Difference between revisions of "X Factory"

Enemies on the first screen, invisible walls, spikes that are misplaced to where they appear to be, platforms that you can fall straight through...

Everything seems to be placed randomly with no thoughts to them, the fans aren't placed strategically to provide any legitimate challenge. The terrain is absolutely messy and there are spikes just scattered around for no reason. Enemy selection has no continuity to it, one screen there's a Skelly Joe, the next screen there's a Snakey, and next there're the jumpy guys. Speaking of Snakey, they're all placed right at the bottom of the stage so you can't shoot them without using weapons, making the experience extra atrocious.

Did I mention there are invisible blocks everywhere? The graphics actively misguides you to the point you have to use Wheel Cutter throughout to determine where solid grounds actually are. On top of that, there appears to be some instances where utilities are required to get over tall walls.

Lastly, the "puzzle" to get the Energy Element is completely trial-and-error since you cannot tell where the spikes are. There are also no checkpoints so if you fail that, it's time to redo the whole stage again.

Oh and, the music is not properly looped...

also what are do even a "coptar" even?

To get the positive out of the way, at the *very* end of the level there's a single glimmer of a gimmick, with the magnet enemy being usable to align yourself with the path to the Energy Element.
That's the only positive. The rest of the level is littered with what seems to be signs of a zero-effort submission;
Upside-down fans with blow direction reversed compared to their orientation litter the entire stage, placed without any thought to "stage design".
The design, if you can even call it that, seems to be blocks and enemies placed at complete random.
Compounding this, the stage has a severe problem with fake spikes, fake blocks, invisible blocks, and invisible spikes; I'm fairly sure the auto-tiler wasn't removed for MaGMML3, so...?
There isn't a single checkpoint in the entire level, which makes dying to said invisible spikes extremely frustrating, especially with the forced weapon usage due to the broken collision.
To top it all off, the music doesn't even loop properly.

First, while you did a great job using the Mr. X platforms, the other gimmicks in this level left something to be desired. The magnets are fine, for the most part, but I miscalculated several jumps because I wasn’t sure how far out their attraction stretched. But you also include four fire bars a single conveyor belt, which is rather odd. Why are these here if they’re going to show up on all of two screens?
But my largest problem here was the aesthetics. This stage is a visual overload: you have a very complicated tileset, married to an outright garish color palette. Blue and grey platforms over a background of pink and green stripes? That’s not just yucky looking, it’s distracting. There were several screens where it took me a few seconds to figure out what was foreground and what was background, which I should not have to do in a stage built around tricky platforming.
On the plus side, if my largest complaints are the color palette and a pointless conveyor belt, this should give you an idea how highly I thought of this level.