Modus Ponens
09-12-2001, 08:51 PM
I downloaded your formerly 3rd Quest submission-turned-4th Quest submission. You know, the one you were SO proud of.
Well, it's pretty cool, but it's WAY too hard to be actually fun. People like exploring and solving puzzles more than getting their asses chopped up in a blender and smeared around the room.
I'm speaking mainly about the third and fourth levels. Level one was difficult, but possible--it was a good challenge. I did feel frustrated and exasperated when attempting level two. It was fun as well, but I died a LOT of times. But when I tried out level three, I wanted to kill something.
You put several difficult rooms in a row, and they're filled with vires and zols. In fact, once you've killed the wizzrobes in the third room or so (a daunting task in itself), there are NO enemies which are even capable of leaving a heart or fairy. In addition, the zols and vires keep coming back, even in rooms with bubbles and traps, because the white sword is unavailable. Eventually I gave up--about thirty or forty deaths later.
I found level four (and now I've lost it again--could you remind me? Thx) and thought I'd give it a shot. My path was somewhat limited, as I needed the stepladder to progress through some of the rooms, so I pretty much had to follow the same route over and over. Fortunately, this level provided plenty of enemies to get life from. I was frequently able to get my way back to full hearts, but then came the God-awful gauntlet of rope 2's, stalfos 2's, and...well, I can't remember what else, but it was all accompanied by six fire-breathing statues and shutter doors. I would always just barely scrape by at best when I finished that room, and then there was a F***ING FOUR-HEADED GLEEOK W/ CORNER TRAPS!! <IMG SRC="smilies/crying.gif" border="0"> WTF??? I ask you, in all honesty, are YOU, Glenn the Great, personally capable of completing this room? And please don't give me any of that "if you were are REAL good player you'd be able to do it" crap. There's just too much going on at once to be able to keep track of a bunch of heads flying around AND their fireballs AND the traps. To make matters worse, I could only get a total of eight heart containers, no white sword (as was mentioned before), and no blue ring!
Okay, that's my tirade. I'm sure you have good reasons behind all of these terrible grievances, and I'd like to hear your reply.
Well, it's pretty cool, but it's WAY too hard to be actually fun. People like exploring and solving puzzles more than getting their asses chopped up in a blender and smeared around the room.
I'm speaking mainly about the third and fourth levels. Level one was difficult, but possible--it was a good challenge. I did feel frustrated and exasperated when attempting level two. It was fun as well, but I died a LOT of times. But when I tried out level three, I wanted to kill something.
You put several difficult rooms in a row, and they're filled with vires and zols. In fact, once you've killed the wizzrobes in the third room or so (a daunting task in itself), there are NO enemies which are even capable of leaving a heart or fairy. In addition, the zols and vires keep coming back, even in rooms with bubbles and traps, because the white sword is unavailable. Eventually I gave up--about thirty or forty deaths later.
I found level four (and now I've lost it again--could you remind me? Thx) and thought I'd give it a shot. My path was somewhat limited, as I needed the stepladder to progress through some of the rooms, so I pretty much had to follow the same route over and over. Fortunately, this level provided plenty of enemies to get life from. I was frequently able to get my way back to full hearts, but then came the God-awful gauntlet of rope 2's, stalfos 2's, and...well, I can't remember what else, but it was all accompanied by six fire-breathing statues and shutter doors. I would always just barely scrape by at best when I finished that room, and then there was a F***ING FOUR-HEADED GLEEOK W/ CORNER TRAPS!! <IMG SRC="smilies/crying.gif" border="0"> WTF??? I ask you, in all honesty, are YOU, Glenn the Great, personally capable of completing this room? And please don't give me any of that "if you were are REAL good player you'd be able to do it" crap. There's just too much going on at once to be able to keep track of a bunch of heads flying around AND their fireballs AND the traps. To make matters worse, I could only get a total of eight heart containers, no white sword (as was mentioned before), and no blue ring!
Okay, that's my tirade. I'm sure you have good reasons behind all of these terrible grievances, and I'd like to hear your reply.