/vr/ - Retro Games

blood feud (300min)
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fun map with clear plutonia influence (esp map18, neurosphere). not too hard outside of some nasty traps. fortunately for cowards, i think the end bosses are skippable. :)

i like the little indent into the wall above the foot of the southeast stairs. it doesn't do anything, just a nice bit of scenery that makes the place seem more solid.

the secrets are cool. the lava switch maze i can see annoying people but it's not overly long or miserly with health. (also you can bypass it completely by pressing the switch from below, which i didn't realise while recording.)

the rocket launcher on display at the start was a nice touch too. it is unfortunate that its platform lowers the whole way down to the level of the surrounding blood, but does not submerge (i.e. change flat). i know there is no S1 lower and change in vanilla - you need Boom for that - but perhaps there is a way to have it lower, but stop before it reaches the liquid surface. again having Boom's S1 lower to next lowest is desirable. however it is a minor point.

as for recording, my first attempt ended in death very near the end so you get the pleasure of a 21-minute long demo (and very sped up webm) where on second go i blow through most of the map because i know what's coming, then go into super paranoid mode to finish.

demo (one death, final 8:17, total 21:12)
http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=68693500463033726349