Review by White Rabbit
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- Posted more than 21 years ago (edited 27 Feb 06, 19:24)
- For: Slimy Land
- Level rating: 8.8
When I first saw this tileset, I thought ‘It doesn’t look slimy at all!’. And it doesn’t. The whole tileset resembles a forest with vegetiation that has got an excess of chlorophyll.
I most say that Slimy Land really dissapoints me because most tiles of the tileset consists of mushrooms, trees leafes and forests with practically no slime at all (which also means that Slimy Land DOES have life). Also, the water looks more like my Grandma’s chicken soup than gooey slime.
Even tilesets such as Slimeset has got better slime than this. And with its originality gone (the “slime” being the originality), the tileset begins to show off its really weak points. Yes, it has got decent eyecandy and no tile bugs. Yes, the palette looks really cool. But the problem is that everything this tileset got, many other, even better tileset has got too. This makes Slime Land an un-original and very boring tileset. The slime waterfalls are very similiar to the ones in Mesmerize by Dethman, the mushrooms can be found in Psych 1 and 2 plus they’re animated there too, the trees and leafes can be found in Swamp of the Sleeping Jaguar by Agama and the forest stuff can be found in tilesets such as Jungle and Forest by Blade.
This is an un-inspiring tileset and I will probably never be able to be able to make a good lvl out of it. The only thing that stops me from giving Slime Land a bad rating is that the author has obviously spent lots of time on it, and the tiles are made perfectly.
This is a fairly well-made tileset. Nice, high quality tiles but a bit un-original. It’s worth giving a try, but there are definitely better tilesets out there.
A 7.
Cheers,
White Rabbit.
EDIT: It’s a wonder how time can change your mind. :-) Raised rating to 8.7 because the tileset is huge (I, for some reason, didn’t notice that) and it does look really, really slimy!
EDIT 2: I am such a mindchanger, aren’t I? A 10% increase in the rating. :-(
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Slimy Land
- Level rating: 8.8
Eh.. I tested this? OMG, yes! I remember it all now. My gosh that WAS a long time ago. About 5 months, roughly.
I still say the name is Slimey but…. on to the review.
I hate mushrooms. Strangely enough, this has a beneficial impact on the review, if anything. I set those little ‘shrooms to destruct scenery and boom them with all sorts of wicked weaponry. Mmm, yum. The level’s great, honestly, I just can’t explain it very well. It’s certainly come along in leaps and bounds since I last tested it. I also love the backgrounds, strangely enough. (what gives, dis?) All in all, a D/L recommendation. (Duh).
Off-Topic: ET, what’s you AIM nickname? Maybe you have MSN? ICQ? Any or all of them would be good.
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Slimy Land
- Level rating: 8.8
Pitty, I would had appreciated it more if it was for 1.23, I dont feel like making a lvl for TSF since most people dont play it. Really, too bad. Its a very nice Tileset, worth 6 levels :)…
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Slimy Land
- Level rating: 8.8
Cool Tilesets there, ET.
I’m at school 2 :P so I only wanna say: keep making tilesets like these, they are increadible[This review has been edited by Snowball]
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Rabbit Honor Guard
- Level rating: 9.5
Increadible!!! Overlord, you are the most skilled level maker, this pack is sooooooooooooooooo COOOOL
But WR and CelL… why these long reviews?[This review has been edited by Snowball]
(Could it be so they could explain why they gave their high ratings? Unappreciatively unsupported rating removal edit. ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]
(Rating RESTORED due to date review was originally posted. ~Violet)[This review has been edited by Violet CLM]
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: ZA's Good Side
- Level rating: 8.2
Cool
Anything else to say?[This review has been edited by Snowball]
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Slimy Land
- Level rating: 8.8
FINALLY you upload this :D
I’ve got tons of this set ahnging around my Hard Drive, but I’m at shcool now, cant give a huge review, I’ll keep this here as ‘pending’ until I get home. Can’t say much until then.
Small Review thingy:
It’s a great set, but the extra background stuff could be a bit better.
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Slimy Land
- Level rating: 8.8
Well. erm.. cool tileset, it looks great, but, the idea of a land with mushrooms and trees isnt that orginal, and the leaves on the trees, they are ehm pretty ugly I think, that method of drawing leaves is used many times before and I dont like it..
Erm.. The tileset has a sort of deja vu feeling sometimes, but it also has great new things like a huge hollow tree, a cool wierd tree in the background, and ofcourse everything is covered with slime.
The exits signs and the destr blocks are very much like in the official tilesets.
Basicly this just aother forest tileset, but this time covered with slime..
I’m just not as exited about this tileset as the ppl above..
BUT after all this negative stuff, the tileset has much tiles to build a good, and not fast-boring lvl with. It’s all great drawn and I dont see any really ugly things except the leaves, and the fact that the hollow tree is an exact circle and it’s very very thin.
D/l recommendation, if you don’t want to build another ‘normal’ forest, but an slimy one.
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Slimy Land
- Level rating: 8.8
I’m too lazy to write an extensive review describing every single tile, but I’ll give you an idea.
Think Blade’s Forest, only with mushrooms instead of trees, and lots of other stuff.
Oh well.
Anyway, this has a lot of great stuff, especially the sucker tubes, except it doesn’t support T or + tubes, just -, | and |’‘ ones.
It also uses what is one of the only good palette modifications around (“Woodlands” by Blade is the other that comes to mind), as well as lots of stuff. Basically my only complaint is that the insides of tree tunnels don’t look too good.
I even bothered to wait the two minutes to takes to load TSF tilesets to look at this one in JCS.
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Slimy Land
- Level rating: 8.8
Maybe it would be possible to make a ‘lite’ version that cut down on the tiles so that it could be used in 1.23. If you can do that, I’m all for it. It sounds great and I can’t wait to see it!
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Slimy Land
- Level rating: 8.8
Exelent tileset! It’s almost Agama style. YaY! Ahem.. This tileset has pretty much everything that you need.
Very good eyecandy. Download recommendation.
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Balloon Races!!!
- Level rating: 8.5
I can’t really stand this pack… but It’s okay I guess. I wouldn’t really recommend it though, thus the 6.7. [This review has been edited by primordial]
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Spider Swamp
- Level rating: 8.5
Nice level. BTW, Bjarni, why did you give this level a 10? Nothing deserves a 10. That’s just a gauging point.
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Balloon Races!!!
- Level rating: 8.5
This is crazy!!! But I like it.
Only BIG problem is the last part. Even the wacko of the wacks couldn’t finish this I think.
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Jazz 1: Technoir
- Level rating: 7.4
WoW Great Tileset i was looking for this round
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: JustASet
- Level rating: 6.8
Yeah Nice indeed only kinda small..
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Commander Keen 1-3 Tilesets
- Level rating: 6.9
I AGREE
Nice, Tileset nice indeed
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Skygazer
- Level rating: 7.7
Before downloading it, I throught it will be some kind of rocket tileset…
I was wrong.
I don’t know how to rate this.
BTW Nice clouds
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Wisey's Plastic CTF Pack
- Level rating: 8
Yeah,
Nice Levels Trough
AWSUM Design.
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- Posted more than 21 years ago
- For: Spider Swamp
- Level rating: 8.5
Spider Swamp is a nice decent level by Defalcon, it has a nice ammo placement, I’m not sure if there’s a carrot there’s able to grap, but I found one I coudln’t get.
The eyecandy is over-rused, its hard figure out the mask, it may take you up to 10 minuts figure it out.
I had to set on low detail for get the mask, and the level aren’t so great on low detail.
The bouncher powerup isen’t hard to get, but there aren’t any one way so you quickly could jump up after taking it, may be a disadvantage if somebody hunts you.
There’s a few springs there could have been placed better, and as you say, Spaz has an advantage, you should balance the level so its fair between the 2 guys.
You should include the password in your readme, makes it more easy for the reviewer get a view over your level.
Download recommed.