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A few remarks from the tester - brell - 12-05-2024
Brave new world is a big and IMO a very good mansion, which is a fun to play. It is mainly in the
normalzone with a few harder places.
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.
Just a few remarks:
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.
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.
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.
4. The color code puzzle is good but some people may still be having a problem here due to mild color blindness.
5. Room 18102: I cannot find any hint for the secret here
6. Grey zone improved
7. Green zone: The player can now access all the green rooms regardless of how he uses his green keys. A big improvement IMO
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
Hope that I haven't revealed too much.
Re: A few remarks from the tester - Freddy - 12-07-2024
4C5C4B42422E0 wrote: Brave new world is a big and IMO a very good mansion, which is a fun to play. It is mainly in theThanks for the nice words. However, the balance between risk of death and the amount of money is wrong. Very soon Jack collects so much money that a game over isn’t obvious any more what takes the thrill away. I was too generous, e.g. a silver treasure room in the first section. Could have been better.normalzone with a few harder places.
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. ...
4C5C4B42422E0 wrote: … 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.In the lower right corner is a money bag to tease Jack. But like it is now it is hard to get it for a normal mansion. Really hard! When I lower the speed from 4 to 3 it suddenly feels normal to go to that corner.
4C5C4B42422E0 wrote: … 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.Oops. Easy to fix: action needs to be permanent or moving the T to the bottom floor.
4C5C4B42422E0 wrote: … 4. The color code puzzle is good but some people may still be having a problem here due to mild color blindness.My bad. Never thought a single second about that. And tough to correct this. Need to think about it. And ideas are welcome.
4C5C4B42422E0 wrote: … 5. Room 18102: I cannot find any hint for the secret hereThe map in the upper right corner is the hint. Okay for ‘normal'? For ‘easy' probably not.
4C5C4B42422E0 wrote: … 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.I don’t know but maybe this kind of hinting is new. Jack has no hint around when he arrives in this room for the first (and second) time. Only later, when entering the room from an other angle the hint comes clearly into view. So he has to use the first entrance again with his new knowledge.
8-) ?