08-02-2010, 10:05 PM
I address what I can now, and the rest later, when I have the ability to check the room numbers.
15508 Jack Stuck. Silver blocks are on, Jack died in zapper beam and reappeared on the left-most ladder. He can't go up or down. This room is too tedious.
Deliberately, so. It requires Jack to go through the block/zapper gauntlet twice. This is actually a recurring them in many of the mansions in this puzzle (unfortunately), where I force Jack to go through difficult areas as many times as I think I can get away with. Perhaps here, it was too many. Any thoughts on how it might be less tedious. I could reduce the number of zappers/jumps, and still force Jack to loop around. The intent here is definitely to make Jack work for the prize, which I believe will be two extra lives (or more) plus a save spot. I'm open to suggestion...
15710 It's a pain to have the levers reset when Jack has to leave and re-enter the room (if the Goblin falls in). Very frustrating.
Once through this area, Jack will never have to go back through it. Initially, I was leery of partial success - it was either all or nothing, however this is a critical path, and I can see how that would be frustrating. You have no idea how many times I played this room while setting it up... and I think that affects my judgement.
How about if made the six of the nine switches (the ones in the three I's) stick, and used some labeling scheme to differentiate those from the two on either side, and the one in the bottom. That way it would force at least the final three to done within the same session at the end? This way it preserves at least some of what I intended, but isn't quite as nuts?
I have to admit the movie
16506 Jack can't get the yellow key. I think you forgot to include a blue bat platform, maybe?
Nope. The platform is in the next screen down, and is triggered by a tile even further down. In order to complete the mechanism that gets the platform, you have to get further into the section. That's the challenge for this key. As opposed to the other two that each have a single, tough room.
16504 Way too many critters to dodge.
If this is the room I think it is, then there should be precisely 10 critters. some of them fixed place (more or less). The toughest of the bunch should be the fish. This room I believe has a BBB that tells you to talk to the guards, who basically tell you to collect shields and clear out all the critters. It's a scavenger hunt for shields to take out the critters. I'll double check the layout of the critters. I tried to ensure that you'd face no more than 2... maybe 3 at once, but I'll need to double check. Maybe you're talking about a different room.
16507 Shields don't travel on conveyor belt, they stay put. You need to check the box in the MLB to let them fall. Also, from the middle of the room on the right, Jack can jump into 16508 and die by zapper beam.
I need to take the shields out of this room anywhere. They're put here to help with the shield scavenger hunt, and I I'm not sure it's fair to put some of the shields in a bonus room. Then again, they'd be used to access a yellow door (
I'll double check those zappers/gray doors.
Thanks!
15508 Jack Stuck. Silver blocks are on, Jack died in zapper beam and reappeared on the left-most ladder. He can't go up or down. This room is too tedious.
Deliberately, so. It requires Jack to go through the block/zapper gauntlet twice. This is actually a recurring them in many of the mansions in this puzzle (unfortunately), where I force Jack to go through difficult areas as many times as I think I can get away with. Perhaps here, it was too many. Any thoughts on how it might be less tedious. I could reduce the number of zappers/jumps, and still force Jack to loop around. The intent here is definitely to make Jack work for the prize, which I believe will be two extra lives (or more) plus a save spot. I'm open to suggestion...
15710 It's a pain to have the levers reset when Jack has to leave and re-enter the room (if the Goblin falls in). Very frustrating.
Once through this area, Jack will never have to go back through it. Initially, I was leery of partial success - it was either all or nothing, however this is a critical path, and I can see how that would be frustrating. You have no idea how many times I played this room while setting it up... and I think that affects my judgement.
How about if made the six of the nine switches (the ones in the three I's) stick, and used some labeling scheme to differentiate those from the two on either side, and the one in the bottom. That way it would force at least the final three to done within the same session at the end? This way it preserves at least some of what I intended, but isn't quite as nuts?
I have to admit the movie
Despicable Mewas going through my head while putting much of this together.
16506 Jack can't get the yellow key. I think you forgot to include a blue bat platform, maybe?
Nope. The platform is in the next screen down, and is triggered by a tile even further down. In order to complete the mechanism that gets the platform, you have to get further into the section. That's the challenge for this key. As opposed to the other two that each have a single, tough room.
16504 Way too many critters to dodge.
If this is the room I think it is, then there should be precisely 10 critters. some of them fixed place (more or less). The toughest of the bunch should be the fish. This room I believe has a BBB that tells you to talk to the guards, who basically tell you to collect shields and clear out all the critters. It's a scavenger hunt for shields to take out the critters. I'll double check the layout of the critters. I tried to ensure that you'd face no more than 2... maybe 3 at once, but I'll need to double check. Maybe you're talking about a different room.
16507 Shields don't travel on conveyor belt, they stay put. You need to check the box in the MLB to let them fall. Also, from the middle of the room on the right, Jack can jump into 16508 and die by zapper beam.
I need to take the shields out of this room anywhere. They're put here to help with the shield scavenger hunt, and I I'm not sure it's fair to put some of the shields in a bonus room. Then again, they'd be used to access a yellow door (
prizefrom the scavenger hunt).
I'll double check those zappers/gray doors.
Thanks!