Beta 3: Castle Basano

[Wingy]

Hey Semi,
could I ask you to go through Castle Basano Hard for me? What I am looking for is if rooms are the appropriate level, any cheap deaths when going between rooms.

I already got the lava fish coming in from the left in 16300 --- examples like that is the sort of cheap things I need to fix, and Im sure this mansion is full of them.

Anthony

[Semi-Native]

Will do, Anthony. I'll try to do that today and report back to you.

[Wingy]

Thanks! I really appreciate it.

[Semi-Native]

Okay, I've gone through the Hard version, and here are my thoughts:

15493 Jack can shut off the zapper beams only from the other side, and by then he doesn't need to shut them off because he exits to the right. Seems odd.

15293 Two scorpions and the snake maybe a bit too hard

16300 Ghost and skull spider a little too close together

16294 Two birds very hard to avoid

16493 Slow the skull spider down a bit

16694 Zapper beams very hard (already reported by Rob in Reply #13)

16499 Having to avoid two birds while riding a platform is a bit too hard

16502 Too many critters

16096 I can't figure out how to get to the lower part. Help?

16904 Almost impossible to avoid getting eaten by the big spider

16506 Yellow platform moves too fast - too hard to time it right

16704 Markings on the wall at left look like they lead to a secret (which I think they do in at least one other version) but here they don't

15506 Zappers and falling platforms too hard

15306 Zappers and falling platforms a little too hard

15106 Too many critters

15307 Really hard to pull that lever with the spider and scorpion, and not get killed

I'll go through the mansion again (maybe tomorrow) just to look for cheap deaths. I just concentrated on difficulty level on this run-through.

[Wingy]

Thanks, Ill make changes.

To get to that secret you had to climb a secret ladder in room 16296. I'll add some abnormalities to the stone where the ladder is so players can see the secret better.

[rose]

Castle Basano Hard

15698 - 15699
Jack has the grey bricks on and then I look at the map. I turn off the map and the grey brick change to golden and Jack falls if he is standing in the wrong place. Shouldn't one be able to look at the map without the bricks changing?

[Wingy]

What? That's crazy! I have noticed unintended changing of the grey blocks but not from looking at the map, but from going between rooms. It's very strange.

I think you should make a quick movie and e-mail it to Vern.

[rose]

I will do that!

[Semi-Native]

5B65626B750C0 wrote: Hey Semi,
could I ask you to go through Castle Basano Hard for me? What I am looking for is if rooms are the appropriate level, any cheap deaths when going between rooms.

I already got the lava fish coming in from the left in 16300 --- examples like that is the sort of cheap things I need to fix, and Im sure this mansion is full of them.

Anthony

I found one other cheap death, besides 16300:

16299 When Jack enters from the right at the bottom, he can fall into the lava if he's going too fast. I'd give him at least one more tile, or fill it in completely.

[rose]

I depend on Semi-Native to find the cheap death, though I encountered some. They hit me so fast I can't describe them though!

Normally I hate labyrinths but in this mansion the graphic was so good and the size not to big that I liked it.

16095
Moneybags to bottom left. Jack did manage to jump but I think the distance is too difficult for Hard level. It was more like the aquaMat's mansion Jump. That one is VERY hard.

16905
Should be able to stand to the right on the moving brick going up, without being food for the spider.

I am off to the next hard mansion!