Beta 2: Leofani Manor

[RobSeegel]

536D6A637D040 wrote:
I'm not really a fan of cutting the mansion short. It seemed to me in the original game all the mansions were 100ish+ rooms. I've stuck with 120-160. (180 for Basano Hard, but I went over the top)

That's fine - I only suggested it because my favorite mansions from the first MM seemed to use this approach. When i read your comments I thought maybe I wasn't remembering clearly, So I went back and checked. Here's what I discovered:

Castle Doom:
- Easy: 77 Rooms, 16 Secrets
- Normal: 78 Rooms, 16 Secrets
- Hard: 81 Rooms, 18 Secrets

Cathedral Towers:
- Easy: 71 Rooms, 8 Secrets
- Normal: 90 Rooms, 10 Secrets
- Hard: 108 Rooms, 16 Secrets

Chateau Medusa:
- Easy: 99 Rooms, 14 Secrets
- Normal: 100 Rooms, 9 Secrets
- Hard: 112 Rooms, 12 Secrets

Falcon Manor:
- Easy: 97 Rooms, 13 Secrets
- Normal: 102 Rooms, 13 Secrets
- Hard: 102 Rooms, 13 Secrets

House of Baron Garneau:
- Easy: 86 Rooms, 14 Secrets
- Normal: 85 Rooms, 12 Secrets
- Hard: 97 Rooms, 15

Knight Mansion:
- Easy: 89 Rooms, 10 Secrets
- Normal: 104 Rooms, 10 Secrets
- Hard: 120 Rooms, 13 Secrets

Nightmare Mansion:
- Easy: 117 Rooms, 10 Secrets
- Normal: 118 Rooms, 10 Secrets
- Hard: 120 Rooms, 11 Secrets

Spider Palace:
- Easy: 110 Rooms, 15 Secrets
- Normal: 111 Rooms, 15 Secrets
- Hard: 122 Rooms, 20 Secrets

So... it did happen, but was it consistent? No.  I mentioned it for a few reasons:

- I really liked the approach in the first version of MM.
- I thought it was also great in differentiating Castle Basano Normal and Hard.

Finally,  I thought your Easy version of Leofani was largely excellent, though slightly harder than I expected. It seemed to me that the area I had the most issues with was fairly self contained, and by finding a way to chop it out, that might be an easier way of making the overall mansion easier without having to examine and possibly modify several rooms in that section.

The fact is, I was a bit lazy in my recommendation. What I'll do instead is take a second look at the section I took issue with, and give you more specifics. This should be more helpful than,

Hey, why don't you chop out this section?