[FAN JUDGE] i decide to judge all your levels for fun (BLDC2 Edition) (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 - 50 - bry - - Periphery - - 86/100
#02 - 17 - Sixcorby - Lumber Exchange - 85/100
#03 - 07 - Daizo Dee Von & JazzMan287 - HASTE BRANCH - PLATFORM COMPANY - 84/100
#03 - 52 - Blue Leaf - Brown Block Volcano - 84/100
#05 - 34 - OEO6 - Niagara's Locksmith - 82/100
#05 - 32 - margot & HamOfJustice - HYDROPHOBIC DENIM - 82/100
#07 - 48 - Arity - Chucks Frosty Field - 80/100
#08 - 06 - EmilyEmmi - Stack Up! - 79/100
#09 - 43 - MegaMarioMan9 - QUIT FOLLOWING ME!! - 78/100
#09 - 36 - GbreezeSunset - 10-PIN MONACLE - 78/100
#11 - 39 - GRIMMKIN - 🐾 Jinxed Jars 🐾 - 77/100
#12 - 13 - FrozenQuills - HAYWIRES - 76/100
#13 - 51 - TheOrangeToad - Sliding Castle - 70/100
#13 - 44 - MoxieCat - -Misty Mountaintop- - 70/100
#13 - 24 - RussianMan - Magic Ride Mayhem - 70/100
#13 - 21 - Burning Loaf & bebn legg - 70/100 - jardin des pillules - Broken screen exits
#17 - 26 - jirok1 - Geysers of life - 68/100
#18 - 33 - Ascaska - The Small Sky - 66/100
#18 - 14 - Enan63 - Sky Plains - 66/100
#18 - 02 - DetectiveZvarri - Conveyor Castle - 66/100
#21 - 09 - J2DaBibbles - OFF-n'-ON Again - 65/100
#22 - 11 - mariosr - Haunted Jungle - 64/100
#22 - 04 - Samie Zuccati - UNIDIMENSIONAL - 64/100 - Kaizo difficulty
#24 - 29 - Ruberjig - POTS 'N PANIC - 60/100
#25 - 16 - JupiHornet - Fire Bar Furnace - 59/100
#26 - 03 - SpadeMagnes - Mario in the castle - 57/100
#27 - 37 - Azula16 - Be Loved, Don't Cry - 56/100
#27 - 31 - Littleminer64 - STARRY SKIES CASTLE - 56/100
#29 - 46 - DanMario24YT - Perilous Pipeline - 53/100
#30 - 27 - Hayashi Neru - Dirty sewer - 52/100
#30 - 22 - NopeContest - Mad Mechanism - 52/100
#32 - 47 - MarioFanGamer - PIPE CRAZE - 51/100
#32 - 35 - Theopold - MUNCHER CRUNCHER - 51/100
#34 - 23 - snoruntpyro - BEACH BALLS - 50/100
#34 - 19 - Dispace - Pipe Treeway - 50/100
#36 - 40 - Green Jerry - Quicksand Beach - 49/100
#37 - 45 - h.carrell - Snowy Thwomp Night - 48/100
#37 - 25 - wir4lor - 1 2 3 4 Go roKu - 48/100
#39 - 18 - Faro - Bro, It's Hot Bro. - 47/100
#40 - 20 - yoshi9429 - Laboratory of Trial - 46/100
#41 - 15 - CircleFriendo - World 🐾-4 - 45/100
#41 - 12 - mish1 - BEFORE I FORGET - 45/100
#43 - 41 - MarkVD100 - Big Small - 43/100
#44 - 05 - Boosius - cloudtop cruise - 40/100
#45 - 01 - Klug - Waltz of the Yoshis - 38/100
#46 - 08 - Zavok & N450 - Bubbly Beach - 36/100
#47 - 49 - darkreader2636 - It's Cold Outside - 35/100
#48 - 38 - Zaroio - Starsmagoric - 33/100 - Bizarre game-crashing bug
#49 - 28 - Flaming Hot Toons - GOOMBUD SOLAR DESER - 25/100
#50 - 10 - Somebody for sure - (Demo)Kronos Island - 24/100
#?? - 42 - edgar - Green Tower of Boredom - ??/100 - Extreme difficulty, broken midpoint
#?? - 30 - AnEvilGhost & Supreme - Autumn Park - ??/100 - Can't rank our own level lol

Average Score - 59.18/100

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 18/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 38/100


THOUGHTS -
These "Pick a path" levels are basically just multiple levels in one, forcing the player to play it over and over again just to see everything. Just make one coherent level involving all the Yoshis, that'd actually be a better idea. Most of the paths actually have annoying potential softlocks if you get hurt or lose Yoshi along the way, making this a little more frustrating.
RED PATH -
If you get hurt at any point with the ice block walls, you're basically screwed since you can't get another Fire Flower. The timer is oddly strict as well, I only had like 20 seconds to beat it because I was wasting my time trying to melt giant walls of ice.
YELLOW PATH -
Mostly straightforward Standard romp that doesn't really advantage of Yoshi's abilities outside of one VERY optional "puzzle" midway through. The end requires Yoshi to get a key and unlock a pipe, but if you lost Yoshi along the way then again you're pretty much screwed out of finishing the level since you have to ground-stomp a Goomba up a path.
GREEN PATH -
Nothing-special romp. It doesn't even do anything with the On/Off blocks at the very end besides just hitting them when you see it. At least there's no annoying potential softlocks?
BLUE PATH -
Probably the most interesting design-wise since it actually takes advantage of Blue Yoshi's abilities well, but there's a lot of open space and you can just mostly fly over a lot of it. There's a part that requires you to "FLY!" and if you don't have a cape or Yoshi then tough luck I guess.

THEME - Castle
DESIGN - 42/60
CREATIVITY - 19/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 66/100


THOUGHTS -
I like how the level took advantage of its gimmick with conveyor belts and used them in a few different ways throughout the level, such as maneauvering around spikes or waiting for a Bowser Statue to fall and use as a platform. It even used the conveyors in the boss fight which I think is just neat. My one issue is with the Layer 2 rise and fall, which sometimes the conveyors are in lava without any real indicator, so you might just plummet to your death in them out of nowhere. Maybe some coin indicators would help?

THEME - Castle
DESIGN - 37/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 57/100


THOUGHTS -
Some parts of this level is really claustrophobic and cramped, like in the 2nd part right after the midpoint (You're given 2 mushrooms to tank this anyways), and other parts it's relatively straightforward. The following Sumo Bro concept in the 3rd part was pretty okay, but otherwise it's a bit mindless and repetitive.

THEME - Forest, Castle
DESIGN - 30/60
CREATIVITY - 25/30
AESTHETICS - 9/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 64/100


THOUGHTS -
If you're going to submit a level like this, either cut out some of the more irritating parts so it's shorter and better-flowing as Standard (Like the REALLY annoying Gas Bubble/double timed-platform obstacle) or put in more checkpoints so the beginning/difficult portions aren't being played over and over again (Like... after the Gas Bubble/double timed-platform obstacle). I can't help but notice the difficulty being a bit schizophrenic as well, like with the 2nd part. The beginning of that is quite difficult, then once it gets to the horizontal Mad Thwomp sections it's much easier, like the level is finally taking pity on the player.

THEME - Sky, Cave
DESIGN - 22/60
CREATIVITY - 10/30
AESTHETICS - 8/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 40/100


THOUGHTS -
A level that's very non-threatening. None of the enemies are placed in a way that'll provide any sort of danger, and even if you do get hit you'll count on the awfully generous amount of mushrooms the level provides. The only real gimmick is hitting the Moving Coin Blocks to create bridges, but it's never used in a creative way nor does it actually prove as an obstruction. I do gotta say though, that cave looks pretty cool.

THEME - Castle, Sky
DESIGN - 48/60
CREATIVITY - 22/30
AESTHETICS - 9/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 79/100


THOUGHTS -
Not bad at all, although it is a pretty easy level that kind of runs its gimmick into the ground without spicing it up too much. I liked the one part with the eating snake, and I wish there were more obstacles mixed with the Moving Coin Block outside of the On/Off block and sprite-only note block.

THEME - Castle, Industrial
DESIGN - 50/60
CREATIVITY - 25/30
AESTHETICS - 9/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 84/100


THOUGHTS -
A very good level. There's a few iffy setups, like that chainsaw stack in the first part, having to ride a Big Bertha platform (which has a chance to despawn if you wait even a second. I'd honestly prefer that part cut out since it's so unrelated to the rest of the stage), and when you take an upper path in the 2nd part a Thwimp you have to jump on its platform for otherwise you just fall through and die, and the bottom path with a Grinder and a Hammer Bro that's oddly harsh compared to the rest of the obstacles. The splitting paths is a little meh because it seems like there's always a more preferable and better designed path, it'd be more coherrent if the better path was chosen and that concept taken out entirely. Otherwise it's a really good level that's not too punishing and flows very well from setup to setup.

THEME - Island/Beach
DESIGN - 18/60
CREATIVITY - 13/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 36/100


THOUGHTS -
The Angry Sun completely ruins this level. Combine it with the lack of powerups per section makes it borderline unplayable at some points. When I got to the 3rd part and saw no sun, I felt relieved that the stage was actually going to be enjoyable, until I saw that it lacked a checkpoint and it's also quite difficult on its own already. Overall it's just a really sloppy, untested mess.

THEME - Cave, Castle
DESIGN - 34/60
CREATIVITY - 25/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 65/100


THOUGHTS -
The level has very good ideas, but it ends up milking the concept half-to-death by having around 9 rooms to go through, each with fairly high difficulty. The difficulty as well was pretty wonky, some of them were much easier than others (Like the room with the 3 platforms going up and down) while some rooms were unneccessarily hard with extra enemies that could've been removed for a better-paced experience, especially the rooms with the Boo Lasers and Podoboos. I have a huge issue with the 2 dark rooms, as they provide almost no additional challenge outside of just obscuring your sight, which is a huge dick move. That last room is especially frustrating as well, especially with how much waiting you need to do in order to get another chance at it due to the nature of the room preceding it.

THEME - Island/Beach, Grassland
DESIGN - 10/60
CREATIVITY - 10/30
AESTHETICS - 4/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN - ?
OVERALL - 24/100


THOUGHTS -
this will not make me buy sonic frontiers

THEME - Haunted, Forest, House
DESIGN - 38/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 64/100


THOUGHTS -
This level went on a little too long for my liking, without ever attempting to shake it up that much besides the inclusion of iron balls (used like twice) and on/off switches. I really don't understand why the entire 2nd part lacks a powerup, and I also don't like the obstacles where you have to rush through a rotating Boo and hit through on/off switches or else you get hurt. It was fun at first, but it could use some trimming down.

THEME - Castle, Fire
DESIGN - 25/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 45/100


THOUGHTS -
I cannot stress enough how much timing of obstacles and enemies matter, especially in a stage that has an autoscroller. There are moments where things like Firebars and Roto-discos can easily hit you when you're at the far end of the screen, yet if you stay back and take it slow then you'll be trapped by things like Muncher Bridges. It's annoyingly frustrating at how much this level sets you up for failure with its constantly conflicting obstacles.

THEME - City, Industrial
DESIGN - 42/60
CREATIVITY - 27/30
AESTHETICS - 7/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 76/100


THOUGHTS -
Does every obstacle need to be so ridiculously fast, especially some of those line-guide obstacles underneath platforms? Sometimes it provides a coin guide that allows you to easily figure out how to bypass it, but other times it's like "Good luck, jackass." Also near the end has a line-guide rope that requires you to jump into a noteblock underneat the platform. If you fail this rather finicky setup then you're just stuck. That's about all I have to say really, it's just kind of annoying.

THEME - Grassland, Sky
DESIGN - 40/60
CREATIVITY - 18/30
AESTHETICS - 8/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 66/100


THOUGHTS -
PLEASE include a checkpoint for the 3rd part AT LEAST. It's already quite a difficult level and having to play through the entire 2nd part again just for another shot at the 3rd part is very aggravating. That ended up being the fatal flaw for this level.
Outside of that though I find the setups actually pretty good and flow well into each other, even if it's a little repetitive with the "Wait for the thwomp and then go through with good timing." Just a small side-comment, but there were so many thwomps at a time causing the screen to shake that it gave me mild motion-sickness. Probably wasn't a way to work around this, maybe replacing some obstacles with non-thwomp ones?

THEME - Castle, Fire
DESIGN - 28/60
CREATIVITY - 13/30
AESTHETICS - 4/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 45/100


THOUGHTS -
Plays like a Lost Levels castle stage more than anything. It even includes an awful Fire Bar obstacle that's only possible to get through with extremely precise timing along with Fireballs. I appreciate the attempt at mimicking a SMB NES level, but it didn't end up very fun.

THEME - Fire, Castle
DESIGN - 33/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 59/100


THOUGHTS -
This stage is a very annoying trial-and-error test of patience that is constantly setting you up to get hurt or killed, either by having obstacles timed in such a way that simply make it a pain to get through (One egregious example is near the end of the 1st part, where you have to avoid a Fire Bar and Green Snifit for a platform, but when it comes on screen due to the auto-scroll it's already on the ceiling, so you have to jump through the same firebar again to make it past. There's a Green Snifit after that platform just to snipe you by the way) or the enemies/level layout forcing you in positions that'll get you damaged by something else anyways (Like at the end of both parts, with a fire-thwomp and off-screen Fire Bar). This wouldn't be such a major problem if you actually had more powerups throughout instead of just one at the very beginning of a section.

THEME - Forest, House
DESIGN - 50/60
CREATIVITY - 28/30
AESTHETICS - 7/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 85/100


THOUGHTS -
Solid level and setups, but I think the difficulty balancing is a little wonky. The first few obstacles are pretty difficult, then once it introduces the "main" gimmick of making the platforms fall it ends up being a lot more managable. I really think there should've been a checkpoint before that whole tower part because especially on your first few runs it feels like there's no way to get past some of the hazards without taking damage, and putting a checkpoint there would be a bit more respectful to the player's time.

THEME - Cave, Castle, Fire
DESIGN - 25/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 7/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 47/100


THOUGHTS -
Since the level was confirmed half-finished, it feels very half-baked as a result. There were 2 moments that actually had fairly decent enemy placement; One with the fireball-throwing Bro that you have to spinjump off of to cross a gap, and a Bob-omb-throwing Bro who gives you a bomb to defeat a Flying Hammer Bro. The rest of the level just haphazardly-placed Bro enemies that don't really contribute much in the long-run.

THEME - Forest
DESIGN - 30/60
CREATIVITY - 13/30
AESTHETICS - 7/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 50/100


THOUGHTS -
A very confusing stage, and not in a good way. A lot of the layout doesn't make much sense, like On/Off switch "obstacles" that not once really come into play except for MAYBE 1 setup in the entire level (After the checkpoint), a lot of one-way blocks that take you to previous areas because...? This segues into it not feeling particularly well-tested. The flying spinies can hurt you in the pipes, enemies tend to despawn off-screen like the Koopa Shell at the beginning and the Sideways Thwomps, the Sumo Bro. fires are invisible probably because of the sprite limit, and there's 2 Sprite Killers near the very end that only exist as a way to possibly screw yourself out of finishing the level. I'm just more befuddled than anything.

THEME - Castle, Cave, House
DESIGN - 28/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 4/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 46/100


THOUGHTS -
15 rooms of this plus a boss is a little excessive. Difficulty curve is a bit wonky too, as there are more difficult rooms before a checkpoint and the easier ones are done first, meaning you gotta slog through the easier obstacles before you get another chance at harder rooms, which for a "single-screen obstacle room level" gets grating pretty quickly. The Big Boo boss is a little frustrating too, as trying to hit the Jumping Paratroopa without taking damage is very tricky ontop of being chased by a firebar. Something else I should also take note of is the background, which is oddly bright and noisy and that makes it a bit distracting.

THEME - Forest, Industrial
DESIGN - 43/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 8/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 70/100


THOUGHTS -
I'd hate to be the bearer of bad news but there are multiple doors in this level that are actual doors and not part of the background, thus taking you to an Endless Bonus Game and screwing you over.
The design of the level itself isn't bad at all though, but I do have the impression that it's not very well play-tested, as along with my point about the bonus-room doors there's also a Spiny near the end of the 1st part that tends to despawn, preventing you from getting to the top, and when you begin the 3rd part there's a Buzzy Beetle that immediately goes down because the line-guide is already activated and you can't get past the Spinies without taking damage, thus forcing you to tank a hit or die.

THEME - Castle, Industrial
DESIGN - 27/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 52/100


THOUGHTS -
I had a really difficult time articulating my words for this level because part of me appreciates some of the setups and creativity yet it also irritates me to no end. This level's mostly reliant on trial-and-error setups, a constant 1-step-forward-2-steps-back by having most of the setups come one-after-another that are either just plain difficult or require really odd precision, especially since the main enemies are Green Snifits bouncing constantly and shooting, so when you're just trying to process how to get by an setup and dodging around you'll just get shot out of nowhere because Snifits have basically no tell on when they'll shoot. Some of these I swear is near impossible to get by without getting hurt, like when you're spin-jumping on a bunch of Grinders on damage blocks and avoiding Green Snifits, but the safety ledge has a Blue Snifit who'll stop and shoot at such perfect timing that it's certain you'll either get hit by the Green Snifit or the Blue Snifit's bullet, the Sideways Mad Thwomp over damage blocks that you need to spinjump off of under a pillar at a very tiny window of opportunity to get by without getting hurt, and right after THAT is the Sideways Mad Thwomp going up a vertical shaft by sprite-only Note Blocks that basically needs the maximum height of a Spin Jump to get by. Also that end goal is kind of mean, especially the amount of hell the player has gotten through to make it that far.
Best way I can describe this whole stage is stressful and maddening.

THEME - Island/Beach
DESIGN - 20/60
CREATIVITY - 25/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 50/100


THOUGHTS -
I admire the creativity, but there are so many of these difficult setups one after another with little powerups, little checkpoints, and high precision that it completely sucks all the fun out I can have with this level, especially in the 2nd half. In the first half there's this one obstacle where you need to go on a dropping platform and then get by an upside Red Fire Piranha Plant, which as Big Mario I swear is impossible to get past without taking damage. (The use of Red Piranha Plants doesn't seem to add any real challenge, just yet another annoyance) Then in the 2nd half that one obstacle where you have to drop in the water with the dropping bowling balls, avoid a pitchin' chuck, and then come back up with near-perfect timing aggravated me, and then after that are more precise setups with Pitchin' Chucks (The one where it's riding a dolphin seems weirdly inconsistent with the timing of the baseballs). When I encountered a extremely fast bowling ball that came out of a pipe and sniped me out of nowhere, that's when I decided to give up on this level and stick to savestates, especially when the ball generator after that snipes me again at such an awkward angle.

THEME - Grassland, Sky
DESIGN - 45/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 70/100


THOUGHTS -
The first 2 sections were actually pretty fun, then the 3rd section just throws that out the window. The platform is shrunk for no good reason, the setups are near constant so you don't have a chance to breathe or observe what you have to do next, and the setups themselves can be very annoying to get, such as the one where you have to grab a shell, throw it to some Off Switches, then regrab it to hit an On switch afterwards. I never succeeded in doing this once because everytime I tried to regrab the shell on a very small and fast platform you're more likely to just fall to your death, so it's better to damage-boost on the spikes the switch is on.

THEME - Sky
DESIGN - 25/60
CREATIVITY - 17/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 48/100


THOUGHTS -
The first part was actually a pretty decent romp up the vertical section, aside from one part where you needed to carry a shell from earlier to hit a Turn Block for a vine. Then the 2nd part just kind of shits the bed with a "Guess which Turn Block actually turns" star section, a kind-of-janky upwards Platform area, and worst of all the Coin/P-Switch maze which makes the level very egregious very quickly, almost borderline trial-and-error.

THEME - House
DESIGN - 43/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 68/100


THOUGHTS -
A stage with a gimmick I've never really seen before, and I think this level pulls it off pretty well. My only gripe is that it only does the one room layout over and over instead of trying something new with enemies spewing out, making the gimmick kind of wear out, but at least it's only a handful of rooms.

THEME - Cave, Fire
DESIGN - 28/60
CREATIVITY - 17/30
AESTHETICS - 7/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 52/100


THOUGHTS -
This level doesn't really know what to do with itself. It does one gimmick for one basic setup, then goes to another gimmick for one setup, repeat until the 4th section where it actually stays fairly consistent with the Disco Shell jumping and Moving Coin Blocks, but that's only for that one section. It's just meh.

THEME - Desert
DESIGN - 15/60
CREATIVITY - 5/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 25/100


THOUGHTS -
This is such a nothing level. It feels so unfinished that even the level's title is missing a letter. There's only 3 dragon coins, it's mostly just a straight path to the end, it's over in just 40 seconds, and the only thing that remotely posed a threat was the Angry Sun and its weird janky hitbox. I don't know what else to say.

THEME - Castle
DESIGN - 38/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 7/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 60/100


THOUGHTS -
I have no idea what theme or setup this level was trying to accomplish. Most of it is standard castle-fair with the occasional pot to break open. Some of them have enemies while others have powerups, so it's basically 50/50 on whether or not it just kills you. Then at the end you got the whole part with Big Boo which is just... strange, as it suddenly becomes a puzzle out of nowhere on what to do to fight the Big Boo. Noticeably there are some enemies coming out of pipes with very glitched graphics as well.

THEME - Forest, Grassland, Island/Beach
DESIGN - ??/60
CREATIVITY - ??/30
AESTHETICS - ??/10
DIFFICULTY - ?????
FUN - ??
OVERALL - ??/100


THOUGHTS -
huh i wonder what kind of jackass made this level

THEME - Space, Castle
DESIGN - 38/60
CREATIVITY - 13/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 56/100


THOUGHTS -
It's not a bad level, but it's laced with a lot of pacing issues. In the 1st part when you're riding on the Bowling Ball over instant-death spikes you encounter a Banzai Bill underneath a firebar in such a way where you basically can't get through without either extreme precision or taking a hit. The 2nd part includes a tower section where it's very easy to blindly jump into danger because the screen fails to scroll up in time, therefore you're getting hit by a Ball n' Chain, Thwomp, or whatever else. The "Red Arrow Warnings" don't really work since you don't know what's up there and are just preparing for the unexpected. The 3rd part has a bunch of the same obstacle of a Thwomp you need to pass under, except sometimes it's a Quake thwomp that freezes you for no particularly good reason, especially when it's a Mad Thwomp on-top of that just stun-locking while you're on a moving platform into danger.

THEME - Water
DESIGN - 50/60
CREATIVITY - 25/30
AESTHETICS - 7/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 82/100


THOUGHTS -
This level a little too long for my liking. The gimmick of the buoyant enemies is done really well throughout the level without it being too difficult or annoying. I think the vertical section would've been a good ending to the level, but then it goes to yet another section that suddenly spikes in difficulty and precision out of nowhere. The setup with the spikey mines and platforms near the start of it seems inconsistent, as sometimes the platforms are high up or low which made getting past it consistently a pain.

THEME - Sky, Mountain
DESIGN - 45/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 66/100


THOUGHTS -
Pretty alright romp-ish level. Good ol' Mario platforming with some of the new tools added from the baserom for some of the obstacles. Can't help but notice the sprite-killers and Shatter-blocks were only used for a tiny subarea and might've benefited for some variety in the level. The one room in the 2nd area where you created platforms with the Moving Coin Blocks also felt kind of pace-breaking with the dangerous enemies and tiny platforms, making it a tad tedious.

THEME - Island/Beach, Mountain
DESIGN - 48/60
CREATIVITY - 28/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 82/100


THOUGHTS -
Very creative with tons of setups that (mostly) didn't feel too hard or unfair. I have 2 big gripes with this stage though: In the 3rd part the last 2 obstacles are incredibly frustrating out of nowhere (With the looping Big Bill and Thwomp going right) and didn't feel like it fit well with the rest of the stage. The Big Boo boss is just really annoying, as you gotta deal with a Volcano Lotus, 2 Poison Mushrooms, Spikes, and ontop of that actually trying to damage the Big Boo, there's just too much crap going on and would've been better if it was trimmed down a lot (At least give a powerup or remove the poison shrooms.)

THEME - Grassland
DESIGN - 25/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 51/100


THOUGHTS -
The level itself is okay, even if it is really easy with not much going on. There's tons of powerups despite little amounts of danger present. One thing I can appreciate is that the Muncher Bridges are marked for when they're extended, which is a nice touch. I like the attempt of a custom boss, even if it does look really goofy, and I think it plays okay too despite it being really easy as well.

THEME - Abstract, House
DESIGN - 45/60
CREATIVITY - 28/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 78/100


THOUGHTS -
A very creative level that takes full-advantage of its unique gimmick. I do have some complaints though: I wish that the background wasn't all-white or something like that, maybe a grid? It's difficult to tell where invisible platforms are sometimes, especially in the 2nd half where it's almost all 1-block wide tiles. I also wish the 1st part was trimmed down a little, maybe a checkpoint where the Bowling Ball on the Keyholes part is because the 1st part is a very long section with a very real threat of failure at some points. Also the last part with the Goal Sphere is kind of a dickish "Think fast" moment where if you blink then you have no solution to the end and you just die right at the end.

THEME - Cave
DESIGN - 35/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 56/100


THOUGHTS -
The 1st half is quite annoying with rough setups that are hard to get through without a hit, and then the 2nd half offers a Cape immediately and is far easier to the point of being a trivial romp. I'm not really sure what this level is trying to go for with the platform line-guides, the really odd Ball-n-Chain behaviors, that one odd rotating platform section before the midpoint, it somehow all ends up being very forgettable.

THEME - Abstract, Desert, Haunted
DESIGN - 15/60
CREATIVITY - 13/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 33/100


THOUGHTS -
There's a part at the very beginning where you have to hit 3 Moving Coin Blocks to make a bridge for a On/Off block, but if you hit them the game ends up crashing. I playtested this on Mesen-S, bsnes, and Snes9x and they all had the same issue so I have no idea what's going on there. The rest of the level is just very all-over-the-place and scattered. The 1st part is very long without a single checkpoint in sight despite its difficulty and monotony, with things like having to go on the 1st layer of tiles (which is typically off-screen and looks like a bottomless pit) and genuine Kaizo blocks. The end of the level is strange too, as suddenly you're in a completely different stage and flying around on Yoshi. I don't get this.

THEME - Cave, Haunted
DESIGN - 42/60
CREATIVITY - 27/30
AESTHETICS - 8/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 77/100


THOUGHTS -
The conveiyance in this level is really poor. Most of my time was spent trying to figure out a specific section, mess up, die, and then repeat a lot of the level just for another shot at that section. If there were maybe coin guides or something that hinted at what to do then maybe it wouldn't have been so irritating. Also the Big Boo wasn't very fun either, especially with the little Slime Boo on the platform ontop of having to time your spinjumps onto the Bowling Balls.

THEME - Island/Beach
DESIGN - 26/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 8/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 49/100


THOUGHTS -
A very tedious level. You're basically running back and forth over and over grabbing Throw Blocks to throw into walls of Shatter Blocks. Repeat ad-naseaum. The quicksand, even though the level was named after it, did almost nothing with it besides as a safety net for the bottom of the screen despite its potential as a genuine obstacle.

THEME - Grassland, Cave, Water, Castle
DESIGN - 23/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 43/100


THOUGHTS -
I really wish I didn't only have 1 hit throughout the entire level. This makes the stage unnecessarily harsh, especially in areas like the underwater part and the Big Castle area. If some enemies were removed (such as the crowded Buzzy Beetle halls, that 2nd Big Bertha and the 2nd Bony Beetle in the water-filled hallway, which seems to only be hit 50% of the time) then I wouldn't such issue with this. Also if you're going to have Big Bertha in your level then don't force the player to go in the water, that's what made that 2nd Big Grass section so frustrating especially since you haven't had a checkpoint for a while at that point.

THEME - Castle
DESIGN - ??/60
CREATIVITY - ??/30
AESTHETICS - ??/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - ??/100


THOUGHTS -
I slogged all the way to the 3rd (and I think) final part when I died to a muncher bridge. The midpoint sent me to a broken bonus game that I couldn't even play to relieve some stress because the boxes were too high. If this little care has went into the level then I care very little as well, and I'm not even going to bother to finish it.

THEME - Forest, Abstract
DESIGN - 42/60
CREATIVITY - 30/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 78/100


THOUGHTS -
Not too bad of a level. Some of the puzzles should've been split in half with a midpoint because the last 2 rooms with the Thwimp and 2 Keys went on for quite a while, almost dragging on too long. It's fairly slow-paced so one mistake means you're doing about over 2 minutes of the same setups over again and that can be patience-wearing.

THEME - Sky, Mountain, Haunted
DESIGN - 42/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 8/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 70/100


THOUGHTS -
There's a few obstacles, especially in the 1st part, where I can just go over the wall or ceiling and skip something I see as perilous-looking, I'd say that's a bit of an oversight. Overall I think the level kind of repeats itself a lot with the thwomps and water bubble-setups, making it a little bit forgettable and easy for the whole thing to just kinda meld together into a big dark-blue mush of a level. Swimming in the water-bubbles isn't that fun either with the enemies and platforming going on in there, causes a bit of sore-thumbs on the D-pad trying to get around so tightly.

THEME - Snow
DESIGN - 23/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 48/100


THOUGHTS -
It's got thwomps, it's got snow, and it's at night. Not really much else. There's one setup I liked with the Quake Thwomps that freeze you as you go through some firebars, but that's about it. The only really annoying part was a sideways thwomp at the midpoint who was slightly too high to jump off of.

THEME - Cave
DESIGN - 33/60
CREATIVITY - 15/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 53/100


THOUGHTS -
An okay level. There's a lot of powerups in this stage so it's near impossible to get killed at any point. Some setups and ideas were only used once, like the Bowling Ball in the hall, using the blocks that move when you hit them, and the P-Balloon section. It ended up feeling pretty unfocused rather than coherent.

THEME - Cave
DESIGN - 26/60
CREATIVITY - 20/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 51/100


THOUGHTS -
Best way to describe this level is cheap. Peppered throughout the stage, at the 2nd and especially 3rd parts are Piranha Plants popping out of extremely annoying and inconvenient places that almost gurantee you're taking a hit. In the 3rd part you're riding a platform and a Fire Piranha Plant pops out with almost no way to get around it with the tiny amount of space you're given. That elevator area near the end with 2 piranha plants was especially egregious and needs near-perfect timing to get past.

THEME - Ice
DESIGN - 50/60
CREATIVITY - 24/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 80/100


THOUGHTS -
Decent level that doesn't go too overboard with its gimmick. I think a few of the Ice Bros. can be cut out for a smoother experience, like the one before the 1st checkpoint and both of them in the Big Boo boss fight, but other than that there's no major problems with the level.

THEME - Snow, Cave
DESIGN - 20/60
CREATIVITY - 10/30
AESTHETICS - 5/10
DIFFICULTY - ★
FUN -
OVERALL - 35/100


THOUGHTS -
Standard Super Mario World romp affair. It's got some ice blocks in it and 1 annoying Ice Bro. at the start. You also get to go in a cave! (The cave is not that cold looking.)

THEME - Cave, Fire
DESIGN - 53/60
CREATIVITY - 23/30
AESTHETICS - 10/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 86/100


THOUGHTS -
Very gorgeous-looking level and has some decent variety with the obstacles and setups, such as the On/Off switches and how they were utilized, keys, and the horizontal-wrap tower after the 1st checkpoint. My only wish is that it was a tad-more challenging, even if the difficulty manages to remain very consistent, as often throughout the level I felt I was just coasting along without any real opposition and very little amount of enemies on the screen. Not asking for anything kaizo-ish, but just that extra small kick of challenge. Maybe if there were a few harder creative setups in the last part it would've been even better.

THEME - Island/Beach, Grassland
DESIGN - 45/60
CREATIVITY - 18/30
AESTHETICS - 7/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 70/100


THOUGHTS -
A decent gimmick level, but deep down you're not really doing much throughout since you're just holding Down and jumping occasionally. None of the setups are inherently bad, but it's a bit repetitive and I wish there were some parts that were faster-paced and more tricky, since the slides are able to let you reach pretty high speeds and jumps but the level never goes that far.

THEME - Cave, Fire
DESIGN - 53/60
CREATIVITY - 25/30
AESTHETICS - 6/10
DIFFICULTY - ★★★
FUN -
OVERALL - 84/100


THOUGHTS -
A really solid following-block level. There was one obstacle I had issue with, it's when you had to jump down under a wall and then back up to the following block while the Lava Lotus makes trying to get through really clumsy. Some parts in the 2nd half kinda ended up sniping me out of nowhere too, but it wasn't overly difficult to get past nor did it overstay its welcome. Nicely done.