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Welcome one and all to the 102nd Episode of the Community Spotlight featuring the brightest and best from the Level Showcase. This is a cracking episode, jam packed with fantastic levels – just the thing to get rid of those post-Christmas, end of holiday blues! So draw the curtains, grab a hot cocoa and settle down to a non-fattening feast of platforming, puzzling and general awesomeness.
We’re hoping to catch up with our hub publishing on StevenI’s return from holiday tomorrow, with the hub for the 100th Episode being up first, so watch this space!
Finally, there's no Karting Spotlight this week but never fear it will be back next episode with a bumper crop of levels!
Forest of the Rising Sunby
se-mi92Another easy Platformer, i hope you enjoy! Best 1 Player. The bar in the upper right side is only important if you play with more than 1 player (it kills the players that are out of the screen)
If you adore stunning scenery and seamless gameplay, tied together in a pretty knot of style, Se-mi92's Forest of the Rising Sun will tick every box. Every single inch of this platformer is stuffed to the rafters with eye candy, and the mini-puzzles throughout the level will be enough to keep any casual platformer happy. You won't get a mind-blowing puzzler here, but you'll certainly get a wonderful, calming experience!
Another level full of effortless charm from se-m192. The novel camera angle ensures the level stands out from other nature platformers and the scenery, bathed in a golden light, is gorgeous. Hunting down the hidden apples and solving a few puzzles is entertaining and whole experience is delightfully relaxing...except for the traps! That tree gets me every time. I’m just pottering through the level and BAM, squish – EVERY TIME! And don’t forget the spiked moving platforms you need to pass to reach the final apple – getting progressively faster and trickier to time. So yes, lovely and calming but don’t nod off entirely...
Obscure Cavernby
Sabre_Welcome to my new level Obscure Cavern, hope you enjoy it as much as I did making it. [1-2 Players] Difficulty [Medium]. Race now added...Special Thanks to: NinjaMicWZ, Xx_Mr_Orange_xX for there help. Also to my beta testers: Alley_Cat_8633, Brannayen, Buddydestruction, Fireblitz95, Justice1989, Klumb-Z, Lili-80, theevilpenguins, zBaH-, Zerotiger99, Zippopot. Music by BuddyDestruction.
This crafty platformer is jam packed with nifty obstacles and head-scratching puzzles! Squint in the darkness as you make your way through the murky depths, and attempt to keep your strings tied to the end – it's harder than it looks! A great level by Sabre_, well worth the play.
This cavern may be obscure, and although not knowing much about it, what you do discover, very, very quickly is that the obscurity does not extend to spikes, they prominently line walls, floors and ceilings… it's all bristling with clear danger. Maybe the obscure nature stems from the contraptions that are dotted thorough out the caverns to help and hinder your progress. Find a hard hat and get to spelunking!
Hey Bro...Those Are Some Glorious Wormholes!by
ElguerogiganteEl Guero has returned to all that is glorious! Behold...a level that has it all! From fabulous challenges to radioactive Pancho Villas...and wormholes! Ooooooooh! My fancy is tickled just thinking about it! All that is glorious awaits! [1 Player only]
Glorious wormholes indeed – the title says it all. These are not cross-controller wormholes but custom-built portals which miraculously (well it’s a miracle to me anyway – logic being a closed book...) retain the direction and momentum of your sack as you pass through them. All this makes for some brilliantly clever gameplay. It starts off in a relatively straightforward way but soon has you clutching your head as you try and work out how to progress. Lateral thinking ftw! And, as if progressing through the level were not challenge enough, there are 19 weirdly luminous (!?) Mexican revolutionaries to be bagged en route. It’s ingenious, original and gloriously quirky in a way only El Guero can pull off. Levels like this make you glad you’re still playing this game 4 years on...
Ooooh, nifty! This was my first experience playing with wormholes (resist the portal joke.... RESIST) and it was a wonderful, challenging, fun-filled experience! Figuring out each of these mini-puzzles (and I still haven't figured them all out!) takes some major determination and brainpower, far more than I possess anyhow! Using the momentum tricks that creators have been praying for for some time, Elguerogigante has come up with a masterpiece. Play it, nao!
Temple of Deep Deathby
cakito123[Difficulty: Medium/Hard] [1 player Only] Escape of the Temple of the deep death, but watch out for the... Danger... '-' Jump in monkeys... Okay, I Don't know what to say about this level, so... Just play it! Thanks to @clashtowworlds, @grandguinus98 and @GAB--LUC!! =D
Lol, I don’t know what to say about this level either! The jumping monkeys have to be top of the list though – an awesome gameplay mechanic that made me laugh out loud and, as for that PESKY bald eagle, well I'm speechless, lol. He really made me wish I'd left him locked up in his cage - the ingratitude! Well, I suppose he makes some amends in the boss fight. The level may defy description but it’s packed with cool and inventive gameplay including some neat use of the new cross controller wormholes. If you’re looking for something a little off the wall, then you’ll have a blast tackling all the eccentric obstacles in this level. So, yes, I’m not going to try to encapsulate it in words. It's unique and, as cakito123 says, “Just play it”!
This sure is a strange temple! Full of monkeys, that by now have splitting headaches, and some other critters that help you, sometimes (admittedly) a little unwillingly, to bounce, swing and grab your way to a fun, but challenging boss battle… I'm not sure why you fight the boss, or why a bird helps you out, but it sure leaves you with a good feeling knowing you trashed the place for some reason or another
The Adventures of Outback Jack: Level 2by
Alley_Cat_8633Level 2 takes Jack down to the lake. This map features new enemies, a new powerup, and a new goal (time trial) for maximum score potential. Thanks to Steve_Big_Guns for help and Buddy Destruction for making awesome music and sharing it with the Community. I would say this level is Medium Difficulty. Enjoy!
Outback Jack is back and better than ever! Free of the constraints of the tutorial format of Part 1, his adventures really take off as he heads for the waterhole and a bunch of new enemies (be warned the frogs may look small and cute but they’re deadly!). The gameplay hits new heights too, with a new chilli power up, chests to find and nab and a time based bonus which leaves any completionists amongst us with the awful dilemma of whether to go for speed or try to collect everything. The gameplay is fresh and engaging, the environments are superbly detailed and Jack himself is still ridiculously charming. It all adds up to a game I’d happily pay money for.
Crikey! A level full of stars, boxes and pickups may seem daunting and leave you feeling lower than a goanna's belly, but when your discover your swag of tricks, you'll be jumping like a jumbuck camped by the billabong, avoiding some critters that are madder than a cut snake and kicking the vegimite out of them. Crack out the TimTams and ignore that the southern cross is a little off and Tassie is missing, because you are about to play a top notch platformer that instantly jumps out and grabs you like a Dingo looking at a small child.
Simple Pleasures [one player only]by
JakePutzPlatformer/ high score challenge level. Use your wall jumping and wall sliding abilities to stay alive and keep that bubble combo going! One player only. Music by Velvet--Audio, font by Comphermc.
Jake always impresses me with his creations, and this is no exception. Taking the ever popular game mechanic of wall jumping and wall slides, he has concocted a marvellous platformer, oozing with slick brilliance. If you're very talented (far more than I), you can even attempt to make a huge bubble chain through the level – erm, yes, I suppose I'd better get practising!
This level is another proof that sometimes less is very much more. As the title indicates the central idea is simple enough but the execution is pitch perfect. From the clever gameplay, to the spot on bubble placement and great music, Jakeputz hasn't put a foot wrong and the result is just awesome..and I am totally in thrall to it. It is soooo addictive. I'll never get anywhere near the high scores (my wall sliding let's me down wildly – literally as well metaphorically, lol) but I simply can't resist having just one more run through, just in case... Platforming at its purest and best!
SnakeOwl
So UFOs are built in a factory just like anything else, who knew! And thanks to SnakeOwl you can now take a trip round the facility and see for yourself. It’s a fun-filled, fast-paced level crammed with cool obstacles and lots of great industrial eye-candy. Keep your wits about you, though, because the floor is likely to disappear from beneath your feet when you least expect it (alien schadenfreude?). It’s as brilliant and slick as we’ve come to expect from SnakeOwl and well worth a play.
A level that is literally packed with great tools and high tech stuff for you to grab and jump on, but be quick! Some of those little platforms have a habit of moving around, so pay attention you may need to jump into a handy teleporter to get out of some sticky situations!
Power Up PowerPlant (Tricky)by
Just_Tom__Use Power Ups to work your way through this tricky PowerPlant... (Thanks to @Missi_Cat for support and @Soundisme for the awesome tune!)
Time to stretch my gaming thumbs! This platformer will have you on the edge of you seat as you aim yourself towards your goal. Making wonderful use of the Cross Controller pack, including the all-new wormholes, Tom has once again shown his flexibility with this gameplay. Combine a wormhole with a flipping platform, combined with a power up, combined with a puzzle, and add a time challenge to the mix. . . And you have the current state of my mind. Blown.
Featuring a whole raft of power ups including the neglected jetpack and paintgun from LBP1, this level will test both your skills and ingenuity. It’s just exactly what a platformer should be –ingenious obstacles, finely tuned difficulty and clever, clever gameplay. Just_Tom__ even manages to make a virtue of the unlovely red power up removers. It all looks fantastic too- some of the best use of the cross controller pack materials I’ve seen so far. And then there are the secrets - 6 more or less evilly hidden (and comically named) secrets to lure you back, again and again...and again. There’s something impish about the challenges here too – I can’t help feeling that Tom was laughing up his mischievous sleeve somewhat at the thought of putting us all through our paces. A tricky but immensely satisfying platformer and my new favourite of all Tom’s levels.
My Robot Factory (platformer)by
yu-kamoneWelcome to the My Robot Factory! Would you show me your stimulative action for my machines? Machines are always asking for the stimulus. (1~4player) ---- 僕ノ工場ヘヨウコソ！アナタノ刺激的ナアクションヲ僕ノ機械タチニ見セテクレナイカ？機械タチハイツモ刺激 ヲ求メテイルンダ。 Thanks @Stellakris
A steampunk-esque futuristic space station type theme may very well have to become a new genre, with this gem leading the charge! A level that finds you in almost constant motion racking up multipliers and trying to grab bonuses, throw in some great set design, some portals, and some cool japanese robots and you have your self a fun platformer with great replayability!
Yup, I don’t think we’ve seen our last factory/space station level, not by a long chalk :P, but this stellar level sets the bar very high. The visuals are amazing; Yu has clearly entered into a pact with the gods of logic which allows him to cram more into his levels than other mortals. The details are wonderful and he even plays with perspective to give you a sewer rat’s eye view of the bowels of the factory. The gameplay is superbly polished with countless great obstacles and contraptions to get your teeth into, including the new wormholes, and the overall level design is just spot on. If biorogue were here, I’m sure this level would get one of his trade marked “whoas!” and deservedly so.
Also from the Showcase...
Played everything in the Spotlight and still looking for more?
These levels stand out from the crowd for a variety of reasons, so be sure to check them out!
- [LBP2] A present full of ghosts? How can that be fun? find out in [SSCC] Happening of Christmas クリスマスイブの大事件～お星さまといたずらおばけ～ by ajisagi
- [LBP2] A merry Christmas romp awaits in Wake Up, Shake Up, it's Christmas time! [Platformer] (MED-HARD) by KingerBrocku
[LBP2] A Christmas level that is great to look at, filled with fun and has an added dash of challenge – what are you waiting for, play it now! Christmas valley by alain251 - [LBP2] Don’t for one second take this level’s title seriously! This is a hugely fun and challenging flying game. So hop in your helicopter and get flying...and crashing...lol Just another sidescrolling flying game [1-4 Players] by Shaggy40000
- [LBP2] A fun and well designed platformer which will have the memories flooding back Savannah Troubles by shodge123
- [LBP2] A zaney penguin type story that drips charm Melting-Ice by Five-Ate-Five
- [LBP2] An action-packed adventure through caverns filled with awesome puzzles and platforming – deserves so many more plays than it has. Get adventuring nao and unlock the cool bonus level! TEMPLE OF THE 4 ELEMENTS - Chapter 3 : the treasure vault by Mat-S-Aint
- [LBP2] A lush world fraught with danger and intrigue Nature of Pandora! (Platformer) by LBPCreatorKit
- [LBP2] Trust me, this well designed and fun platformer is a genuine reason for dusting off your Move controller - The Brain Crane Sci-Fi Adventure by hm83
- [LBP2] A totally awesome block matching puzzle game which should come with a health warning it’s so addictive - Treasure Dash by Brannayen
- [LBP2] The plot thickens in this thrilling mystery movie/film noire. The great effects and cool camera work will have you gripped. Mockingbird | Chapter II : Catalyst by thi766
- [LBP2] The visuals and artistry on display in this level are simply jaw dropping. Load it up now and immerse yourself in an eerie and sinister world which is both beautiful and deeply unsettling - Everlasting Rest by OmieR
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