate and, despite things sometimes getting a little chaotic, didn't feel too overwhelming or irritating. I'm not sure how this level benefits from ice physics as all it does is add unneccessary challenge (and the slide-ducking underneath spikes feels like it doesn't really fit in with all the other obstacles the 1 or 2 times it's used). Sometimes the fireballs could've been telegraphed a bit better, or at least marked, since I find myself jumping into them out of nowhere.

THEME - Sky
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 9 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 74/100

THOUGHTS - The problem with these "go in the pipe to alter the level" kind of levels is that it's mostly just go in the pipe whenever it appears so you can progress, making it kind of pointless for that gimmick anyways. Luckily with this level it's more of a preference on the time of day you choose, since depending on the time you can either make the level easier or much harder. The level design is alright, nothing super spectacular, and when it's Evening about half the enemies are asleep and it's not consistent on which enemies sleep or not, making it more of a disadvantage to be on that time. I enjoy the aesthetics and actually making the gimmick useful, but the design of the level is something to be desired.

THEME - Forest
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 10 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 50/100

THOUGHTS - Bullet Bill launchers seem to be placed in rather inconvenient spots and, due to their semi-random shoot times, can just hit you without regard. Other than that though it's a short, mediocre romp with the same 3 enemies encased in bubbles, placed without any rhyme or reason. Not much else to say.

THEME - Grassland, Haunted
DESIGN - 25 Points
CREATIVITY - 12 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 45/100

THOUGHTS - After being absent for 2 contests straight, Fishin' Boo returns, continuing with a voracious blood-lust. If it wasn't for this sprite, the level would've just been a flat plain with a few enemies and jumps scattered about. Now you're trying to get through a flat plain by akwardly weaving back and forth, trying to get this enemy off your back for just a brief moment in order to replace any real setups or challenge this level could've potentially had.

THEME - Grassland, Mountain, Cavern, Fire
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 80/100

THOUGHTS - Very good idea that wasn't either underutilized or made frustrating beyond belief. A few of the setups, especially in the final area with the falling Layer 2, felt really strict to get through as you have just barely enough time to make it. Something this level could've benefited from were some more markers, like where the Ghost House moving pits would stop or where to start running towards the note-block bridges if there's more than 3 spaces to move at them. Good gimmicky level overall.

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 9 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 64/100

THOUGHTS - For some reason you start the level underneath the main ground, so the first thing I did was go to the right without noticing and immediately fall to my death. Besides that, from the level design to the aesthetics, it's all over the place. I guess the main thing is that there's multiple ways to clear each part, but it ends up making the level feel disjointed and ironically, kind of forgettable. With the aesthetics, I'm not really sure what kind of theme it's going for since there's grassland tiles, ghost tiles just kind of thrown in, radishes, etc. It looks pretty from a standstill, but visually gameplay-wise it's a mess. There's also a triangle block there that for some reason in mesen-s and bsnes, causes Mario to go perpetually diagonal and floating around until he takes a hit. In Snes9x the triangle block acts normal, so there's some odd bugs depending on what emulator you use.

THEME - Mountain
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 72/100

THOUGHTS - I like the ideas of various Yoshi puzzles, but this one goes a little bit too overboard with having Yoshi be zipped through a wall up to another area. The pacing is a little weird too, where it starts with a big puzzle and then goes to multiple smaller puzzles, when I think it could've benefited from doing the opposite. The last puzzle has you feeding a baby Blue Yoshi, which kind of feels like a misopportunity to incorporate all the Yoshi types into one level, considering how much variety Yoshi has as a mechanic. There's a few strict jumps involving line-guided enemies that don't feel good to pull off, but overall it's a competent Yoshi puzzle stage that doesn't offer much variety.

THEME - Sky, Castle, Water, Abstract
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 30 Points
AESTHETICS - 10 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 90/100

THOUGHTS - A very cool and non-linear level. There were tons of neat ideas like raising water (vines), using all the types of Yoshis, and guiding rainbow shells. Two parts however I found to somewhat be pace-breakers. The Yellow Area in general felt really slow in comparison to the rest of the level, especially with the Smashers at the end where one wrong move spells your death. In the Red Area with preventing the Baby Yoshi from eating seemed a lot more strict in comparison to the other Yoshi puzzle rooms. The Big Boo boss was kind of going overboard with length, seeing as the level was going on for more than 20 minutes at that point and I felt it would've ended perfectly with just ending after getting all the moons rather than a slog of an elevator ride. Everything else was great design-wise.

THEME - Mountain, Sky
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 13 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 53/100

THOUGHTS - I don't understand why this needed 3 difficulty sections, considering all that changes is the timer and how many enemies are haphazardly thrown in rather than trying to make 3 different courses varying in difficulty. It just feels pointless. Other than that, the level design is okay, kind of hard to make something interesting when the whole gimmick is just that it's on a strict timer. On the Hard Path the new enemies, especially the Monty Moles, rarely feel fair as it's more about ambushes rather than thoughtful placement.

THEME - Forest
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 58/100

THOUGHTS - Due to the fact your names were in the introduction it'll be penalized 5 points from the original score of 63/100.
There's not a whole lot to this level, it's just an average, rompy forest stage design-wise where obstacles just felt kind of there and the thought for enemy placement feels non-existent. I have no further comment besides the fact it has a pretty nice aesthetic.

THEME - Space, Sky
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 76/100

THOUGHTS - Good level. Nothing in particular made me stuck or frustrated, and each obstacle flowed nicely into each other. The only part I question is the one obstacle where you spin-jump off the rock across some munchers, it felt kind of out-of-place.

THEME - Cave
DESIGN - 25 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 55/100

THOUGHTS - It started pretty promising, ironically easier and more forgiving than actual Tubular. But then once the checkpoint is crossed the level completely gets carried away with itself. One tiny slip-up and you're basically suffering a prolonged death. The way the P-Balloons come in waves makes getting through them extremely tight, and when you can't screw up at all that's basically a recipe for disaster.

THEME - Grassland, Snow, Fire, Haunted, Castle
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 71/100

THOUGHTS - I don't understand why this level needed to be segregated into 2 different paths when it could've easily been just 1 coherrent playthrough. The right path I think was more interestingly designed than the left path with the fire and ice mix, while the left is just bland in comparison. The level design wasn't bad at all, but I don't think the splitting path shouldn't really be there considering they're almost the same thematically.

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 68/100

THOUGHTS - Design-wise, it's very straightforward and rompy level. At least there's a couple of parts with some sort of setup, albeit fairly easy with Note Blocks. Not much to say about it, other than it's competent and the aesthetic looks pretty cute, plus I liked the secrets in it.

THEME - Desert, Industrial
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 62/100

THOUGHTS - A lot of the jumps feel really rough to do. Especially when it wants you to get through a cramped area full of Munchers or forced to spinjump off something that's only 1 block wide and punishment is either death or damage. Other than that, the level is servicable at best, but it's a lot of line-guide enemies and the other threats, mostly just Dry Bones, aren't really, well, threatening. I like the theme going on though, and each Dragon Coin/Moon has you going on a little sidepath to earn them rather than just being up for grabs which I think is neat.

THEME - ???
DESIGN - ?? Points
CREATIVITY - ?? Points
AESTHETICS - ?? Points
DIFFICULTY - ?????
FUN - ??
OVERALL - DQ/100

THOUGHTS - Since this level was submitted by an alt of a banned user tomato jonson, plus the fact it's a shitty joke level, I have no reason not to consider it DQ'd.

THEME - Island/Beach, Water, Haunted
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 10 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 75/100

THOUGHTS - I can definitely see where you got the inspiration from. While it certainly resembles and is designed like a Castlevania level, Mario is definitely not a Belmont and therefore can just easily run or spinjump past most of the obstacles. The level only truly gets interesting near the end with the line-guide section that actually somewhat puts some platforming skills to the test. I also thought that the level didn't have Powerups at all besides the Checkpoint and end before the boss until my 2nd playthrough, when I passed through some candles and it provided me a mushroom. While the reference is cute, I think there should've been a better hint or more incentive to pass by random candles, like coins next to them or something like that. Besides those flaws the level ends up being somewhat fun to play.

THEME - Sky, Space, Industrial
DESIGN - 55 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 83/100

THOUGHTS - What can I say besides it was a good level? Each setup flowed nicely into each other, nothing was overly difficult or harsh, and it looked nice too. My only nitpick is that flying with the Yoshi in the 2nd part was a little bit tight with the obstacles.

THEME - Cavern, Industrial
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 56/100

THOUGHTS - This level's just okay. It's kind of flat and rompy, and each idea the level tries to pull like the water segments or the bullet generators are either very underutilized or just occurs once. The gold-coin fall bonus area was neat, especially with how it fits the setpiece of the level. I like the background elements such as the minecarts full of gold, but it's a little difficult to tell it's only decoration due to it being the same color as the foreground.

THEME - Mountain, Cave
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 55/100

THOUGHTS - The first setup is incredibly difficult, and then the rest of the level seems fairly... ordinary? Sometimes the level has an okay puzzle setup with Chargin' Chucks, and then othertimes it just feels like the level is throwing stuff at you without any real thought. As suddenly as the level started, it ends suddenly too by falling down a coin path and then into a pipe.

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 56/100

THOUGHTS - The first part is a very average Grassland level. Some jumps, some enemies that have okay placement, it's nothing really special. At the 2nd part though is a random difficulty spike where you're force to fly and one slipup makes it very likely you're not going to get passed, since the safety nets don't give you enough room to fly. And then it ends after that. The only fairly cool part is the platforms in the 1st half, where sometimes they stick out of the walls.

THEME - Castle, Fire
DESIGN - 41 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 63/100

THOUGHTS - Not really sure what this level has to do with Night at the Museum, but it's an okay level. The 2nd part for some reason is devoid of powerups right until the Big Boo boss. The whole 2nd half where you spinjump on a snake of golden Bowser Statues is fine for one setup, but having it take up the entire 2nd half kind of felt like it was overdoing it.

THEME - Island/Beach
DESIGN - 18 Points
CREATIVITY - 5 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 28/100

THOUGHTS - There's not a whole lot going on in this level. It's just flat, some Parakoopas thrown in to pose as a "threat", and the 2nd part doesn't expand or do much either. There's 1 part with a rope that doesn't really last long other than getting to a cloud platform and a Fuzzy that's placed too low to really challenge any player. It's just a weak and uninspired level, that's about it.

THEME - Island/Beach, Haunted, House
DESIGN - 10 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 3 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 28/100

THOUGHTS - The enemy placement in this level is miserable. Some boo circles don't sync well with each other so it's an akward waiting period, in the 2nd part there's cramped hallways with thwomps that you must spinjump through to get past which feels rough, and the 3rd part has a Boo Cloud where you start by running up walls with the triangle block, making getting up the wall near impossible without getting hit. In the 1st part there's a door that sends you to a bonus area that kicks you back to a previous point for some reason, a tight Eerie spinjumping area, and it's easy to get cornered by Big Boos since the areas with Big Boos are so cramped. The 3rd part with the vertical section and a barely-visible net is real bad, since there's any powerups that you need to survive with and very claustrophobic enemy placement combined with the Boo Cloud. At least the Big Boo boss isn't nearly as bad as the rest. Something to say with the graphics too: There's some strange coloring like Question Blocks having this weird yellow shading with a grey color. It's hard to tell what's background and what's foreground because everything shares the same palette. If somethings in the background and you can go through it, then either make it very bright or very dim. I think everything is basically a cement block, since the Ghost House boards you can't jump through anymore which is very strange, and the Windows would've benefited from that too to mitigate getting cornered in some parts.

THEME - Forest, Castle, Industrial
DESIGN - 48 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 76/100

THOUGHTS - Very solid level. I like how you reskinned the Hothead and Urchin to resemble buzzsaws, which not only are they somewhat similar enemies to buzzsaws but also fit with the overall theme. Everything just flowed nicely as a fun athletic runthrough. My only big gripe is with the end, where you had to spinjump off a "urchin" while avoiding obstacles. It was an huge pace-breaker for the rest of the level due to how slow and non-threatening it was, plus also felt shoehorned in. Good otherwise.

THEME - Island/Beach, Industrial
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 78/100

THOUGHTS - This level's main gimmick with being mostly about line-guides actually works fairly well considering that the main obstacles are chainsaws. None of the chainsaws I felt were placed in a cheap way that can suddenly spring up and surprise the player, plus spinjumping off them tends to be a workable solution most of the time since they're almost always placed in open areas. The progression is good too, since it's starts off outside with an open ceiling, then inside that makes the level a bit more closed off. The only rough part I think design-wise is in the 2nd part with the wide room, where Fuzzy's on lines are inbetween each platform you jump from. It's a little repetitive and the Fuzzy's are placed slightly too high, making jumping over them a bit rough.

THEME - Abstract, Bonus
DESIGN - 25 Points
CREATIVITY - 10 Points
AESTHETICS - 4 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 39/100

THOUGHTS - This level is just kind of there. Enemies are haphazardly places around, a lot the design is just flat, the 1st area's background is on Layer 3 instead of Layer 2 for no good reason so there's just an ugly black bar on the top, and the one climbable fence part doesn't have corners for some reason. With all the coins around in the level you may think that you get something out of getting them all, but as far as I know there's nothing to it, making the design feel even more non-existant. The 2nd part is kind of cool idea-wise but again it's just really flat and repetitive.

THEME - Snow, Mountain, Castle
DESIGN - 55 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 82/100

THOUGHTS - I really enjoyed how much use you got out of the Bowser statues. I think a little more enemy variety could've helped though, but it was overall a very solid level.

THEME - Water, Sky, Castle, Abstract
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 30 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 86/100

THOUGHTS - This level's presentation is top-notch, especially the cute story at the beginning. Every setup feels fresh and unique, and never strayed into frustrating territory. Sometimes the Chargin' Chucks were a little annoying to manipulate, although I'm not too sure on how to make them easier to control so I'll give that a small pass. The last puzzle was also kind of tedious since it was quite long at the end of a already fairly lengthy level, so one error meant that you did the entire puzzle from the scratch.

THEME - Mountain, Sky
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 10 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 75/100

THOUGHTS - A very competent level. Has nice variety in obstacles and doesn't overstay its welcome. The only part I feel iffy about are the fuzzies dropping out of pipes from above. About once or twice I end up jumping to an obstacle, only to get surprise-attacked by a fuzzy. Good overall though.

THEME - Sky
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 26 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 68/100

THOUGHTS - The difficulty curve is all over the place in this level. Some setups would be fine if they weren't hindered by having some other addition to them, like Pitchin' Chuck or Volcano Lotus, to make the setup even more irritating. Other times they require extremely strict timing. Sometimes even when I hit a On/Off switch when the platform is on the Red line, the platform fails to make it anyways which just feels cheap. Even when you're not doing puzzles you can get ambushed easily, especially in the 1st part with fast Monty Moles and even an egregious Sumo and Pitchin' Chuck combo right off a fast-moving platform. If some enemies were moved around or even outright removed for causing unnecessary frustration then maybe this level could've been much better.

THEME - Water
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 60/100

THOUGHTS - An okay water level. Kind of short and doesn't really make use of the throw block mechanics as it only does it around 3 times to solve a setup. Keep in mind that there's no reset doors or pipes so if you mess up then you have no choice but to die in order to reset. The roughest part design-wise is a long hallway with munchers on the ground full of repeating Torpedo Teds, which makes that part really claustrophobic. Also, you can just swim under the level if you don't feel like playing it.

THEME - Grassland, Castle
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 67/100

THOUGHTS - This level was quite short, and also very cramped. I get the idea of having to activate the Layer 2 and go back through it but it's a bit different. I enjoy the 1st half's obstacle, however, the trek back didn't feel different enough outside of the beginning of the 2nd half. There's 2 powerup blocks that are very close for some reason, and therefore for the very end when there's a lot of thwomps and hazards in tight spaces it's easy to just damage-boost through rather than actually time the fast Layer 2 smashers.

THEME - Island/Beach
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 61/100

THOUGHTS - The 2nd part of this level feels like a waste of time. It's a lot of waiting so you can jump onto Parabuzzy's (reskinned cement blocks) and then wait on a conveyor belt, repeat this setup for about 2 minutes. Everything else though was decent, though I noticed a lot of obstacles being reused but looking slightly different, like the jumping horizontal Dolphin having something that hurts you inbetween its jump so you have to jump over it with the Dolphin. A few questionable obstacles too, like a Chargin' Chuck blockade or a Torpedo Ted section that lasts for all about 2 seconds. Decently fun level, but the design could've been more creative.

THEME - Abstract, Sky, House
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 73/100

THOUGHTS - Due to the fact your names were in the credits it'll be penalized 5 points from the original score of 78/100.
This level, while a little repetitive with the spring jumping, actually had some decent setups and was pretty fun to play through out. The 2nd part's flaw is that occasionally I jump up to the top of the screen only to be hit by a surprise Grinder, especially near the end. The Big Boo fight was a little unnecessary, but it wasn't very frustrating at least. Good level overall.

THEME - Mountain, Island/Beach
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 58/100

THOUGHTS - Not a terrible level, felt it used the same setup over and over again with the Chucks destroying the walls, without really increasing or decreasing in difficulty, thus making the level's pacing kind of slow. I think the mushroom at the beginning was a little iffy with having a Chargin' Chuck and Volcano Lotus at the same time.

THEME - Bonus
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 78/100

THOUGHTS - This was a really great fast-paced athletic level with a few small errors that could've been fixed in order to make it feel better to play. I think the top of the fire-hoops shouldn't damage you since you're making some tight jumps through them and you can end up overshooting and getting yourself damaged. The little detour at the part of the 2nd level was kind of a pace-breaker and a little unnecessary, especially when going back with the spring since you'll have to make so many small jumps with the 2-way chainsaw which felt out of place difficulty-wise. Everything else was great, especially the clowns with wiggler faces, that was pretty clever.

THEME - Forest, Sky
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 72/100

THOUGHTS - I'm not sure why the first part exists, seeing how there's little threat to losing or running out of time. The 2nd part onwards manages to feel frantic with the vines eating the clouds, yet not in a bad way. There are some annoying troll-y moments, like when I immediately used a red-shell fire thinking it was for that jumping piranha plant, only to find out that it was for some goombas blocking the path. It also could benefit from reset doors, as messing up a setup (which is easy to do) means you gotta repeat the whole 2nd part again. Maybe if the 1st part was cut and the 2nd part was given the checkpoint instead this could've been a bit better.

THEME - Forest
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 66/100

THOUGHTS - It's a purple Forest level. None of the enemy placement was frustrating and usually provided an okay challenge to the player without being unfair. Sometimes the level did feel a little barren, and a few enemies tended to not really get in your way, just kind of felt like they were there as you easily run by them. Also for some reason the entire 2nd half was devoid of powerups, when a mushroom half-way through could've easily benefited. Not bad overall.

THEME - Island/Beach, Water
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 4 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 64/100

THOUGHTS - Despite the interesting setpiece, this level is just kind of flat. In the first part you're just kind of running through some hallways with the occasional enemy in your way, and in the 2nd part you're just kind of waiting for the level to sink so you can go to the next part and wait. Also for some reason the music in the sinking part has a few notes that splits my ears out of nowhere.

THEME - Island/Beach, Water, Ruin
DESIGN - 47 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 9 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 81/100

THOUGHTS - I like the gimmick of having to create water blocks, but swimming through 1x1 water tiles can be a bit akward with Big Mario. A couple setups felt pretty tight, but nothing that feels frustrating or annoying. In the 2nd part I think some parts could've used normal Fuzzies instead of the flaming (chainsaw) Fuzzies to alleviate the previous issue. One thing to critique about the aesthetics is that I felt that the waterfalls should've been a dimmer color to make it more obvious that it's part of the background and not actually something you can swim through, since I felt that caught me off guard a few times. Level doesn't overstay its welcome, but the end does feel kind of abrupt. Everything was nice overall.

THEME - Grassland, Forest, Cavern
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 55/100

THOUGHTS - You press a P-Switch, you run across a path, sometimes a jump is too uncomfortably small or a Parakoopa is in the way of your jump. Repeat a couple times and then it's over. I don't have further comments, really.

THEME - City, Abstract
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 17 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 59/100

THOUGHTS - This level's design isn't particularly interesting. It's a lot of flat areas with jumps over pits or enemies that doesn't feel particularly good. The flooded mine areas, despite their drab appearance, alleviates the boringness a little but it mostly just boils down to waiting for the water to rise up or down without any real opposition. The strange abstract room at first made me believe there was a split path, but in reality it's just picking which sublevel to do first. The last room has a neat gimmick at least, with the room getting darker and hiding the enemies. Otherwise, this level's pretty forgettable.

THEME - Mountain
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 63/100

THOUGHTS - A fairly repetitive level. It doesn't really introduce any new ideas or clever setups with its Noteblocks and raising Mushroom platforms, you just kind of go from one obstacle to the next. There are some Blue coins that warn you to make a low jump, so that kind of removes the thought of when you should make a high jump or be more careful with a low jump. The level isn't bad nor frustrating, it's just not very interesting.

THEME - Water, Castle
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 80/100

THOUGHTS - A puzzle level with a really cool idea. All the setups were clear on what the player needed to do, none of them were overly difficult or required too many steps to complete, and the level in general just flowed nicely, having harder puzzles as it goes on and when it needs to teach the player something new does it in a relatively easy setup. I have some gripes though. The wall-run triangle for some reason doesn't work on bsnes/mesen-s (Strange how this is reocurring) so I had to switch emulators. The moon puzzle, while optional, I think doesn't really fit with all the other puzzles in the level. I get it wanted to be more action-y, but it boiled down to "Here, have some very strict jumps over some grinders and then spinjump off them." I get for the moon you wanted probably wanted something more difficult, but it didn't really feel like a climax or ultimate test, just an enormous difficulty spike out of nowhere.

THEME - Abstract, House
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 30 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 81/100

THOUGHTS - This level did its gimmick fairly well. I feel like the countdown should've let the player know when the invincibility wears off, because it's only for a brief moment until you're suddenly vulnerable again. It also could've benefited from having a 3rd part, or at least the Moon section having more than just 1 easy puzzle, because as it stands the level kind of ends without any sort of real closure. Decent puzzle level though.

THEME - Forest
DESIGN - 15 Points
CREATIVITY - 12 Points
AESTHETICS - 3 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 30/100

THOUGHTS - This level feels barely playtested. Platforms tend to be out of reach unless you maintain a running start, which you can barely do because the level is forcing you to go from one door to the next while narrowly dodging obstacles. The door to reset the speed has a wonky collision, so when the screen is scrolling too fast and you need to reset the speed you end up missing the door half the time and getting killed because of it. They should've been pipes instead so they're easier to enter at such speeds. Also, the music seems to be broken so you'll slogging through all this in silence.

THEME - Grassland, Sky
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 62/100

THOUGHTS - I'm surprised at how well the obstacles were timed so you rarely had to stop and wait for a platform, which is common in these types of levels. I think this level's main flaw is that it kind of repeats itself a lot, so it can wind up being either forgettable or a bit dull. It's still a fun little athletic runthrough though.

THEME - House, Castle, Abstract
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 56/100

THOUGHTS - This level is very cramped. There's only about 3 Power-ups in the entire level, and combined that with enemy placement that fill up entire halls or obstacles that come without warning and require some tricky spin-jumping, typically into a bed of spikes, it ends up being a recipe for disaster. The one setup where you have to kick a shell inbetween 2 spikes I absolutely hated. You need to be precise to kick the shell in between them, and you need to be precise to jump ontop of it or risk getting hurt. Overall this level wasn't very enjoyable with the wonky difficulty.

THEME - Cave, Water
DESIGN - 57 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 89/100

THOUGHTS - This level nicely mixes both action and puzzles together. Not too many frustrating moments besides Volcano Lotus' being a little irritating, that's the one part I think felt somewhat overboard because you're trying to get around fast-moving platforms and they release tiny slow-moving projectiles. The swinging platform areas before the checkpoint and the end of the level were somewhat huge pace-breakers since they felt like they were more about trial-and-error on how to solve them rather than quick thinking and reflexes. Very good level outside of those flaws.

THEME - Castle
DESIGN - 37 Points
CREATIVITY - 10 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 53/100

THOUGHTS - Despite a the obstacles having a lot going on, none of it feels... threatening? You can easily spinjump over everything due to how often the Grinders are used, making a lot of the design kind of pointless. The only real annoyance is when you have to drop down somewhere to a lower level and there's a Dry Bones there waiting to hit you. It's basically a 50/50 chance on whether you hit him or he hits you. It's a very short level too, there could've been a more involved 2nd section, maybe with a ceiling.

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 31 Points
CREATIVITY - 5 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 41/100

THOUGHTS - Well this level just kind of exists. It does its job, it's not hard or long, it's just there, being an average Grassland level.

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 5 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 26/100

THOUGHTS - This level is an incredibly irritating maze. There's multiple red herrings (Such as a blue P-Switch that, as far as I know, doesn't serve anything) and weird unnecessary areas (Like the Past area) that I wasn't even sure if I did this level as intended. I had to wait for a hidden Blue Shell to be kicked out of the sky, take it to the Future, fly to grab a secret silver P-Switch needed to unlock the Far Future area, and then kill a random Lakitu with the Blue Shell in so you can fly back to the first area since the main level layout is seperated by a large pit. Once in the Far Future, you're greeted by Boo Swarms, Boo ceilings, and Munchers everywhere while you try to get by everything, then solve a puzzle the level tells you NOTHING or hints about (Using the Yoshi tongue to use the key and hit a block to give wings. The key is hidden too.) while a Boo Ceiling swarms you and make it even more difficult. On top of that, you have around 120 seconds to do all this since the Far Future resets your time AND there's no Green Berries to add time for some reason.

THEME - Forest
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 73/100

THOUGHTS - The time limit on this level is weirdly strict. I only had about 5 seconds to spare when I crossed the goal. Other than that and it's pretty decent optional puzzle section this level was kind of flat in the 1st half. The 2nd half was pretty good going up the level, it kind of reminds me of something you'd see in a normal Mario game. Not bad, but not too interesting either.

THEME - Abstract, Grassland, Castle
DESIGN - ?? Points
CREATIVITY - ?? Points
AESTHETICS - ?? Points
DIFFICULTY - ?????
FUN - ??
OVERALL - ??/100

THOUGHTS - wait a second I can't judge my own level, so here's Mad Lad's thoughts on it from the other thread instead. I'll have the score for my level be 78, so it can rank up and compare with other levels.

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 10 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 35/100

THOUGHTS - Started off kinda flat, then delved into a mess of "Gotcha" moments and sudden difficulty spikes. Especially the last room with the Clappin' Chuck and the unbelievably strict timing to make sure he doesn't end up killing himself. It's a fairly long level too, so when you die you're forced to play through a good portion of difficult rooms and puzzles.

THEME - Cavern, Industrial
DESIGN - 42 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 63/100

THOUGHTS - Pretty short level where you spinjump off a thwomp to the next area and repeat. There's a part where you climb a net and spinjump off Grinders sometimes, but that really doesn't change much. The only iffy part is near the end, where there's a pit off-screen you can drop down without any warning, and unless you're holding right at that very moment to an unseen platform you just kind of die. It's not long, but it ends up adding some unnecessary annoyance.

THEME - Mountain
DESIGN - 30 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 55/100

THOUGHTS - Besides trying to get all the moons, which all basically the same solution of using a P-Switch to access them, there's not much going in this level. There's not a lot of enemy variety besides Spinies and Bob-ombs, and there's no point in getting the moons anyways besides saying "Hey, I got the moons." since they're basically just Map16 placements and not Extended Objects so they can't really unlock anything. Not much else to say besides the geography looking quite wacky with diamond dirt.

THEME - Island/Beach, Water, Cave
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 56/100

THOUGHTS - This feels like 2 different levels mashed together, none of which feel particularly fulfilling. The 1st part was kind of bland besides the cute Wario Land 4-esque bonus room, and a part where for some god-forsaken reason you need to use a P-Switch to get rid of a brown-block gate that's infront of coins, forcing to wait for no real reason. The 2nd part had a neat idea, but the whole section felt kind of slow with no real interesting setup besides using a water pillar to get over a pit or something like that. Meh level.

THEME - Ice, Mountain
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 30 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 86/100

THOUGHTS - Very nice gimmick and creative setups. The use eating brown blocks were a bit questionable, since the 1st end near the end of the first part glitched out, and the other one in the 2nd had a path below that lead to a dead end, and thus death into a bottomless pit. I must the aesthetics some points knocked down since sometimes the level looks polished, yet other times either looked like placeholders or had glitchy aesthetics (Especially in the 3rd part where the Urchin had overlapping tiles, thus looking like jumbled rocks at points.) Not much else to criticize besides that.

THEME - City, Abstract
DESIGN - 55 Points
CREATIVITY - 27 Points
AESTHETICS - 10 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 92/100

THOUGHTS - This level has almost everything going for it. The idea is really fun and creative with a lot of use gotten out of it, and no setup is ever too frustrating or annoying. Even near the end there's Reset doors for each step so you don't have to do the whole in 1 run, and even if you lose your Blue Shell there's multiple ways to still progress so you aren't completely screwed. The only thing I think is missing is that the only colored shell the level takes advantage of is the Blue Shell, and I think some things could've been done with Red Shells or even Yellow Shells, just to make the level feel more complete. It could even replace the beginning part because I think the start is a little slow and generic, but around the checkpoint is when things really pick up. Very nice level.

THEME - Mountain, Sky
DESIGN - 49 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 10 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 79/100

THOUGHTS - This level wears out its welcome really quickly. Each puzzle kind of felt the same by having to go around to grab a throw block and open up the pipe, and none of them have reset doors so for example if you mess up one of the eating-block puzzles then you have no choice but to die and repeat the whole section over again. Not to mention this level is quite long, with over 15 of these throw-block puzzles and not much more to it. The aesthetics are gorgeous however, and I like the neat touch that it gets brighter as you go on through the level.

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 57/100

THOUGHTS - This feels like a very average Mario grassland level with an oriental skin to it, and it ultimately doesn't really do much with that theme either. I didn't even know that the rope-looking bamboo were actually climbable until my 2nd playthrough, probably because there isn't much reason to actually climb them. It'd be a pretty good level if this was in a normal rom hack, but since this is a contest it's just very unremarkable. The cherry-blossom petals flowing through the wind is a pretty neat aesthetic touch though.

THEME - Snow, Forest
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 57/100

THOUGHTS - It's an average rompy Forest level, but with a neat snow/cold aesthetic. I guess the design is revolved around exploring to find the Dragon Coins (which, I only found 4 of, I'm not even sure if there's 5 coins), because the level is quite flat otherwise with some odd 1-time setups, like Piranha Plants in the water or a Falling Spike where you have to take down a wall of Throw Blocks. The Puntin' Chucks do have some alright use of kicking footballs off high areas, but everything else is somewhat forgettable.

THEME - Island/Beach, Mountain
DESIGN - 50 Points
CREATIVITY - 27 Points
AESTHETICS - 10 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 87/100

THOUGHTS - This level does a ton with just line-guides and Grinders, as most of the setups feel fresh and fun. The only part I didn't like that much was whenever you had to bump a shell up a waterfall through noteblocks. Especially when Torpedo Teds and Platforms are involved, trying to bump the shell up is incredibly akward to do and doesn't really fit with anything else in the level since it's only used like 3 times. The difficulty curve is a bit strange too, as the first part is quite difficult and requires some quick thinking, but later in the 2nd part it feels somewhat ordinary and not that interesting. Everything else about the level is great though.

THEME - Cavern
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 26 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 71/100

THOUGHTS - This level feels like a prototype for a much bigger level, but was probably unfinished and shoved out the door for submission. There's a couple cool setups, some of which kind of annoying like the long Football line that requires a spinjump, a vertical shaft with a fish generator, and the last door is incredibly irritating to get in because of the moving Skull Raft and the doors picky collision. What a strange level.

THEME - Space
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 66/100

THOUGHTS - While I like the Space level where it's actually a water stage underneath, the execution leaves something to be desired. It's an autoscroller most of the time, and a very slow one at that. There's a multitude of safe spots while you just wait for the level to scroll for itself as none of the obstacles really pose any kind of threat, making this level quite dull. It just kind of plays itself. The Wendy fight is a little akward as it's underwater with 2 extra "spikes" to make things more cumbersome.

THEME - Grassland, Mountain, Cavern
DESIGN - 52 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 82/100

THOUGHTS - A neat gimmick level that actually makes item-babysitting somewhat fun. While there is no real threat of death, some of the later segments, especially the part where you're falling and the sliding at the end, feel incredibly strict even if you swear you did it good enough. I don't like the lava on both walls parts in the falling section since wiggling your D-pad back and forth to get by it without losing your item doesn't feel good at all, and neither does waiting the entire fall until you can reset and get another shot. The ending and optional moon made me laugh though.

THEME - Grassland, Cavern
DESIGN - 25 Points
CREATIVITY - 10 Points
AESTHETICS - 3 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 38/100

THOUGHTS - This level's palette is incredibly garish. The bright green ground outlines with the extremely bright lime accents mixed with a near-black inside does not make a very pleasant viewing experience. There's a multitude of ameateur technical mistakes, like the Bonus Room not having its scrolling deactivated, the Goal Room for some reason does not share the same aesthetic as the rest of the level, being unedited, and instead of using a Layer 2 sink it instead uses a Layer 2 On/Off, so for the 2nd half every sound effect is just the stomp. Outside of these the level's not that great. It's very easy to just run through and fireball every single enemy that's harmlessly in your way. The 2nd half where you go back with the Layer 2 down would've been an interesting idea, but the level barely changes at all and remains flat and somewhat uninteresting.

THEME - Island/Beach, Grassland, Castle, Bonus
DESIGN - 25 Points
CREATIVITY - 10 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 40/100

THOUGHTS - The more you go through this level the less level design it has. The beginning is okay-ish, kind of bland, and for some reason the Clouds have glitchy slopes due to incorrect Map16 labelling. Although the hills look fine palette wise, the ground and trees kind of looks like melted cheddar rather than gold. Inside the Castle (which is NOT gold) it's kind of a straight line with some minor jumps and enemies on it that seem to be placed haphazardly. At the checkpoint inside the Gold Switch Palace itself it's just an incredibly short and easy path with some back-and-forth and very few enemies. It could've provided a nice "bonus" feeling area (maybe even some challenge to get coins/dragon coins? even without a real threat of death), but it's more an anti-climax than anything.

THEME - ???
DESIGN - ?? Points
CREATIVITY - ?? Points
AESTHETICS - ?? Points
DIFFICULTY - ?????
FUN - ??
OVERALL - DQ/100
THOUGHTS - patch is borked.

THEME - Industrial
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 72/100

THOUGHTS - The hard-lights in this level that was used as lava seems unneccessarily harsh, especially in parts where you need to jump to platforms with them or fall down ontop of a platform while avoiding the 1-hit kill "lava". I think there should've been 2 variants, one that acted like spikes, so the other hard light can still keep the platforms floating. None of the Flying Hammer Brothers used in this level were fair at all in my opinion, as they either tend to ambush you without warning, or were placed in such a way that the hammers would hit you in a seemingly safe area to wait in. Those were the two fatal flaws in this level, which ended up making this strangely overly-difficult when it didn't need to be so, as the layout and gimmicks in general I found to be enjoyable overall.

THEME - Grassland, Castle
DESIGN - 25 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 52/100

THOUGHTS - Wait, that's it? I cleared 1 part and thought the level was going to get better and trickier, and then the level just suddenly ended. It had a nice gimmick, but the level is over after about a minute and a half, making me think that this is just unfinished but was put in for submission anyways. There's one really rough part with a bubble that's surrounded by munchers and a Pitchin' Chuck that makes it near impossible to get through. It hands you a mushroom before hand, as if saying "Sorry this part sucks, I'll give you a free hit to tank it rather than trying to change it for the better." The best metaphor for this level is like you ordered a steak at a resturaunt. After 2 bites the waiter comes back and takes it away with no explanation.

THEME - Desert, Ruins, Castle
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 67/100

THOUGHTS - The fires in the castle area should not have been actual obstacles and should've just been a part of the background, since it doesn't even make sense in a perspective standpoint, gets in the way and does nothing but gurantees a hit on the player at least once on accident. Also in the 3rd part with the eating blocks should've had reset doors, since it's possible to mess up a part and have no choice but to kill yourself since it'll be impossible to progress. Other than those flaws this level is not bad at all, pretty fun actually. The first area was standard, but inside the castle with using Tile 1F0 to create spin-jump platforms it starts to get more interesting.

THEME - Abstract, Space
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 22 Points
AESTHETICS - 9 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 76/100

THOUGHTS - There's about 4 different setpieces in this level, all of them don't feel really explored or built upon as they all feel like easy 1st sections to their own levels if they had them, making this level kind of unfocused. It's also very generous with it's powerups, almost feels too nice. About half of the obstacles hand you a mushroom after it, as if the level feels bad for potentially giving you a slight amount of trouble. The fun aesthetic here mostly carries it, otherwise this level would've been fairly mediocre.

THEME - City, Bonus
DESIGN - 55 Points
CREATIVITY - 30 Points
AESTHETICS - 9 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 94/100

THOUGHTS - This level made full use of changing the Page0/1 of Map16. Tons of different changed blocks that feel natural and not super gimmicky thanks to their appropriate graphical changes and provided a nice variety of setups and puzzles. Nothing ended up confusing or frustrating due to the variety and clear solutions it offers. My only gripe is that for some reason the inner-foreground is not solid, so if you're big you can accidentally spinjump through them, making it more beneficial to stay small rather than large. I don't have much else to say, other than it's a very solid and memorable level.

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 35 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 56/100

THOUGHTS - This level tends to get really cramped at some points, with volcano lotus' and Pitchin' Chuck trying to kill you at all angles while trying to get Pokey's out of your way. The only reason you're not constantly dying is due to Yoshi providing as an extra hit. Due to the way this level wants you to hurry it ends up causing the player to rush and make more mistakes. At least the given amount of time-giving berries is generous. Not much else to say really.

THEME - Mountain, Ruin, Castle
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 9 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 69/100

THOUGHTS - Level was somewhat repetitive, but none of it was bad. The part where you had to detour to press a big switch was kind of confusing, since it didn't really impact the level in any big way, it was just kind of there. Not much else to say besides very solid.

THEME - Mountain
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 5 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 65/100

THOUGHTS - A line-guide gimmick level that doesn't really do anything new, but it's still fun to go through. The only part I found pretty creative was when you needed to use a Shell to hit the wall and a On/Off switch so the chainsaw can get through the path. There's also a ton of powerups for some reason, like a mushroom every 15 seconds or so from my experience, for a level that's not that threatening or perilous to get through. The level's decent overall, quite safe.

THEME - Abstract, Bonus
DESIGN - 20 Points
CREATIVITY - 30 Points
AESTHETICS - 6 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 56/100

THOUGHTS - The idea of turning Super Mario World into a completely different type of game with it's gameplay mechanics is somewhat interesting, but that comes with a myriad of problems due to the limitations. It's difficult to know if you made an error until it's too late, because that'll tend to put Mario "off-track" in the background and result in a random death later, so sometimes I swear I play it perfectly only to get killed later on out of nowhere because I wasn't 100% exact with the notes. On top of that, because there's no real way to give feedback to the player by letting you know if you hit a note right or not, it ends up feeling pretty empty. And ontop of all that you have to go through this kind-of-lengthy 2 minute track always at the fear of being suddenly killed. The idea is, again, interesting, but is it a good idea? Not really.

THEME - Cave
DESIGN - 45 Points
CREATIVITY - 25 Points
AESTHETICS - 7 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 77/100

THOUGHTS - The idea is incredibly neat, something I haven't seen done much before. After the midpoint it goes into overly-precise puzzle territory that at least doesn't result in death upon failure. The first puzzle right after the midpoint especially, I was doing that for nearly 20 minutes having no clue what I needed to do and seems like unnecessary gating for less experienced players. The last room is neat however, with needing to take advantage of a carriable springboard to prevent yourself from moving.

THEME - Island/Beach
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 20 Points
AESTHETICS - 10 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 70/100

THOUGHTS - Absolutely gorgeous visuals, but the main issue comes from the design, which felt kind of weak in general. It's mostly just going in a straight line, jumping over some enemies that don't pose much of a threat, and then it just suddenly kind of ends. It could've done more with the hot air balloon idea introduced in the 2nd part. It's fun to play, but outside of the aesthetic doesn't leave much of an impression.

THEME - City
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 15 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 63/100

THOUGHTS - A decent level. Nothing frustrating or boring or even that memorable. I think as Ninjis as jump Cheep Cheep is kind of cute. The only thing I really remember is getting the platform up the building by creating a vine to intercept a line-guide. That's about all I can say about this level really.

THEME - Water, Castle
DESIGN - 40 Points
CREATIVITY - 14 Points
AESTHETICS - 8 Points
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 62/100

THOUGHTS - It was okay. Just kind of felt like an uninspired water castle with a Sonic 3 Hydro City skin. A real issue with the level is the amount of times the player gets ambushed by something off-screen or coming from off-screen, especially in the 2nd half. An real egregious example is right at the end of the 1st half, where a porcu-puffer comes out of nowhere to hit you right at the door, and if you're small Mario you're basically playing the first half again. Other than that though, it's inoffensive at best.