[ON HOLD] 01C - Creepy Dark Woods - SMW Central Production 1.5

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I was looking for a good place to start* with level revisions that did not require amount to "make a new (sub)level", and this seemed fitting enough. The second biggest issue as most of you may know is that some Hopping Flames were inserted to the second half without anyone noticing. The biggest issue? The second half is also very claustrophobic- and I mean VERY claustrophobic- if you don't have a cape, (screw a flower!), you're fucked.

So here I am to step in to fix this up. If it means that the level beocomes "too easy" and falls out of World 8, so be it. I'll re-theme it if necessary. The first half is pretty basic in its design anyway.

*But why not your own level? I have plans for that, but that's on hold for now.

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What's this? Well, after some consideration and looking at the level as a whole again, I figured after all that it would be better for the level to be completely overhauled to fit W8 since the current layout either doesn't do it or does it for the wrong reasons. Rather than trying

So here are two very early screenshots showing some of what I had in mind. Let's just say for now it's a composite version of Spooky Scary Swamp (VLDC7) and Myrrky Mainline (SWMCP2), but all of that will change as the level develops. Forest's Furnace already took care of the firey forest theme and I didn't feel like making yet another fire forest level (I did a portion of one in SMWCP2), so I went a different traveled path and with with spooky-ish.

While currently this will be a yellow level, I can turn it into a red one if necessary.

I'm also tempted to have a song in the ROM that will be removed/replaced with this one (touhou alert, by the way) since almost none of the others would fit. Yes I still have no speakers, but I heard this one long before then.

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Relevant Chat Log

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[22:38:01] <MrDeePay> ugh
[22:38:16] <MrDeePay> I think I designed myself against a wall with trying to undertake Creepy Dark Woods.
[22:38:34] <BlackMageMario> why, what's happened?
[22:38:57] <MrDeePay> At first I thought I would just have to rework the second half with changing only a few things with the first half.
[22:40:10] <MrDeePay> Then I realized that I need to completely redo the entire thing because of how gimpable and meh the level as a whole was.
[22:40:18] <BlackMageMario> oh
[22:40:28] <BlackMageMario> are you running out of ideas for it?
[22:40:36] <MrDeePay> Not quite.
[22:40:43] <MrDeePay> So I tried to do something much different while trying to vaguely maintain the original concept of the level.
[22:41:24] <MrDeePay> But technical limitations and how exploitable the cape is limits me to the point that I'm wasting too much time on this particular level when I could be doing something else.
[22:43:11] <MrDeePay> I'm seriously contemplating freeing the level up for someone else.
[22:43:28] <BlackMageMario> that sucks