Tower of Ginger

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Enter the Tower of Awesome... and despair ye mighty!
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From LBPC spotlight 107:
[LBP2] With its quirky and and individual artstyle this is a platformer with a difference – race your way to the top of Ginger’s tower but keep your eye open for all the surprises along the way

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Great music by SevenisaCannibal.
Costumes for Awesome Ginger & Captain Walrus by Fumetsusozo.
Extra font by Codibear.

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Wowza! This level looks great! Ill queue it up and play it tommorrow!

Those images look awesome. can't wait to play this. :)

Excellent level pickled-punk. I really like your style. There were some fresh game play ideas and everything was executed well. Great job. :)

played through it two player

guy said it was boring, i enjoyed it though.

at the race he got stuck in the pipe and the end and refused to kill himself, claiming he should have won, and quit the game. didnt notice any bugs apart from that, but it might be because he was a noob.

nice platformer with a much easier to swallow visual style than some of the more artistic types here :)

Let me know what you all think!
Thanks for your playthrough and praise, RickRock_777. Great you enjoyed it!

played it last night. very fun level with a style all it's own...which I loved! Neat design and good solid gameplay. Excellent work on this. I like the added touch of finding the curators, that was cool.

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I really enjoyed this level. I recommend it if you haven't played.

Based on the pictures, I have to say that this level looks brilliant. It seems to mix the cardboard theme of the game to an outlandish, cartoony style, and while I can not say that it's a first time anyone has does this, it certainly seems enjoyable. I'll review this soon, but in advance, I'd like to warn you that my post will likely be overall negative, even though I will address the good things here. Why? Because constructive criticism is the only thing to help the creator and his creations progress. So be wary of that. I'll be absolutely fair, even though I am a big fan of your work. To add, based on your earlier work, I can tell that your level has your trademark-style of feeling both: well planned in advance entirely, while it still seems as if you do it as you go along.

EDIT: The Review:

First thing I noticed from the level was the lack of music at the beginning. When it is, in some occasions mood-creating or in someway else benefiting to make music launch later in the level, here it felt forced and actually annoyed me, considering that it takes a while for the level to get to that point. With this I mean the moment you talk to the sackbot in the beginning. I read the whole text, and while it wasn't long, there was no excuse to start the music before, or at least at that point. Also, LBP censored some of the sackbot's words ("chitter-*******").

And while on the subject of music, it is brilliant. I love half the music from all Final Fantasy games and luckily that track was among them. However, I feel that it should've played a little longer, since the level itself is not very long. The second track was a bit annoying, but that's just my opinion and I also didn't like the way you changed to MM-track at the end. It would've been better if Vivi's theme played until the race, when it would change to the second soundtrack, which I don't recognize, by the way.

The visuals... In the beginning, way back in LBP1 and early LBP2 I always found the visuals in your levels lacking. However, I am proud to say that you've come a long way since. This level looks absolutely beautiful, as I could already tell from the screenshots. It combines best of two worlds, the cartoon-y style and the cardboard perfectly together. It even makes use of some of the most useless stickers in the entire game's history. While it isn't really artsy, it works perfectly for the level and helps power up the atmosphere.

Gameplay here seems to have taken a bit more platform-y turn from your earlier levels. It's pretty basic and simple and it works. As I said before, you have added something I personally love to this level, which was the music from FF9, but you have also made something that I hate: roof-climbing-sponge-obstacle. I hate, hate, hate, HATE that. It is the most lazy way of creating any challenge to any level ever. You already have attract-o-tweakered wall-walking here. Why not add that instead? It just comes of as lazy and dull. As for the rest of the gameplay, there isn't much else to mention. It's pretty simple, even though the race at the end seemed to be there just so you could have a race at the end. It didn't really fit. Also, I saw nothing really innovative (I love that word) or unique as far as the gameplay was concerned. While I did enjoy playing the level, the gampleay is the weakest link here.

For other nagging, there was a part near the beginning where the camera zoom was waaaay too far from the action. We don't need to see the entire sequence of the level at the same time to see that it looks great. Also the logo looked lazy. It was just the face of Awesome-Ginger. Nothing good there, but it really doesn't take any points from the level. Also, I don't think there was any story, since nothing in what the sackbot said captured my interest so I would still remember it.

In conclusion, this is among your best levels yet, though it's not the best. However, for a level to make a lasting impact today, it needs more than enjoyable gameplay.

Spoiler - Conclusion

Gameplay: 6/10
Visuals: 9/10
Audio: 7/10
Story: -/-
Conclusion: 7.3 = Very good

Keep up the same quality when it comes to music, but perhaps add a little more details to the audio in the level apart from the actual music. Also, the ending looked dull, so I couldn't give it a full 10/10 on visuals. As for the gameplay, I wouldn't try to help it much in this level, instead it's something you should pay attention to in the future levels.

If you disagree with anything I said, feel free to oppose. These are things which I feel should be noted and I mean no offense or anything like that with anything I said here. Also know, that in my rating system, anything above 5/10 is good. It is a very good level and you are a great creator, one of my favourites in fact.

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Originally Posted by biorogue

played it last night. very fun level with a style all it's own...which I loved! Neat design and good solid gameplay. Excellent work on this. I like the added touch of finding the curators, that was cool.

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Thanks. Good that you found & enjoyed the hidden sidequest.
Cool stamp! (Is the red ink permanent...? :))

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Originally Posted by theevilpenguins

I really enjoyed this level. I recommend it if you haven't played.

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Many thanks evil ones!

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Originally Posted by FreeAim

I can tell that your level has your trademark-style of feeling both: well planned in advance entirely, while it still seems as if you do it as you go along.

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It is well planned? ... uhhh... of course it is! ;)
Like to know what you think, mate, even if it will be brutal....

Edit: Thank you very much for your long & thoughtfull opinion of my level. and I'm rather flattered by my 7,3!

I edited my comment above with the review. Just posting this so you notice it.

Very good level.

I really like the obstacles. And I like the first music track.

Very good job :)

Thanks Avundcv. Great to hear you enjoyed it!
Did you hunt for Creator Curator portraits as a sidequest?

Great level, very professional and very unusual. quite odd actually. I kind of hated and loved it at the same time, but that's a good thing. love it when people think outside the square, great work. if you get the chance try space kid in demon land Http://lbp.me/v/h5nmqv-

Thanks Fitz, 'odd' that's me ;-)

I'll try your level soon and let you know what I think.

Queued your level ;) Nice pictures, it must be a good level :)

I like the interesting visual style you used for this level. The enviorment looked nice throughout.
The gameplay felt simple and slow-paced for the most part but employed some cool ideas as well.

This was a solid level and I enjoyed playing it. :)

This level really inspired me to go create. Lots of fun and playful cardboard candy throughout. Great job!

Thanks for the feedback guys!
I just saw that my level was nodded in the latest installment of LBPC spotlights. Thanks!

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Originally Posted by peoriaspitfire

This level really inspired me to go create. Lots of fun and playful cardboard candy throughout. Great job!

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Cool. Go create! (Your upcoming project looks fantastic.)

It's funny. I can play your levels again and again and find new things to like about them every time. It took me another run through this level to see how it created great visuals with the help of the background as well and how much detail went into the smallest of posters here.

PS: I can't wait for The Mask of Shadows. You still working on that?