SMWCentral Secret Santa Levels!

EDIT: My official review from having played the level:

I do like your theme and graphics here, but the difficulty leaves a lot to be desired. The first section is alright, but then you go underground and you're overwhelmed with small platforms and tight spaces with a lot of venus fire traps shooting quick-ish fireballs at you, all while there's no real point to rest. Your very first instance of the venus fire trap, you have it above you while you have to avoid a hothead, AND you have to wait for a spike to lower so you don't get hurt. This, on a small platform. From there, it's relatively mild, until you get past the Grinder- then, you ask the player to dodge some incoming Fishbones in a tight corridor while two venus fire traps shoot two not-slow fireballs each at you. I've yet to get through that part undamaged, even with a fire flower. It's just too little space to dodge, nowhere is safe. Then...then you get past that, and you have to land on a platform patrolled by a Li'l Sparky...at which point two mini-banzai bills are shot at you immediately. This is near-impossible to avoid, and attempts to avoid usually get you hit by the higher one, or flung into lava. The shooters really should not shoot that soon.

After you get to that part, you have a nice trash-remake of SMB1 World 1-1, and it's pretty neat, if easy. Midpoint's there, free life if you remember where it is in SMB1, awesome. Sadly, I game over'd in the segment right after, and could not make it back. Overall, if I had to grade this level between 1-10, I'd give it between 4-5. It looks nice, but the overall quality of the design is kinda eh. It needs work.

Still, definitely deserves a badge for all your hard work! You did a great job on the theme, it's not what I was expecting at all! XD I expected either something involving Papyrus (given I used a quote from him), or a literal Trash Can, not...this. I like this more than a literal trash can, to be honest!

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<Adam> I feel like smwc is a prostitute now, because we put up a porn ad for money

eh. no one made mine.

My requested level was amazing. As I wasn't very clear about what should go up and down (most people would've thought the lava was it), the gimmick of the cave ground was cleverly used thorough the level, having it fun to play. Great work with the aesthetics as well!

Dr. Tapeworm definitely deserves the badge. The level was surprisingly creative, since someone else would've probably tried just something simple.

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I was assigned your level, but I really couldn't finish your level request. I was one of the secret satans this year, and your request was quite impossible to intentionally misunderstand as I was told. Most of the ideas I tried would be considered trolling instead of what Satan originally wanted.
I'm sorry about that. :/

His request:

I liked my gift. It was a nice playthrough. Few blind spots, but it was very good to play through.

Yeah I was afraid of that. That's why I thought the whole satan thing, though sounded good at first, is not that great in application.
When I made my level for leod I simply said "screw it" to the satan thing, and just made what I want.

The level I ended up receiving is pretty neat. Bonus points for making me think that it was a secret Satan level at first, and it's always nice seeing the net climbing sprite being used.

The level deserves to get a badge.

Nice level it even had Mechakoopas in it. Nick 139 should get a badge.

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The level I got was pleasant, it was not far from what I was looking for and it was pretty fun. I liked the way you misunderstood the "illusion" part even if it was just a choice of words. The level's look was also nicely done, even if I expected more use of the castle tileset, what I got was enough. There was only one part that annoyed me, which was that one thwimp that fell on me off-screen in the dark cloud area, that's a small design hiccup. Else would be that it's a bit claustrophobic at parts, thankfully not the majority.

Anyways, overall, thanks for the level! You put the effort in it. Receive that badge. (are we even supposed to be the one giving permission for the badge lol?)

I liked the level I received, especially the enemy were placed really thoughtful, so that every enemy can be dangerous for you. The Satan-aspect was also nicely built in, it's not a typical "maze" level I was actually thinking of . And also the whole level was completly vanilla (other than that one layer 3 bg) and could perfectly in a very good vanilla hack. KDeee should also get a badge.

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I really liked the level I got: the music was amazing, the level itself was well done, a bit repetitive, but entertaining and very final-ish. I laughed at the boss room, you really nailed the satan thing.
Totally deserves a badge.

I liked my level, and I think you did a pretty good job with it. I think a few things could have been better, but they're not very major:
- I didn't notice the jumping mushroom in my first try, and got stuck. Then I tried to suicide by jumping off the ledge, but...
- ...it crashed.
- I think the animated back area color was a bit too much, but I can see what you tried to do.

Other than that, I liked it a lot! My favorite part probably was the second half. That was a pretty nice idea.
Pikachu definitely deserves a badge. Nice job, and thanks!

My requested level made me laugh since the Kremzeeks were all statues. I was expecting them to be enemies. The level was pretty tough too, especially when I had to ride the line-guided platform. I had to jump off as soon as I saw the ledge, or the platform would scroll off-screen. I played several of these levels on my Twitch stream, and some seemed unplayable, like the gravity flip level and the Satan's Happy House level. In the former, I couldn't press the P-Switch when upside-down when it seemed that's what was expected. I'm assuming there's something wrong with the ASM there.

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Quintesson Judge: Silence, or you will be held in contempt of this court!
Hot Rod: I have nothing but contempt for this court!
- Transformers the Movie (1986)

Thanks! Very glad you liked it.


The level Sockbat Replica made for me was really fun, the layer 2 was used very creatively in both sections, and the question "what the hell did this guy eat?" in the message box at beginning came to my mind a thousand of times through the level. I think the visuals could have been more interesting though, the layer 3 remained unused, so the background was just one flat color...
I appreciate you made what I wanted despite Satan's orders, it's very brave, even I felt like I had to obey.
Sockbat Replica should get a badge for his work.

I loved the level I got, thank you so much for make anonymous user (even though I now know who you are :b)!
The effort put into the presentation was amazing, I loved the cutscenes and how the overworld changed as well as the humour.
The level itself was pretty neat, it's totally not what I expected but I always loved underwater sprites used on land. The execution was very fun to play!
Totally deserves a badge.

This alone is badge worthy.


The gravity physics felt a bit wonky (probably because of the moving land though), but the level didn't really punish too hard for it, though it was still balls hard!
Music is basically exactly what any smooth mole would listen to yes






There's not a single meme in your level, and nothing about it is related to Undertale either, so.....

Unless the very concept of dog is a meme now?

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I enjoyed the level I got. The first section was really nice, what with the tornadoes and everything. I struggled a bit with the part right before the midpoint; that one jump was surprisingly hard. Maybe I was doing something wrong, I dunno. The autoscrolling part just kind of happened lol
Also, these palettes are delicious. Give Berkay his badge.