iNathanM's Level Reviews

[iNathanM]

Hey Guys!

Are you wanting an in depth review of your level? Then you are in the right place! I will be reviewing as many levels as I can, as often as I can, so please feel free to request a review!

I usually review levels in the following sections;

Story/Objective
Design
Originality
Bugs
Final Thoughts

To get your final over all score, I add all the scores up (All scores are out of 10) then divide by 4 to get your final score, which will be found in the "Final Thoughts" section.

If you don't know what to expect from me, please check out the links below, for the 5 levels I have reviewed. I put a lot of work into my reviews, so on a side note, please do not ask for a review if your not going to bother reading them. The 5 level reviews I wrote below took me an hour to two hours each, and I plan on putting that much effort into each of your reviews

Examples of my Previous Work

http://tinyurl.com/WillGuitarGuy-ProspectorPanic - WillGuitarGuy's Prospector Panic Level Review (Located on Page 3)
http://tinyurl.com/Mrgenji-NinjasVsPirates - Mrgenji's Ninja's VS Pirates Level Review (Located on Page 3)
http://tinyurl.com/EnochRoot-SnowWhite7Sacks - EnochRoot's Snow White and the Seven Sacks Level Review (Located on Page 5)
http://tinyurl.com/tookewl-ASimpleFarmGame - tookewl's A Simple Farm Game Level Review (Located on Page 2)
http://tinyurl.com/daredude55-CaveofWonders - daredude55's Cave of Wonders Level Review (Located on Page 1)

I will post your review in this thread, and then I will leave a message on your profile telling you that I have written you a review, so that you don't have to continuously check back!

Hope I can write some reviews for you guys out there!

-iNathanM

[EnochRoot]

These are some of the highest quality in depth reviews I've ever read. Lots of work and thought has gone in to them.

[kaiju_kid]

Hey Nate

Would you mind reviewing my Land of Illusion level? The thread is in the creativity section. Was wondering what the casual player thought of it as most of the people here on the forum already know me, a new memebers perspective would be great.

[iNathanM]

One confusing as hell level haha. Anyway let me get onto the review.


Story/Objective

There is no real story to this level, but the main point of this level is to get through the challenges that are thrown at you by the Enigmatic Quinn. The first puzzle that you encounter is a puzzle where you have to manuver a turning platform. You are told to Hold On to Something. This is fairly easy, try to make it to the stairs, and each time the place spins, hold onto a nearby object. This bit tricked me at first, as I was thinking to myself, what does it say... Hold on to something. Then it took me a while to realise what was actually happening, a great introduction puzzle. Next you are told to "have a ball, but into darkness you may fall". This is the second puzzle in the area, there are various spinning balls and you have to grab on and make sure you grab onto another spinning ball. Though be warned, not all the balls are grab-able so make sure you are careful before you take a leap! This again is a fairly easy puzzle, but it shows that you cannot trust what you see all the time, as not all the balls are grab-able! The next challenge is then to jump on shattered glass. This puzzle is slightly more complex, as you are not sure what piece of glass you can walk on, and which will push you into the darkness below. Moving on through the level you see various puzzles, but another one I would like to bring up is a jumping puzzle. You have to jump from platform to platform, whilst there are electric balloons moving back and forth. You are able to do very high jumps here, which I thought was a really good idea, and I enjoyed jumping through this bit. Sometimes though it was tricky to get on some of the platforms, but this isn't even the beginning of the trickiness yet. The next puzzle I wanted to bring up, was the puzzle which reminded me of the painting "Crazy Stairs". This one was a tad confusing, until I realised that there was a switch that you had to hit to get a set of stairs to spin around. Great work on the effects here, I loved how this puzzle looked! One of the first very difficult puzzles I would have to say that I experienced was the maze. You are given a jet pack, and it seems pretty straight forward, get to the end without being electrocuted, but believe me it is a much harder job than that. I have to say this was the main part of the level where I got frustrated, but I would have to say great work on this puzzle! The final puzzle, which took me ages to work out, and believe me it is much simpler than I made it out to be. You simply have to grab onto all the objects to get them to disappear, whereas i tried to burrow my way through them!

Rating: 10 out of 10 - This level was simply fantastic. I enjoyed the puzzles that were thrown at me, and this level made you have to use your mind! Great work!

Design

To warn you, the following sections are usually much shorter than the previous!

I loved the look of this level entirely. The way that you were not really able to anticipate what you would have to do, and the constant movement of the environment really helped bring this level out. I am assuming you used the 3D effect, as the level did feel 3D to me. The puzzles all seemed to have a lot of work put into them, especially the maze (where you maneuver using a jetpack) as this part seemed as if you had put a lot of work into it. Even though I found that area the most frustrating, haha.

Rating: 9 out of 10 - Only part of the design I could mark you done on is that some areas seemed not to reset themselves, where they seemed as if they should - read Bugs about the one in which I noticed.

Originality

Nothing much to say here other than a very Original level. I have seen nothing like it, well I could take that back and say some of EnochRoot's levels are similar to this, but still this is a very original idea, and has a great difficulty setting to it. If your other levels are similar, I would have alot of fun playing them.

Rating: 10 out of 10 - Very Original. A Great Idea! You should make more levels like this, I had a lot of fun playing through this one!

Bugs

Only thing I saw which was wrong through the whole level was that when you swing on the King Card, it seems to get stuck over the other end, and not return to where you have to swing on it. This means that you are not able to continue on with the level unless you restart. This happened various times to me, which was what made me believe it wasn't intentional. If it is though please say, it semt though as if it wasn't intentional.

Rating: 8 out of 10 - Rather annoying bug/problem, but if resolved I am sure this part would run smoothly.

Final Thoughts

This was a very fun level to play through, and I feel lucky that I was able to review it. I loved how difficult it was, and I also liked that way that all the challenges made you think, instead of just mindlessly run through it. A Great lot of work has been put into this level, and you should be proud of your work!

Rating: 9 out of 10

LBP Rating: 5 Stars
LBP Tag: Tricky
Heart: Yes
Creator Heart: No


Thanks for asking me to review this level, I had a lot of fun playing it and I am definitely recommending it to my friends!

[kaiju_kid]

Wow, you're a reviewing maniac aren't you? Usually most reviewers take a day or two to get back with a review, and you just whip them out in an hour and extremely detailed to boot! Your review actually helped alot because of what you didn't say. You didn't say the level was TOO hard. I've been looking at the completion rate and it's pretty low which led me to believe it was too tough. I was also expecting you to point out the spinning squares as the hard part, but you actually said it was the checker board which is also a first. About the King card reset issue, I actually knew it would have to reset itself if you let go or fell off somehow, but left it as low priority because the thermo is at max. I found that you can actually just jump to the card table and still complete the puzzle if you needed to without sailing across on the King card which is just eye candy really. Not an excuse for not reseting, it's just when I tried to place an emitter to make the section resetable, it would over heat the thermo. Anyway, I'm glad you thought it was challenging but not impossible which is what I was begining to think. I thank you for your comments and imput and am glad to have been your first thread review of what will be many I'm sure.

[goldy5000]

hi nate could u please rewiew my only level psn goldy5000

[foxeye13]

Hey Nate,
Can i ask you to review my level Dark: The Decision @ xandre13...
Its only acessible by playing Dark: Beginnings, but the first is a teaser so its short... And so you can follow the story...
Thanks in advance...

[iNathanM]

Wow 2 Reviews in one night

I'll get round to them very soon guys! foxeye13 yours may take a lil' longer, as I'll do goldy5000 first

Ill notify you when I've posted the review

[goldy5000]

Wow 2 Reviews in one night

I'll get round to them very soon guys! foxeye13 yours may take a lil' longer, as I'll do goldy5000 first

Ill notify you when I've posted the review

awsome thank you

[iNathanM]

Okay goldy5000's Review:

Level Name: The Official Sackboy Hat Store Get Your Saints and Colts Hats Here

I usually rate my levels with the following categories: Story/Objective, Design, Originality and Bugs. Then I give my final thoughts. I had to think of how I could really review this level, as infact its more of a shop, so this review is going to be much shorter than all my level reviews because of this. Though in this review I will talk about the items available, and discuss the quality of the items.

Items Available:

Superman Hat - Has a very nice design to it, and did look VERY similar to the Superman logo, well done! Though the logo seems to be slightly to the left (for me) maybe you could try to put it into the middle? This would help when a person puts it into their hat!
Boba Fett Hat - At first I wondered how it looked like Boba Fett, then I looked at it closer and realized! Great design here, looks similar to the Mask that Boba Fett wears. No complaints here!
NFL Jaguars Hat
NFL Cheifs Hat
Red Sox Hat
MLB Angles Hat
MLB Dogers Hat
MLB Mariners Hat
NFL Colts Hat
NFL Saints Hat

Now I have to say that the characters that introduced you to the shop were very nice designed characters, and great work for using them, even though the Pichu seemed a bit out of place haha. The way that the items are presented could have had a little bit more work put into it, as it seemed to be various square boxes, with a mouth on them, and then the picture of what it looked like on your sack person. Maybe you could have made the mouths invisible, so that it didn't seem to be a box with a mouth! I have to say though the pictures of Sack Boy wearing the hat were useful so that you could see what they look like. The only annoying part about it, is that you have to sticker them on yourself, but obviously there is no way around this as MM don't allow costume sharing at the moment, but with a bit of work you can get the stickers in a decent position. Now I cannot comment on all of the hats, as I am not into sports I couldn't really comment on all of those ones, also in England we don't have the superbowl, so don't really know much about the teams. Though the ones I can talk about I have next to their respective names.

Final Thoughts

Well all I can say is that you have put a lot of effort into your designs, even though I couldn't really comment on the Sporty ones, as I don't know what they are all supposed to look like (apologies). Though I can say you have put a lot of work into the hats, but maybe you could do a few un sporty ones? This would get people, like me wanting to come and get some of the stickers for their hats. I do have to say though that the overall design of the shop could be more appealing to the eye than it is. Use your imagination for something eye catching! Maybe some LED lights or better signs advertising the hats! I am sure if you thought about it you would have a lot of great ideas, and overall it would make your shop be that bit better!

Rating: 6 out of 10 - A great set of stickers here, with well thought out designs. Though the shop itself isn't very appealing to the eye, and could have the magic mouth's not showing, as these look out of place. With a little bit of work you would have yourself a great store.

LBP Rating: 3 Stars
Tag: Stickers
Heart: No
Creator Heart: No

Sorry for such a short review, never really had to review a shop before, and not much I could really talk about! Hope this helps though, I tried my best to pick out things I thought you should improve on, and picked up on some of the designs. Even though I couldn't really comment on most of them (apart from 2) as im not really into sports, and don't really know what they should look like! Once again apologies for that!

Foxeye13, I will get onto yours tomorrow when I get back home!