Storyline/Dialogue/Why Are These Different Categories: 5/10 Okay. Everything just kind of happens all at once without much explanation, but there's some nice character interaction and <ANP use, especially early on.
Level Design/Gameplay/These Would Appear To Fall Under The Same Heading As Well: 6/10 Patchy. There are some really neat things, like the new breaky blocks, the area that needs the Map System, and especially the parts with the locked movement; as far as I can remember, that's yet another first for Cave Story modding. However, the difficulty level is inconsistent, and some of the maps have a lot of empty space. In the space area in particular, most of the enemies take forever to kill and there are huge numbers of them. I made it to the save point halfway-up the space station area on my own, but I turned on hax to get past those rooms with the flames in them. Overall though I really like the general design, and you make some good use of TSC and ASM so it's clear you've learned more than just the basics.
New Grafix: 8/10 gr8!
The space enemies are all nicely done and the frosty blue tilesets are
superchill. Every mod should have an icy area
New Musics: 5/10 Okay. Not really much to them, but they do help create a bit of an uneasy atmosphere. The double-speed tracks sound like what they are, so I'm neutral regarding them. If you like, you can check out the ORG thread and see if you can find some goodies there that our good folk will let you borrow
Fixes/Improvements that haven't already been mentioned:
-In the first against the giant critter, it's very easy to completely nullify his attacks by hiding inside the clouds and spamming the Snake.
-I don't know if Pooh Black sitting on the roof is glitch or that fights' gimmick, but I kind of like it the way it is now
-In the "Corridor" map near the end, if you save or leave the area it won't save the change in wind direction after activating the terminal. Bigger problem is that it
does save the activation of the terminal, so you can get stuck with the wind permanently blowing downwards.
-Again, dock the health of some of the space enemies, particularly the ones that shoot the laser rings. I do like how you made their projectiles destroyable though
-At the other end of the spectrum, things are easy for a long while near the start (as long as you complete the first bonus room) and there are almost too many save points.
Seriously though there's no point in me trying to rate mods numerically. They're almost always fun and always flawed in some way, so sticking numbers on things won't say any more than what I say myself. Having said that, I will say that it's always good to see another promising new mod on the block, especially seeing as there haven't been that many lately.
My intention was to try and streamline it a bit, because at the moment it has a number of redundancies and isn't a particularly effective way of providing people with meaningful feedback.
