04-25-2010, 04:46 AM
Leofani Manor - Hard
I did take a look at this mansion, but I didn't finish it at this time. I ran into a few problems that have already been heavily reported, and ended up getting frustrated and stopped around room 15503.
Here were some comments:
16698 - Something weird with the layers in the track the platform moves on especially in the water. Unsure whether that was done to make it easier to track the platform's location. I think it should be completely visible at all times - mostly for aesthetic reasons.
Came back later and saw some weird behavior. The platform went along its track on the bottom - didn't see the layer issue I saw the first time, but then it started following a track, vertically on the far right side of the screen. Not sure what this was all about!
I flipped the lever back to the position, and left the room, then came back and everything appeared to back to normal.
16696 - I really like rooms like this where you have to take your time, look around and think a little bit. Good one!
16697 - Getting those last two money bags was a real challenge
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16700 - This room is CRAZY. I like it. Absolutely appropriate for HARD. I was shocked that a got the key my first attempt. I can't say the same for all coins - greed kills!
16301 - I've looked at the forum for this screen. Not much else to say here, really. I went ahead and used MBB to get around it for now.
16906 - Happy to get out of this room! What a pain, but I didn't have to cheat to get past it. If I had to make it a little easier without ruining it, I'd just a little more ground between the water and pressure-sensitive plate in the lower left. Even a little bit would make a big difference. Once I knew the trick moving left to right across the double plate, it wasn't bad. It was coming back across without going in the water that was ugly for me.
16706 - Ugh... This room probably crosses the line into ridiculously difficult - at least for me. One small thing to make it a little easier would be a pad on the upper left exit that would shut off the zappers once you got through it once. Even with that it will be very easy to burn through 6 Jacks given that you still have to go through the zappers once, plus contend with creatures.
16904 - That additional skull under the bat platform is cheap shot (as opposed to a cheap death) IMO. It's a little tricky to get that point as it is, and then to have something unseen interfere like that seems unnecessary to me.
15905 Stuck Jack, sitting on the bottom bat platform on the right side, with the upper platform is on the left side. Unfortunately, couldn't suspend in this position either so I couldn't rescue Jack in MMB.
Jack Stuck again at top of elevator.
15506 - Tried many, many times. Had to slow squares down.
15503 - Unable to get by Giant Spider without sacrificing Jack, and I couldn't see any way to get from this screen to the next one on the left.
It was roughly around this area where I realized that it had stopped being fun -- for me, anyway. This mansion is brutal - harder that most of the non-included mansions on the Forum boards. While hard mansions are supposed to be very difficult, they should be playable.
There were parts of it that I really enjoyed despite (or perhaps because of the difficulty), but I'll hold off looking at the rest of this, until there's an update available that fixes some of the issues already mentioned by others.
I'm going to move on to a different mansion for now.
I did take a look at this mansion, but I didn't finish it at this time. I ran into a few problems that have already been heavily reported, and ended up getting frustrated and stopped around room 15503.
Here were some comments:
16698 - Something weird with the layers in the track the platform moves on especially in the water. Unsure whether that was done to make it easier to track the platform's location. I think it should be completely visible at all times - mostly for aesthetic reasons.
Came back later and saw some weird behavior. The platform went along its track on the bottom - didn't see the layer issue I saw the first time, but then it started following a track, vertically on the far right side of the screen. Not sure what this was all about!
I flipped the lever back to the position, and left the room, then came back and everything appeared to back to normal.
16696 - I really like rooms like this where you have to take your time, look around and think a little bit. Good one!
16697 - Getting those last two money bags was a real challenge
.16700 - This room is CRAZY. I like it. Absolutely appropriate for HARD. I was shocked that a got the key my first attempt. I can't say the same for all coins - greed kills!
16301 - I've looked at the forum for this screen. Not much else to say here, really. I went ahead and used MBB to get around it for now.
16906 - Happy to get out of this room! What a pain, but I didn't have to cheat to get past it. If I had to make it a little easier without ruining it, I'd just a little more ground between the water and pressure-sensitive plate in the lower left. Even a little bit would make a big difference. Once I knew the trick moving left to right across the double plate, it wasn't bad. It was coming back across without going in the water that was ugly for me.
16706 - Ugh... This room probably crosses the line into ridiculously difficult - at least for me. One small thing to make it a little easier would be a pad on the upper left exit that would shut off the zappers once you got through it once. Even with that it will be very easy to burn through 6 Jacks given that you still have to go through the zappers once, plus contend with creatures.
16904 - That additional skull under the bat platform is cheap shot (as opposed to a cheap death) IMO. It's a little tricky to get that point as it is, and then to have something unseen interfere like that seems unnecessary to me.
15905 Stuck Jack, sitting on the bottom bat platform on the right side, with the upper platform is on the left side. Unfortunately, couldn't suspend in this position either so I couldn't rescue Jack in MMB.
Jack Stuck again at top of elevator.
15506 - Tried many, many times. Had to slow squares down.
15503 - Unable to get by Giant Spider without sacrificing Jack, and I couldn't see any way to get from this screen to the next one on the left.
It was roughly around this area where I realized that it had stopped being fun -- for me, anyway. This mansion is brutal - harder that most of the non-included mansions on the Forum boards. While hard mansions are supposed to be very difficult, they should be playable.
There were parts of it that I really enjoyed despite (or perhaps because of the difficulty), but I'll hold off looking at the rest of this, until there's an update available that fixes some of the issues already mentioned by others.
I'm going to move on to a different mansion for now.