Posted by Mineyl

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It looks...bad. Better than some, but it could definitely use some work.

1-1 looked okay until I noticed the weird pipe formation and bad palette transitions a couple screens from the start. Try to fix that.

1-2 has a lot of perspective issues. It'd be easy for the player to mistake those green tiles at the bottom of the stage for a floor...not to mention that the pipes and some places in the ground look like they're coming OUT of that when they should be in front of it. A strange error considering it doesn't happen at the beginning of the stage. Also, some of the piranha plants are showing their roots.

1-3...I don't know what it is, but the level feels too "mechanical." It's unreal to me in its geography, if that makes any sense. Too blocky. Try not to overload the player with too many enemies at once if you can help it.

1-4 looks like a blatant edit of...well, 1-4. Try to avoid that. Also, do be careful of sprite overload as it can frustrate the player. Instead of bogging the player down with many sprites, consider having one or two well-placed enemies instead.

1-Fortress is very boring in certain segments. The mindset seems to be way different from your other levels. Honestly, the previous stages looked more difficult. As the player progresses through a game, the game should become more difficult instead of easier.

1-5 has sprite CHR data issues. In SMB3 Workshop, make sure you take note of which enemies function together correctly. There's also a lot of slowdown here, too. See my comment on 1-4 about that. I also spotted graphical cut-off on your ledges. Do try to fix that.

1-Airship looks great if you're going for kaizo. Stacked cannons look tacky, too...and I don't think it's a good idea to have cannons shooting at Mario from off-screen when Mario is forced to stay so close to the edge and is therefore given insufficient time in which to dodge them. Maybe you should edit Larry's room a bit so that he doesn't get stuck like he does in the video, as it makes the boss able to be easily cheesed by the player.

I don't know, man. I'm just not feeling it with your hack. Maybe you should tell us your design philosophy? Is this hack serious? A joke? Kaizo? Just random messing around in SMB3 Workshop? What exactly constitutes "Nintendo-ish" to you?

On a final note, if you're not making a kaizo hack, then you should know that many level design enthusiasts consider it to be very bad design and taste for the author to fail attempts to clear his own creations. I noticed several deaths. If you should ever happen to make another video of this hack or any hack, do your best to clear it as professionally as possible, because if you yourself the creator cannot do it, then how can you expect anyone else to? Consider making this first world easier.

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Posted by Trelior

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What's up with Simon's palette? He's purple.

Besides that, it looks pretty cool. As for the story, the fist couple Castlevanias really didn't have one other than "Find Dracula, kill him, live happily."

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