Beta 2: Castle Basano

[Wingy]

Here are the changes I shall make:

16494 Easy - Removed the lava in the goblin's 'box', making it more normal, and added a ladder instead of a poll so you can re-enter the room if you make a mistake.
16495 Easy - Added a falling platform moderately hidden near the secret.
16495 Easy - Add a second vine so you can get back up, so you can re-enter the room with the secret if you miss your ride. Also will be removing the snake.
16297 Easy - Removing the sign.
16702 Easy - Adding a wall so Jack can't jump inside the conveyor belt area.
16101 Easy - Reduced number / speed of monsters.
16300 Easy - Removed a skull-spider, removed the skeleton.
15911 Easy - Replacing the green door with a blue one, fixing a mix-up of keys/doors.

You said there was an imbalance of keys and you ended up at the end with a blue key at the last green door? Alright, I'll change the door to a blue door.

Just checked and that makes all the keys/doors even.

15499 Normal - The lever in the middle lever will now open all doors permanently instead of toggling them.

Thanks Mapman and rose for the reports!

[rose]

Normal

Finished by cheating as I couldn't get the key in room 15499.

There some graphics to correct. How thorough should I be?
One is in room 16896 When on the left yellow moving brick Jack travels behind the big shield. Looks weird.

In some other rooms Jack can get a head or foot behind a wall. I haven't noted those places but could go back and find them! Should I?

[Wingy]

Are you talking about if Jack is walking on a wall and part of his body is going behind the wall due to layer 6 bricks in the wall?

If so, I wouldn't worry about that, seeing it doesn't really matter.

I'll take out that shield and put in... uh... a money bag picture.

[rose]

I don't know about layers but that is what I am talking about. Good I don't have to go back and find all those palces. :o

[Wingy]

Has anyone checked out Castle Basano HARD yet? I will need some testers to check it out, if nobody has yet.

• Making sure everything is at the right difficulty level, not extremely hard.
• Suggestions to improve things.
• Music or graphical glitches.
• Jack stucks.
• and so on.

[rose]

I started on it yesterday. I will continue later today or tomorrow.

[RobSeegel]

All right, I've done Easy and Normal versions so far, and I've just started Hard.

The comments I had on Easy have already been mentioned, and it seems as though they've been taken care of. I wouldn't mind running through Easy again after the changes.

16101 - Message: I think it's better to say

Wine Fumes

than

Fumes of the Wine

So far from what I've seen, this dungeon skews a bit harder than from the first game. Normal wasn't too bad... I was a little amused that I actually did better my first go around on Normal than I did on Easy.

This may have been because these two dungeons seemed so close - to me, at least. As opposed to the differences I've seen so far between Normal and Hard. There's some pretty drastic differences there!

One thing in the original is that the length of the dungeons appeared to change depending on the difficulty. As I say this, I'm not entirely sure facts are on my side, but that's
how it seemed to me, at least on some of the dungeons. The layouts were always similar enough so that you tell they were the same, but they were different enough so that it felt like a different dungeon. I wonder if some of the screens from Easy could be removed to streamline it a bit.

I think I'm going to take another pass through it to make specific recommendations. Perhaps I'll use MLB to look at it more closely.

Brief thoughts on Normal:

15499 - Was there another way of opening the lower-left door without sacrificing Jack?

This was noted in passing as I was playing through. I didn't spend too much time looking, but if not then I dislike that for normal.

16308 - Was a nice touch ;-) It was an unexpected break in the action.

I had no problem with any of the doors in Normal mode.

[RobSeegel]

Anthony, do you have an update to the Easy mansion that I can run from the Custom area when I go through it again?

[hawaii]

15693 Hard

I'm sorry, but I STILL think that the coloured blocks in this area are to difficult.  If Jack lands on the little LEFT ledge & tries to jump up, he falls thru the bricks...and they are just toooo FAST for adjusting his steps for the jump.

[hawaii]

15698 - Hard

There use to be a spider just above Jack's head, but he ate the first Jack! When the yellow bricks are in the position of the pic below, the spider can't go all the way down. The yellow brick blocks him, making a safe jump to the right impossible. To me, that spider is a cheap death.