After the warming-up in Cheetah Castle Easy my Jack did visit Cheetah Castle Normal. It was interesting to see that the normal version was clearly created prior to the easy version. And also the better version. The puzzles did fit better and the first half of the mansion had, for my Jack, the thrill-to-game-over. Not easy to do but very well done. Congrats!<br />
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Halfway the mansion suddenly the way was open to the exit door. I understand why. Only a few steps from the finish there is a hint for somewhere completely else in the mansion. But it has the consequence that my Jack collected a serious treasure what gave him so many lives that he didn't came into problems anymore.<br />
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Room 18312 has a half-Jack-stuck. See image. Jack can't get back to the middle floor. So he is forced to commit suicide and reappear at the right of the room

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You will find the promised version 1.2 of Cheetah Castle Easy for MM1 here: <a href="https://actionsoft.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=1188">Cheetah Castle Easy</a>;

Seasons greetings from Brugge (Belgium).<br />
May 2025 bring us a lot of Midnight Mansion surprises!<br />
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... besides MM?<br />
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I like hidden object games and love the King's Bounty series: The legend, Armored princess, Warriors of the north and Dark side.<br />
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I play the KB series using Crossover from Codeweavers.

Brave new world is a big and IMO a very good mansion, which is a fun to play. It is mainly in the <blockquote>normal</blockquote> zone with a few harder places.<br />
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But it seems to me that, in general, easy, normal and mansions are mainly defined by critters, like, how many there are to avoid, how to avoid them and how easy/hard it is to avoid them. IMO there are other things to consider when defining the difficulty of a mansion, like, how secrets are hinted and how puzzles are designed. BNW is, IMO, a mansion that has a good balance of this.<br />
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Just a few remarks:<br />
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1. The officially uploaded version has an improved blue zone. It really does not matter where the player uses the rainbow key first and whether gold or silver blocks are on when that key is used.<br />
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2. Room 16705: It is not clear IMO that the player must go all the way down the longest ladder to be able to survive in this room.<br />
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3. Room 16704: Jack arrives in the room from the middle right and triggers a platform. My stupid Jack left the room to the left without using that platform first, came back but now the platform was disactivated.<br />
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4. The color code puzzle is good but some people may still be having a problem here due to mild color blindness.<br />
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5. Room 18102: I cannot find any hint for the secret here<br />
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6. Grey zone improved<br />
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7. Green zone: The player can now access all the green rooms regardless of how he uses his green keys. A big improvement IMO<br />
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8. The yellow key puzzle in the last zone is brilliant. And, as so many times in this mansion, the hint to the solution is subtle indeed. I cannot find any hint for a secret in 16295<br />
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Hope that I haven't revealed too much.<br />
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<span style="color: #ff0000;">@ Catwoman:</span>I don’t know if you once in a while are having a look at the boards (without login in). That is why I, as administrator, tried to contact you by email but the address I found seems not to be in use anymore.<br />
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While revisiting this nice and rather safe mansion I encountered a few problems: 2 Jack-stucks and 3 cheap deaths. All 5 issues were easy to fix. So I hope you don’t mind that I soon will bring an update on the boards.<br />
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<span style="color: #ff0000;">Text edited</span> on December the 25th of 2024.<br />
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In the past my only building efforts in MM2 were the creating of the first part of our community mansion <span style="color: #ff9900;">Hanging Gardens of Babylon</span>. To restart activities in MM2 I first needed to solve both hard- and software problems. It took many months.<br />
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But then started the fun. Bit by bit ideas became parts of rooms, rooms got linked, a first area created. Then my friend <span style="color: #0000ff;">brell</span> came into view. Just like more than 20 years ago he was so kind to offer time and energy to betatest what I was building. That process happened public. It could be followed in the Free Chat board of this forums. There was no hurry. I took my time to get things like I wanted them to be. It took us months.<br />
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The result is the ca 140-room mansion <span style="color: #ff9900;">Brave New World</span>. It should have a normal level of difficulty, with some harder or quizzical spots that are announced with signs. For the player’s comfort there are saving pedestals on regular base and, like in the MM1-mansion <span style="color: #ff9900;">Midnight Mazes and Monsters</span>, check points to find out if you found all money and secrets so far.<br />
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Enclosed you find images of the first two rooms. When you have a closer look at the first room, you will notice that Jack receives a starting fee with a silver coin and that there is a key shown. In the second room seven scorpions are speeding to the gap to avoid that Jack gets the purple key. A problem that he can’t solve right away with offering some lives because he has less lives than there are scorpions.<br />
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In my opinion BNW is a mansion where Jack nearly always will be very busy. I hope you will enjoy it.

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Freddy, you have to be logged in to access this board on BNW. All other discussions are open to anyone to read.<br />
Why?

Room 16297<br />
The ladderjump is not very obvious, which can lead to a cd.<br />
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PS have you changed the transition zone? Because now the silver bricks are on but not the gold bricks. Or am I doing something wrong?

<strong>Brave New World</strong><br />
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Designer: Freddy<br />
Difficulty: normal with announced quizzical or harder spots<br />
Rooms: 142<br />
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