10-01-2007, 12:15 PM
Freddy wrote: If someone really wants to find out if he/she is a really good player, in my opinion a visit at ACO, HoW, TotM and/or MMaM will give a good valuation of one's skill. And now maybe ARfRG as well. But don't know yet. Anyway, the 8 original hard mansions areeasyin comparison with those 4 mentioned custom mansions.
Absolutely!! I wholeheartedly agree....
But still.... I have to say that there is a certain difference between the hardness of - say - ACO and the new ARFRG. The hardness in ACO (at least in most cases) comes from difficult jumps, hard puzzles, nasty creatures etc. but all within the system of a
normally builtlogical mansion, whereas the hardest parts in ARFRG are created by pushing masnion design to its limits, with things like ladder jumps, hi-speed platforms, jumps into the void after which you have to land on the tiniest bit of vine ....stuff like that.
And although everyone here knows I'm no stranger to breaking design rules myself and like to pull a few nasty tricks as well, now and then, I always try to avoid unmanageable hardships that could give the impression they were put in just for the sake of it.
And brell comes up with many interesting hard rooms, that are fun to explore and solve and master. I really like his mansion. It's only now and then that he, IMHO, goes a bit too far and includes things that are unfairly hard and are exactly the sort of things other designers are asked to remove from their mansions by the admins prior to release.